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Vector art is traditionally hard line graphic design stuff like logos with solid colors and mapped out gradients, but occasionally a few artist take some time and push it into the realm of bitmap style graphics. This is a gallery of work going all the way into photo-realism.
Photorealistic Vector Art [basangpanaginip]
"Makeup, Dresses, Puppies, Hairstyles, Ironing Tips.. it's all here!"
Girl's World: 23 interesting illustrations culled from various sources by Flickr commando Apple-Jack. Also check out Apple-Jack's Pretty Pictorials collection for even more of that "I'm 8 and totally in my sister's room without her permission and it's 1957" vibe.
Sweet photoset of a couple doing the smoothest Katamari style cosplay we've seen. The colors and set-ups are great.
Private Photoshoot of Liddo and Sarah's Katamari Fantasy Night
Artist Mark Jenkins makes the urban landscape a little more surreal, but be does without blowing anything up or booby-trapping dead bodies, as seems to be the fashion nowadays. Mark is old school like that.
Street Installations
Thanks to Sven
Flickrer !esco&guilmon! envisions the least of your vacation options. Much amusement ensues.
Paid Vacations, Forced Vacations [flickr]
A gallery of short video clips featuring Umeric's stunning design work for MTV Australia's 2006 Video Music Awards
"Using the concept of 'Audio Creatures', Umeric directed and animated the events' opener and 13 award category sequences. Combining live-action, shot in and around Sydney (Australia), with 3D animated creatures pulsating in time to surreal percussion and electronic audio design. The basis of the clips is to compel the MTV audience to view their everyday environment from a different visual and audio perspective."
Well, that and they simply look stinking cool. Also catch the into clip, and the making of video.
MTV Australia Video Music Awards 2006 [umeric]
With thanks to Numlok
Photographer Rick Marr's pretty fantastic photo journal of his trip through Thailand:
Thai Another One On [Fecal Face]
Flickr artist Violentz creates a slide show out of raw bloody nightmare meat. The other side of all those simulated sex scenes you inevitably slapped your sisters' Barbie into with Skeletor and the Evil Horde.
Now Internet-famous for the cool plant/technology video created for Alias, 1st Ave Machine whips out some for their magic for Madison avenue
With thanks to Numlok
Star Wars On Earth
Cedric Delsaux's shots of Parisian architecture with a little Star Wars mixed in. Sort of feels like the low-key, gritty, and believable universe that the sequels weren't.
Star Wars On Earth [joeyinteractive]
Thanks to enola
Via loquacious
If you had a tool company called Rigid, and there was an illustrator of George Petty's caliber running around looking for freelance gigs, George Petty being the man known for lighting up Esquire magazine with his hot hot dames and their sizzling gams, well what you do? The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog (easy for us to say) offers up a fantastic micro gallery of hot girls you won't get on tools the size of which you don't have.
George Petty's Ridgid Tools Calendars [ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog]
Photoshop artiste hub Worth1000 leans on the Gah! button with their latest gallery. This seems so very wrong.
Theirry Poiraud's Peugeot 207 ad in which two ladybirds git it oawn. Dumb idea, very cool animation from the ever-good BUF.
Ladybird Sex [Stash media]
with thanks to numlok
"The advent of CGI had hit the muppets hard."
~snort!~
Ala threepwood, via B3ta
In the Yukon a polar bear crashed through a camper's tent and attacked the man, who managed not only to survive the attack but to fight the bear off and then shoot it. While typing this we had to stop for 20 minutes because of a hangnail we pulled off to soon. Occasionally bloody images at the link.
Polar Bear Attack [b0g]
Honestly, we don't follow European football and could give two shits which one of those short pants-wearing drama queens headbutted which save for this cute lil' rendition of the whole Zidane's Head Butt thing.
Here's a nifty little video featuring extreme "Mega Mo" slow motion applied to a Funny Car on take off.
Art done on Etch-A-Sketches. The work is technically impressive, the site's level of self-love however sort of makes you wish for one of those low-level five minute long earth tremors which are good for making you renounce drinking for up to 12 hours.
We've been in operation all of this time and we never linked to the photo page of gnarly rock gross-out Extreme Elvis. So sorry. Listen, a lot of this isn't safe for work, and none of it will leave your mind no matter how hard to shove in the fondue fork, so good luck. Hell, just go on to the next post.
