Tagged: artcomics

Star Wars and sequential art share a long history: Star Wars debuted on the comic-book page in 1977, when Marvel Comics began publishing a six-part adaptation of the first film, which morphed into a monthly comic book. Now, more than three decades later, new series by Dark Horse Comics continue to expand the Star Wars galaxy. The second book in the Star Wars Art series, Star Wars Art: Comics ($40) brings together the very best artwork from the entire history of Star [...]

What's even better than Star Wars? Comics about Star Wars!

Artist Hilary Berseth collaborates with honeybees to create intricate sculptures made of beeswax and honey. He builds a template for the shape he wants, places it inside the hive in the Spring, and waits. (And waits.) The outcome is often different than he expects, as the bees riff on his guidelines and add their own input into the process. But that's how you arrive at a truly delicious partnership, right? (link)

I saw these colored pencil portraits by Marco Mazzoni of ladies' faces surrounded by flora a few days ago, and they've stayed in my mind so consistently that I needed to post. The subject matter seems fairly standard, yet something has haunted me about the concept. The surrounding foliage is so much more detailed and vivid than the faces in the center of the images, which seem to fade away entirely around the eyes as flowers and butterflies take over. There's a tension between the greater color of the flowers and the centrality of the faces that grabs my attention, [...]

Artist Yuliya Kyrpo, a secondary school student in England, constructed this dress out of one thousand paper cranes made from free Metro newspapers. I'm pretty sure I've heard that if you accomplish such an astounding undertaking, you're granted free flights via paper crane for life, so I hope Yuliya chooses some incredible destinations. She's earned it. Oh, and the dress is now on display at the London Science Museum . More photos at the link. (link)

Photographer Anton Tang poses tiny figures called Danbos in a variety of scenarios, photographs them using a macro lens, and gives each one a soul. Watching the little girl Danbo share a special day with her dad, or fail at swimming for the first time, or get punched in the face by a bully, I somehow keep rooting for her as if she were really alive. And she is...in my heart. (If I made you say "Aww!" or groan disgustedly just now, I have achieved my purpose.) See the photos here -- they're truly wonderful, [...]

Photographer Richard Renaldi is working on an ongoing photo project called Touching Strangers , which is basically what it sounds like, only less dirty. Here's the premise, according to him: "I meet two or more people on the street who are strangers to each other, and to me. I ask them if they will pose for a photograph together with the stipulation that they must touch each other in some manner. Frequently, I instruct or coach the subjects how to touch. Just as often, I let their tentative physical exploration play out [...]

How to Stencil a Balloon...Balloons over Beacon NY! from Peat Wollaeger on Vimeo . A video guide by stenSOUL on how to stencil balloons. Please, find as many versions of "99 Luftballons" as you can find and do this some Sunday afternoon, and I will not have lived in vain. (link) : (via)

I'll be honest with you: I watch a lot of cartoons. I mean a lot . I mean that, with the exception of Mad Men , I watch nothing but Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and Turner Classic Movies. Popeye is set to record regularly on my DVR. So I cannot resist Love & Theft , an animated short by Andreas Hykade in which familiar and not-so-familiar cartoon faces morph and shift and entangle themselves in each other in that way that things do as they become a part of our [...]

An adorable collection of drawings from husband-and-wife Dutch design team MAKI awaits at the link. And they've designed a keychain thingamabob for Poketo's new line for Target, too. (link)

These cast glass sculptures of gowns by artist Karen LaMonte are exquisite, wonderfully detailed and finely wrought. They provoke questions of transparency, of clothing the body to conceal and to adorn, of feeling exposed and on display. But also? They're just plain beautiful to look at , and make me start wondering whether glass clothing might be a viable option, after all. (link)

If you've ever loved a book so much you wanted to live in it, now's your chance. Artist Matej Kren 's incredible house of books on display at the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna proves it's possible, a thousand times over. Photos at link. (link) : (via) : (image via)

Some beautiful street art from Klone in Tel Aviv -- above is a detail of a piece called Summer Nights of a Lost Childhood . More, much more at Klone's Flickr . (via)

Photographer Erin Tyner creates images of little figures doing big things. Feeling like an outsider , facing a tornado , swimming the oceans all the way to the moon, or just contemplating the big vast vastness of it all. But for all their stillness and smallness, these figures are always engaged in their surroundings. They're a part of their environment, not separate from it. And because we've all felt like a tiny little creature doing a Very Big Thing, it's easy to identify with them, [...]

After a day battling various electronic items and feeling once again like the guy in that episode of The Twilight Zone , artist Laurie Lipton's description of her upcoming show "Machine Punk" struck a chord with me: "This show was inspired by the Steampunk movement that is sweeping Britain. Instead of steam, however, my devices are mostly run by electricity and madness. I was vacuuming one day and noticed the amount of plugs and cables on the floor... a veritable wasp's nest of wires and sockets connecting a hoard of gadgets and [...]

Tasmanian artist Cat Rabbit makes dolls you want to be your friends. They're a little odd , a little scary , and entirely , completely lovable (look at that face!). They're each unique, they've all got style, and they love just being themselves. Revel in their sweet personalities here and here , and get one to love for always and call your very own here . (Photo via this amazing photo shoot here . Go look! The models and [...]

I visited the Palace of Versailles earlier this year, for the first time since I was a kid. We went in the thick of winter, on a gray, frigid day when everything was covered in snow. The overpowering drabness of the light and the people in layers of thick coats shuffling almost wordlessly from room to room made the gilded furniture and the ornate chandeliers seem almost out of place, and the gardens were dormant and remained unexplored that day. I decided maybe the Château wasn't the right fit for me to visit in winter. And now [...]

Booooooom! , partnered with The Vancouver Sun , had a beautiful miniature shipbuilding project "open to people of all ages, students, lawyers, professional craft boat designers, "totally unartistic people", bass-guitarists, wizards, cat-people, anyone who likes to have fun!" and the glorious fruits of so many peoples' efforts are now online . So go! Observe all of the stately fairy barques, and imagine the grand fairy lives that must surely take place on each and every one. (link)

"When the exhibition is over I will burn the castle. I thought I could see it rising up from the ashes if I took a video and played it backwards," said Wataru Ito, the man who sculpted this entire city from paper over the course of four years. Which means this city now no longer exists except on film, where it burns to the ground and reassembles itself at the touch of a button. (Isn't it funny, living a world where even burning something doesn't mean it's [...]

JR / Exposition Paris 2009 - Ile Saint Louis by JR Here's a video of JR's "Women Are Heroes" installation at the Paris Expo 2009. It is absolutely glorious, and any video that begins with an older gentleman saying "I would like to know who is the idiot who allowed all that's happening" in French (or any other language, for that matter) is worth watching at least twice.