Mondrian Thanksgiving Dinner by Hannah Rothstein
Hannah Rothstein describes herself as a painter, illustrator, writer, jeweler, and up-to-no-gooder. She can now add ironic food stylist to her list of jobs. Continue reading
Turkey Day Reimagined
Category Archives: Art
Chain Gang
©Soo Sunny Park
Yesterday, I shared some remarkable art made from some pretty uninspiring materials in Spare Parts. Today, I’ve found an artist who works in something even more ubiquitous and unexpected – chain link fencing. Continue reading
Spare Parts
Nude VI (Theia) ©Jeremy Mayer
While wandering the internet in my typical fashion, I was stopped dead in my clickings by the sight of this remarkable artist and his creation. Continue reading
Crossover Artists:
Designed by Peter Eisenman
Etsomnia™ Volume XVII: Art Show
“Hippy Mixed Media Collage Art”
et·som·ni·a (/etˈsämnēə/), noun, 1. a sleep disorder caused by obsessive Etsy browsing. 2. the surprising arrival of weird handmade merchandise ordered in one’s sleep.
“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.” -Honore de Balzac
Drawing Jacob
Breakfast is Served
Saturday morning breakfast is one of the things I look forward to most. Continue reading
Blue-Collar Fairies
Brain’s Fairies
No, I’m not referring to GOAL (which is a great organization, by the way). Continue reading
The Brain of a Designer
in·fo·graph·ic /infōˈɡrafik/ noun. A visual image such as a chart or diagram used to represent information or data
“A good infographic is worth a thousand words.” – The Internet
My Mind is In the Toilet
“Excuse me, agate go to the bathroom.”
You’re welcome.
We share our island with the corporate headquarters of Call-a-Head Corp., the “We’re number 1 at number 2” people. So suffice to say we spend some time thinking about bathroomy stuff.
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Down the Rabbit Hole!
Sir John Tenniel’s Illustration from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
Well, make me small and call me Alice!
Costumes for Appliances!
Mondrian fridge wrap ©Vinyl Revolution
Welcome to the magical world of fridge decals! Continue reading
Diminutive Decrepitude
©Satoshi Araki
Artist Satoshi Araki works in hyper-realistic dioramas Continue reading
Dead Like Me
“Calavera: a representation of human skull made from either sugar or clay, which is used in the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead and the Roman Catholic holiday All Souls Day.” – Wikipedia, which got it right! Continue reading
Marbling Madness
Ebru is the traditional Turkish art form of painting on water and transferring the painting onto paper, also called marbling. Continue reading
Georgia on My Mind:
©Alex Doomer
In western Georgia (the country, not the state), there is a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture sinking into the rustic landscape. Continue reading
Nice Knockers!
Trojan Horse
A Labor of Lovecraft
Squealing White Thing ©Michael Bukowski
“I was much less disturbed by the vaguer tales of wails and howlings in the barren, windswept valley beneath the limestone cliff; of the graveyard stenches after the spring rains; of the floundering, squealing white thing on which Sir John Clave’s horse had trod one night in a lonely field;”
– H.P. Lovecraft, The Rats In the Walls
Meep Believing
meep believing ©Linda Billet
“Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” Jim Henson (as quoted by Linda Billet)
My OBT 