Jan Svankmajer is a highly influential Czech stop motion artist whose work you've seen echoed a lot in the Quay Brothers and Tim Burton. He did a nifty little trilogy centered around the gnashing of foodstuffs with broader themes of class oppression, although its more fun than we just made it sound:
Jan Svankmajer's Food (Part One - Breakfast)
Jan Svankmajer's Food (Part Two - Lunch)
Jan Svankmajer's Food (Part Three - Dinner)
Also, here's Zamilovane maso (Meat Love), which is fantastic but not part of the above dealings. You may remember seeing this on MTV as a interstitial back when it gave a shit.
Previously mentioned site Iran graffiti art site Kolah Studio is back on its wheels after a break. The artists involved with Kolah Studio have been at the forefront of getting the graffiti art movement going in Tehran, and they get the site rolling again with a quick and interesting rundown of the death's head in contemporary art.
The fractal, brain-stabby paintings, sculpture and various artworks of John Powers.
Via metafilter
In case you're worried that you might has lost one. Ethan Persoff provides us with possibly the most face-punching scan of an old comic he's unearthed so far, a "simple eleven page comic book test provided to US Soldiers stationed in China during WWII. "
The Indian Kitchen offers up photographs of the kitchens of India, mostly from a few years ago. Interesting not only for the peek at another culture and how it be very similar it is to what we're used to, but as a peek at some fine vintage kitchen gear.
The hard world of Stubby Chunks. But one of many fine works to be found at >Art Gone Bad
Any Bloom County fans in the house? Is this not the coolest thing ever?! A personal file server gets done up like hacker Oliver Wendell Jones' self-aware apple clone, the Banana Jr 6000. The only thing separating the poor Jewish mother of a Mr. Chaim Klein Witz from a peaceful life as the parent of a dental hygienist, apparently.
Interesting photoset going in the statesman of art done in dust, for example Scott Wade's copy of C.M. Coolidge's A Friend in Need carved in the muck of his Mini Cooper's back winder.
Dust Art [Statesman]
A Flickr set of hot hot vintage chicks badly posing on the fastest you can possibly travel in Italy with nary but a mere 6 D cell batteries to propel you. Ironically, trying to maneuver a Vespa in real life with an erection will get you horribly killed almost instantly.
Culturesponge's photoset: Vespa pin-up girls from the `50s and `60s
Ben Hibon's spiffy 9 minute animated short for MTV Asia, which seems to be blossoming much like Aeon Flux did before it from a short bit of eyecandy into its own thing entirely.
poisonedminds.com by way of taint.
--Flickr user Konaboy with his ungodly cool "Zicatela #2", a shot so great it made us actually want to run right out and surf... surprisingly not on the hot spurting blood of our enemies like we usually do at this time of the morning, but actually out into the churning azure planes of Zicatela's pipeline in Puerto Escondido, Mexico.
Konaboy's Zicatela #2
(Be sure to be a size queen for once and get the big one.)
This Metafilter thread which kicked off with a link to Igor Sergeev's awesome collection of cigarette packs quickly bloomed into an interesting discussion of cigarettes from all over.
Most of the images from our childhood have come from concept artist Ralph McQuarrie, lead designer for the original three Star Wars films, and probably more than anyone else the one responsible for the look of that far away galaxy Here is a quick Flikr run through of his Star Wars stuff, and here is a slightly more comprehensive collection of the concept art from that period.
The index image above is a crop of this great postcard.
Photo artist Stephanie Crabe wonders aloud with some nicely twisted pictures what might have gone down in some of the zero star motels of the universe.
Remember in Castaway when Tom Hanks made friends with the volleyball? Some people have been alone a lot longer than that. Some people also wish they could go to the zoo.
Bored at Home [Digital Digressions]
Thanks to Audiolathe
Here's a nice bit of ugly-beautiful surreal photoart from artist Siro Anton.
Siro Anton [photo.net]
Via Mira y Calla by way of You Cant Make It Up
A gallery of old style or otherwise backward-looking gas stations, with short descriptions and locations. Pictured above is the Marathon Station of Crawford Co Ohio. See also Gas Pump art, both part of the Ohio Barns pages.
Old and Interesting Gas Stations
Thanks to zik-zak
Made us laugh.
From Gizmodo's Phake Photo Phun: Update Numero Uno
Farewell, Arrested Development.
( Click for much bigger image. Size matters here, a lot of the funny dies in the tiny one.)
