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Tuesday 20 January


Friday 7 November


Monday 28 January


Saturday 5 January


Sunday 25 November

  • Typed Art (13:49) - Long before ASCII art, a man came up with the idea of using the characters on his typewriter to create pictures. Adapting to the physical limitations imposed by cerebral palsy, Paul Smith created amazing works of art using only his... | 0 Comments

Tuesday 18 September

  • Hello Dad, I'm in Jail (13:12) - Ahh the good ol' days of Liquid Television. View Other Liquid Television Clips via YouTube.... | 3 Comments

Thursday 7 June

  • Ultraviolet Tattoos (20:52) - A while ago I found this website about ultraviolet tattoos. They're invisible under ordinary light, but they glow under a black light, and they're totally awesome. See what I mean? ... | 2 Comments

Sunday 20 May


Tuesday 8 May

  • 18,000 Nude Mexicans (20:01) - More than 18,000 people stripped down and bared it all in Mexico City's vast main square Sunday for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick's biggest nude shoot yet.Standing up to salute, crouching in fetal positions and lying prone on the tiles of... | 0 Comments

Monday 23 April

  • Debris by Farbrausch - Breakpoint 2007 PC Demo Winner (09:47) - The demo scene is alive and well. Debris by Farbrausch [download for PC] was the winner for best PC demo at this year's Breakpoint demo party. At only 177K in size, it is 7 minutes of amazing 3D. If you... | 2 Comments

Thursday 16 November

  • Fujiko Isomura (19:38) - "Story of Veranda - Nusumigiki", Fujiko Isomura, 2000.... | 0 Comments

Sunday 1 October

  • some good 3d photorealism (19:37) - I haven't posted any good 3d renders in awhile... here are two from cgsociety.org. ... | 1 Comments

Wednesday 16 August

  • jen scanlon (21:21) - My cousin draws photorealistic pictures with colored pencils. I'm working on her site and the picture below was an assignment of mine tonight. I like seeing the progression, it's like his flesh structure is being modeled. ... | 3 Comments

Sunday 2 July


Wednesday 7 June

  • super marionette (21:19) - Wow. And you thought World Police did a good job. Good music too.... | 0 Comments

Thursday 1 June

  • tree sweater (22:02) - Real or photoshopped? I don't know. But it is neat. ... | 0 Comments

Saturday 27 May


Thursday 27 October

  • Command-V (15:53) - Command-V is paste. Get it?... | 5 Comments

Thursday 29 September

  • Huh (14:59) - A statue that pisses? That's old news. But a statue that writes famous quotes with the stream? That's golden. I'm having kind of a hard time believing this is genuine, but I like it and I don't feel like researching... | 3 Comments

Thursday 11 August

  • Banksy Owns West Bank Barrier (13:29) - Secretive "guerrilla" artist Banksy has decorated Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side. The nine paintings were created on the Palestinian side of the barrier. One depicts a hole in the wall with... | 1 Comments

Tuesday 10 May

  • I am 8-bit (13:10) - Photos from a gallery opening in LA devoted to 8-bit gaming. ... | 2 Comments

Wednesday 16 March

  • Street art for mobile phones (20:51) - Wooster Collective is launching Wooster Mobile an art gallery of images you can download onto your mobile phones in cities around the world. Each artist receives a royalty payment from every download you make of their work. In addition,... | 0 Comments

Monday 7 March


Friday 18 February

  • The Somerville gates (12:13) - Often Hargo's "The Somerville Gates" has been compared with Christo's "The Gates", Central Park, New York City. These comparisons have been unfair; sometimes the media has exaggerated -- even lied -- about the similarities. Differences abound, and some of the...

Wednesday 16 February

  • M-city stencils (09:18) - M-city provides an application for constructing stencil cities on your own, from the same elements as in the real world. The constructor came to life to prolong the life of Cities when they cease existing in the real world....
  • stop stop stop (09:00) - The “Stop Motion Studies” are a series of experimental documentaries that chronicle my interaction with subway passengers in cities around the world. Begun in the fall of 2002, the project currently includes 13 installments from countries including Sweden, the...

