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3D Graffiti Art

Graffiti Technica makes cool 3-D graffiti sculptures.

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Petri Dish Art

Artist Klari Reis uses the petri dish to depict microscopic organisms…interesting.

Sign Painting Up There

I had no idea this was done anymore.  This is a short documentary about the men who still paint bill boards by hand – well done.

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Art of Tim Burton

Tim Burton’s official site has an interesting way to navigate through it.  You have to move the boy through the site using your arrow keys.  Normally I would think this to be a pain and I wouldn’t do it – but it is Tim Burton.  You do have to turn the music down or off [...]

Paper Art

Very nice large scale paper art by Peter Callesen

Zombie Penguin

Just for grins, I searched on “Zombie Penguin” and I got the the art page of Dave Allsop – interesting work!

Honey. can you make something for that big wall?

Nice…I enjoy watching the people that pop in and out as he is working.

Shadows as art

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Takes Patience

Leaf Cutting takes more patience than I will ever have
Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf’s surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully the surface without cutting or removing the veins.

Staples city scape

Set some staples on end and you get a city scape.  Peter Root has some other interesting sculptures at his site.
Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic. Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest [...]

Graffiti Portraits

A french artist, MTO, has created these portraits of iconic musicians and movie stars all over Berlin.
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Bent Objects: Art by Terry Border

Fun stuff.   He has a blog and a book:  Bent Objects: The Secret Life of Everyday Things

Custom Lettering by Alan Ariail

Here something I never think about – custom lettering.  Alan Ariail creates the custom lettering everyone sees in magazines, consumer products etc…I guess I assume people create these fonts in Adobe.  I never thought of them as actually sketching them out.

Unusual interpretations of Mario and Luigi

Over at The Design Inspiration there are a some 45 unusual depictions of our Nintendo friends.  I like this one:

Chris Piascik

Chris Piascik from Quarter Productions on Vimeo.
This is pretty fun.  I did one last night while watching television.  You never know what your going to get or how it is going to turn out.  I didn’t care for my creation so I am not going to post it.
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