Via 3ts
Two great bits of eye candy here, both via the Presurfer:
First this Lego rendition of our political leader's recent dalliance with active lead poisoning. The face is perfect:
Minifig Famous People: Dick Cheney [Flikr]
Then, this sort of mind-blowing strip of footage in which a couple of Russians with a spare rocket, a pig, and some booze beat Jet Blue to their whole business plan by about 60 years. [Imagevenue.com]
What it says on the tin. We're just as likely to consider small dogs snacks as we are pets, and even we found this Flickr set regrettably adorable. Pugs, man-- they laugh at Darwin, don't they? They just shouldn't be. Pictured above "The chinstrap is a little tight."
Pugs in Hats [Flickr ]
Via Metafilter
This is fairly insane, a clickable collage of 1300 Cereal Boxes. There are some real humdingers in there.
1300 Cereal Boxes a coverpop by Jim Bumgardner, of Krazydad.com
In point of fact it would take 30,000 bowls of standard cereal to equal the fiber content of one bowl of Colon Blow.
Thanks to KK
"The saddest error message ever."
Via Torrez by way of keaggy's photostream
Also via Torrez, a quick tale to make you hate your fellow man just that much more: The lost camera unlost [lostcamera.blogspot.com]
Thanks to kay-kay
Also, 4 Color Rebellion offers up some stylish video geeky valentines : Happy St. Valentine’s Day, from Mitch!
Ken Russell's 1955 Photo Essay on London's Teddy Girls.
Bombsite Boudiccas.
Thanks to 666/dd
Thanks to spiff
Gordon McAlpin illustrates a panel discussion between Chris Ware, Seth, and Ivan Brunetti. A fantastic peek into what it is like to draw a comic strip in particular, and work as a free lance artist in general. There are relatively few suicides in the comics industry.
A Comics Panel [StrippedBooks.com]
Welcome to the Public Beta of Webcamtastic.
Webcamtastic is an "experimental project aimed at collecting manipulated webcam images from people around the world." If you have a webcam and Flash 8 you can play along. If not, the gallery of mutants is well worth a peek.
Stress hits all of us at some point, and on its schedule, not ours.
Thanks to Cathy
Synapse was a cool-assed electronic magazine from the late 70s, back when the giant synths which made all of those bleeps and bloops in Devo's music required the lives of three hamsters per bleep for power. Fairly giant scans, not dial-up friendly.
Scans of Synapse Magazine [Cyndustries]
Via MusicThing
We haven't the slightest what the high holy fuck is going on in New York-based directing/design/animation duo Tronic's demo reel thing Eternal Double Happiness, but we feel like better people for having watched it. Like we've been to the opera and we didn't nod off and now we might be able to get sex from the person who took us to it. You know, like that.
Eternal Double Happiness [Tronic Studio]
Check out the online portfolio of photographer Alex Tehrani. His style makes even his off-the-cuff shots feel like scenes from a large budget movie.
Pretty great run down of a short but very impressive effects shot in Serenity with Bill Taylor of Illusion Arts, the effects team that handled the sequence.
By the way, if you haven't seen it, there's a crash scene. Also, Murphy dies, but heroically. Smitty goes down inflames. Bill loses an eye, but it's not important to the plot.
Illusion Arts' Bill Taylor on 'Serenity' [vfxblog]
A short video composed of 44 pictures snapped throughout the year of the same spot in Norway. The seasons roll past in a montage of dissolves and you can actually start to hear your cells die individually, almost as if you were watching an Ang Lee movie.
The video of the seasons in Norway [eirikso.com]
via Coudal Partners
Treehouse's CG animation featuring the Star Wars line of stuff from Lego, which sort of riffs on ideas from Revenge Of The Sith with some goofy gags. Clever in bits.
STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE BRICK [LEGO.com]
See also: Clone Trooper Orchestra
Fergadellic -- a thick coat of style in Flash animation from SHOWstudio which kind of reminds us of an issue of old Details magazine, with all of the content removed, a process which could have taken at least a full hour.
Fergadellic [SHOWstudio]
Via Fecal Face
Also spotted at Fecal Face, enjoy the amazing illustration work of Justin Wood.
The Smoking Gun veers from the usual celebration of recognizable celebrity mug shots and goes for the everyday individuals who find themselves striking the pose for The Man. We've always sort of wondered why they don't all look like subject number one, pictured above.
Mugging It Up [The Smoking Gun]
A hundred and thirty three subtle visual commentaries on the presidency of George W Bush from The Worried Shrimp.
Deficit Dubya [The Worried Shrimp]
What it sounds like: the top 40 from `05. Looking at these we think Reuters could get by as a news organization with just the images.