Tuesday 15 February

  • Satellite photo of The Gates (10:30) - Satellite photo of The Gates. Has anyone seen these yet? I think we are headed to New York this weekend to get a peek before they go away. ...

Saturday 12 February

  • Opening the Gates (11:32) - Opening the Gates. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates opens tomorrow and many are excited about this potentially record-breaking public event. The finishing touches are now being put on the saffron-colored structures, which span 23 miles of path through New...

Wednesday 9 February

  • Art in Cities (13:14) - An art gallery called city Cities are like a huge art gallery with a permanently changing exhibition. Art is submitted everywhere and constantly. The art is not made by the direction of an institution or company, but are short...

Tuesday 8 February


Tuesday 1 February


Monday 31 January

  • Blind painter (13:46) - Esref Armagan is a Turkish painter who has been blind since birth. His paintings are amazingly realistic, incorporating color, perspective, and great detail. To determine how this may be possible, Harvard neurologists Alvaro Pascual-Leone Amir Amedi are scanning Armagan's...

Wednesday 19 January

  • Dollar Bill Origami (15:06) - Origami is a endeavor that is undertaken by many, using what's available. Often, that is money. Sometimes simple, and sometimes complicated the result is often spiffy and incorporates the bill's features into the design. ...

Tuesday 18 January


Monday 17 January

  • Computer Viruses looking for Love (15:06) - Artist -> Luca BertiniYazna and ++ are two viruses in love. They are looking for each other on the net, running through connected computers. They are different from other virii in that they will cause you neither damages to...
  • Turning New York into a webpage (10:39) - Grafedia , created by John Geraci, is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to images, video, sound files, etc. It can be written on walls, in the streets, or in postcards, on the body as...

Thursday 2 December


Monday 13 September

  • Ann Arbor-Astor Cube (21:30) - One of the first things I noticed outside my window when I first moved to Ann Arbor was this giant cube (2400 pounds!) that could be seen spinning at times. It is the twin of a cube at Astor Place...

Wednesday 8 September

  • News from the Wired (00:51) - An alternative to Lasik, an implantable, yet removeable, contact lens that takes only eight minutes (!) and some anaesthetic eye drops to install.. from STAAR Surgical. Does having this qualify one as a cyborg? -- Europeans should be aware of...

Tuesday 3 August

  • Ayu Fans Unite (00:03) - The ancient Mexican artform of painting giant images on your vehicle has undergone hybridization/mutation/exclamation in Japan. Here is one fine example, all of fans of the Japanese pop megastar Ayumi Hamasaki. About Hamasaki Ayumi She is Japanese singer.She sing a...

Sunday 1 August

  • Robot War (20:59) - My friend Frank strikes again with a short, Danny Bot, about robot war. Don't miss the pinbots link....

Monday 28 June

  • FrankenArt (10:46) - This article coins the term FrankenArt (yeah, a little lame) to describe new artforms that are a remix of previous works of art. The article caught my eye as it talks about DJ Danger Mouse's remix of Jay-Z's Black Album...

Thursday 24 June

  • Reverse Stencil Graffiti (19:02) - The Times is running a story on guerilla marketing which mentions "wash away graffiti", the method of leaving a mark behind via controlled cleaning through a stencil. Novel and there are no rules against unlawful cleaning. Too bad it's to...

Wednesday 23 June

  • Street Memes (06:54) - Street Memes is a stencil gallery that takes submissions via the web or camera phone. It looks like it is just getting started as the gallery is smaill at this point, but should be interesting to watch grow....

Thursday 3 June

  • ok47 (00:06) - Some sexy images to condemn potential human life (aka beat off) to. ...

Monday 17 May

  • DNA and Consumerism (18:23) - A U.K. supermarket chain commissioned a DNA sculpture made out of shopping carts....

Monday 10 May

  • Hand Drawn Maps (17:43) - Some guy decided to save all the maps people have given him to assist with directions to here and there. Eventually he had enough to call it a collection of hand drawn maps....

