All the Glitter Loves Alex Leach Loves

Alex Leach Loves is an adorable little blog featuring the artworks of Alex Leach. Mostly sweet little water colour and ink drawings done daily (well, not quite daily) with some crayon and gel pens thrown in for good measure.
I think they're the cutest!

Some of my favorites follow..

Context

Krista Berga's text art works are some of my favourite pieces of art. She selectively blacks out parts of book's pages to create new phrases and sentences.
I think these works show how things can so easily be taken out of context, especially words, and how new meaning can be given to things when the whole story is not told. I love the naivety with which the words are blacked out and the ambiguity of the new sentences.

Some of my favourite pieces..

Lovers

Check out my other blog, This is For Lovers, which is filled with the work I have done in art and in the last 2 years of RMIT Visual Merchandising.
I finish next week!!

PixCell Art

Japanese artist Kohei Nawa's PixCell series of sculptures feature all kinds of subject matter, from Mario toys to taxidermy deer, from sneakers to fake lemons. each item is chosen from online auction sites after viewing only the thumbnail picture, when the real item arrives, the difference between the pixelated image and the item is clear. when covered in glass beads the item becomes ambiguous again, with a light, air around it.

Artful Food

A couple of lovely blogs that revolve around making art out of food.
First, Cookieboy. His cookie creations are absolutely amazing, the intricacy in the icing is beyond belief and the designs are so pretty and original. The website is all in a foreign language so I can't read any of it but the images are just wonderful!

A sample of some of cookieboy's delicious looking art.


Second, Jim's Pancakes. Jim is just a guy trying to make some cool pancakes for his daughter according to his blog. And these are some seriously cool pancakes. From pancakes that look like burgers to 3D dinosaurs, he's thought of it all. Now why didn't my dad ever make me pancakes like this?

Rest In Peace

In loving memory of my, now, long lost appendix, which departed my body on Wednesday 6th October 2010 after rupturing itself silly.

A super cool magazine called Appendix, which is available for download from their site. Their site also has a blog full of art, fashion and design goodness, as well as a shop full of hand chosen, vintage garments.

A sample of the kind of thing Appendix offers:

Milk cartons by Dutch artist, Matrijs van Merg.

The Only Decent Chain Email I've Ever Recieved

Pencil lead art by Dalton Ghetti

Illustrator Milliken

Melbourne based illustrator Kristy Milliken does beautiful, colorful water colors often featuring rather rotund women sometimes in animal costumes, often naked and always fun.
The shapes, hues and lightness of her works are wonderful.

Woodlands

Tangled

Cremaster Cycle?

Today I watched The Order from Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3. The Order is the only one of a series of films in The Cremaster Cycle that has been released to mass market DVD.

The Cremaster Cycle is an avant garde, (mostly) cinematic, piece of art by Matthew Barney which is comprised of 5 feature length films (as well as illustrations, photographs and sculptures related to the films) made over 8 years.

The Order is a section on one of these feature films, Cremaster 3. The Order revolves around the central character, a tartan-clad Barney, and his race to the top of the Guggenheim Museum. Other characters include a troupe of dancing showgirls, a pair of dueling rock bands, a woman who transforms into a cheetah and sculptor Richard Serra.

There is no dialogue throughout the film and it features an original score by Jonathan Bepler.

The makeup and costumes are beyond amazing.

Cremaster Cycle has been highly acclaimed as one of the greatest pieces of avant garde cinema in decades, and also harshly criticised as 'self indulgent tedium'.

I haven't decided what I think of it yet. It's probably somewhere in between.

All commentary on the film aside, the cover image of the DVD is incredible. It features the central character, Barney, and showcases just one of the amazing costumes and makeup in The Order.

I am both enchanted and repulsed. I find it both beautiful and horrific. I can hardly stand to look at it, yet cannot look away.

Have a look for yourself..

For more info on Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle:
http://www.cremaster.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cremaster_Cycle

A Claes Act.

I am a big believer in art with a sense of humor and art that makes you smile.

And oh Claes, you make me giggle!

Claes Oldenburg was a serious mover and shaker back in pop art's hey day and even now. He collabertated with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, alot in more recent years. He even has a piece of art on the moon in Moon Museum! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Museum)

He is best known for his giant scupltures of everyday objects but I, personally, love his soft objects.