Mariko Kusumoto
I was perusing a book called “The Metalsmith’s Book of Boxes & Lockets,” which is full of fascinating things, particularly the work of Mariko Kusumoto. Seeing her work for the first time was one of those jaw-dropping moments, a why have I not seen this before, heartbeat-skipping moment. I’ve realized that I’m terribly particular about [...]
Jewelry Inspiration
I’m taking a class in jewelry design and metalsmithing, which starts next Monday. I decided it would be a good idea to have something in mind that I want to make, so I searched Etsy for things that I love. I tried to find things that are actually fabricated from metal instead of just beaded [...]
A Record of Life
I love this video A Record of Life, made by Owen Gatley and Luke Jinks. Beautiful hand-drawn animation. Someday I’ll figure out how to embed video here, in the meantime here’s a link! (Thanks to Drawn!, a great blog about illustration and cartoon art, where I found this!)
Tim Noble and Sue Webster
Check out these amazing junk/shadow sculptures by Tim Noble and Sue Webster!
Live Hawk Nest Video at Franklin Institute!
Franklin Institute has live video of a window-ledge hawk nest with three babies in it!
Emmanuel Polanco
I recently discovered the work of Emmanual Polanco, a French artist who makes amazing collages.
The Book Cover Archive
The Book Cover Archive is a great site that contains images and information on over 1,000 book cover designs. Half the times when I go into bookstores I end up just wandering around looking at all the beautiful covers and not actually buying anything. This site is like the virtual version of that experience!
The Journal of Urban Typography
I have since come to realize that I was dead wrong- typography IS fascinating…
Abandoned Places
Abandoned Places has to qualify as one of my favorite websites of all time.
It is the urban exploration photo site of Henk van Rensbergen. He says “Today, the pyramids of the industrial revolution just uselessly stand in the way, they’re a scar in the landscape. The deafening noises have been replaced by silence, but if [...]
Eric Joisel Origami
Eric Joisel is a master of Origami. The above snail is folded out of a single sheet of paper and is just one of many beautiful animals and other figures to be seen on his website.
Periodic Table Printmaking Project
I love group projects where a bunch of individual images or objects come together to form an interesting whole. I also love art inspired by science. No surprise then that I love the Periodic Table Printmaking Project! The site is a little slow as of this posting, but it’s well worth clicking on some of [...]
Codex Seraphinanus
Codex Seraphinanus is a “collection of original artwork by Italian artist Luigi Serafini, presented as a travelogue or scientific study of an alien world.” All the text in the book is in an imaginary language/code that nobody has ever figured out, and the title is an acronym:
Strange and Extraordinary Representations of Animals and Plants [...]
Air Lines
I love this art project- Air Lines. To quote from the website: “Air Lines is an art project showing worldwide airliner routes. Every single scheduled flight on any given day is reresented by a fine line from it’s point of origin to it’s port of destination. Thereby forming a net of thousands of lines. Hubs [...]
Bubble Chamber
Bubble Chamber is a generative painting system of imaginary colliding particles built with Processing. A single super-massive collision produces a discrete universe of four particle types. Particles draw their positions over time resulting in [...]
My new favorite artist- Brian Dettmer
Brian Dettmer takes the genre of “altered books” to a whole new level. He carves away parts of the books, leaving a multi-layered sculpture behind. This is the kind of work that makes me think “damn, I wish I had thought of that!”See more here at Aron Packer Gallery.
See more on Flickr.
Bodies of Knowledge
Bodies of Knowledge is an interesting online exhibit at the British Library: “For thousands of years the inner workings of the body have provoked fascination, confusion, amazement and even disgust. This site looks at the way different cultures, at various points in history, have looked at the body, and how these ideas have been translated [...]
