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| Friday Feb 15, 2013 |
For Your Height Only is the world’s best Filipino-made James Bond movie starring a midget. to Art by isosceles |
| Wednesday Apr 25, 2012 |
Let’s hear some musicians and minor celebrities talk rant about theIlluminati, aliens, Montsanto, HAARP, chemtrails, Big Oil conspiracy,et al, shall we? to Art by isosceles |
| Thursday Apr 12, 2012 |
The Neue Slowenische Kunst is an art collective and self-declared microstate, best known for the band Laibach. Self-declared NSK citizens can attend citizen meetups. to Art by isosceles |
| Wednesday Apr 11, 2012 |
During long flights, artist Nina Katchadourian goes to the lavatory and, using toilet paper and toilet seat covers, creates self-portrait photos in the style of Flemish Renaissance paintings. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 26, 2012 |
“What is the fourth dimension? Most people assume it is an inaccessible parallel universe that is impossible to completely understand, much like North Korea. This app lets you see it for yourself with only a minimal amount of headaches and nausea.” to Art by joshua |
| Friday Mar 16, 2012 |
Touchy is a human camera, who is blinded constantly until someone’s touch enables the opening of the automated shutters. to Art by fool |
| Friday Jul 27, 2007 |
I never expected the bleak existentialism of early Peanuts to work well with the drunken, failed machismo of Charles Bukowski but, wow, it does. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jul 21, 2007 |
Thriller as performed by prisoners in the Philippines, Bollywood, and awedding party. to Art by fool |
| Friday Nov 10, 2006 |
At War with Baraka is an underground film which syncs Fricke’sBaraka with the Flaming Lips’ At War with the Mystics. to Art by fool |
| Saturday Sep 23, 2006 |
Surreal Sock Puppet Polka to Art by netcowboy |
| Friday Sep 22, 2006 |
John Hodgman, humor writer, Daily Show correspondant andembodiment of the Windows operating system, invented and recited over guitar accompianment 700 hobo names. For those of you not content to read (or listen) and giggle, portraits of these hobos have also now been drawn to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Aug 29, 2006 |
With two films about turn-of-the-century stage magicians released in the space of as many months (The Illusionist and The Prestige) tickets to magic shows are enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Cheap slackers too lazy to go find our own show (or those of you who can’t get an invitation to The Magic Castle), rejoice! Thanks to YouTube, you can enjoy some jaw-dropping illusions from the comfort of your own home with Paper Butterfly, Burger Thief or watch Penn & Teller expose a classic illusion on national television. to Art by pjammer |
| Wednesday May 24, 2006 |
Like musicians playing covers of their favorite songs, visual artists love to offer their own interpretations of famous characters from literatureand cartoons. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 18, 2006 |
Jim Woodring (whose work I am sure you’ve seen before) has his own blog, where he posts the hallucinatory artwork and elliptical commentary he is so famous for. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 28, 2006 |
“A sublime showcase for the diversity and creativity of mankind.”Music? Bah, too pedestrian. Visual art? Nothing so obvious, my friend. No, it’s balloon hats of the world. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jan 30, 2006 |
In February 1995, artist and strange person Myranda Didovic, working in conjunction with nutritionists at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, took a crap that measured 26 feet in length. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 13, 2006 |
Batgirl is everywhere! to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Dec 5, 2005 |
Patterns! to Art by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Nov 30, 2005 |
Children’s drawings of famous people from Calgary. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Oct 17, 2005 |
If hacking is just like painting, then all you programmers should be worried about your jobs. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Destroy.Hot.Action takes porn clips and visually mangles and distorts them into something like abstract art. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Oct 7, 2005 |
I want to balance rocks on each other for a living too! to Art by fringehead |
| Tuesday Sep 20, 2005 |
50,000 speech balloons placed on posters and ads and filled in by anonymous strangers. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Aug 28, 2005 |
Art inspired by videogames or using gaming technology is all the rage these days, and Richard Horsman joins in with his translations of 2D sprites into 3D renders, with stylish and sometimes creepy results. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jul 6, 2005 |
Boring postcards.. from Sweden! to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jul 1, 2005 |
I have a strange feeling that surrealists actually kind of like it when people rip them off or (perhaps) debase their films. to Art by fool |
| Thursday Jun 30, 2005 |
If you’re ever in Seat 29E, make sure nobody is carrying any dry ice. to Art by roo |
| Wednesday Jun 22, 2005 |
The Surveillance Camera Players are using ubiquitous surveillance cameras as a stage for protest against, well, ubiquitous surveillance cameras. to Art by faisal |
| Tuesday Jun 7, 2005 |
Dave DeVries takes kids’ pictures of scary monsters and makes them a little more real and, strangely enough, a lot less scary. to Art by fatherdan |
| Tuesday May 24, 2005 |
The marriage of robotics and meat continues with the cybernetic parrot sausage. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 18, 2005 |
Hating that nasty seascape or still-life on the Paris Econolodge wall? If you’re lucky, somebody might have left you a gift behind it. to Art by yoyology |
| Like the Sgt. Pepper’s artwork redone by someone with OCD and two grams of meth in his bloodstream, Howard Hollis’ Picture of Everythingis a huge, annotated drawing of, well, everything. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 22, 2005 |
Unrealised Moscow documents a Moscow that was never built. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 18, 2005 |
Play those funky breaks whiteboy. to Art by fool |
| Friday Feb 25, 2005 |
To those who thought Road House was only a cult classic movie: You are wrong. Welcome to Road House: The Play. to Art by isosceles |
| Monday Feb 21, 2005 |
Grafik Dynamo takes images from Livejournal and adds text and speech balloons to create a surreal ongoing narrative. to Art by riotnrrd |
| M-city konstruktor allows you to place stencil-shaded tiles of buildings, people and giant robots to create your own isometric cityscapes. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 10, 2005 |
I remember back in the day when sending a valentine was easy. Now you gotta fight for it! to Art by 7layerburrito |
| Thursday Jan 27, 2005 |
“It is for you, the viewer of the cat lady church art, to determine whether this is a fun little Lego-building hobby, or whether it’s gone over the line to full-blown Lego OCD.” to Art by yoyology |
| Thursday Jan 6, 2005 |
S.P. Dinsmoor (not to be confused with Dinsdale) began, at the age of 64, to build a monument that would stand long after he was gone. With 2,273 sacks of cement and countless tons of limestone, he constructed a “log” home and sculpture garden in Lucas, Kansas called theGarden of Eden. As if the whole place weren’t creepy enough, one of the exhibits is Dinsmoor himself, in a homemade glass-topped concrete coffin. to Art by yoyology |
| Wednesday Jan 5, 2005 |
Who said money and art can’t co-exist? to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Dec 31, 2004 |
After drinking that egg nog I found in the dumpster, I started to hallucinate that I could see the skeletons of cartoon characters. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 21, 2004 |
Dude, don’t bogart the art. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 26, 2004 |
Zoom in and in and in (or out and out and out) on the trippy detail of the collaborative artwork, zoomquilt. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 22, 2004 |
“With both clown and viewer locked in an endless loop of failure anddegradation, the humor soon turns to horror.” to Art by fatherdan |
| Tuesday Nov 2, 2004 |
Horrifying and bizarre tableaus, presented by the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Oct 30, 2004 |
Technology enables art. to Art by belford |
| Wednesday Oct 20, 2004 |
How would a robot act if it was self-interested? Give me a coin or two, and I’ll tell you exactly how it would behave. to Art by fool |
| Tuesday Oct 12, 2004 |
Maus set in feudal Japan? Flash Gordon‘s heirlooms? Corporateraider wear? Call Jeff De Boer. to Art by yoyology |
| Thursday Aug 26, 2004 |
Researchers have spent years trying to uncover possible uses for spam. Political candidates have risen and fallen based solely upon the spam plank of their platforms. (Or not.) Now, one man has taking spam recycling to its truest, most genius level: cartoons. to Art by jacquez |
| Wednesday Aug 25, 2004 |
A messageboard without a topic, shaped like a tree, Ecotonohasounds straight out of 1999, but is oddly compelling. The tree grows larger and greener with every message left, and the archives are available as a screensaver. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jul 31, 2004 |
Michael O’Brien has an eclectic collection of 50’s and 60’s movie posters and weird old exploitation novel covers. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jul 15, 2004 |
Each of Jason Kronenwald’s portraits are made entirely from chewed bubblegum on a plywood backing; no paint or dye is used. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jul 8, 2004 |
Travel to exotic and beautiful India and enjoy their many colorful trashcans. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jun 29, 2004 |
By now, GPS drawing has become old hat, so there is only one place left to take it: the third dimension. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jun 25, 2004 |
Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to document graffitti of little octopuses around New York City. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jun 9, 2004 |
Cover every roof on your block with sod, and other conceptualistpranks. to Art by fool |
| Friday May 21, 2004 |
Creepy Clown is what you get when you give a bunch of render geeks a running joke or two. to Art by braino |
| Wednesday May 19, 2004 |
If you like the aesthetic of modernist architecture but don’t have the budget for a custom-built home then perhaps modernist prefab housingis what you’re looking for. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday May 17, 2004 |
A Case of Curioisities shows off a fascinating collection of vintage andoriginal taxidermy and other curiosities. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 12, 2004 |
The Infinite Cat Project is attempting a grandiose internet trompe l’oeuil effect. to Art by fringehead |
| Thursday Apr 22, 2004 |
Subservient Chicken comes in many flavors. to Art by fool |
| Thursday Apr 15, 2004 |
Science fiction has always provided illustrations of the future of evolution – from H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine with its Eloi and Morlocks, to Peter Ward’s (less fiction, more science) explorationFuture Evolution. The morphological possibilities of Photoshop, however, are often overlooked. Well, no longer. Human Descent provides many examples of possible future genetic freaks. to Art by jacquez |
