Starting today, the Serpentine Gallery in London will open its doors to the public to present Jeff Koons’ Popeye Series. This will be Koons’ first major exhibition in a public gallery in England, which is why they are expected to draw in BIG crowds. The show includes a number of monumental oil paintings featuring the iconic figures of Popeye and Olive Oyl, as well as a number of his sculptures inspired in inflatable beach and bath toys.

If you happen to be lucky enough to be in the big L these days, be sure to head over to the gallery this Thursday (July 2nd) as Koons himself will be conducting a rare talk about his work!

If not, there’s lots of high res pics over at colectiva!

Check this little tribute out, more images.

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In 1949 Gjon Mili (photographer for LIFE magazine) visited Pablo Picasso in Vallauris, France. During his visit, he showed Picasso some photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates jumping in the dark. Story has it that Picasso was immediately inspired and got to it, and these photos are the result.

More photos here!
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Lisbon based artist and graphic designer Luigi di Silvanni took the well known WW2 time poster “Keep Calm and Carry On” and gave it a comical Simpsonized twist. If you were yellow, had spiky or blue-ish Everest like hair, this is what you would see in the walls of Springfield by this days.
The “Leave Duff and Carry On” poster is available in 8 standard color schemes but is totally personalizable to match your mood and ambiance. Leave Duff and Carry On

Carlo Mollino; avant garde architect, genius furniture designer, obscure photographer, solid race car pilot, aviator, teacher, inventor, eccentric extraordinaire obsessed with perfection, tortured by drugs, sex addiction and focused on creating intense and remarkable pieces of art until the last days of his life. see more

Bomb, Camera, Dog, Drink, Glasses, Floppy Disk and Phone… :)

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If you dig Star Wars, Battlestar or even Smokey and the Bandit you might want to check out the Sci-Fi Collection which is made up of 3 sci-fi tshirts featuring over 150 celebrity robots, aliens and vehicles. A good way to waste an entire day of work trying to guess them all.

Or if you dig The Beatles, The Clash or even Oingo Boingo you might check out the Rock Music Collection which is made up of our 3 rockers tees featuring almost 100 icons of rock dating from 1964 all the way through 1989.

This current offer is geared towards Father’s Day and essentially translates into getting 3 designs for about 25%, keeping the shipping to a flat rate of $5, USPS Priority. USPS delivers all Priority mail within the US in 2-3 days and should allow Father’s Day deadlines if ordered by June 17.

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Iconza — collection of free icons that can be colored and reduced in size to your taste. If you are a happy site or blog owner, you will be able to pick icons that will fit right into your design. The project is done by Turbomilk, company that is also involved in producing icons, logos and interfaces for cash.

We’re always a sucker for classic Mario. Hopefully Nintendo is working on something like this for next Christmas. More here.

Daniel Bogan is a guy obsessed with pixels. So obsessed, as a matter of fact, that he created a huge series of animated shorts showcasing some amazing pixel illustration. Using a hacked ResEdit CICN editor, Daniel took screenshots of each completed frame and then pasted it into a GIF editor. The final results are hilarious and inspiring to those who obsessive over old-school solutions to today’s problems.

Links:
http://www.archive.org/details/pixhell - series of animations
http://waferbaby.com/ - Daniel’s site.