Sharpie Stainless Steel Permanent Marker

I’m a long time fan of Sharpie markers and I have a bunch of them all over the house in multiple colors and sizes. Sharpie just introduced a new stainless steel marker with the Sharpie logo laser etched on the side. It retails for $8.99 but has a unique feature – it’s refillable. That’s right. For a cool $2.49 you can reload this bad boy. This is must have for any Sharpie enthusiast. Buy it here.

Box art

Box doodle has a simple premise. Send in a jpeg of original art you made out of a box.

Check out the rest of the amazing box art at boxdoodle.com.

Picasso draws with light

I’ve always been a huge fan of Pablo Picasso. These photos were shot by LIFE photographer Gjon Mili in 1949.

Via LIFE

Beautiful art from ordinary toilet tissue rolls

This piece entitled ‘Corner Forrest’ by artist Yuken Teruya is created entirely out of discarded cardboard toilet tissue rolls. The branches are meticulous cut by hand and bent into place completing an evolution from tree, to cardboard, to tree art.

Anti-alcohol posters from Soviet propaganda era

These brilliant anti-alcohol posters are incredibly simple yet effective in the way they communicate a powerful message.

Alcohol enemy of production

Alcohol

Without words

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The incredible work of hyperrealist sculptor Ron Mueck

Australian sculptor Ron Mueck started out as a model maker and puppeteer. Soon thereafter he began his own company in London where he started making photo realistic props for the advertising industry. Muecks mother-in-law introduced him to Charles Saatchi who started collecting and commissioning his work.

Mueck’s sculptors are incredibly realistic. The key difference is the scale to which the sculptors are built. Often they are larger than life or much smaller. I had the opportunity to see his sculpture “Boy” in 2000 at the Millennium Dome in London. Truly remarkable and painstaking work.

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Thought provoking UK graffiti artist Banksy

Banksy is a anonymous graffiti artist from the UK. His work is quite extraordinary and has a social commentary angle. According to Wikipedia:

He is believed to be a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, near Bristol^[2] and to have been born in 1974,^[5] but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and biographical details.^[6] According to Tristan Manco, Banksy “was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s.”^[7] His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass who maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His art has appeared in cities around the world.^[8] Banksy’s work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.

One of the most impressive things about Banksy is that he doesn’t sell photos or merchandising of his work. Instead, he posts high resolution images on his Web site and encourages people to make their own stuff. He only asks that it is for non-commercial use. Very generous and true to the intention of the art work.

Word clouds

Jonathan Feinberg is the mastermind behind Wordle.net – a fun way to weave word clouds. The cloud creation is quite simple. You can either add words via an online editor or you can add an RSS feed to automatically generate a word cloud. Just like any word cloud, prominance is given to the frequency the word appears.

The fun part is tweaking the clouds. At your disposal are different fonts as well as a myriad of layouts and color schemes. The final images can be printed out and placed in a frame.  Bam! instant artwork for typographically challenged.  The clouds can also be saved to a public gallery so others can enjoy your handwork.

The word cloud above was generated via Mashable.com’s RSS feed

Create your own word clouds at wordle.net.

Bad Paintings of Barack Obama

Sometimes even the best intentions fall short. Such is the case with the art featured on this site called “Bad Paintings of Barack Obama.” And they’re not kidding either … they’re beyond bad!

Obama goes green! He’s glowing like a nuclear reactor…

This is from his short lived stint with the Blue Man Group.

Obama and his bestest pal in the world … honest Abe.

YIKES! The only way I could tell it was Obama was because of the logo in the background.

Here’s what Obama would look like if Piccaso painted him … YEAH, RIGHT!