Left to right:
1st row: Lickitung, Arbok, Dratini, Chansey, Raichu, Muk
2nd row: Meowth, Snorlax, Vaporeon, Sandshrew, Skiploom, Electrode
3rd row: Omanyte, Tentacool, Chikorita, Koffing, Marill, Vanillite
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Quick Pic: Pokémon Eggs
Quick Pic: Adventure Time Eggs
"I love making themed Easter eggs (I don't use dye anymore, I just Sharpie 'em) and this year it's my favorite show, ADVENTURE TIME! Finn, Jake, PB, and LSP."
Music Video: Rage of Thrones
Available for purchase on The Axis of Awesome album "Cry YOURSELF a River"
I wholeheartedly sympathize with this sentiment. Spoilers? How do you spoil a plot that's been in print for over a DECADE?!! Pick up a book, bitches.
Music Video: WHUR MUH BOATS AT
Available as a free download from the artist at Mediafire.
"These are my thoughts on season 2. They are good thoughts."
Adam Warrock, creator of remixes inspired by Futurama and Parks And Recreation, created this viral sensation just last week. The song has been stuck in my head every since. It's worse than "It's a Small World." I was absolutely delighted when I discovered that someone has created an extended cut.
Link Round-Up: Crafty Egg Tutorials
Easter is a wonderful time to get creative and let your imagination take over while decorating easter eggs. Here are a few examples to inspire you! Doodle easter eggs, Embroidered easter eggs, Floral easter eggs, Golden Marbled Eggs, Neon Eggs, Paint-splattered easter eggs, Pantone Eggs, Polca Dot Eggs, Rhinestone easter eggs, Sprinkle easter eggs, String easter eggs, and Washi Tape Eggs
Tutorial: All Natural Egg Coloring
Easter egg decorating is
a fun way to welcome spring, but sometimes the chemical dyes are hard
to justify, especially when you're feeding the results to children. Here's a chart of natural dyes, and here are three natural dye recipes from around
the web:
Quick Pic: Portal Eggs
"I trucked most of my craft supplies with me on "vacation" in the desperate hope that I might finish these before Easter. After several late nights and only three trips to the craft store..."
Crafts: Black and White Easter Eggs
Black and White Easter Eggs by Cut, Tear, Stitch and Sew
"Covered some blown eggs in strips of newspaper using glue, painted the remaining eggs in chalkboard paint. Would be fun for children to draw faces on them or messages"
Quick Pic: Wind Waker Eggs
"Zelda themed eggs I painted for my flatmate for Easter. If you break them, a giant flying whale will appear and tell you the last significant part of your life has all been a dream, and you'll awaken on a floating shipwreck somewhere far away. True story. Happy Easter everyone!"
Tutorial: Easy Kool-Aid Dyed Eggs
"You know when you wait until the last minute to dye Easter eggs, and you go to the store, and there are only sad, broken eggs and an empty space where there used to be egg-dying kits? Yeah, that. I’m kind of that girl.
But if you’re that girl too then I have a brilliant idea for you! Actually, lots of people have had this brilliant idea but this is the first time I’ve tried it. And I’m going to break it down for you. So on the day before Easter when the dye is all gone, just go get some Kool-Aid and you’re golden."
Tutorial: Game of Thrones Dragon Eggs
"The Game of Thrones Season 3 premiere is coming up this Easter, totally upstaging the Easter bunny and all his absurd marshmallow regalia. This calendar alignment can only mean one thing: we are like, MEANT to make dragon egg Easter eggs. “WHERE ARE MY DRAGUNZ??” you ask. -Incubating in my doooope easter basket this year."
Link Round-Up: Easter Egg Tutorials
Camille Styles demonstrates how to marble an egg with fingernail polish and water.
Have a Glow-in-the-Dark Easter Egg Hunt with just a little ingenuity.
Tutorial: Super Mario Bros. Easter Eggs
Super Mario Bros. Easter Eggs Tutorial from Instructables
"My son is going through his Super Mario Bros. phase. I don't know that I ever got over mine. Playing Nintendo for countless hours is one of my fondest childhood memories. With Easter right around the corner, I thought I would surprise him with these Awesome Super Mario Nintendo Eggs.