Sunday 9 May


Wednesday 28 April

  • Banksy Back in the News (22:31) - "We are AK47. We have captured Rodin's Drinker - a conceptual statue by art terrorist Banksy. Is it art or is it kidnap?" Banksy's back in the news and now it's because of something that's been done to his artwork....
  • The Royal Magazine (21:33) - The Royal is a print magazine, apparently based in Ann Arbor and metro Detroit, that features really great interviews of artists and musicians that you've likely never heard of as well as some really beautiful artwork. It even features some...

Tuesday 27 April

  • Found Magazine on Letterman (17:38) - A couple guys from Found Magazine are going to be on Letterman tonight, Tuesday April 27th, showing various finds of the past couple of years....

Monday 26 April


Wednesday 21 April

  • Terrorist Logos (23:58) - Sure, most of these groups are crazed ideologues who wrongly justify violence against civilians. Except for the freedom fighters. But that doesn't mean they don't deserve totally awesome logos! ...

Thursday 8 April

  • Margon Knight (22:59) - Margon Knight's photographs are ill. Start with Fabrica. There's something about seeing teeth in places they don't belong....

Tuesday 30 March

  • Stencils of Florence (18:58) - As a gift for our buddy Tomo for all his good internet abilities, I present to you the stencils of Florence. Girl cops with big asses, secret agendas... they got some good stuff. On a side note, the subway in...

Saturday 28 February

  • Panopti-john (14:09) - A port-a-john with one-way mirrors (seeing out, not in) is the idea for this outdoor art installation outside the Tate Britain. The title "Don't Miss A Sec" refers to its conception at an art opening where people were too afraid...

Tuesday 17 February

  • Remote Control (01:11) - See how the above, entitled "Remote Control", was made in this video. It is a large-scale commissioned stencil work on the wall of a carpark (Australian for parking garage) by Meek in Melbourne, a hotspot for stencil graffiti legal...

Sunday 15 February

  • Animated (16:18) - Appleseed out in April featuring music by Boom Boom Satellites, Carl Craig, Akufen, among others. Innocence, the sequel to Ghost in the Shell, will be out in 20 days from Production I.G....

Friday 13 February

  • Cum In The Streets (00:03) - Stickers, wheatpaste, and stencils of erotic street art in Belgium: Cum....

Monday 9 February

  • Dither (23:44) - A vigorous workout in abstract lo-bit dithering technique. Just ignore the words and enjoy the show. [via firteen.com]...
  • drummachine (22:54) - The full version of Tokyoplastic's Drum Machine. It's worth watching again....
  • Stencil Graffiti (03:48) - At the end of 2003 I went to Toronto. I brought back stencil graffiti photos from the Chinatown area. Also, local stencil artist Please stopped by and added insider info comments to many of the Ann Arbor stencil photos. He...

Thursday 5 February


Tuesday 3 February

  • Update (02:24) - Some of the later SB ads were better. If there was any doubt before, IBM is seriously trying to mainstream Linux. Even Kurt Vonnegut is getting in the mix. Also, regarding the new Pepsi free music download campaign: Pepsi drinkers...

Sunday 1 February

  • Advertising (22:29) - A member of Negativland, who are known for their culture jamming art and sampling controversies, presents the film Value-Added Cinema, a collage of pure, unadulterated product placement shots. I'm waiting for the rest of the Superbowl ads to get updated...

Thursday 29 January

  • Sticker graffiti (01:34) - streetstickers.co.uk: fast, just hit enter to get the next page, some stencils mixed in. stickernation.net: 8859 photos worldwide and counting. There's a little sticker graffiti in the A2. Some is cute characters, some is interesting faces, and of course there's...
  • 1x1: Pixel Based Illustration & Design (00:50) - ...book of reference and show case for the most LO-FI of digital aesthetics, the pixel. Featuring many aspects of pixel culture from Space Invaders tiles to stitching to highrise pixels and more traditional things like typography, illustrations, and icons. It...

Wednesday 21 January

  • afu-philly (13:33) - afu-philly is a site dedicated to the history of graffiti art (1980s-present) in Philadelphia. There are lots of photos of work from various writers throughout the city....
  • Scumskullz (03:12) - Made out of pixels, LEGOs, and even tiles on the street. Found on walls, on blotter, and scored on pills of e. The genetic code is 25 bits of black or white on a 5x5 grid. Out of 12,209 viable...