| Saturday Apr 10, 2004 |
Bubble wrap, Skittles, and worry fill the world of obsessive-compulsive artists. to Art by fringehead |
| Wednesday Apr 7, 2004 |
When a nice Jewish boy and a nice Chinese girl get together, and they both love food, you get Soy Vay! It’s kosher, parve, organic, and has no MSG, GMOs, or peanuts. to Art by yoyology |
| Tuesday Apr 6, 2004 |
Artist Dan Goodsell keeps an obsessive collection of advertising- and food-related toys. to Art by fringehead |
| Sweet, sweet design porn. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 23, 2004 |
The labels on fruit crates can be surprisingly well designed and evenpretty. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 22, 2004 |
R Kelly meets Bathroom Designs to Art by leptirica |
| Sunday Feb 22, 2004 |
Nasosov paints disturbed-looking portraits, in a manner that suggests a high possibility that the artist might have experienced more-than-normal amounts of trauma strapped to the dentist chair having things hung from and attached to his face; if you have a dental appointment looming ahead next week, this might make you want to postpone it. to Art by monde |
| Wednesday Feb 11, 2004 |
I can’t stop myself from wondering if David Hasselhoff’s video is abizarre flash movie (despite evidence to the contrary). to Art by fool |
| Wednesday Dec 31, 2003 |
It is interesting to compare art composed by those under the influenceof LSD, and those experiencing psychosis. to Art by fool |
| Sunday Dec 21, 2003 |
Bert and Bud create custom-made coffins If you have a unique idea for your final rest receptacle, they can probably build it (urns too!). And here’s one just in time for Christmas! Ho ho ho! to Art by fatherdan |
| Friday Dec 19, 2003 |
Graffiti Archaeology is devoted to the documentation of graffiti-covered walls as they change over time. Use the GrafAc Explorer, to watch the graffiti ebb and flow in selected areas of San Francisco. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Die Screaming with Sharp Things in your Head. There’s really not much else to say. to Art by yoyology |
| Wednesday Dec 17, 2003 |
From the brick artist who built Han Solo in Carbonite and the Legoville Slugger, we humbly present: Achewood fanbrick. to Art by yoyology |
| Friday Dec 5, 2003 |
Matt Stuart’s photography of London is a bit like Diane Arbus’ssnapshots of New York. to Art by fool |
| Howdy, Pardner. If those long nights on the prairie are feeling kind of lonesome, why not cuddle up with some cowgirl pinups from the 1930’s through the 1960’s? Giddyap! to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Dec 4, 2003 |
“The lostlove project aims to compile stories about lost love. Users enter stories which are then linked by the lostlove engine to create a metanarrative of a relationship.” to Art by riotnrrd |
| It’s about that time of year again. Remember, sixfold radial symmetry, and never make two alike. If you work hard, you can get pretty damnelaborate. to Art by yoyology |
| Tuesday Dec 2, 2003 |
I love comic books, but sometimes.. boy can they suck. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Dec 1, 2003 |
If you grew up without a crotchety grandfather filling your head with nonsense, American Folklore can give you all the tall tales and ghost stories you missed out on. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 17, 2003 |
Out from the mud comes the lotus flower. Tampon art finds new life in things we usually prefer not to find at all. to Art by scromp |
| Back when Burning Man was just a low-key get-together, Survival Research Labs made Killer Robots. Now that the field of weapons development as art has expanded, you could easily find a personal EMP bomb, or a lethal biological pathogen vending machine at your next vernissage or festival. All this, courtesy of the Experimental Interaction Unit. to Art by caspian |
| Friday Nov 7, 2003 |
“In my attempt to realize ‘death’, I have decided to watch the dead body of a dog continuously at the coast.” to Art by riotnrrd |
| Oh, she’s just your average playboy centerfold. to Art by fool |
| Thursday Oct 30, 2003 |
Get your cartoon on, old-style, with the Bayeux tapestry webtoon toolkit. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Oct 3, 2003 |
Swingin’ 50’s and 60’s design style meets web craziness in the work of Japanese artist Kazumi Nonaka. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Online art gallery Decontrol uses beautiful design and an intuitive navigational interface that doesn’t get in the way of the art. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Sep 30, 2003 |
Andy Goldsworthy’s art is not so much “outsider” as it is “out-of-doors.” He works almost entirely in nature, using the materials at hand to create pieces of extraordinary, ephemeral beauty and monumentalpresence. On occasion, he does create installations, and he stunned London on Midsummer Day 2000 by allowing 13 enormous snowballsto melt on the city streets. to Art by yoyology |
| Maggot Art is a fantastic new teaching tool for use in the elementary school setting. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Next time you ogle a swimsuit model remember that she doesn’t really look like that. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Sep 29, 2003 |
You have ASCII Porn. There is ASCII Quake, ASCII Matrix, and ASCII Star Wars. But personally, ASCII Rock just goes too far. to Art by imploded |
| Sunday Sep 21, 2003 |
Watch Atomic Age Dog’s Cows Are Evil and never quite the same about that cool, refreshing glass of milk again. to Art by joshua |
| Monday Sep 15, 2003 |
Prepare yourself for a visually compelling headache, but a headache nonetheless. to Art by pyrrhuloxia |
| Thursday Sep 11, 2003 |
Knowledge that ‘pipe’ is french slang for blowjob allows a much more entertaining interpration to Magritte’s “ce n’est pas une pipe” caption. to Art by fool |
| A riddle: what do steamy windows, champagne, Picasso, and asphaltshare in common? A hint: something like Hirschfield’s Ninas. to Art by fool |
| Sunday Sep 7, 2003 |
Somewhere between steampunk and Max Ernst lies the magical world of the Industrial Art Gallery. to Art by fringehead |
| Monday Aug 25, 2003 |
Always be prepared to handle life’s little disasters. to Art by fatherdan |
| Friday Aug 22, 2003 |
Twexus generates imagery from a database of pictures usingsymmetry and pairing. to Art by fool |
| Wednesday Aug 20, 2003 |
Trong Lovdal has amassed an impressive collection of over 500vintage Chinese posters. Lucky for us, he’s placed images of these beautiful artworks on the web, and is even selling a few of them. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jul 25, 2003 |
The aesthetics of minimalism and constuctivism are being explodedinto unusual geometries. to Art by fool |
| Tuesday Jul 15, 2003 |
If Kabuki actors could somehow render the game of Ping Pong to be superhuman, like The Matrix … oh wait, they can. to Art by isosceles |
| Saturday Jul 12, 2003 |
Ahh, yet another art critique message board. Don’t be surprised if some of the pictures on this one are a bit pixelated. to Art by 7layerburrito |
| Sunday Jun 29, 2003 |
When the Rube Goldberg Honda advert made the rounds, some folks noted it ripped-off The Way Things Go, but it’s not the only rip-offfloating around. to Art by fool |
| Friday Jun 20, 2003 |
Welcome to Pablo’s Art World! “A fantasy world where imagination is the master!” And where men sit on the crapper and read the newspaper. to Art by fatherdan |
| Thursday Jun 19, 2003 |
After learning about Chrissy’s Caviar, I was tempted to make a cheap joke about Roe v. Wade, but I’m much too big for that. to Art by yoyology |
| Monday Jun 16, 2003 |
Hot on the heels of April Winchell comes 365 Days, an archive of the most bizarre multimedia including the hilarious Religion for the Retarded, the pathetic Orson Welles Frozen Peas commercial, and a positively terrifying recording of Louis Farrakhan singing a calypso song about a transsexual. to Art by isosceles |
| Saturday Jun 7, 2003 |
Manhole covers may not be exciting but they are often artistic bothartistic inspiration and sometimes, art themselves. See covers fromManhattan, the United States, Russia, Hungary, London, Norway,Japan, and France. to Art by joshua |
| Saturday May 31, 2003 |
Arthur Ganson makes fascinatingly delicate and elegant mechanical sculptures and machines. Some will take thousands of years to complete their tasks and some are astoundingly ephemeral. You can see his work at the MIT Museum and see his creations in action. to Art by joshua |
| Monday May 19, 2003 |
Everybody likes fine art, riddles, and free stuff, but how often do you get all of them in one package? By the way, the horse is smilingbecause he is made of meat. to Art by riffraff |
| Saturday May 17, 2003 |
One of the most fascinating and unique pieces of horticultural and printing history are framed seed packets, which were printed nearly a century ago by manual-labor-intensive 1910-era methods that would boggle the imagination of those of us familiar with the modern-day 4-color printing process. to Art by pjammer |
| Tuesday May 13, 2003 |
Pixel Creation has a small but beautiful collection of Chinese advertising art from the 1920’s and 1930’s. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 8, 2003 |
Art meets poker at the next Green Room Gallery exhibition: Muck on the Bottom. A Texas Hold’em tournament will be conducted at the gallery using a deck of cards designed by 14 artists. Check out thetwos, fours, aces, and my favorite, the satanically rockin’ six-six-sixes. to Art by fatherdan |
| Tuesday Apr 29, 2003 |
Hoaxes aside, there are animals who paint. For a couple hundred, you could own a masterpiece by Koko the gorilla or exuberant abstracts by Asian elephants. to Art by sylvar |
| Thursday Apr 17, 2003 |
If you missed this year’s art car parades in Texas, you can still see theWeapon of Mass Instruction, and visit old favorites in the Art Car Museum, and at this art industry website. to Art by pyrrhuloxia |
| Wednesday Apr 16, 2003 |
Imagenetion has an enormous collection of scanned pinups,cheesecake art, and fantasy art. Including some very, very odd peices of fan art. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 8, 2003 |
The Art-o-mat project is making use of banned technology in a good cause. to Art by fringehead |
| Sunday Apr 6, 2003 |
You may look like an idiot doing it, but GPS Drawing may be just the creative outlet you’re looking for. to Art by mrnonrespondo |
| Friday Apr 4, 2003 |
Time now has a complete archive of their covers online, from first tolast. Popular searches include historical figures, popular icons, andcontroversial topics, but since it’s online, we know what people willreally be looking for. to Art by yoyology |
| Tuesday Apr 1, 2003 |
Icontown inhabitants who wish to move up to a high rise would do well to consider Mr. Wong’s Soup’partments. to Art by buttercup |
| Monday Mar 31, 2003 |
Are the wild animals around where you live not picking up the slack? Why not give them a new job? to Art by fotbon |
| Jackson Pollock is turning in his grave right now. But is it art? (not worksafe) to Art by isosceles |
| Friday Mar 14, 2003 |
PDAs may be good for keeping appointments and organizing your address book, but are they good for making art? to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 11, 2003 |
What with all the Jesuses, Elvii, and huge-eyed sad children, velvet paintings have a bad reputation for tackiness and tawdriness. Well,Voodoo Velvet intends to change all that. I think they may succeed. to Art by riffraff |
| Thursday Feb 27, 2003 |
Metalwork doesn’t have to be explicitly decorative to be beautiful. Consider, for example, stove burners and drain covers. to Art by gator |
