Street Art

Water Walk

John Cage performing "Water Walk" in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I've Got A Secret.

The Work of James Ensor

The paintings of James Ensor are haunting, beautiful and bizarre.

Zkullz

Amazon purchases J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard for £1,950,000



The most expensive work of art ever created, Damien Hirst's For The Love Of God



H.P. Lovecraft exhibition poster by at-elier.net



Skull-A-Day Blog

Bathing In It

The work of United Visual Artists is staggeringly large and wonderful, ranging from architecture to music video, installation to live VJing. All have have one thing in common: the use of light as a 2-dimensional object. Using custom built systems of LEDs these corporate artists create light-works which push the boundary of beauty and signification.



UVA website
UVA Blog - impressive images from their travels and behind the scenes development

Who is the Artist?

Kutchner and Collaborator No. 58 Starry Night

Painter Steven R Kutchner turns the unconscious walks of bugs into what appear to be intentional artworks. The colors, chosen by Kutchner, are applied leg by leg to the insects and their small scale movements are captured as large scale gestures on the canvas.

Artist's Website
Washington Post Article

Much Cooler than Street Magic

The street installations of Mark Jenkins.

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Stunning Meomi

This is some of the nicest web design and illustration I've ever seen. These are the folks responsible for designing the mascots for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Their style is, I imagine, what an LSD trip at a Japanese costume party would be like.

It’s better because you don’t even have to roll down the windows

A new biker gang is roaming the streets of Queen's. Strapped to the bikes of urban youth are huge speaks which put out 5, 000 watts of sound to the neighbourhood.

More Photos/Video/Story (NY TIMES)

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"Incredible Silhouettes of patrons at the American Museum of Natural History by NYC photographer Joe Holmes." (kottke)

Laika

"Nick Abadzis's graphic novel "Laika" is a haunting, sweet biography of Laika, the first dog in space, who died five hours after she was launched on Sputnik II. Laika was a victim of the political vicissitudes of the Kruschev regime and its desire to push the propaganda war against the USA by elaborating on the triumph of Sputnik by launching a living organism into space." (boingboing)

"In London, hedge funds that invest solely in art are plentiful — and profitable."

Ben: The Last Supper. All 16 Billion glorious pixels of it.

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Bobby is inventing a new game: Sub-Saharan Africa or Da Vinci painting?

"The history of the Last Supper is substantially the history of its restorations...This was primarily due to Leonardo's decision to use oils instead of the usual fresco technique"

We have a problem with history. It is clear: the next step will be to use the 16 billion pixels to self heal the representation of the painting. Our ethos is that the passage of time should be halted. Everything must be as it was when it was created regardless of its inherent properties. I want to see The Last Supper as it will appear 10,000 years from now. Perhaps only then will its full beauty be exposed.