Hmmmm

Some guy has decided to preccisely replicate a Pam Am World Airways 747 first class cabin in his garage. The news story can be seen here. I dont understand the compulsion to go to Tailand to get headsets or anything, but I guess everyone needs a hobby...

Acid Trip

I came across this again recently and felt the need to blog about it. The acid trip drawings are a series of 9 drawings completed during US testing of LSD in the 50s. The drawings are done at different intervals during the 8 hours while the artist was tripping out. It is interesting to see the changes in style and medium the artist chooses at different points. You can read some of the testing notes at the website. Here are the drawings in chronological order.

Markus Hofer

Hofer is a German sculptor. I particularly like the piece below. I like the fact that it could be mistaken for an accident rather than art. Perhaps it is mistaken for art, i don't know...

I am really drawn to the simplicity and dry humor Hofer uses in his work.

This mirror says "I Read This Sentence"

Design for A Picture with Red Lettering.

10% of This Image is Covered in Black Paint

And What Has This Got To Do With Me?

Horror Movies

So I saw this and I thought of our torture porn discussion and I was wondering if torture by spoon would fall could fall into the category of torture porn... well anyway I saw this video and it made me think of the differences between horror films then and now. I did like the tribute to psycho, in all this was rather funny and non-mind threatening which I have to say was needed!

Project 1 Images

Here are some original images and images which didn't make the cut

Project 1 Research

Books used in my research for project one:

Plus many other architectural books that eventually were rejected for use in my project

Class Notes

Not Photographs

This was cool to look at today, a list of artists whose work is mistaken for photography. I came across this and was intrigued. The image below was my favorite of all the work. It is a work by Juan Francisco Casas does these realistic drawings in ballpoint pen. I was surprised to learn that the works are a lot bigger than I would have ever expected, about 7 x 4 feet. I wonder if he buys cases of pens from staples...

Rubik Cubism

OMG this is awesome! There are all kinds of different images recreated in rubik cubes, from movies to mug shots to famous paintings, album covers and video games. From the French artist Invader