| Pleix contains some extraordinarily interesting and somewhat disturbing video art. Highlights include a satirical video for Plaid‘s track “Itsu” and parody commercials of a beauty kit for little girls. to Art by fool |
| Wednesday Feb 19, 2003 |
During his career as an artist, Donald Evans created hundreds of hand-painted postage stamps for imaginary countries. The influence of his works can clearly been seen in the painted and collage-workenvelopes and stamps from the Griffin and Sabine books, or the haunting surrealism of the Codex Seraphinianus. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 13, 2003 |
Simply start with a pencil, and remove all that is not a chain, spirit, orgeometric figure to Art by gator |
| Wednesday Feb 5, 2003 |
The Remedi Project is a twelve-issue interactive art project that may trigger hours of web-surfing, productive or otherwise. to Art by pyrrhuloxia |
| Wednesday Jan 1, 2003 |
Why bother with sculpting bonsai trees when you can quickly do the same (“Zen – Without the wait!”) with a potato? They range from thesublime to the extravagant. It’s the taking the world by storm. to Art by crikey |
| Thursday Dec 26, 2002 |
Hugh MacLeod draws cartoons drawn on the back of business cards. “With life in New York being what it is, with each person being hit with a million strange, random moments a day, there’s a lot to be said for being able to fit your entire studio inside your coat pocket.” to Art by joshua |
| Wednesday Nov 27, 2002 |
What is the meaning of the mysterious giant letters on the sides of mountains and hills? to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Nov 26, 2002 |
Show Me Your Wound is a twisted little commmunity dedicated to sharing and discussing stories and images of scrapes, cuts, burns andworse. to Art by joshua |
| Monday Nov 25, 2002 |
Guilloche patterns are the intricate sinusoidal forms created by a Rose Machine and are found in ornamental metal such as watches and are frequently used as anti-counterfeiting security devices in money andother financial paperwork . to Art by joshua |
| Thursday Nov 21, 2002 |
Who would have thought that your paint-by-number that you toiled over as an 8 year old would be of any value to anyone other than your mom? From nudes to portraits of Jesus, paint-by-numbers are taking America by storm… again! But wait, there’s more, now you can even have your very own customized picture to paint! to Art by mrnonrespondo |
| Thursday Nov 7, 2002 |
Upload a photograph to LEGO and they will sell you only the parts you need to construct a mosaic. This can be taken to extremes. to Art by urog |
| Tuesday Oct 29, 2002 |
Witness the intriguing interactive art of Project Euh. In particular, the collaborative “scribble board” and the strangely symmetric graphical poll. to Art by geofforama |
| Monday Oct 28, 2002 |
Scientists are pretty sure men cannot actually lactate, but that doesn’t stop some from trying. to Art by joshua |
| Someone put a lot of effort into their haunted dollhouse. Especially impressive is the miniature jack-o-lantern complete with pumpkin snotand the tiny party snacks. to Art by lucky |
| Tuesday Oct 22, 2002 |
Everything nowadays is self-referential art, even auctions. to Art by fringehead |
| Friday Oct 18, 2002 |
Tove Jansson, author of the popular “moomintroll” children’s books, once illustrated a Swedish version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit.” to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 17, 2002 |
In the deep of summer, 200 sign painters invade Mars, PA. to Art by goboro |
| When art is outlawed, only outlaws will create art. to Art by fatherdan |
| Friday Oct 11, 2002 |
It’s a fusebox that pushes things down staircases and removes stubborn stains and other surreal inventions of the Prior-Art-O-Matic. to Art by fool |
| Wednesday Oct 9, 2002 |
“Driven by a dream I had at the age of twenty-three during my junior year at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, I began to draw pigs with wings. I drew pigs with wings over and over until, during my senior year, I realized it might be possible to actually create a real winged pig by employing tattoos.” to Art by joshua |
| Friday Oct 4, 2002 |
Sploshing, a rather British phenomenon, is best described as the food fight as foreplay. Like all fetishes, sploshing yields mixed results – while some find it incredibly arousing, others are just left feeling cold and wet. to Art by lux |
| Thursday Oct 3, 2002 |
René Magritte showed that through the juxtapositon of commonobjects in unexpected yet ordinary settings, the normal becomessurreal. This is called magic realism. So, therefore, have magic realistsdesigned the new state quarters? to Art by fatherdan |
| Wednesday Oct 2, 2002 |
Typophile’s Smaller Picture is an attempt to collectively design a typeface. to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 1, 2002 |
Laurie Hogin is a very interesting artist. A fan of 17th Century Flemish painting styles, she applies them to a wide variety of otherwise mundane and cuddly animal subjects. Except, terrifyingly, sometimes said subjects are neither mundane nor cuddly. to Art by isosceles |
| Sunday Sep 22, 2002 |
Banksy’s stencil art has been causing panic on the streets of London, or at least wonder about who’s behind the slippery samizdat. to Art by fool |
| Thursday Sep 19, 2002 |
Holy #%£*!!! You think you have the @#*! to be a master obscenity-generator like Pete and Ray or Red of the Tube Bar? Lucky Pierreneeds your most finely woven obscenities for their Swear Line Project. So, what the #@&Ø is your #&@-ing problem you, @#%? Do you need #@$%!-ing inspiration? to Art by fatherdan |
| Thursday Aug 22, 2002 |
Ah… so many tampons, so many different uses. From aquariums tobondage and counseling, Tamponart is the solution for all your needs! to Art by leptirica |
| Friday Aug 16, 2002 |
Origami: animal, vegetable, mineral. to Art by goboro |
| Tuesday Jul 23, 2002 |
In the unlikely surroundings of Death Valley, California, an opera house has been running for more than 30 years. Owner Marta Becketand her work are the subject of a documentary film now as well. to Art by fringehead |
| Friday Jul 12, 2002 |
On November 16, 1974, a self-decoding message was sent from Arecibo Observatory towards the M13 globular cluster. On August 21, 2001, their response arrived. to Art by joshua |
| Thursday Jul 11, 2002 |
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Cobra: The Musical. to Art by isosceles |
| Friday Jun 28, 2002 |
The secret lives of numbers: “an exhaustive empirical study to determine the relative popularity of every integer between zero and one million.” to Art by fool |
| Friday Jun 21, 2002 |
When building with Legos, it is good to have plans and pieces, but what you really need is an idea with a bang. to Art by mercaptan |
| Wednesday Jun 5, 2002 |
Real-life Miltons of the world have expressed such demand for red Swingline staplers that a second-hand market in painted units boomed on eBay until Swingline introduced their own. to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Jun 4, 2002 |
From the rather mundane to verging on art: scientific glass. to Art by goboro |
| Thursday May 30, 2002 |
Women have been getting (and giving) tattoos in America (and Europe) for longer than you might think. to Art by bruce |
| Wednesday May 22, 2002 |
No program conveys more geek cred than the screen saver. to Art by joshua |
| Before digital video effects, there were analog video synthesizers. One of these, the Scanimate, still has afficonados today. to Art by gator |
| Tuesday May 14, 2002 |
Beefcake, beefcake, beefcake. to Art by cain |
| Thursday May 2, 2002 |
Masterfully combining Domokun, a Japanese oddity, with Steve Ballmer, an American oddity, results in the mind-boggling funny work of a Hivehaus and Echo23 collaboration: Domopers. Clearly, the next step has to involve Domokun and a Chris Cunningham-style Aphex Twin Windowlicker video montage. to Art by dnm |
| Sunday Apr 28, 2002 |
For those who like to create alphabets, there’s always Alphabet Soup,a neat software toy that turns starter glyphs into strange mutations. to Art by isosceles |
| Friday Apr 19, 2002 |
Please contribute to the Bra Ball! As of February 2002 it stands at four feet high and weighs eight hundred pounds. It will be complete when it reaches five feet four inches, the height of the average American woman. Also check out the “herstory” of the ball and read the artist’s statement. to Art by lucky |
| Thursday Apr 11, 2002 |
Art is shit. to Art by nucleus |
| Friday Apr 5, 2002 |
The Museum of Online Museums is an intriguing collection of … intriguing collections. to Art by joshua |
| Wednesday Apr 3, 2002 |
Jam:Tokyo-London brings together samples of artists, photographers, DJs, and fashionistas from the cities at the either end of Eurasia, all via a Dig-Dug-esque interface from website design mongers Airside. If you’re into Performance/video, fart! to Art by saucy |
| Thursday Mar 21, 2002 |
Be you a dentist, trucker, or juggler, know that Jesus is “With you always”. to Art by fool |
| Wednesday Mar 20, 2002 |
Think you draw comics well? Get ready to have a nice long cry. Now you can watch genius comic artists battle it out at the PolyKarbon Fight Club. to Art by 7layerburrito |
| Thursday Mar 14, 2002 |
Who created those bat’s ass insane paintings in Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums? Bad-boy artist Miguel Calderon, of course. to Art by fatherdan |
| Tuesday Mar 12, 2002 |
Pop art depictions of Abe Lincoln knocking some fool upside the headand Bea Arthur wrestling velocraptors need no introduction. to Art by fool |
| Saturday Mar 9, 2002 |
The Les Toil Big Beautiful Pin-Up Gallery is marvelous. Les Toil has his critics but Camryn Manheim’s letter has probably made up for that. Damn, I want to be a Les Toil Girl! to Art by lucky |
| Tuesday Mar 5, 2002 |
I hope you don’t have Euphobia, because here’s some good news. Now everybody (except for you Epistemophobics) can enjoy all of your favorite phobias on one page! So as long as you aren’t aHypengyophobe, be responsible and educate yourself. to Art by 7layerburrito |
| Monday Mar 4, 2002 |
Why, I bet this Web site is surreal, dream-like, bizarre, eccentric…in a word LYNCHIAN. Be sure to click “What’s Inside.” JUMP ON IT!!! to Art by fatherdan |
| Monday Feb 18, 2002 |
Hotels have been built out of ice. Everyone from the ancient Balineseto Frank Lloyd Wright has built on water. But the NY architectsDiller+Scofidio are the only ones wacko enough to try creating a building out of water vapor (or so it will seem). Visit at Swiss Expo ’02, assuming it works. to Art by belford |
| Sunday Feb 17, 2002 |
Thanks to the dilligent efforts of some inspired people, you too can beworld famous for fifteen minutes. to Art by engelbot |
| Friday Feb 15, 2002 |
If you thought Richard D. James was a bad girl, wait until you seeDubbya! to Art by fringehead |
| Wednesday Feb 13, 2002 |
Ännihilation: dee-generation, navigation, information, automation,presentation, textualization, visualization. Whoa. to Art by roo |
| Sunday Feb 10, 2002 |
Sure, Serial Experiments: Lain was mind-bending. Perfect Blue andBlood: The Last Vampire were scary (in their own ways) as well. TheKikia flash animation, however, nearly frightened me to death. to Art by caspian |
| Tuesday Jan 29, 2002 |
Children’s book cover art + Photoshop = Pure Genius to Art by roo |
| Friday Jan 18, 2002 |
There’s just something about guano. Thanks to the marvels of the Internet, anyone from anywhere can now own Inca Magic Sea Bird Guano. But be careful, guano cleanup is no laughing matter. And if you find yourself with a mess too big to handle, why not ask El Guano foradvice? to Art by dantessa |
