Category Archives: Art

Scott Avett Art

Posted on August 26, 2009 | Leave a comment

I spent last night perched on a grassy hill, drinking wine and listening to the Avett Brothers. As always, they provided fantastic folk melodies and incredible doses of punk-level energy. How a person can sing, play guitar or banjo and stomp on a kick drum all at the same time, at differing tempos, is beyond me. More talent exists in those two brothers than in my entire bloodline.

And as if I needed proof, today I stumbled across Scott Avett’s art work and its pretty damn impressive. Some guys have it all..

The Fighter

Mi Mi

Self Portrait

Leia Bell Magnets

Posted on August 10, 2009 | 3 comments

Saturday SLUG hosted a spectacular Craft Lake City event with local artists and craftsman from the Salt Lake area. I couldn’t resist adding more Leia Bell magnets to my current collection. Maybe one day I’ll actually own a print or painting! Check out her site to browse and purchase her works.

Here are the magnets that I took home:

Space Monkey by Leia Bell

Seal Beach by Leia Bell

Sloth and Gluttony by Leia Bell

Polar Bear #2 by Leia Bell

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Tagged Art, Craft Lake City, Leia Bell, Salt Lake City

Sepia Lepus

Posted on June 16, 2009 | 3 comments

Well, I’m getting pretty amped up to get down in Mexico. And so how do I prepare… Packing? Naw. Researching the area? Nope. Exercising to get bikini-ready? Pshaw! Looking for pics and videos of whale sharks? You know it!

And what a pleasant surprise when my quest brought me to the art work of Sepia Lepus. Her images are charming little morsels with attention to placement and pattern. A courageous little white bunny is the central figure in many of her prints. Imagine that James Bond hooked up with a mermaid and they had a baby bunny.. this would be him. He saddles pigs to fight dragons and dives with sea creatures. And frankly, I think that’s pretty great.

The images below (and many more) are available for next to nothing on her Etsy page.

Home

Submariner

Arctic

*I lost a good deal of fidelity in the Arctic print when shrinking to post.

George

Clover

Portrait of Felix

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Tagged Art, Bunny, Etsy, Gocco, Illustration, ocean, Prints, Sepia Lepus

Dan McCarthy: Dark Days

Posted on June 2, 2009 | 1 comment

I love this print that was released by Dan McCarthy, last month. The sky has the appearance of ink mixing with water, the ocean is made up of repetitive waves sealed under a straight, flat horizon and the squid looks like he’s either deranged or on some serious psychedelics.

Dark Days

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Tagged Art, Dan McCarthy, Dark Days, Print

Alex Cherry / Of Sound and Vision

Posted on May 21, 2009 | 3 comments

This past week I’ve been loving the art work of Alex Cherry (Of Sound and Vision), a 23 year old from Los Angeles. He uses Photoshop and Illustrator to create gritty yet ethereal images. Some of the images on his Flickr account are subtitled with band names. I’m not sure if he is doing work for these bands or just using them as inspiration, but either way, the kid can obviously rawk. You can purchase prints at DiviantART.

Hellbound

The Voyager

Flying Whales

Death Rides a Horse

Warpigs

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Tagged Alex Cherry, Art, Of Sound and Vision, Prints

Mogwai

Posted on May 13, 2009 | 2 comments

I’m going to see Mogwai play tonight! I’m pretty damn excited to see them for the first time. I expect it will be an earth rumbling good time.

Today one of my favorite sites, OMG Posters!, announced that a couple of incredible Mogwai posters will be going on sale tomorrow at Posters and Toys at 2pm. The first one is almost as epic as their music.

Omaha Show, Artist: Drew Millward

Denver Show, Artist: Ken Taylor

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Posted in Art, Music

Tagged Drew Millward, Ken Taylor, Mogwai, poster

Macro Insects

Posted on May 12, 2009 | 2 comments

Lately I’ve been a bit obsessed with the macro-photography of insects. The world at this angle is full of strange creatures that our brains could never imagine and full of colors and textures that our big human eyeballs could never see. Here are a few of my favorites.

Photo credit: Martin Ann

Photo credit: Martin Amm

By Martin Amm (http://photo.net/photos/Martin%20Amm)

Photo credit: Martin Amm

By Igor Siwanowicz (http://photo.net/photos/siwanowicz)

Photo credit: Igor Siwanowicz

Igor Siwanowicz (http://photo.net/photos/siwanowicz)

Photo credit: Igor Siwanowicz

By Mike Shaw (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75899207@N00/)

Photo credit: Mike Shaw

Photo credit: Mike Shaw

Photo credit: Opo Terser

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Posted in Art, Nature, Science, Animals, Earth

Tagged insect, macro, photography, spider

Steampunk Creatures of Land and Sea

Posted on April 23, 2009 | 2 comments

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Les Machines de l’Ile is an art project located in Nantes, France. Artists François Delarozière and Pierre Orefice bring years of set building experience to the exhibit which opened in July of 2007. The first major machine is an enormous elephant weighing in at 45 tons and measuring nearly 40 feet high and 26 feet wide. Levers and pulleys allow some of the 49 passengers to control parts of the animal, including the life-like jointed trunk. Future major machine projects include a Marine Worlds Carousel (2010) and Heron Tree (2014). Other smaller projects include a squid, pirate fish, manta ray, lantern fish and more. Oh and did I mention that you can ride some of these things?! I couldn’t have imagined a more wonderful place.

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Posted in Art, Nature, Science, Animals, Earth

Tagged Art, France, Les Machines de l’Ile, Nantes, Steampunk

Fire-Breathing Babybot

Posted on April 9, 2009 | 3 comments

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Japanese artist, Kenji Yanobe, has created the toddler of all toddlers. The 24 ft robot goes by the name of Torayan and supposedly, will only respond to the orders of a child’s voice. Yanobe has described him as “the ultimate child’s weapon”. We can only hope that he doesn’t learn to walk, cry or become sentient.