I'm not an artist and I know these aren't perfect, but I think they still came out pretty cool. I used images from my iphone to replicate the the Nintendo characters. I basically drew the images on with a pencil and then used Acrylic paint to fill them in. I used Sharpie Paint markers to fill in small details like the pupils."
Quick Pic: Walking Dead Eggs
"In honor of the Season 3 finale of The Walking Dead on Easter Sunday, I decided to make some zombie eggs this year. Happy Easter 2013!"
Friday, March 29, 2013
Short Film: Dead Friends
"Dead Friends" by SWMartin1981 directed by Stephen W. Martin
What could be more appropriate viewing material for our only zombie holiday than a short film about a little girl performing a bit of home brewed resurrection? In "Dead Friends," a bullied little girl decides to grow her very own best friend. The results are equal parts humor and horror.
Video: 5m80
"5m80" by Cube Creative
If you think giraffes are cute you are going to fall in love with this animation.
Diorama: Consolidated Life
"Consolidated Life" by David Lawrey and Jaki Middleton, 2010.
Exhibited at the Australian Museum of Arts and Design
"In Consolidated Life the artists have recreated the scene of a seemingly endless corporate office, a recurring motif that has been repeated in a sequence of films: The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928), The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960), The Trial (Orson Welles,1962) and The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen, 1994). This scene merges the mundane and the spectacular, and is a metaphor for all that is at once immense and insignificant."
Link Round-Up: March 29, 2013
The new Iron Man 3 armors have been revealed. This is the Red Snapper, aka the Disaster Rescue Suit. Comic Book Movie actually looks at all the armors. Via: SlashFilm
Batwoman & The Question and Other Geeky Marriage Equality Memes
Can’t Afford Art School? Jump Online for a World-Class Education in Design! Design is becoming a prerequisite for business success, but with a year at a top-flight school like RISD easily costing more than $53,000, that learning doesn’t necessarily come cheap. Luckily, education marketplace Skillshare has created a new online school of design with world-class teachers that only costs $20 per class.
Washington DC Metro Map – Super Mario 3 Style
Why You Should Never Feel Bad About Not Paying the Met’s ‘Recommended’ Admission Fee
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Short Film: Premier Automne
"Premier Automne" directed by Carlos De Carvalho & Aude Danset
This poinant short is a beautiful exercise in animation technique, and it feels very much on topic as we approach Easter and the transition from winter into spring.
"Abel lives in the winter and Apolline lives in the summer. Isolated in their "natures", they never met each other. They are not even supposed to meet. So when Abel crosses the border and discovers Apolline, curiosity is overwhelming. Their encounter soon becomes more complicated than they could imagine. Both of them will have to learn compromise to protect the other..."
Short Film: The Ellington Kid
A classic British urban myth gets a twist in this tongue-in-cheek short from Vice.
"In a typical South London kebab shop Nathan tells Beefy a story. It's a story he's heard about the Ellington kid, who got stabbed and found refuge in the very kebab shop they are sitting in."
Performance: Cybertron Battle Routine
Take a moment to strap on your best headphones and watch/listen to the impressiveness of mixing Transfomers into itself live by Fresk Kils on an Akai Pro MPC1000.
Electronic Art: Mirage 2.0
Mirage 2.0 at Burning Man 2012 by Musicbyerland
"In the daytime the Mirage reflects the playa passively with it's mirrored exterior. At nighttime it becomes an interactive lightshow that reinterprets the sight's and sounds of the playa into a face-melting video montage."
Woodwork: Cityscapes
"Cityscapes" by Pennsylvania artist James McNabb
For his MFA Thesis last September, McNabb created a series of architectural sculptures using discarded wood. He described
his process as “sketching with a band saw.”