| Friday Jan 11, 2002 |
Industrious Clock erases and then one-ups the venerable old Dali Clock. to Art by fool |
| Friday Jan 4, 2002 |
Jasmine Watson has done a great deal of work on costuming jewelry for Xena and Hercules. However, right now she’s getting more attention for designing the Elven jewelry in The Lord of the Ringsmovies. (Compare Tolkien’s descriptions of Elven designs and emblems.) to Art by belford |
| Thursday Jan 3, 2002 |
Tetsuya Nagato presents Me and My Monkey (In 32 Locations) to Art by wheezer |
| Friday Dec 28, 2001 |
Fingerpainting doesn’t refer to people painting on their fingers; so why should bodypainting refer to people painting on their bodies? Wouldn’t real “bodypainting” actually be more like this? to Art by onigame |
| Friday Dec 14, 2001 |
Why bother going insane? Now there’s The Woodcutter. to Art by asosa |
| Sunday Nov 25, 2001 |
Remember the little rush of pleasure the first time your brain was forced to question itself by the tessellations, optical deceptions andserene beauty of M.C. Escher? Relive that sense of wonder with a few of his artistic heirs: Kelly Houle and István Orosz specialize in “catoptric anamorphosis” (the art of distorting an image such that you need a mirror to correct it). Their visions include the unexpected,poetic, and flat-out impossible. to Art by cricket |
| Thursday Nov 15, 2001 |
When will those wacko militant environmentalists realize that man-made objects can be just as beautiful and haunting as any found innature? to Art by highlyacidic |
| Friday Oct 26, 2001 |
Carnivore, a open source (based on tcpdump) art installation with anobvious inspiration sniffs your data and interprets it in creative ways. to Art by wheezer |
| Thursday Oct 25, 2001 |
Your computer is on massive doses of chip-melting, brainbusting psychosis-inducing drugs of the type available only to machine intelligence. Might as well just hang on tight and enjoy the ride… there is no escaping the resulting chaos-&+=#@………^^^…….^. to Art by monde |
| Saturday Oct 20, 2001 |
Hello! I am Dutch, and I am collecting police sculptures. to Art by fatherdan |
| Wednesday Oct 10, 2001 |
Richard Fenwick brings you RND#, a study of our relationship with technology in short-film form. Currently the six completed films of a grand total of one hundred are viewable online, or if you’re in thegeneral proximity of the Resfest 2001, check out some of the screenings there! to Art by wheezer |
| Coming soon to a museum near you: giant inflatable pink bunnies. to Art by lampbane |
| Wednesday Sep 26, 2001 |
Every hobby has its dark side. to Art by joshua |
| Monday Sep 24, 2001 |
Tour the Kokomo Opalescent Glass factory and look at samples oftheir products. to Art by gator |
| Monday Sep 10, 2001 |
Learn to sculpt and work with concrete. to Art by gator |
| Tuesday Sep 4, 2001 |
Add an unusual touch to an event with living statues. to Art by tregoweth |
| Thursday Aug 23, 2001 |
For those of you interested in making your own magnetic ferrofluidsculptures, order a liter of the magic goo from Carolina scientific supplies. Or make your own (certrifuge, toxic chemicals and mutagens are required). For the more dedicated researchers, the original paper that this technique is based on can be ordered from the JCE. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 22, 2001 |
The strange odyssey of Crispin Glover: From Happy Days, toHollywood, to a bizarre confrontation with David Letterman, to fiction writing, to music and spoken word recordings, to real estate, to avant garde cinema and performance art, and back to Hollywood, Crispin Glover might be called a modern day DaVinci..or something like that. to Art by asosa |
| Tuesday Aug 21, 2001 |
By far, the most intriguing art piece at SIGGRAPH this year was“Protrude, Flow” by Japanese artists Sachiko Kodama and Minako Takeno. The installation consisted of a shallow pool of a “magnetic fluid” (extremely fine iron filings suspended in oil) that could be manipulated by computer-controlled magnets into beautiful and startling shapes. A upcoming installation, “Pulsate” uses similar technology. Make sure to watch the video (large or small). to Art by riotnrrd |
| n3xt.com has beautiful short Flash loop art. Not stinky art at all. to Art by nelson |
| Monday Aug 20, 2001 |
Check out abandoned-places.com for gorgeous photos of decayed industrial sites in Europe. to Art by gator |
| Friday Aug 10, 2001 |
Having been used in the medical field for some time, plastination has become fairly common in medical schools. It comes as no surprise thatDr. Gunther von Hagens has taken it a step further and created anexhibit where you can see a large selection of plastinated bodies. One of the most impressive might be the plastinated rider and his horse. to Art by cain |
| Wednesday Aug 8, 2001 |
More ambitious than shining lasers at the moon is the KEO project. From the mind of the artist Jean-Marc Phillipe the project is a trippy combination between a satellite, an art project, a time capsule and a space bird. It is due to be launched in 2003 and passively orbit the Earth for 50 000 years before returning to the planet (they’ve put somethought into that part). The design includes wings that “flap” (courtesy of high tech shape memory alloys and heat from the sun). And the time capsule aspect? Everyone is invited to submit up to 4 pages of text that will be stored on the payload of CD roms. While this isn’t the onlyspace art game in town it is interesting to note that there have been sculptures on MIR and Andy Warhol has work on the Moon. to Art by gsean |
| Tuesday Aug 7, 2001 |
If enough people point laser pointers at the moon, will anything happen? Probably not, but I’m still going to get some new batteries for my pointer. to Art by tregoweth |
| Monday Aug 6, 2001 |
While the Internet Movie Database is a great reference, the plot summaries leave a bit to be desired. Sometimes I’m just too busy to sit through some movie and discover the inane ending and exactly what happens so I can spoil the movie for all my friends or nitpick endlessly. to Art by joshua |
| Sunday Jul 29, 2001 |
If you’re planning on becoming a disruptive urban performance artist, please consult this handy guide first to avoid repeating the work of previous geniuses. to Art by fringehead |
| Tuesday Jul 24, 2001 |
Are dull, boring air sickness bags making you queasy? Don’t worry,design for chunks is on the task. to Art by dennis |
| Thursday Jul 19, 2001 |
The Seemen are bringing their brand of amiable hands-on mechanical destruction to New York this weekend. to Art by gator |
| Wednesday Jul 11, 2001 |
Doll heads freak the shit out of me. to Art by fatherdan |
| Tuesday Jul 10, 2001 |
Academic and non-scholarly writing about lynching is well and good. But nothing brings home the brutality like photos and postcards. to Art by keiths |
| Thursday Jul 5, 2001 |
If you’re like me, there are some days you just can’t get enoughtentacle porn. So take a moment and let Shokushu teach you how tocreate your own. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jul 4, 2001 |
The LAPD carries an extensive list of stolen art on their website. LA natives might want to keep an eye out for a Dali, a first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, a Rembrandt, or a box of Tide with some doodles on it. to Art by skallas |
| Wednesday Jun 20, 2001 |
I can’t say that I’ve ever seen shockwave animation more weird, drug-induced, yet strangely alluring, than that by Mumbleboy. to Art by singe |
| Tuesday Jun 19, 2001 |
If you go to jail and haven’t studied the Prisoners Dictionary, the other inmates will make fun of you for learning your lingo from Oz, and the rappers will make fun of you for learning your lingo from Vanilla Ice, the vatos locos will make fun of you for learning your argot fromtelemundo, the hipsters will make fun of you for learning your jive fromScooby Doo, the droogs will make fun of you for learning your nadsatfrom old russian ladies, the Fremen will make fun of you for learning your lingo from the Atreides, and the Klingons will make fun of you for learning your Klingon from the Federation. to Art by mrnonrespondo |
| Wednesday May 23, 2001 |
No, the schmucky Peter Chung isn’t the same Peter Chung who didAeon Flux. What’s he been up to recently? Some bizarre commercialsfor Rally’s Hamburgers. to Art by nyarl |
| In the grand tradition of Cynthia Plaster Caster, now you can make aplaster copy of your own (or someone else’s) penis. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in Style” has had influence in other media, including the comic exercises of Matt Madden (and others including Dave Lasky), as well as in the medium of film by Evan Mather (you know, the farting Yoda guy?) to Art by crikey |
| Tuesday May 22, 2001 |
Melissa Falzone is the world’s foremost Etch-A-Sketch artist. You can relive the crappy renditions you made as a youth with this on-line simulator. to Art by skallas |
| Wednesday May 16, 2001 |
Welcome to the weird world of Glen Baxter. to Art by borges |
| Friday May 4, 2001 |
Based on the events chronicled in the Weekly World News, it’s Bat Boy: The Musical. to Art by tregoweth |
| Friday Apr 20, 2001 |
Stuck in a creative bind? You can retrace your steps, decorate, decorate, tidy up, or ponder the history of Brian Eno’s oblique strategies. to Art by riddle |
| Aeclectic tarot is the best tarot deck database online. It lists over 250 decks by category, such as the well-known Rider-Waite Tarot, the classic Thoth Tarot, the remarkable Dali Universal Tarot, and even such self-published gems as the simple Stick Figure Tarot, the questionable Babylon 5 Tarot, the remarkable Curious Tarot, and the mixed-message Rock & Roll Tarot. Reviews and links to order available decks make each entry interesting. to Art by eclipse |
| Tuesday Apr 17, 2001 |
Is cubicle life getting you down? That stash of trail mix isn’t helping? Maybe you should check out some of those motivational posters in the lunchroom. Maybe not. At least you can take heart in knowing thatsome corporations spend a lot more on art, such as your boss’stotemistic statue to keep the stock price up. to Art by saucy |
| Monday Apr 16, 2001 |
Neil Cicierega continues the insane flashmovie triend with his Animutation Hyakugojyuuichi!!! Links have been fixed – Editor. to Art by wheezer |
| Sunday Apr 15, 2001 |
if you’re into vinyl covered, blood drenched, spoken word artists(broken word, rather), who’ve toured with KMFDM, then Nicole Blackman is right up your alley. to Art by sungo |
| Tuesday Apr 10, 2001 |
It didn’t start or end with Serrano’s Piss Christ. No, indeed, urine has along and storied history in 20th century art. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 9, 2001 |
Do you remember playing Dungeons and Dragons in the late 70s and early 80s? Do you remember what you were like back then? Unfortunately for you, someone does remember all to well. Worse yet, they’ve made a little movie about it. to Art by rfh |
| Thursday Mar 29, 2001 |
Ionel Talpazan was “abducted” (by who—or rather “what”—I’m sure you can guess) as a child, and since then he has drawn and redrawnthe ship that carried him off. to Art by fatherdan |
| Wednesday Mar 28, 2001 |
Joseph Cornell was a gentle fellow from Brooklyn who corresponded with Marcel Duchamp and other powerhouse French artists, and produced lyrically lovely shadow boxes. to Art by fatherdan |
| Thursday Mar 8, 2001 |
Earthquake as artist: a sand-tracing pendulum captures the recent quake in Seattle. to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 6, 2001 |
