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November 06, 2009

Geostationary Banana Over Texas. an art intervention that involves placing a gigantic banana over the Texas sky, being visible only from the state of Texas and its surroundings

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February 08, 2009

Desert Breath

Desert Breath, mysterious Cones of the Egyptian Desert, an art project by Greek artist Danae Stratou. (Explanation by io9)

Many more works of modern Earth and Land Art on Metafilter. (Most had been featured here through the years)

Guerrilla knitter hits Mexico City. Knitters turn to graffiti artists with yarnbombing

Michael Gano had seen some of my previous tribal tattoo designs as well as some of my most recent artwork and requested his own custom tattoo design based on an Armadillo. More tattoo art at The Smoking Gun

Lace Comes of Age exhibition at The Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles

The Art of Shoe Dodging. (From Buzzfeed)

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November 20, 2008

Picasso

Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh, and other vintage celebrity photos

Abstract Sculptures - where Art and Mathematics Meet

Picasso and his many women. (From 10 Fun Facts About Pablo Picasso)

Sketch by Pablo Picasso of a poster for the 1926 Bal Banal, a dance benefit for Russian artists in Paris. (From Quipsologies)

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A 400-piece jigsaw puzzle of a NY Times cover of your choice, at Hammacher Schlemmer

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October 14, 2008

Grid Painting

Time lapse of Gus Harper painting roses on grid

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September 25, 2008

Never mind I found one

Have you heard the one about the actress who was late for an audition? She’s driving around and around and there is no parking anywhere. She says aloud, “dear all powerful and merciful God please find me a place to park, I’ll do anything for you.” As she finishes praying, a space opens up and she says, “never mind I found one”...

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...From the introduction to some anecdotes, the first about an art show by Jeff Koons, and another about a painting titled Bad Boy by Eric Fischl, found as a comment on the “About page” of the new shelton wet/dry blog, where the origin of its name is explained...

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August 12, 2008

It's getting stronger and stronger

Frida Kahlo Look-alike Model Open Audition

4 versions of Sexual healing on Muxtape, by Ben Harper, Hot Chip, Hot 8 Brass Band And Marvin Gaye. (From Anarchaia)

Cute couples (flickr show) by superbomba

Courthouse Confessions. Blogger Steven Hirsch camps out in front of the Manhattan Criminal Court and photographs the people leaving. He asks them for their stories. The photos are brilliant; the confessions occasionally very sad. (From Andrew Sullivan)

A poster of twelve different species of flowers of the Asteracea family: Yellow chamomile, Garland chrysanthemum, Coleostephus myconis, Marguerite, Sow thistle, Chicory, Treasure flower, Galactites tomentosa, Field marigold, Ox-eye daisy, Common hawkweed and Cape daisy. (Click to enlarge)

The Buster Keaton Museum in Piqua, Kansas

The art of Felice Varini

Baghdad Burning: Anybody knows whatever happened to the Iraqi blogger Riverbend? Her last post was on October 22, 2007, after she successfully left Baghdad & arrived in Syria...

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July 03, 2008

All the Pretty Colors

Multicolr Search Lab. We extracted the colors from 3 million “interesting” Flickr images. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by color. Also available with Alamy Stock Photography

More color art by Andy Gilmore

The Poster Art of Tomi Ungerer, mostly from the 60’s & 70’s

The Heidelberg Project was created in 1986 by artist Tyree Guyton and his grandfather Sam Mackey ("Grandpa Sam") as an outdoor art environment on Detroit's eastside, a neighborhood referred to as "Black Bottom". The Heidelberg Project is, in part, a political protest, as Tyree Guyton's childhood neighborhood began to deteriorate after the 1967 riots

War into Peace

Breaking news: Truck Full Of Extinguishers Catches Fire

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June 17, 2008

Goth

Large sculptures by Philip Jackson

A photo set tagged American Gothic on flickr. Or you can travel to Eldon, IA, and take a photo of yourself in front of the original Grant Wood house

Artist Michele Pred's makes sculptures from items confiscated at San Francisco International Airport. (From Andrew Sullivan)

Nazi Barbecue Sauce - Start shopping now for your 4th of July barbecue

An elevated walkway through the trees by Marks Barfield Architects has opened at Kew Gardens in London. Tree Top Walkway

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May 02, 2008

I am not Banksy

Dee Herget's art of screen painting, a Baltimore micro-tradition - They function like decorative one-way mirrors, so that people can see out but not in. (From Britta Gustafson)

Oral Roberts “We Are Partners” LP cover, and many other Incredibly Strange Albums, from Thrift Store Art

Clever I am Banksy t-shirt

Corpus Group - Weird. Another one in the Jodi (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) tradition. Another nice one from Oliver Laric

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March 30, 2008

Ladies & Gentlemen

A blog dedicated to Toilet Signs. More on flickr

Are You Lonesome Tonight knitted television covers

Pole Dancing For Beginners

The Recurring Ruins of the Statue of Liberty

Star Trek beaded curtains. (From No Puedo Creer)

Reactive Art project by Daan Roosegaarde

The Nihilistic Beauty of Weapons Arranged in Patterns. (Apparently, most of those shots are from the Leeds Royal Armouries)

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March 15, 2008

Works of wood

Two from FecalFace: The pattern-making art of Geoffrey Todd Smith

Mike Rea crafts some amazing works out of wood

“Internet figure” Leslie Hall started collecting thrift store sweaters, and became famous for her "gem sweater museum". Here is a Vice magazine article showing some of her 400 gem sweaters. She is now a rap artist with a following on Myspace. (From Day to day)

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March 08, 2008

What do you get when you hand Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake to Chinese contortionists?

Performed by the Great Chinese State Circus. (Yes, I'm sure that you too are tired of YouTube's terrible definition. I look forward to the next generation of online video)

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February 29, 2008

VR Panoramas

“Please keep our streets clean, over 818 people have to sleep on them”. Raising consciousness about the city's homelessness with signs installed on the streets of Toronto by mark daye. (From Under Wire)

An installation by German artist Gregor Schneider in Bondi Beach. It references Australia's immigration detention camps which are often dire places in remote desert locations. Here is an "aerial" view of the installation. (From Peter Murphy's Panoramic VR Weblog)

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