Internet Memes as Oil Paintings by Lauren Kaelin
Lauren Kaelin sure loves memes. So she started to make oil paintings out of them and notes that her art project called “Benjameme” is “inspired by Walter Benjamin and the Ikea Monkey.” Each of Kaelin’s paintings are available for sale as matte prints for $20 or matte poster prints for $75. These are the perfect gifts for every classic Internet fan! (via)
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The Amazing Art of Gottfried Helnwein
Gottfried Helnwein is an Austrian-Irish fine artist, painter, photographer, installation and performance artist.
Building a Green Economy by Yuken Teruya
The New York-based artist Yuken Teruya was commissioned by the New York Times to create this series called “Building a Green Economy”.
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MADE by Camilo Rojas
MADE is a mosaic of clothing tags removed from a variety of different garments, carefully arranged and applied to a canvas, encouraging us to think about the origins of our products.
MADE.
Created to explore and underline how much we take our products as an evidence, totally loose of its source. Most of us buy and use so many clothing and products without ever thinking about their country of origin and the journey these goods make, before they eventually are displayed in our shops.
…Because glamorous goods aren’t always made in glamorous factories!
See the process and more pictures here
Extraordinary Origami Creatures by Nguyen Hùng Cuong
The remarkable origami of Nguyen Hùng Cuong of Hanoi, Vietnam caught my eye on Flickr recently. He is a talented folder who often uses Vietnamese handmade paper called Dó to create his models.
10 Cutting-Edge Artists of the 21st Century
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When you think of the word cutting-edge what comes to mind? How about innovative, boundary-pushing, and risk-taking? Today, we take a look at 10 contemporary artists who are all of these qualities and more.
Fireball Tim’s Wacky Rides Monday ARIZONA FINAL SKETCH…
As it’s Tuesday, here’s the final sketch for yesterday’s episode in all its Arizonian glory. Ringtails on a Cactus Hot Rod carving by the Grand Canyon. Cool.
If you haven’t seen EPISODE 3 yet, check it out here on my YouTube Channel. Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE so you can see the episodes every Monday!
Juxtapose, a collection of google map places and their glitches
Google Maps is the world’s most widely used mapping service. It influences our perception and understanding of the world and its geography, and since the technology was introduced in 2005, has become a ubiquitous day-to-day tool. Modern life is now unthinkable without it.
8 Portfolio WordPress Themes That Use Flat UI Design
In this article we have compiled 8 WordPress Themes that have been designed specifically for portfolio and blog use, oh and if you have not yet guessed, they will all feature beautiful flat design. For those of you that may be new to the web developing world, WordPress is primarily a website CMS (content management system) that opens the doors of owning and running a website to the masses, it can be used as a simple blog, a business website, an online shop, or in this case a portfolio. Themes allow you to customize the design and functionality of your website, and the WordPress system allows you to run it. If you want to learn more about WordPress I highly recommend WPbeginner as your go to source for everything WordPress.
"Business Essentials was written from the ground up with the modern business in-mind. From the elegant, clean and easy to read text, to the various fully featured page templates including staff, careers, home, and case studies your site looks gorgeous on a big screen all the way down to mobile with it’s responsive design"
INVIA has been built with Bootstrap 2.2.2 allowing its responsive qualities to be brilliantly slick and its cross compatability to be flawless. It comes retina ready with the a bunch of icons to choose from that are also retina ready. The author of the theme has also taken this one step further and included a $15 slider plugin to help utilize the themes inbuilt slider function.
Affordable and Inspiring Traditional Art
One of the thrilling things the Internet has given mere mouse-wielding mortals is access to a huge range of affordable art. “The traditional art world may have spent centuries trying to convince us there’s a direct correlation between price and taste,” writes Maria Popov,, but now the Web is shaking things up.