Street Art: 3D Graffiti
3D Graffiti and Paintings by Manuel Di Rita (aka Peeta)
Italian graffiti artist Manuel Di Rita (aka
Peeta) has been spreading his unique 3D style across Venice since 2000. His work appears to be hovering
just off the wall it sits on. If you like this gallery, you may want to check out his work on cavas and his sculptures. Above is a mixture of artworks both old and new, and you can see much more over on Flickr and at Ayden Gallery.
Papercraft: Currency Collages
By carefully slicing up dollar bills and rearranging them into beautiful
scenes of George Washington as an everyday man, Mark Wagner makes powerful
statements about a culture dominated by money and greed. Wagner, founder of the Booklyn Artists Alliance,
uses every detail of the dollar bill- from the pyramids, fire, flowers,
seals and Masonic eye to the portrait of our founding father George
Washington and the encrypted swirls.
Mosaic: Rubik’s Cube Mosaic
“Largest Rubik’s Cube Mosaic Ever Created” created by Cube Works Studio
Cube Works Studio set a new Guinness World Record for in the bizarrely specific “Largest Rubik’s Cube Mosaic Ever Created” category with an 85,794-cube depiction of China's Macau cityscape. The mural stands thirteen feet high and runs for over two hundred feet down the wall. The mosaic breaks Cube Works Studio's previous record, which was set by a 12,090-cube recreation of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Read more about this feat at The Huffington Post.
Video: 12hr Chalk Illustration Time Lapse
"12hr chalk illustration time lapse for our 10yr Anniversary."
Typography: Spectacular Lumen Type
"Spectacular Lumen Type" by Ruslan Khasanov
Link Round-Up: March 28, 2013
This Gollum Sand Sculpture was created for a sand-sculpting competition hosted by the British town of Weston-super-Mare. This year's theme was "Hollywood." Photo by Matt Cardy. Source: AV ClubGhost Mice are a 'FIRST-WAVE folk-punk band' who sing about playing Dungeons & Dragons as a metaphor for overcoming depression, wanting to be loved like John Hickley loved Jodie Foster and recycling so Cthulhu doesn't invade. They've recorded splits with other folk-punk bands like Andrew Jackson Jihad and Defiance Ohio. Ghost Mice's song Monsters Get Slain is a heartbreaking anthem about healing from a lifetime of depression.
How to make an amber egg with a bug inside it, for your inexplicably Jurassic Park-themed Easter celebration.
Illustrated Anatomy of Popular Disney Characters
Posters: Something Terrifying
Prints available for purchase from Etsy. US$30
"A typography piece based on a Batman quote. The mood of each word determined the chosen font. Printed on Black Speckletone with silver pantone. Featured on FPO, FRENCH PAPER SAMPLE ROOM and HOW MAGAZINE BLOG."
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Short Film: 23 Degrees 5 Minutes
"23 Degrees 5 Minutes" directed by Darragh O'Connell of Brownbagfilms
Easter is altogether the wrong time of year for this film, but it's too good to pass up.
"An old explorer close to freezing in the Arctic re-lives the events that brought him there in the first place. He recalls his student days at Trinity College in Dublin when he studied under the enigmatic Professor Orit, the professor who was driven to madness by his obsessive pursuit of the unified theory. Convinced that the answer somehow lay in the relationship between the numbers two, three and five, Professor Orit's obsession started the journey which has led his former student to the top of the world."
Mash-Up: Firefly / Game of Thrones
Combining two great things: Game of Thrones & Firefly, Redditor CerebralBypass created a series of posters assigning all of the Firefly characters their own houses. I don't think all the quotes are very fitting. River's one is just plain incorrect. They're still fun to look through.
Design: Hotello
Hotello
by Roberto De Luca and Antonio Scarponi
This odd little piece of luggage a portable space that contains everything necessary for a minimal room: a desk, a lamp, a stool, a shelf, and a locker. Hotello consists of a metal structure that supports double curtains (translucent and sound absorbant) as well as all the furniture needed to work and rest. It looks like something a cartoon character would pull out from behind his back when he needed to stop for the night in the middle of nowhere.