It’s not a wedding without a personalized wedding coloring book. to Art by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Feb 14, 2001 |
Express your Valentine’s desire in eight letters on a Candy Heart or borrow someone else’s. to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Feb 6, 2001 |
You don’t have to be in prison or even behind bars to make your own license plates. to Art by mrbill |
| Thursday Jan 25, 2001 |
Ralph Nader’s “Untold Story” is a factual and harsh indictment against the commercial media. to Art by skallas |
| Turns out those “how to steal this car” stickers in Perth were a form of art, called Installation Art, for the Perth International Arts Festival. Police are not amused, but are they ever? to Art by krisjohn |
| Monday Jan 22, 2001 |
Stickers with car stealing instructions are being found on cars in Perth. Is this performance art, or an Oz version of Seattle’s recent monoliths? to Art by krisjohn |
| Friday Jan 19, 2001 |
Mainzer cat postcards demonstrate the effect of the cute meeting with the deeply disturbing. to Art by fatherdan |
| Monday Jan 15, 2001 |
It’s Finding Kitten, published by O’Reilly and Associates. to Art by gator |
| Thursday Jan 11, 2001 |
Last Sept. you were introduced to Icontown. Now you can create your own pixel-art avatar at Stor.co.uk. Yay pixel art! to Art by krisjohn |
| Friday Jan 5, 2001 |
If what you really want to do is direct, you can make your very own Flash movie at DFILM. Or, at the Swedish site Fjällfil, make a music video…with a cow. to Art by idat |
| Sunday Dec 31, 2000 |
Who are those blue guys obliquely shilling for Intel? Blue Man Group, acclaimed theatrical performers and Mac users. to Art by tregoweth |
| Thursday Dec 21, 2000 |
NY artist, roadtripper and film maker John D. Freyer auctions off pieces of his life including a selection of polyester shirts, his false teeth, 60’s safety glasses, a 70’s plastic phone, and unopened gifts for his family. to Art by loothi |
| Tuesday Dec 19, 2000 |
What exactly is a Graphomanic? Apparently, it’s someone who’sobsessed with the desire to write or has the desire to be obsessive about writing, or something. That could include an entire printed bookor an amusing short story. Of course, the best, though, is when writing in response to fortune cookies. Life is just much better when your fortune cookies are interactive. to Art by mdm |
| Friday Dec 8, 2000 |
For those who love those colourful building blocks for kids and also six wacky Englishmen (and their minstrel), we are proud to present Monty Python and the Holy Grail in LegoVision. to Art by sck |
| Wednesday Dec 6, 2000 |
Carvin Rinehart’s luminous photographs are modern interpretations of timeless subjects, such as St. Lucy, the Death of Hyacinth, the dying of the Oak King, and various tarot cards. to Art by idat |
| Tuesday Nov 28, 2000 |
Elout de Kok‘s Java-based interactive art will keep you fascinated for hours. My favorites are Louise, Bezup and ZabZero. to Art by joshua |
| Saturday Nov 25, 2000 |
Acne are a Swedish design collective. As well as creating ad campaigns they think it’s cool to make jeans, sell synthesisers and create retro style web games. All with a unique design style. to Art by lee |
| Wednesday Nov 22, 2000 |
OPP: Other People’s Property. PGP: Other people’s genitals. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 21, 2000 |
In a strange case of technology copying art, Given Imaging is planning to sell a camera you can swallow. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Face it, we all die. However, what better way to spend all of eternity than as a piece of artwork? to Art by kade |
| Monday Nov 20, 2000 |
The same sophisticated country that brought us cane toads andkangaroo scrotum change purses comes (ahem) Puppetry of the Penis. Watch as Morley and Friend bend and twist their penises into sculptures and celebrity impressions. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Nov 16, 2000 |
Is this really the work of a 13-year-old? to Art by wheezer |
| Tuesday Nov 14, 2000 |
It may not be approved by the Weekly World News, but someone has worked out Bat Boy: The Musical, complete with downloadable music. to Art by enigma |
| Sunday Nov 12, 2000 |
Exhibiting in the Royal Academy’s Apocalypse exhibition is pop promo director Chris Cunningham. His exhibit is Flex, a 17 minute video of abstract sexual activity with music composed by Cunningham favourite the Aphex Twin. Cunningham has been touted as the man who will bring Neuromancer to the big screen, if you want an idea of what that will look like, check out some of his previous work. to Art by lee |
| Wednesday Nov 8, 2000 |
Karl Sims‘ groundbreaking 1994 Evolving Virtual Creatures featured a fascinating movie of the behavior of evolved artificial creatures in simulated physical environments – and took unbelievable amounts of computational power to create. Modern day systems such asFramsticks and Ventrella’s Gene Pool and Darwin allow you to evolve your own artificial creatures on your desktop computer. to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 31, 2000 |
‘Tis time of year to again artfully lop up a gourd: even with this late start, one has all sorts of wonder to aspire to. to Art by goboro |
| Monday Oct 30, 2000 |
Spice up your desktop with amazing wallpaper backgrounds atEndEffect. to Art by kade |
| Thursday Oct 26, 2000 |
SoulBath: the banner ad is the enemy. to Art by pjammer |
| Tuesday Oct 24, 2000 |
Is it science or art…or both or neither…when a man decides to create a living glowing green bunny by using genetic splicing? to Art by monde |
| French dadaistic Flash-orgy greatness. to Art by wheezer |
| Monday Oct 23, 2000 |
Any website with a feature called “Daily Pimpsteak”, a game described as “Pin the mustache on the drunk midget” (warning: Flash plugin required), and a name like speefnarkle is fine in my book. to Art by xrayjones |
| Tuesday Oct 17, 2000 |
The first Earthlings in space were dogs and they all got some greatcommemorative stamps. to Art by skallas |
| Monday Oct 16, 2000 |
Need to explain recent cultural history to a gamer friend? Try thisexhibit of notable events redone in a format that might be more familiar. to Art by fringehead |
| Tuesday Oct 10, 2000 |
Go is a really interesting 4,000 year old chinese board game, but it can be puzzling to beginners. However, if you have a win32 box handy, there is a free version of the excellent Many Faces of Go software that contains a great interactive version of the “The Way to Go” tutorial. If you get good and start beating the computer opponent too easily, take on human opponents in realtime via the Internet Go Server. to Art by obvious |
| Saturday Oct 7, 2000 |
ASCII art was born out of a resource poor computing environment, but with the advent of the web, new variations are popping up. I particularly dig this piece. to Art by dnm |
| Tuesday Oct 3, 2000 |
Precious Moments for hipsters. to Art by skallas |
| Tuesday Sep 26, 2000 |
The PBS show, Mystery! (which features the art of Edward Gorey (1925-2000)) has little Macromedia Director games on their site, done in the same artistic style. to Art by enigma |
| Wednesday Sep 20, 2000 |
Don’t care much for Swedish furniture? Do you prefer Xen-like surroundings? Check out some furniture that looks like it’s gonna eat you. to Art by singe |
| Friday Sep 15, 2000 |
When Hello-Kitty like bears attack children, especially underunsuspecting and innocent circumstances. to Art by skallas |
| Such a tragedy that the great Rodin was not able to use the sculptural medium of Rice Krispies Treats®. to Art by tregoweth |
| Tuesday Sep 12, 2000 |
The beauty of many seemingly mundane or uninteresting objects and substances is often revealed when viewed at extremely high magnification. In the case of quite a few integrated circuits, however, you might notice odd bits of artwork that’ve been snuck in by the engineers. to Art by singe |
| So your neighbors now have zero-volume single-surface glass Klein bottles, eh? Upstage them with a knitted Klein bottle. Or this wider spectrum of fibrous topology-wear, including the knitted Mobius strip yarmulke and Fortunato’s Purse. Remember, knitted surfaces canintersect without cutting a hole in either one… to Art by belford |
| Friday Sep 8, 2000 |
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, the product of a South Korean artist, featuers perhaps the most original and least flashy use of flash I’ve ever seen. to Art by kapital |
| Wednesday Sep 6, 2000 |
Golan Levin, from the MIT Media Lab’s Aesthetics and Computational Group recently demonstrated his Audio-Visual Environment Suite(AVES) is a set of five interactive systems which allow people to create and perform abstract animation and sound in real time. Golan’s home page also contains java versions of many of his previous pieces, including Meshy, Stripe, and Blebs. to Art by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Monday Sep 4, 2000 |
At a point where avatars that look like taller Fisher-Price Little Peoplemeet in chat rooms is Mobiles Disco, where you talk, drink, dance, and just look plain cute while doing it. Be careful that you go in the right disco however, especially if you don’t know Finnish. to Art by mrradon |
| Toby Dammit … to Art by peterb |
| Sunday Sep 3, 2000 |
Imagine what a happy guy Eddie Breen would be if he were turned loose in the Museum of Bad Art with a full palette of his bright, tempera-like paints and given carte blanche to do what he does best: make “piggyback art”…which is, essentially, taking odious thrift shop paintings and augmenting them a little. to Art by monde |
| Tissue Culture & Art is a research and development project into the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression. The project is currently creating semi-living “Worry Dolls”, named after theWorry Dolls of Guatemala. to Art by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Saturday Sep 2, 2000 |
Icon Town is a village of pixels in which each resident resides in their own 32×32 icon. to Art by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Thursday Aug 31, 2000 |
What history could have been if we gave up on violence and embracedmusic. to Art by skallas |
| Sunday Aug 13, 2000 |
Advice from clowns on how to deal with kids who are deathly afraid of them. Which must be a pretty deep seated fear considering there’s at least one Clownophobics anonymous program and a site which collects negative clown experiences. Clownz.com is a nice resource for anti-clown activity including a hilarious article on a newspaper choosing John Wayne Gacy’s clown photo for promoting Clown Week. to Art by skallas |
| Monday Aug 7, 2000 |
Improvisation meets Manga at Impromanga where amateur illustrators collaborate on various comic book story arcs in the popular Japanese Anime style. I especially like the “consciousness in the machine” storyAnimate Objects. to Art by skallas |
| Tuesday Jul 11, 2000 |
The Alessi design shop in Italy is justly well-known for its fabuloushistory of design successes by well-known artists. How then to explainMr. Suicide? to Art by fringehead |
| Sunday Jul 2, 2000 |
What do you do if you can’t make it to New York City for Macy’s Fourth of July Spectacular or hire the Grucci Brothers to put on a personal fireworks show? While we do NOT condone it, if you’re willing to risk your personal safety, you can definitely buy or make the munitions to put on your own fireworks show (so long as you cooperate with your applicable state laws). to Art by rich |
