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Me as a Hipster Animal: Obsessive Compulsive Content Curator
May 5, 2012How cool is this? (The question is rhetorical, but the answer is VERY, VERY COOL.) Remember when I told you that the artist behind the excellent Hipster Animals website was briefly offering $100 custom portraits? (Hmmm. I see I posted that on … Continue reading
Tiny City On an iPhone
May 2, 20123D “generalist,” Michael Ko, spent three months on this Otis College thesis project. (That should qualify the 24 second spot as OCD art, I would think.) It’s called iPhone – Diorama, and it combines real camera footage with 3D rendering in Vray, … Continue reading
The Gunshot Doorknob
April 26, 2012Hyunwoo Park, designer of the (conceptual) Gunshot Doorknob writes: I agree that we have enough of violence that permeates our subconscious mind. But for those who love lightsabers and think BB Guns are good fun, a quirky knob will be … Continue reading
Neurotic Mr. Men and Little Miss Books
February 13, 2012When I was a kid, I used to love the Mr. Men series of books by Roger Hargreaves. I suppose there was something sort of reassuring in their simplicity and happy endings. Well, the folks at Tauntr gave the Mr. … Continue reading
Barbie’s Trashes Her (Miniature) Dream House
January 9, 2012Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse is a series of photographs based on original miniature dioramas of domestic destruction. Both the photos and the miniatures are by Saint Louis-based artist, Carrie M. Becker. The dioramas make use of Becker’s collection of Re-Ment … Continue reading
A Rainbow Mandala Made of Toy Cars
December 26, 2011No, it’s not another carpet made out of household objects. It’s the Car-Atlas Rainbow, an installation comprised of 1,500 toy cars by David T. Walker. A digital print is mentioned, but I can’t find any sales information. It would be a … Continue reading
Super7 Toys Recreated in Lego
December 21, 2011BoingBoing recently ran a story called Can Lego Be Considered Art? The comments section was an interesting read, as was this 8-page Lego as Art (PDF) essay by Lego fan and philosophy professor, Roy T. Cook. I’ll take it a … Continue reading
Creative “Temporary Contemporary” Carpets
December 14, 2011Following up the last post on artist-designed carpets…more art carpets! These “temporary contemporary” rugs, however, are all made by one Dutch design group, conveniently called WE MAKE CARPETS. Marcia Nolte, Stijn van der Vleuten and Bob Waardenburg “mix traditional skills … Continue reading
Installation Art or Hoarding?
November 16, 2011Why does it seem like if this happens in San Francisco, your landlord calls Public Health Services, but if it happens in The Netherlands, you get to install it in a museum? Seriously, as long as there’s no used diapers, … Continue reading
Hand-Sewn Plush School Supplies
September 21, 2011Megan Whitmarsh‘s latest series of school supplies is total writer porn. Who among us (especially those who grew up in the 80s) wouldn’t want a plush 4-color pen? I distinctly recall those being status symbols at school. At one point, … Continue reading