Tuesday 20 January

  • Sidewalk Chalk Art (07:44) - This LJ post features some excellent sidewalk chalk art. The use of perspective and the mix of real life objects with some of the artwork makes for some cool illusions....

Sunday 11 January

  • Build-A-Face (16:18) - National Geographic has a cool build your own face application. My face didn't end up looking like me, but its still fun to play with....

Wednesday 7 January

  • Lotek Porn Revisited (23:16) - Awhile ago I mentioned some highly pixelated porn paintings and I ran across it again. Here! They're almost sold out, although I think the reason this one hasn't is that it's a control meant to see how deep into the...

Tuesday 6 January

  • Detroit Writers Index (01:50) - Great gallery of Detroit graffiti. Simple yet effective site navigation. From Motosoul, the Detroit Hip-Hop Collective. Big up the D....

Saturday 27 December


Friday 26 December

  • street art fotolog (13:56) - thought some of you might like this: http://www.fotolog.net/street_art/...

Sunday 21 December


Sunday 14 December

  • Geek Tattoos (22:50) - Find these and more at BME's Geek Tattoos gallery. I was only able to get through the first 11 pages before I was asked to pay up. [The Nintendo tattoo was featured on this post originally.]...

Friday 12 December

  • Graffiti on girls (01:13) - Damn, a day late and in NYC anyways. GRAFFITI ON GIRLS LIVE BODY ART by CRAM CONCEPTS featuring QUIK RTW and T-KID TNB Cooler than naked sushi and unlike Banksy painting cows, no pesky PETA. Tagging naked girls has been...

Tuesday 2 December

  • Pixelporn (03:19) - Create your own personal pornstar avatar with the ability to customize such aspects as: amount of chest hair, amount of facial hair, amount of pubic hair. Isometric pixelporn. ...

Thursday 27 November


Monday 24 November

  • My first stencil post... well, kind of (13:45) - Did you know the iPod's internal rechargeable battery is not replaceable? It seems that the battery in an iPod is good for about 500 charges before the usage time starts to really deteriorate. With daily use that would give you...

Sunday 23 November

  • I have found the secret punk hideout (02:03) - I found these stencils (STENCILMANIA! Part VIII!) by some train tracks here in Ann Arbor. I think there used to be more graffiti there, but now it's just two walls. There is evidence that the inhabitants have discovered fire and...

Thursday 13 November

  • On the subject of Art (02:33) - Judith Scott (born 1943), a fifty-five year old woman with Down's Syndrome, has spent the past ten years producing a series of totally non-functional objects which, to us, appear to be works of sculpture, except that the notion of sculpture...

Thursday 30 October

  • Latest A2 Stencils (00:15) - I have put up new stencil shots from A-town. They are right here....

Tuesday 21 October

  • Lotek Porn (00:37) - Awhile ago I saw this gallery of these paintings of highly pixelated porn. If they were hanging on the other side of the room and you squinted you could tell that it was some chick taking it in the bum....

Tuesday 7 October

  • Exploding Dog (14:36) - This site has been around for quite some time but today was my first visit to Exploding Dog. This guy draws pictures based on the titles people submit to him via email. There are two years worth of pictures to...

Monday 6 October

  • LFO Video and Stencil (22:20) - The video for LFO's new single Freak is hot even if these young asian girls manage to mutate into little Richard D. James-ians, perhaps as a tip of the hat to Chris Cunningham from its director Daniel Levi (of independent)....

Saturday 27 September

  • 0-day Stencils (14:21) - New Ann Arbor stencil shots up. Some pretty good ones off the beaten path. Also, some photos from yesterday's Ann Arbor Critical Mass, which I participated in since I now have a bike. It's nowhere near the size of...

Monday 22 September

  • The Writings On The Walls (19:46) - Last night I walked around Ann Arbor. I just walked around the block. I climbed up buildings, took some pictures, and ate some ice cream. I was high. More pictures. If anybody knows what "viral manifesto" is please fill me...