The work of Jason Feeney. (You may have seen it before.)
Bonus: You can follow the creation of some of his work at his FaceBook page.
Posts Tagged: ‘Art’
January 25, 2012
Victorian Photo Subjects Become Sci-Fi Heroes
October 6, 2011
MacBook Pro Turned Into Portrait of Steve Jobs
A tribute from Mint Digital:
This morning, surrounded by the fruits of his labour, we heard the news that the man behind all of these incredible products had died. It seemed fitting to create a tribute to him using the spare components of the old Mac book pro. Every component has been broken down to its most basic form and reassembled into a portrait of Steve Jobs. This is how it turned out:
October 5, 2011
New Animation: Real-Life Nyan Cat!
This just appeared on YouTube a couple days ago:
From Guy Collins.
For those who aren’t familiar with Nyan Cat, here you go.
September 10, 2011
Bob Dylan’s Paintings [updated]
Because you know, being the single most recognizable name in songwritng on the planet for forty years or so just isn’t enough for a guy like Bob:
A New York City gallery will be exhibiting 18 drawings and paintings by Bob Dylan created while the musician was touring Asia.
The Gagosian (gah-GOH’-zee-ahn) Gallery says Dylan’s Asia Series will run from Sept. 20 to Oct. 22.
The gallery says it will be the singer-songwriter’s first exhibition in New York.
They have just four images online. Tell us what you think, music and painting fans. (This one is something. It’s got a rich, musky bouquet, with and nice raisiny aftertaste. Oh wait, that’s wine. Never mind…)
Update: Dylan copied some (all?) of the paintings from famous photographers’ work. Inappropriate to not at least credit them, many say. (Us too!)
September 1, 2011
Post-it Note Window Art
This is dang cool. There is apparently a Post-It note art craze going on in Europe at the moment. It apparently started in Paris:
In fact, across the French capital, the summer has been enlivened by a corporate collage contest known as La guerre des Post-it (the Post-it wars). The battle is between presumably underemployed office workers who are devoting large chunks of their days to sticking thousands of pink, yellow, orange and green notes on their windows to recreate pixelated images.
There’s even a Post-It War website.
Lots of photos here.
And here’s a video (in Dutch).
And it’s spreading around Europe.
August 23, 2011
People Painting People Paintings
This is very cool. Check this out:
Nice painting, huh? Well, it is, but not in the way you think:
In essence, what Meade does is paint live models to make them look like paintings. Sound strange? Well, we guess it is, but we think you’ll agree, the finished product is darn realistic. She achieves this effect by applying acrylic paint to her subject and surroundings and then photographing everything.
“Meade” is American artist Alexa Meade. You can see much more of her work at her website.
* And thanks to Ol’ Jay for the tip.
June 8, 2011
Hotel Rooms as Art
It’s the Hotel Fox, in Copenhagen, and, well, wow:
61 rooms, 21 artists, 1,000 ideas
Each room is an individual piece of art – from wacky comical styles to strict graphic design, from fantastic street art and Japanese Manga to simply spaced out fantasies.
A few of the rooms:
The link up top has artist info, and here you can see a slideshow with larger images of the rooms.
February 23, 2011
The (Recycled) Art of War
Mana the Magnificent found this very cool link to a story about an American soldier in Afghanistan, and what he does in his spare time. This is what he does:
Private First Class Rupert Valero is currently stationed at Khandahar, Afghanistan, and to fill his spare time, he builds toys out of recycled materials. They capture a wonderful mix of imagination, whimsy, and craftiness, and they rank way up there with awesome upcycled goods.
The toys are made from all kinds of materials, with the limbs usually made from caps from water bottles. They’re about six inches tall, and the limbs are fully moveable.
Here’s an interview with Valero here. Excerpt:
When we are outside the wire, and interact with the Afghan locals, I take some of my little creations, and you see the eyes open wide on these little kids. I think I put in my humble talent to some use if it means winning hearts and minds of the Afghan people.
And here’s a huge gallery of his work on his Flicker page.
And: We sent PFC Valero a message on his Facebook page and asked his permission to tell his story and use his images here on our blog. He got back to us this morning—on a break from his very hard work in Afghanistan—and said he’d be honored. Our heartfelt appreciation to him. (And we’re sending a book or two as soon as we get his address.)
Here’s some more images of his work:
My personal favorite out of these: Dr. Pepper Man. Very scary. Please list your preferences below.
December 30, 2010
Our New Year’s Gift to You: The Origami Ducky
We wanted to get each and every one of you a gift this holiday season. But, since we didn’t have everyone’s addresses, the hard part was figuring out what to get you that we could transported through the internet. So, here is our little thank you for supporting us in 2010 and for the many years before…and after: THE ORIGAMI DUCKY! (First appeared in Uncle John’s Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader)
Print it out, make the duck, and send us a picture [unclejohnsbathroomreader (at) gmail (dot) com] to put on our Facebook page. Let’s see if we can break the record of the most origamis ever made at one time by a team. According to the record: 545 people folded 9,300 origami cranes in one hour at Singapore State University on 22 August 2006. Let the fun begin!!