Crafts: Pixel People
Cross-Stitched Superhero (and Villains) by WeLittleStitches
Patterns available for purchase in PDF format from Etsy. US$6 - US$16
The following is a collection of DIY cross-stitch patterns featuring some of well-known superheroes and villains from popular comics. The patterns were all created by a duo of talented stitchers, who works under the name “Weelittlestitches,” as part of their series of cross-stitched human characters they call “Pixel People.”
Posters: World War Z Poster Challenge
World War Z by Matt Ferguson
An online gang of artists calling themselves the The Print Posse have created a series of amazing movie posters for the upcoming Brad Pitt movie World War Z, based on the excellent Max Brooks novel of the same name. The posters come in response to the official trailer, and so far, they beat the hell out of all the official promotional materials. It sort of makes me wonder why Hollywood doesn't save itself some money by just holding contests when the time comes for marketing material.
All of these posters were originally created for a challenge issued / organized by Blurppy.com. "The challenge was to create an image for a movie that they had not seen yet and had limited visual assets available."
All of these posters were originally created for a challenge issued / organized by Blurppy.com. "The challenge was to create an image for a movie that they had not seen yet and had limited visual assets available."
Link Round-Up: March 27, 2013
"Thor" by Michael Stribling
The Cloud is heavy and design isn’t invisible
The History of Emoticons, an essay by Tom McCormack
Robot Calendar
The rules of the Free Desk Here are simple: Agencies around the world offer a free desk in their studio to a new talent. The agency gets to decide who they offer the space to and the duration of their stay. The idea is being supported by the well known graphic artist, Anthony Burrill who designed the limited edition screen-print to accompany the initiative. The first 50 studios to list a free desk will receive an Anthony Burrill signed, ‘Free Desk Here’ print.
StickyGram is a personalised printing service that turns your Instagram images into lovely little magnets. You create your pack online and we deliver them to your door.
Undercoat is an online community dedicated to collecting and sharing the most beautiful, inspiring and innovative content from creative students and graduates. It aims to provide exposure for the work coming out of universities, art and design institutions operating around the world. It is a platform designed to honour creativity as an essential trade. The fifth issue of their magazine, Overcoat, will be released later this week.
Featured Site: DIY.org
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Short Film: Strange Oaks
This twisted ad feels like a set-up for a Pixar movie. Funny, but very short.
Event: The Shell Game
The Shell Game by New York-based artist Molly Crabapple
An art show at the Smart Clothes Gallery
in New York City April 14 - 23 2013
"‘Shell Game’ is comprised of nine, 6'x4' paintings and one 3’x3’ painting about the revolutions and crises of 2011 (six of which have already been sold to collectors) including the mortgage bubble, the Greek anti-austerity protests, and Occupy Wall Street, filtered them through the artist’s distinctive lens of surrealism, satire, and symbolic animals and, for eight of nine paintings, informed by travel to the settings, including Spain, Greece, and the United Kingdom, during which she interviewed activists for her reported illustrated journalism pieces and participated in demonstrations. For Tunisia, she interviewed members of Nawaat, the dissident blogger collective, via Skype. Nine preliminary watercolors, all sold, will also be exhibited."
Mural: Calvin and Hobbes
Illustration: Illustrated Maps of London
Illustration: Hand Drawn Map of London
Anna Butler is the chief designer at Wellingtons Travel. She
is an artist and architect by trade and of British-Polish descent. Taige
Zhang is a lover of travel, history, and maps; also a cartographer.
They started working on creating a hand drawn vintage but modern old
London map in 2008.
"We believe in the beauty, allure and
craftsmanship of old maps. In 2008, we started researching remarkable
maps from the 16th to 19th Century from legendary explorers and
cartographers such as Joan Blaeu, Captain James Cook, and Joseph Cross.
Drawing qualities and inspiration from city maps by British
cartographers of the early 1800s, we began work on the Grand Map of
London using various existing up-to-date geographic data sources
including those from open street map.
As a hobby and business, we produce
maps of modern cities in historic, beautiful 1800s style. Our maps are
made to enchant anyone who loves history and appreciates art. Some of
our top customers include City of London, bookshops, galleries and
hotels."
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