| One of the best and strangest things about America is the Museum of Jurrasic Technology in Los Angeles. Part museum of oddities and partsituationist art peice, it was written about in the book “Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder” by Lawrence Weschler. (Warning: the book contains spoilers about certain exhibits). If you can read German, make sure to check out the website of the MoJT’s sister institution: the Karl Ernst Osthaus Muesum. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 29, 2000 |
Want that cool Swedish look in your apartment, but can’t afford Ikea? Consult an expert on Dumpster Diving. But, foraging for furniture at the curb won’t be easy. Check out the rules of the road(side), including tipson how to seek out those elusive free computers. to Art by rich |
| It’s nice to see an online magazine addressing an issue that’s beenbothering me for quite a while: people getting tattoos they don’t understand. Particularly obvious are non-Asian people gettingChinese or Japanese characters tattooed on them without taking the fairly obvious step of finding out exactly what the characters mean. Kudos to Viceland for the article; although the relentless style-poseurchic gets a little old, some of their articles are well worth a read. Especially their guides to giving men and women oral sex. to Art by elder |
| Wednesday Jun 28, 2000 |
It used to be that graffiti artists concentrated their best efforts onsubways, but now it seems almost everything is fair game for graffiti, even moose, pigs, and cows. But, yuppies? to Art by rich |
| Thursday Jun 22, 2000 |
GreatBuildings.com is an online database of important architectural works. Great stuff in the modern section like the Tokyo International Forum. to Art by akk |
| Friday Jun 2, 2000 |
Everyone should make disinfo.com a standard sub-culture semantic drive-by on their morning web cruise. to Art by dnm |
| Tuesday May 30, 2000 |
Erotic photography overrated you say? Fine. Perhaps you’d like some not real good gay erotic drawings instead. Of men with moustaches. Whatever it is that compels people to put their art online, like to sell it for instance, is not exactly the same urge as the people who put their art online just because they can. Not necessarily because they aregood artists, but because they are sincere, right? Some gay erotic drawings aren’t too bad, facial hair again being the theme, but then again this art at Mike’s Bear Gallery is for sale. to Art by mrradon |
| Monday May 15, 2000 |
The Final Curtain is a company that allows creative individual to design their own final resting places. A wacky ideas (which the mediajumped all over). Too bad it was a hoax perpetrated by the notoriousJoey Skaggs. to Art by rsf |
| Sunday May 14, 2000 |
Vir2L is some serious web designer eye-candy. Oy vey. to Art by succa |
| Friday May 12, 2000 |
The Greenmap System is an effort to promote awareness of environmental resources in urban communities with maps. You can use them to find organic produce in New York City, cherry blossoms inKyoto, or nature reserves near Pittsburgh. Some of them are prettier than others, but I won’t share my bias. Check the complete list of mapped areas. to Art by akk |
| Monday May 8, 2000 |
If you’ve never completely overcome the mysterious pre-pubescent stirrings in the nether regions of your crime-fighting outfit elicited byJulie Newmar as Catwoman (and who among us has, really?), what better way to while away your ostensible adulthood than downloading images of cheesecake photos with superhero outfits airbrushed over them? The first and best “digital manipulation artist” is Rik van Koert from 4F Creations. Most of his numerous imitators are predictably terrible, though there are a few talented up-and-comers. to Art by cricket |
| Sunday May 7, 2000 |
Dumbrella calls itself the “dumbest portal ever,” and although it doesn’t seem to be fully functional, it is sponsored by some pretty smart sites. Each has the user send in a phrase, and the site owner might create a piece of art out of it. narbotic composes songs, explodingdog draws pictures, and Dancing Cartoon Productions makes movies. For example, the phrase “i don’t think mom likes me anymore, now that she’s got her new dishwasher” inspired the guy at explodingdog to draw this. to Art by earmouse |
| Monday May 1, 2000 |
Margaret and Walker Keane’s “big eye” paintings: you’ve seen them atthrift stores and hanging in trailer parks, but I’ll bet you didn’t knowthey’re collectable. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Apr 29, 2000 |
Living in the Burgh, I’ve taken a shine to David Bliwas’ photos ofvarious area landmarks. to Art by mpc |
| Friday Apr 28, 2000 |
The Clones of Guelph is a beautiful story that seems to be fiction, but is actually an account written down after the fact of a mentally ill person’s shattered view of Guelph from the inside during a period “off meds”, as we say. to Art by arkuat |
| Wednesday Apr 26, 2000 |
Scott Snibe has produced several interesting art pieces involving computer algorithms such as Voronoi Diagrams. Two of his earlier works, Gravilux and Motion Sketch are reproduced as java applets and are quite amusing to play with. to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Apr 25, 2000 |
It may be a personal home page, but it’s also art and social commentary that embraces the limitations of the Web medium. That islanguid. to Art by borges |
| Sunday Apr 16, 2000 |
Tetris is more than just a game. Especially at fourteen stories high. to Art by eclipse |
| Thursday Apr 13, 2000 |
The appropriately-named domain weirdart.com is home to Timothy Patrick Butler, who does some very twisted things with his inkpen. I think he and R.S. Connett (creator of Vomitus Maximus) may have been separated at birth. (And they both live in my home city of San Francisco…further testament to the notion that there’s got to be something in the air here that makes for a large proportion of twistedly talented people. ) to Art by monde |
| Tuesday Apr 11, 2000 |
ThreeJane3 Productions: Disturbing toys for disturbed people. to Art by riffraff |
| Thursday Apr 6, 2000 |
Hey, when did opera posters get so, um, interesting? to Art by boneyard |
| Monday Mar 27, 2000 |
For fans of pulp fiction (the novels, not the movie), Pulp Fiction Postcards has a huge selections, culled from the covers of these “great” works of literature. You can learn about the dangers of the beatnik lifestyle, about interesting sports, about seduction and yet more seduction! There are strange stories, comics, and lots of cautionary tales. And for those of us bold enough to face the “horror”, there are even alternative lifestyles! ROCK ME, BABY! to Art by stimpy |
| Tuesday Mar 21, 2000 |
Simple rule-based kinematics containing springs, masses, friction, and forces can be fascinating to watch as the java applet Constructordemonstrates quite nicely. Slightly less captivating but innovative in its own right is the navigation console in the front page of Soda, specifically called sitebot. Also on Soda is Loytaltoy which is more statement than game. to Art by urog |
| Monday Mar 20, 2000 |
If you’re like me, you think cute women wearing glasses can be pretty sexy. And if you’re not like me, then you’re a goddamn freak and should maybe get help. to Art by magus |
| Friday Mar 17, 2000 |
SoulBath. I don’t really know what it is, per se, but does it ever look cool! to Art by succa |
| Thursday Mar 9, 2000 |
Erik’s Chopstick Gallery is simultaneously a fine example of both the chopstick as art form and the obsessive-compulsive collector as web designer. to Art by joshua |
| This creepy painting, recently sold on Ebay, complete with with “proof” of “ghosts” taken by “motion triggered cameras,” is sure to be debunked on alt.folklore.urban for the next decade. (Does Ebay have category for supernatural items and phenomena?) to Art by joshua |
| Some people think graffiti is a crime, but to others it is clearly art. to Art by joshua |
| Wednesday Feb 23, 2000 |
Bethel, Maine was the home of Angus, the world’s tallest snowman — 113 feet, 7 inches. But he’s melted now. to Art by larrybob |
| Thursday Feb 17, 2000 |
Everyone agrees that clowns are terrifying. Here’s graphic proof. to Art by fringehead |
| Wednesday Feb 16, 2000 |
Like superbad and hell.com, New York’s Dia Center has been setting up artist web projects. to Art by rsf |
| Tuesday Feb 15, 2000 |
Ultralight has Shockwave Flash animation, including the dialog-free adventures of an escaped Sex Slave. to Art by larrybob |
| Monday Feb 7, 2000 |
Annie Sprinkle: former porn actress, sex-positive feminist, film and performance artist, lecturer and nice jewish girl. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Feb 5, 2000 |
While the Nazis were unspeakably vile in so many ways, they did have good graphic design. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Feb 3, 2000 |
Cleveland artist and syndicated cartoonist Derf has his own website now, containing recent strips and an archive of oldies, including a comic biography of native son (and high-school acquaintance), Jeffrey Dahmer. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 27, 2000 |
Nineteenth century artist Louis Wain was his era’s Jim Davis: a relentless drawer and painter of cute cats. But that was before hisschizophrenia asserted itself and drove his cat-art in bizarre and horrifying directions. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Charles and Ray Eames are among the most important American designers of this century. They are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design (e.g., theEames Chair), industrial design and manufacturing, and thephotographic arts.” to Art by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Jan 26, 2000 |
Most thefts from museums and auction houses go unreported. (See Art Crime by John Conklin) This guy, however, has taken the time to compile a list of cultural property incidents and art thefts daily. to Art by birgitte |
| Monday Jan 24, 2000 |
Grafica Obscura is Paul Haeberli’s wonderful collection of graphicsnotes, code and fun projects. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Jan 22, 2000 |
Dr. Lillian Scwartz, (who looks a bit too much like Carrie Donovan) suggests that the Mona Lisa was actually a DaVinci self-portrait. One can view a computerized merge of the two that she created. to Art by laurel |
| Friday Jan 21, 2000 |
Yes, that is Nixon, the original’s apparently at The Nixon Library. You think that’s scary? You should read the essay I found the picture in. to Art by mpc |
| Tuesday Jan 18, 2000 |
I like the strange vision of the future that the pixel cartoons at Pixhellshow, and I like to think of each pixel as representing an atom. You might want to get acquainted with the tiny cast first, so you can learn a bit about the sheep. to Art by mrradon |
| I like having unusual desktops. Recently, I’ve been rummaging throughthe Huntingdon Archive of Buddhist and Related Art. You’ve got to love people whose mission is to take beautiful things and share ’em with the world. Especially worth a look is From Heaven and Earth: Chinese Jade in Context, which includes basically everything you ever wanted to know about nephrite jade (and breathtaking images). But it’s not all ancient jade carvings: Posters of the Cultural Revolution gives examples of classic Maoist propaganda. Titles include A People’s Army Has No Rival, The Liberation of Beiping, and (my current desktop), Let Philosophy Be Transformed into a Sharp Weapon in the Hands of the Masses. to Art by elder |
| Wednesday Jan 12, 2000 |
What this world needs is more foolish large-scale building projects. Such as, for instance, the plan to build a Great Pyramid in Arizona. Or, for a slightly more interactive experience, Lightning on Demand have an alternative plan: a football pitch sized Van der Graaf generator. to Art by elder |
| Saturday Jan 8, 2000 |