Pictures of the year 2005 [Reuters Showcase]
Buckets from Keytoon Studios and Sealed Lips from Gobelins -- two slick bits of animation from familiar names, spotted at website Llamame Lola. Buckets is a fairly spectacular demonstration of animated water, while Sealed Lips features the usual sort of smooth emotion people have come to expect out from animation school Gobelins.
· Buckets [Keytoon Studios]
· Sealed lips [Gobelins]
Thanks to RazorBuzz
See also:
The Dead Puppet Show -- a dark little corner of the intarweb, where bits of failed beings lay. A fairly unsettling photo series which suits a bad cup of coffee real well.
The Dead Puppet Show [soa360.com]
Thanks to Wet Paul
A pretty full collection of those Zen Koan-like bumpers which wedge themselves between the white on black text and the cartoons on Adult Swim. Perhaps it us, perhaps its a gas leak, but we could watch a whole channel of nothing but these for hours.They're like little cardboard pinetrees for the taxi cab of our mind.
A fine collection of the more popular of the various photography-based memes which have popped up on the net over the years. Pictured above are a few of the suckers participants in the Balloon Hat Experience.
PhotoMemes.org
Thanks to Gerf
Yesterday was the opening of Pixar's huge exhibit at MoMA . from the exhibit website: "this is the most extensive gallery exhibition that MoMA has ever devoted to the genre. Featuring over 500 works of original art on loan for the first time from Pixar Animation Studios, the show includes paintings, concept art, sculptures, and an array of digital installations."
Spiegel online ofers a fine gallery of some of the work to be seen on their site.
Pixar: 20 Years of Animation [MoMA]
-as well as various points around the globe. A pretty cool gallery of coffee-related vintage postcards.
Also, Elvis coffee. Either the most clueless or most ballsy-ironic marketing push we've seen. Think of it, of the various things you can use The King to hock, a stimulant / food seems like an interesting choice. Jim Fixx brand jogging shoes and Sonny Bono ski wear sold separately.
Both items spotted at Grow A Brain.
57 photos of various mural paintings out in the wilds of San Francisco. These are, to a one, fantastic.
Sadly accurate on all fronts- the greatest hits of blogging.
Classic Web Hits From Across The Blogosphere! [flickr]
Via Stereogum and not Kottke, who we're not linking to.
Scenes from a desert mission featuring The Real American Hero. Mind you, this is back before the anti-terrorism COBRA fightin' GI Joe that most of us know with its scared-faced ninja trained Wakizashi-wielding black ops dropouts, rouge SEALs with lazer-guided spears, stealth fighters kept in hidden bases and paunchy sort of gay ex-pro wrestlers on the payroll- this appears to be more of a "two weekends a month and we'll pay for your college" National Guard sort of a GI Joe, where the guys have avoided names like "Snake Eyes" in favor of names like "Gary" and seem to mostly crank around the desert in leisure suits rescuing prospectors who unwisely hit the bottle a little too hard before spelunking. The kind of GI Joe that knew how to make a decent martini and where the secretary pool liked to spend its lunch hour.
We've been tripping out on Andrea Giacobbe's work for years as it appeared in various magazines without any idea of who was responsible for these fantastic portraits which both caught their subjects perfectly and yet managed to surprise with a new take on them. Her online portfolio offers odd glimpses into a word like ours except any sort of boredom is replaced with beautiful graphic irony
Andrea Giacobbe's Art Department
Via Hugo
Speaking of irony, the Dilbert guy wishes to teach you how to be funny.
Here's a bunch of scans of the book version of Transformers The Movie, a wonderful way to trip back to your youth, when you once got suckered into watching an awful two hour long and incomprehensible cartoon.
Transformers The Movie book scans [green ranger.com[]
Thanks to Tiff
See also:
· The first look at the Transformers movie
· Stan Bush's The Touch
The Worth 1000 phototweak geniues whip up some seriously unpleasant dishes for your Thanksgiving night.
That's Not Turkey! 2 [Worth 1000]
Negadon is a full CG retro-styled short (not unlike the six minute short Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow which became the basis for the film), only instead of looking back to late 30s serials, Negadon looks back to both the Sci-Fi and the Godzilla monster style films of the 50s. Negadon is scheduled to be screened at the Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival 2005 on October 16th.
Haiku + Japanese lunch + food sculpture = Crazy Happy Lunch [justinspace]
I have no mouth and I must scream [flickr]
Overreacting [Haikucircus]
A little Lost theorizing [website-reviewer.com]
