I had a teacher who looked like Andy Warhol. She might’ve been annoyed to find out she looked like a man in a wig, but more likely she would have been flattered: here’s why.
Chatting with @artbynemo on twitter, he mentioned Andy Warhol had something to do with wigs. Sure enough- his schtick included [...]
I stumbled across this super amazing comic- I’m really liking it, even though I am not a fan of frat-boy fart-joke humour. But her characters are simple and funny and she’s good at what she does!
via Dar
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One of the things I would like to do over Christmas is make paper. At home we have two boxes of computer cartridge paper, printed mostly on both sides, of information that we don’t need. The Upstairs Family is undergoing a major revamp, and the newly organized and tidied place is looking swell. I want [...]
One of the joys of the internet, for voracious bookworms short on pennies, is finding a gold mine of knowledge! The latest vein I’ve tapped is here- I basically find a small thing I don’t know about and then google about it until I do know something about it.
Start: jezebel’s coverage of Detail’s problematic “Hot [...]
This little video is all kinds of amazing- feet walk, and morph into themselves again, a grotesque little monster crawls into a window, maws gape and eyes blink, monsters gnaw and prismic rays shoot from concentric circles- it’s the Rube Goldburg of Graffiti, and when someone said, “That’s enough, let’s move on,” I cried, “No! [...]
In Spring 2007, following a tour of Japan, John Galliano created a collection for Christian Dior which pulled elements from Japanese culture into couture looks. This is a clear example of how Orientalism functions in contemporary times in the same way that it did 100 years ago. This Oriental world which was displayed in museums [...]
These two drawings are ones i did today, and added a watercolour wash over them. I’m going to play with them in Photoshop a little more, so they’re not finished.
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This is a super handy tutorial about how to sell things very simply through paypal. I haven’t tried it, but I also am contemplating adding a selling page onto Katanaville.com so that one may purchase Katana-style Christmas cards, and postcards, and other assorted Katana-produced items. My abstract-canvas belt that I wear has been remarked on [...]
Patrick Traer’s Baby Blue Balls, (2002 plywood, cotton, cardboard, polyurethane foam batting, vinyl, zippers, covered buttons, stainless steel buckle and chain)
These are some kind of soft product- it seems that a structure was made (the plywood, cotton, cardboard, polyurethane foam batting), and then covered with baby blue vinyl, and covered buttons sewn [...]
Image is Everything: How to Destroy A Belt Buckle
Welcome back, I always enjoy your presence here. There’s lots of stuff on the internet, so I’m pleased to see you back! I appreciate you
Bang-On, iron-on pop culture, sells belt buckles. Heavy, solid, licensed, genuine belt buckles. Aztec calendars, bull skulls and snakes, heart-breakers, pirates, and dead Indians in feather head-dresses.
I mentioned to [...]