The art of Masami Teraoka combines classical japanese print technique with modern and Western themes in a jarring and often hilarious way, and often on serious and contentious topics. Where else could you see McDonald’s Hamburgers Invading Japan or The Geisha’s AIDS Nightmare? to Art by fringehead |
| Friday Jan 7, 2000 |
Artists Heidi Kumao and Frank Gravey, juggler Michael Moschen and art critic Robert Atkins are the four Microsoft-sponsored Fellows in residence at Carnegie Mellon University this year. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Dec 31, 1999 |
If you’re looking for that perfect art print, look no further than All About Art. to Art by avi |
| POV-Ray is a superb freeware ray tracing application. Whilst searching for inspiration I found the winner of the Internet Ray Tracing Competition for December 1998, “First Strike at Pearl“. Check out the artists step by step guide to the images construction, a combination of technology, artistry and historical research. to Art by lee |
| Tuesday Dec 28, 1999 |
If^H^Hwhen the Y2K bug doesn’t end up screwing with your computer, you might find yourself feeling let down somehow, and find yourself craving some terribly invasive, frightening desktop nightmare. (To experience properly make sure all the switches for your Java-nators and DHTML-ifiers are pushed firmly to the “on” position.) to Art by monde |
| Here, have lots of Web Greeting Cards. They’re all pretty awful, but of particular mention are the AngelWinks Clown Cards, the Pig Me Up Cards, and the alarming Stufti-Friends. to Art by fringehead |
| Wednesday Dec 22, 1999 |
Almost as enigmatic as Zeek Sheck’s art and comics at Swezlex is her music, which tends to follow no linear patterns, save for some subject matter. There’s even a video from Good Luck Suckers for “The Speech”, which always makes me jump up and down in giddiness when I watch it. Maybe if I wasn’t friends with all these people, I wouldn’t be so giddy. Also enriching is Zeek’s Make Your Own Ink Jet Finger instructional guide at Ausgang, which is a hub of animation and illustrated riches, though perhaps a bit more linear and shiny. “I Am Happy” is cute and disarming. Or “Joey Toad” dances for your pleasure — and “pleasure” is used ironically here. There are fascinating travel journals too, with curious diagrams of situations. to Art by mrradon |
| It’s sites like Swezlex that convince me that Memepool could use a category called “Etceterata” or “Randomonium”…or just plain “Weirdness”. At first it’s something like jodi.org or hell, with that eye-blinding dot-matrixism, only a little less inscrutable. One sooner (or later) finds out that this is all connected at loose ends to some sort of music project: band? label? individual(s) pretending to be one or more of these? Sort of hard to tell, but entertaining in a disjointedly psychedelic vein. You can learn a lot from cloud people. But beware the Explosion! something like a cross between a hornet and a weedwacker. to Art by monde |
| Monday Dec 13, 1999 |
Tired of Eudora? Now you can have a teddy bear deliver your email. to Art by rsf |
| Saturday Dec 11, 1999 |
Hosting a bash, but all you have on your tired walls is a bad print ofThe Scream and that same damn Escher? Rent some art (rent-to-ownis an option)! to Art by goboro |
| Wednesday Dec 1, 1999 |
Rubik’s cubes made into art; art made out of Rubik’s cubes. to Art by goboro |
| Tuesday Nov 30, 1999 |
It was the architectural embodiment of our hopes and dreams for a space-age future. It was bold, striking, and optimistic. It was also really silly looking. It was Googie Architecture. to Art by keith |
| Saturday Nov 27, 1999 |
It was once an excuse to hold wine-swilling parties in the basement of a Boston home…but in the last six years, the Museum of Bad Art has attained the status of a community institution, which has been giving some undoubtedly unexpected exposure to some very dubious paintings found in trash cans and thrift stores all over America. A similar web-based venture, badart.com has a larger collection of exhibits, but the curator just doesn’t seem to be having quite as much fun with it as the folks from MOBA are having. to Art by monde |
| Friday Nov 26, 1999 |
piiq.com certainly has a novel (if goofy) way of scrounging up new domains — pbooksq.com, pautosq.com, psexq.com… to Art by tregoweth |
| Tuesday Nov 23, 1999 |
I think Brian DeVane spends too much time in his room. Thinking he’s the first to discover video feedback, it turns out he’s about 40 years too late. to Art by rsf |
| Friday Nov 19, 1999 |
Rock climbing and naked women. These are a few of my favorite things. to Art by xrayjones |
| Tuesday Nov 16, 1999 |
Nine out of ten arrested adolescents agree: the new Star Wars movie sucked, but the lightsabre duel was “hella cool.” Why not eliminate the middleman and watch Duel, one minute thirty-six seconds of original, surprisingly satisfying Jedi butt-kick? (The entire Mars Violet site is pretty swank). to Art by cricket |
| Monday Nov 15, 1999 |
Turn an image and some arbitrary text into a stunning graphic in HTML with png2html. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 |
David Bassett’s Photo Gallery reminds me that despite all the crap that humans may do to it, we still live in a phenomenally beautiful world. to Art by keith |
| Monday Nov 8, 1999 |
Yeah, I’m probably going to die of heart disease. to Art by peterb |
| Tuesday Nov 2, 1999 |
The most enthralling time-wasting Flash eye candy I’ve seen yet. Pick your season and year of preference. Autumn 99, has “Anthro (a) pology” which includes a child on a swingset and a floating chihuahua.Spring 99, has “Assembly Lines”, which showcases animation with people movers! So much floating text, so little time. to Art by mrradon |
| Monday Nov 1, 1999 |
Some guy from Australia posts letters, pictures and postcards he has found at this hauntingly beautiful site. to Art by birgitte |
| Tuesday Oct 26, 1999 |
typographic is an old (in net years) and beautifully designed site devoted to the history and current practice of typography. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday Oct 25, 1999 |
This guy takes photographs with the most amazing colors. to Art by mpc |
| Monday Oct 18, 1999 |
I’m not opposed to babies; I just don’t want to be around them. But I’m also not opposed to essentially cloning myself, or to happy couples be they whatever gender combination, having their own happy, giggling, DNA combination. GenoChoice will let you do it all online. Then, with weekly or so updates, watch as your baby grows inside a surrogate mother. In the meantime, examine the world of Lee Mingwei, the first human male pregnancy, made possible by GenoChoice. AndPaperVeins. to Art by mrradon |
| Monday Oct 11, 1999 |
If you’re like me, you probably don’t have nearly enough Book of Mormon Figurines around the house. The vinyl ones are particularly suitable for dramatic tableaux in your office cubicle. to Art by fringehead |
| Friday Oct 8, 1999 |
We are always waiting the big event that will change our lives forever — not to make our lives a paradise, but to give us direction, to find out what our mission is, what is worth struggling for. We are a nation in search of a frontier, and without one, we are overwhelmed by anxiety. –loaded 5x. to Art by pjammer |
| Over the past twenty years, artist Harold Cohen has been building a robotic painter, driven by an expert system, that he calls AARON. A 1995 article by Cohen discusses Aaron’s implications for art and contains some images of its work. to Art by riotnrrd |
| The most irritating sentence in the world to a good photographer is “Wow! Your camera sure takes good pictures.” The Masters of Photography site shows why its the photographer — like the disturbing and brilliant Diane Arbus — and not the camera that matters. to Art by peterb |
| Saturday Oct 2, 1999 |
Again with the trouvés! Years ago I found a vinyl-covered book from a bizarro religion known in olden days for hearing the voice of God in AM radio static. From the dazzling art in the text, I assembled the St Germain of Dada Silent Contemplation Shrine. to Art by sburke |
| One for the trouvé file: It should serve me right for running an Altavista search on “metatheory”, but I stumbled on a site featuring some pretty peculiar diagrams, supposed to diagrammatically represent philosophical systems. They look like what you’d get if Marcel Duchamp had had access to Adobe Illustrator. to Art by sburke |
| Friday Oct 1, 1999 |
I don’t know what is more nightmarish: the misspellings or the brokenlinks. to Art by peterb |
| Tuesday Sep 28, 1999 |
Doll Soup, an amusing soap opera starring a trio of Barbie-type dolls, chronicles the oft-cruel world of beautiful unemployed actresses. In the attempt to further blur the line between reality and make-believe, the host of Doll Soup allows fans to send email to the plastic actresses through links on their biography pages. to Art by pjammer |
| Thursday Sep 23, 1999 |
I love urban decay. Not the make-up, but entropy taking hold of the hard labors of mankind. A great city for this is Detroit, where the city streets are as wide as freeways, and only about 1,000 people still live there. Or something. The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit has fine photography of buildings on a slow ride into dust, and others caught in the act of imploding. to Art by mrradon |
| Saturday Sep 18, 1999 |
Polish artist Zbigniew Libera has made some interesting art dealing with the Holocaust, using Legos. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Friday Sep 17, 1999 |
Another neato Ars Electronica exhibit was “Hamster – symbiotic exchange of hoarded energy.” Robots, which steer themselves but have no motors, were driven by hamsters running in on-board wheels, who had no conception of their “task.” The robot-hamster symbiote must travel between a food station (for the hamsters) and a set of bright lights that recharges the solar cells of the robots. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 16, 1999 |
One of the most popular exhibits at Ars Electronica was “Bump” — a pneumatically actuated wooden walkway that communicated with a similar bridge set up in Budapest. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Welcome to Venice, city of art and culture. Meet artist F. James Corvinand check out her on-line gallery featuring the endearing portrait of child-star Mason Reese. to Art by rsf |
| Crappypoetry.com, need I say more? to Art by djinn |
| Wednesday Sep 15, 1999 |
I spent the past two weeks at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. The loosely-adhered-to theme this year was “LifeScience”; basically an excuse for artists to publically worry about biotechnology and to display plasticized human bodies in the Brucknerhaus. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Ain’t nothin’ a smooth pimp daddy needs more than a slick computer. to Art by riotnrrd |
| The National Center for Vehicle Emissions Control and Safety atColorado State University repairs the emissions of selected cars as part of its research project. They have stories of fixing the emissions of various vehicles here. Well, I think it’s interesting reading, anyway. to Art by keith |
| Thursday Sep 9, 1999 |
Carol Gerten’s Virtual Art Museum contains scans of a stunning amount of artwork from a huge number of artists. to Art by joshua |
| Friday Sep 3, 1999 |
The BBC wants it banned. The guy down the hall wants to know where he can get some. It’s not Teletubbies, it’s Telebubby, and it’s just a little offensive. to Art by faisal |
