OCD Archive
paintings
Lately, I’ve been having a lot of conversations about original art vs. derivative art and if/whether these qualities are mutually exclusive. (Over the last week, we had this
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edible art
Jessica Day is a little crazy, but the best people are nuts these days. Back in April, I wrote about her labbit-centric blog. It’s part travel journal, part cookbook
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sculpture
Contemporary crochet artists are a little out of my comfort zone, so please permit me an obvious comparison to help us get orientated. Esther Traugot is like a quieter Olek minus the
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sculpture
Toronto-based artist Amy Swartz combines taxidermy insects and plastic toy parts in an amazing ongoing series called Pest. Her work explores the idea of obsession “not only in the
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sculpture
Iain Baxter& is a Canadian early pioneer in conceptual art. At the time I write this, he is 76. In 1966, way ahead of his time, he and
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sculpture
Donald Edwards is a Baltimore-based artist who uses recycled materials to form his sculptures. He collects his medium from thrift stores, yard sales, dumpsters and by saving resources
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character
Hiroshi Yoshii is a Tokyo-based character designer and digital illustrator. Since 1999, he has created an original creature every single day. Yoshii calls his project, The Daily Work, and
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sculpture
Canadian artist, Sara Cwynar last appeared on this blog for teasing the truth out of Advil packaging. For her latest project, Cwynar arranged a decade of personal accumulations into a
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Cats
Love this. LOVE THIS. I have CDO. It’s like OCD, but all the letters are in alphabetical order. AS THEY SHOULD BE. Thanks to Matt H for sending it
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Art
Nope, I’m still not tired of the many ways in which people continue to recreate Peter Saville’s iconic cover art for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album. (With Mouse
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