[Link: Tokyo Fantasy]
Related:
- Neo-Ruins: Lithographs of post-apocalyptic Tokyo (Hisaharu Motoda)
- Mickey the Knight (Kenji Yanobe)
- PET bottle armor (Kosuke Tsumura)
Found Here: http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/tokyo-fantasy-images-of-the-apocalypse/
and Here: http://tokyogenso.exblog.jp/
Brand new ilovedust prints! We were invited down to Portsmouth University to give a talk on branding and before we knew it we ended up in the print room, covered in paint, bashing out these lovely prints. Limited to 30 prints, these were based on food and most were given away to friends in New York...
link: http://ilovedust.com/ ‘The Ride’ is brand new bicycle magazine which is out next week. We were asked to contribute with a couple of illustrations and if your in London next Tuesday 24th they are having a few beers and a little launch party in The Rugby Tavern pub.
Official site coming soon: www.theridejournal.com
Found Here: http://www.highsnobiety.com/the_columns/ilovedust/index.htm
We hit the road last Sunday from Burgundy en route to Carcassonne in the south of France. We took a little detour to check out the Le Viaduc de Millau / Millau Viaduct, which was open to the public in 2005. I thought I’d share some photos.
To cross the viaduct you must pay a toll, which is higher during the summer! The summer rate is: 7.40 euros ($11.62) - and the non-summer rate is 5.60 euros ($8.79).
The actual bridge crossing is supported by the cables attached to the top of each tower, which is why, I supposed, they call it a “Cable-Stayed Bridge.” Probably the most common view of the viaduct is from this viewpoint (above).
The bridge connects the autoroute from Paris to Beziers at the point where it is bisected by the Tarn River, which runs through a wide gorge between two plateaus.
The Millau Viaduct took 4 years to build. It stands 280 meters (919 ft) tall (which is higher than the Eiffel Tower and is considered the highest bridge in the world) - and is 2.5 kilometers long (1.55 miles). It cost €394 million ($619 million) to construct.
Found Here: http://www.whytraveltofrance.com/category/art/
Graffiti artist Neck Face opens his first-ever New York solo show tonight, and his timing (as in Halloween) couldn't be more appropriate. After all, he has already tagged his bloodthirsty goth creatures—beloved by collectors like Beck—from New York to Tokyo, and the exhibit includes eerie metal masks (above), a toddler-sized pair of witch's hands, and sculpted neon-yellow devils. And then there's the show's title and theme: Closed Casket, which is loosely based around the idea of Satan. "I'm inspired by the dark, the blackness of the night, the things you ain't supposed to laugh at, the evil in the world today," he says. (Cue Vincent Price chuckle here.) But consider yourself warned: If you plan on going to tonight's opening, costume is required. Also, Londonist claims to have "unmasked" Banksy, but we're not convinced that blurry, tilted-angle shots taken from a distance really count.
Closed Casket, Oct. 31-Nov. 24, Dactyl Foundation, 64 Grand St., (212) 696-7800, dactyl.org. RSVP for the opening to rsvp@dactyl.org
The face only a mother could love!
Found Here: http://men.style.com/news/blog/2007/10/the-man-with-th.html
(source: progarchives.com)
Found Here: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=238120029
by the 20th century's great illustrators and the glories of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Arts & Crafts, propaganda art and the Pre-Raphaelites, Lee tailors his work to the specific needs and tastes
of his clientele. He excels
in art direction, design, collaboration, and illustration - whether classical, vintage, modern, or post-modern.
Embracing digital media in 1989, Lee swiftly learned to mix traditional and digital painting seamlessly. He spent a decade as a Docent & Naturalist Illustrator at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. The New York Times nominated his work for a Webby in 1999.
He lives in Portland, Oregon with his talented photographer wife Annaliese and their dog Lego. He also designs games, sculpts, writes, performs, and plays a mean game of Scrabble.
Found Here: http://thelittlechimpsociety.com/theape/lcs-interview-lee-moyer/
Carl Spitzweg (February 5, 1808 - September 23, 1885) was a German romanticist painter and poet. He is considered to be one of the most important representatives of the Biedermeier era.
He was born in Unterpfaffenhofen as the second of three sons of Franziska and Simon Spitzweg. His father, a wealthy merchant, had Carl trained as a pharmacist. He attained his qualification from the University of Munich, but while recovering from an illness he also took up painting. Spitzweg was self-taught as an artist, and began by copying the works of Flemish masters. He contributed his first work to satiric magazines. Upon receiving an inheritance in 1833, he was able to dedicate himself to painting.
Later, Spitzweg visited European art centers, studying the works of various artists and refining his technique and style; he visited Prague, Venice, Paris, London, and Belgium. His later paintings and drawings are often humorous genre works. Many of his paintings depict sharply characterized eccentrics, for example The Bookworm (1850) and The Hypochondriac (c. 1865, in the Neue Pinakothek, Munich).
His paintings were the inspiration to the musical comedy Das kleine Hofkonzert by Edmund Nick.
Found Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Spitzweg
Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Hello world! This is the website of the Swiss typographicdesigner Lorenzo Geiger. Have a look at my werkschau which consists in web design and printed matter with a range from corporate identities, record covers, editorial design and knowledge visualization as well as the design of typefaces.
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I consider my work an invitation to explore the ways we experience our environment. My paintings have realistic elements, but above all an alienating atmosphere. My works in recent years show brightly colored landscapes and weird plant species which I call my ‘psychedelic gardens’.
My inspiration comes from the ordinary things around me, the artist in me just sees things in an unusual perspective. Picture a baker looking at a corn field. He sees bread, cookies and pies. I see shapes, patterns and colors. I like to zoom in on an everyday object such as the pins of a hair brush and imagine a tiny landscape with rows of hairy trees.
I’m a self-taught artist and seek to achieve a high level of craftsmanship. It takes me eight hours just to prepare the surface on my smaller canvases. The oil painting itself can take up to 10 layers to achieve rich colors and a smooth finish.
Found Here: http://www.vanlubeck.com/biography |
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"In my paintings I prefer balancing on an imaginary edge that, in our minds, divides reality and fiction, the beginning and the end, as well as order and chaos. Recently I have been making two parallel pictorial cycles. On the one hand, there are paintings depicting fragments of rationally organized matter in unidentified space, on the other hand there are self - portraits mirroring current news from the real world."
Ivan Titor is one of 50 Artists featured in our second publication entitled Metamorphosis 2.
Found Here: http://beinart.org/artists/ivan-titor/?GID=777#
WOW !! A new space on my website !
Here is where I'm going to put photos and tell the stories about the events that are happening
since I'm huge star in the illustration world .