| Michael Light, a San Francisco-based photographer, has recently released a book of moon images taken from the NASA archives in Houston. Read a great interview with Michael Light at Salon. Here’s anothergallery of images. Michael Light is an artist and photographer based in San Francisco. His work is in the collections of The Center for Creative Photographyand the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His photo-novel,Ranch, was published in 1994. to Art by gen |
| Wednesday Aug 18, 1999 |
The themes may change, but it’s good to see that the creators ofjodi.org will always be on crack. to Art by faisal |
| Friday Aug 13, 1999 |
So you have more AOL CDs than you know what to do with, and you just gotta get rid of them somehow. Perhaps fashioning them intoboomerangs isn’t such a good idea. to Art by braino |
| Apart from being an enjoyable first-person shooter Bungie’s Marathon can be considered an epistolary novel with copious bloodshed. Read ithere. to Art by mpc |
| Friday Aug 6, 1999 |
A very useful Manhattan Address Locater. to Art by jack |
| From visionary pop artist of the 1960’s, to master of dynamic neo Expressionism, Peter Max and his vibrant colors have become part of the fabric of Culture. He recently created one otf the world’s largets stages ever for Woodstock 99. to Art by jack |
| Don’t we all need a little bit of Rubik’s Cube Art right about now? to Art by succa |
| Wednesday Jul 28, 1999 |
Looking for a collection of kickass computer-drawn images to use as wallpapers and general entertainment? Digitalblasphemy offers some jaw-dropping examples of Myst-reminiscient still shots and stunning animations. to Art by pjammer |
| Thursday Jul 22, 1999 |
Geek media occasionally suffers from delusions of artistic greatness,this essay makes a good argument that before you can have William Shakespeare in your medium, you need Tom Clancy. to Art by mpc |
| Tuesday Jul 20, 1999 |
If you’re interested in classic movie posters, Matinee Today has a nice selection of posters to peruse. to Art by crikey |
| Thursday Jul 15, 1999 |
Attract scores of new friends and good-looking potential love interests using a hi-res fractal desktop wallpaper image. to Art by succa |
| Sunday Jul 11, 1999 |
The very rare book Codex Seraphinianus is a artwork of breathtaking creativity and beauty masquerading as an Encylopedia of an alternate world. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jul 6, 1999 |
Some people see rope art as a means of wrapping bottles or makinglarge sculptures in one of several Japanese traditions. Of course, San Franciscans have their own uses for beautiful rope. But this guy‘s rope fetish doesn’t even have to involve other sentient beings. to Art by penth |
| Monday Jun 28, 1999 |
Upstage your Möbius-owning neigbors with a zero-volume single-surface glass Klein bottle. to Art by joshua |
| Friday Jun 25, 1999 |
Trevor Brown’s art may be fasciating, beautiful, bizarre, and evendisturbing. But I’d hardly call it stupid. to Art by eclipse |
| Tuesday Jun 15, 1999 |
You’ve always wanted to know more about the Ouroboros. Found in places as early as 1600 BC Egypt (as well as in other mythologies) as well as on the TV show Millennium, the universal image of the snake eating it’s own tail carries symbolism of birth, death and the cyclical nature of the universe. to Art by gen |
| Monday Jun 14, 1999 |
Is Art the province of rich ironic New York designers and dead French guys? A thousand times no. The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore dedicates itself to the creative outpouring of the eccentric, the obsessed, the crackpotted, the institutionalized, the incarcerated, the homeless, the hopeless, the nameless, and people who are compelled to paint words on everything. to Art by belford |
| Saturday Jun 5, 1999 |
Some people have big heads. Some people have more random heads. to Art by djinn |
| Thursday Jun 3, 1999 |
In October the ArtCar Fest returns to the San Francisco Bay Area, where around 100 “rolling sculptures” will converge. My personal favourite is the Army Man Car, one old car, a battlefield of small plastic toys and a lot of epoxy resin. to Art by loothi |
| Tuesday Jun 1, 1999 |
Body piercing? Faugh! Only Stelarc would swallow a remote-controlled sculpture or electrocute himself over the internet for art! to Art by mpc |
| Saturday May 29, 1999 |
“Can you tell me something about transformation?” almost defies description. It has something to do with aliens, something to do with aman with no nose and something to do with freakish mockeries of the human form. In a humorously self-referential move, this site also contains a museum of itself. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Monday May 24, 1999 |
I can understand ET Gods, but why ET Corn Gods? to Art by mpc |
| Saturday May 22, 1999 |
Search for scans of 70,000 works of fine art by keyword, artist, and/or period. An interesting zoom applet lets you scrutinize many of them at close range, too. to Art by obvious |
| Friday May 21, 1999 |
Snarg. I think it’s art. Or insane web developers. I can’t tell any more. to Art by nyarl |
| Tuesday May 18, 1999 |
Possibly the finest collection of 3D art on the web, 3D Artists is a humbling blow to those of us who think we’re good 3D artists. to Art by succa |
| Saturday May 15, 1999 |
I love my cat very much, so please don’t think I’m coldhearted for passing on this strange combination of pictures of feline roadkill and poetry. Don’t visit this site if you are squeamish. The author’ssomewhat highfalutin’ explanation of his intention can be visited without trauma. to Art by peterb |
| Monday May 10, 1999 |
Short on cash? Make some. to Art by goboro |
| Ambigrams are words like “pod” – constructions of letters that make words with a symmetry (in the case of “pod”, it reads the same when you turn your monitor upside-down). There is an Automatic Ambigram Generator, but to truly get a taste of the art that is possible with this hobby, check out the work by Scott Kim or John Langdon. to Art by goboro |
| Wednesday May 5, 1999 |
I find it charming that the Internet is occasionally used to educate about antiquated technologies and art forms. In this case, the daguerrotype. Be sure to check out the daguerrotype galleries for some pretty pictures. to Art by crikey |
| Thursday Apr 22, 1999 |
Modern art is crap! to Art by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Apr 18, 1999 |
In the Czech town of Kutna Hora is the All Saints’ Chapel, whose interior is decorated with the bones of the 40,000 people who have been buried in its graveyard since 1278. Jan Svankmeyer did a 10 minute film about it, so you know it has to be cool. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Apr 15, 1999 |
Jeez, give slashdot a break, stop going to macsurfer, and give up on technology for a while. Why not play the Art Game instead? to Art by peterb |
| Pocket Skeleton is the web site of freelance illustrator Elise Soroka. Check out their gallery. My favorite works of hers combine a spare line, stylized design, and an emotional intensity nearly hidden by herdisarming use of color. to Art by peterb |
| Wednesday Apr 14, 1999 |
Artists’ Golf claims to be an attempt to tries to “unite the seemingly disparate worlds of Art and Golf.” The site contains reviews of golf courses, side by side with bizarre “what if” speculations on how different artists might have played golf. to Art by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Apr 11, 1999 |
Some people can do practically anything with a piece of paper.Underground Origami Site will show you how to do rude things with paper without even writing on it. to Art by djinn |
| Wednesday Mar 31, 1999 |
There’s no such thing as being too obsessed with Star Wars. to Art by faisal |
| Tuesday Mar 30, 1999 |
The National Gallery‘s exhibition of the paintings of Mark Rothko is truly awe-inspiring. to Art by crikey |
| Monday Mar 29, 1999 |
The Garden Of Origami is a beautifully simple set of web pages devoted to (what else?) origami, its techniques, uses, mastery, andmore. to Art by eclipse |
| Instead of spending that hard-earned cash, make pretty objects out of it. to Art by crikey |
| Thursday Mar 18, 1999 |
Send that special someone in your life an electronic greeting card written by Leonard Nimoy, TV’s Mr. Spock. to Art by crikey |
| The light on the net project lets you control a grid of forty-nine lightbulbs on display at the hall of the Gifu Softopia Center somewhere in Japan. Express yourself and make pretty patterns. to Art by crikey |
| Nagoya Broadcast Network provides one of the largest online museums of Ukiyo-E, Japanese wood block prints. The Horror Seriesby Yoshitoshi is especially interesting, especially when you consider that NBN’s homepage has a bunch of dancing Bombermen to Art by mpc |
| Thursday Mar 11, 1999 |
Read great short fiction at Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope: All-Story. Feeling inspired? The Zoetrope Online Workshop guarantees that you’ll get some feedback on your story. It requires that everyone critique five stories for each one they submit. If film is more your media, then workshop your screenplay instead. to Art by machita |
| If you want to embark on a crusade of nationwide vandalism, at least have the balls to call it that and not hide behind some artistic experiment involving dead wrestlers. to Art by nyarl |
| Monday Mar 8, 1999 |
Give your banal decor a taste of fine art flair with black and white prints from LensWork’s Special Edition Print Collection. Making real photographic prints from digital negatives scanned from the original artwork keeps the amortized cost low, so they can sell prints for low prices ($39-$99). They’re so excited about how this might shake up the photo art world, they’re using the blink tag. to Art by akk |
| Thursday Feb 25, 1999 |
Although his work adorns fewer college dorm room walls than other surrealist painters, Magritte was in my opinion, the best. to Art by akk |
| Tuesday Feb 23, 1999 |
When you tire of Art by intention, take a look at The Gallery of Random Art. Vote for your favorites! to Art by goboro |
| Ever wanted to design a woman’s nipples? to Art by tregoweth |
| Friday Feb 12, 1999 |
The Museum of Bad Art exhibits the kind of art you’ll never find in the MOMA. to Art by eclipse |
| Monday Feb 1, 1999 |
Yes! It’s that most restrictive of graphical media! ASCII art. to Art by arkuat |
| Tuesday Jan 26, 1999 |
Need something stupid, annoying, and out of style? Try Clickable Beavis. to Art by tjs |
| Friday Jan 8, 1999 |
“Close the gap between who you are and who you want to be” at self-help-cum-art project Reformatting. to Art by sip |
| Monday Jan 4, 1999 |
The history of art, as told by Barbie. to Art by arkuat |
| Friday Oct 16, 1998 |
Words of Art is an excellent resource of literary, painting, and other art terms. Interesting reading for a dictionary… to Art by nyarl |
| Monday Sep 28, 1998 |
Poetry. The most beloved of Muses. Mankind’s one true way to express himself. to Art by nyarl |
| Friday Sep 25, 1998 |
Scott Pulver has taken wilderness photos to a new high. to Art by jacquez |
| Tuesday Sep 22, 1998 |
A haiku is a a Japanese poem containing three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, containing a cutting, or pause, word, as well asspam, olestra, or Spice Girls imagery. to Art by joshua |
| Sunday Sep 20, 1998 |
Sick of inspiration? Looking for attractive, full-color ways to advertise the seven deadly sins? Try Seven Deadly Motivational Posters. to Art by tjs |
| Saturday Sep 19, 1998 |
Stanislav Szukalski did some astounding sculptures and drawings in his time. Behold the Protong! to Art by obvious |
| Friday Sep 18, 1998 |
(art)n Laboratory has some worthy chemistry images to show you. to Art by obvious |
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