I think it’s fairly clear that the craft world is in the midst of a trend. A trend almost as big as bird silhouettes, almost as big as the skull and crossbones, almost as big as the octopus. It’s the mustache, and it seems to be, ahem, growing on everyone.
Anne Troake is a choreographer and filmmaker from Newfoundland. Her film Pretty Big Dig is, IMHO, the best of the many “dancing heavy machinery” videos I’ve seen on YouTube.
I really love this illustration (“Golem”) by Randis Albion (Andre Weiss) of brainy kids summoning a tectonic entity made of toys. It’s the details that make Albion’s work: The nervous look of the ravens outside the window, the fact that the wizard-child is in a wheelchair. His website is NSFW by some folks’ standards, I suppose, but well worth the click.
Victoria Reynolds paints these evocative scenes reminiscent of an underwater butcher shop, like the one above titled Flight of the Reindeer from 2003. [Thanks, Fil!]
If you’re impatient with the preamble and want to see it work, scan forward to about 0:39.
Scrimshaw is the old whaling art of engraving intricate patterns and images into ivory. If you have some old piano keys hanging around, you can make some interesting art pieces using this scrimshaw tutorial by Paul Baxendale of Providence, RI
The Berlin Reunion @ The Big Picture – Boston.com 35 massive photos… Earlier this week, 1.5 million people filled the streets of Berlin, Germany to watch a several-day performance by France’s Royal de Luxe street theatre company titled “The Berlin Reunion”. Part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin […]
