Ladies night

krigstein first..

Then some other stuff..

more random stuff

(but no photos this time)

snowfalkes, still life and a horse

all (and more) from here

some more random finds..

all photos(!?)

Pot Luck

I'm just going to add a load of images I found recently- without comment








































































more tomorrow..

Random photo..

This is a test to see if I can post from Google Docs

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Is this the sweetest object ever?

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It's a tape made of jade. It actually plays, and it's the sound of a stream!
His blog here
One of the best things about it (and I presume it's intentional) is that he is a New Zealand artist, and the tape kind of resembles the faces that the Maori carved in greenstone (jade)

worth a listen

If only for the remarkable reversal of the concepts of concrete vs. abstract.

The lecturer is Slavoj Zizek



This is only the first 10mins. If you can overlook his annoying public-speaking mannerisms, the whole lecture is here.
He touches lightly on so many topics..and each time has startling ideas to put forward. And almost always arguing the opposite of what you intuitively believe.
I was able to understand most of it, but sometimes I was only hanging on by the fingertips...and I was totally lost on the questions

haven't had a phot for a while..

you probably saw this in BoingBoing already..

but just in case you missed it..

















Famous cartoonists of the late 40s were asked to draw their characters blindfolded.
more here

X-ray romance

nice drawing

mmm...























also, some old coat hangers..
























..

yet another from the same site as below

There are so many things here that I want.

darger of course

look at the sky on this one!






























here (again)

fine art jigsaw

from here

If I said I was going to do a bit of DIY....

I bet this isn't what you would expect...





























more pics here

Ouch!

from John Berger's 'Ways of Seeing' TV series

more here, and here

The photo is better than the drawing

A drawing made by attaching a pen to an oak tree's branch:
























photo of oak tree:























Really nice. It looks like the tree is reaching in to make the perfect stroke with a brush.

Best of all though; a long-exposure photograph of a full moon's reflection on water:























all by Tim Knowles, here