Tomorrow, Canteen is hosting the Return to Sender show, just in time for Valentine’s Day! The theme of the show is “unrequited love”, and the only other caveat is that all the submission be done on envelopes! I was able to get my contribution (“Spidey’s Unrequited Love”, above) into the gallery’s hands the last time [...]
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I was going through some links I’ve been meaning to explore, and came across Kris Kuksi‘s link. He’s already an accomplished illustrator and painter, but over the past few years, he’s been putting together these fantastic “ensemble” sculptures (Imminent Utopia pictured above). Taking rare and everyday items and combining them together regardless of their intended [...]
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Korean sculptor Jin Young Yu creates her “invisible people” out of PVC because of its completely transparent nature. “The faces are also of materials that that sculptors typically don’t use.” I find the design to be completely modern and impeccable. Their meaning is well thought out and makes the sculptures even more haunting. Her interview [...]
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Styl.us member Raz (Ramsey Sibaja) has a 6 page comic published in Plots No. 9 a Belgium comics anthology. El Cabron Pistolero is a western horror genre comic. Right now he is working a on a full story comic for the character. Here are a few pics of the comic. Here’s a link to their [...]
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design*sponge has been working with the New York Public Library to create a great video series called Design by the Book. The series follows several New York based artists as they plumb the depths of the library’s collection for inspiration, and create things based on what they find. There are four videos in the series, each [...]
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Jed McGowan’s been running Bluesy Face at his Web site for the past few months. It’s up to Chapter Four at the moment, and will more or less blow your mind. Be a tree.
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Sketch Theatre features videos of artists such as Gary Baseman (pictured), Travis Louie, Shawn Barber, and many others doing some on-the-spot sketching for the camera. My one gripe is that on the main page, the videos have a “grungy” layer over them which is apparently added for aesthetic value, but really just obscures the drawings. Fortunately, [...]
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