YOSHIMASA TSUCHIYA.

Lovely, delicate wooden sculpture by Yoshimasa Tsuchiya.






YOSHIMASA TSUCHIYA

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MANEKI NEKO.

If you live in San Diego: 1) you are so lucky (SUCH a gorgeous city) and 2) you should go to see this exhibit because I can't. I love maneki neko. (I take mine with me whenever I travel.)


Mingei International Museum will open MANEKI NEKO – Japan’s Beckoning Cats – from Talisman to Pop Icon on Sunday, March 13, 2011. The exhibition will include selections from a collection of 155 cats given to the Museum by collector Billie Moffitt. Made in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, each cat is unique. Most are made of clay, but some are wood, metal, ceramic and papier mâché.



MANEKI NEKO | Mingei International Museum

Pretty paint is pretty.

This is mesmerizing. Watch it full screen, and your brain will go a little wobbly. I like.



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Photograph by: Mikey Burton

Praia Piquinia 06/08/09 14h01.

Check out this gorgeous summery print by photographer Christian Chaize over at 20x200 today. (Especially if you're in one of the places that got slammed with the blizzard last night like we did.)

Deep breath. Aaaaaaah.


20x200 - Print Information | Praia Piquinia 06/08/09 14h01, by Christian Chaize

YES (You Complete the Picture) by Trey Speegle.

I'm a sucker for paint by numbers.


20x200 | YES (You Complete the Picture) by Trey Speegle

David Spriggs.

I would love to see his work.






Acrylic on multiple sheets of transparent film housed within a display case, lit by spot lights in a darkened room.

DAVID SPRIGGS

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Wreck in Snow screenprint.

Just heading into a Wisconsin winter, I could not look at this every day. However, it's an AMAZING four-color, hand-pulled silkscreen print. At $30, it's a steal.


Wreck in Snow by Fold4 on Etsy

David Hockney’s iPhone flowers.

This is really sweet.

In 2009, Hockney told The Telegraph’s Martin Gayford, “I draw flowers every day on my iPhone and send them to my friends, so they get fresh flowers every morning. And my flowers last. Not only can I draw them as if in a little sketchbook, I can also then send them to 15 or 20 people who then get them that morning when they wake up. Picasso would have gone mad with this. So would Van Gogh. I don’t know an artist who wouldn’t, actually.

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Christian Faur’s Crayon Pixel Portraits.

These are absolutely mindbending to me.





Flavorwire :: Christian Faur’s Amazing Crayon Pixel Portraits

Cheryl Maeder photography.

I'm completely enchanted by these blurry little seascapes.




Gardenhouse: Contemporary Art Photography, Impressionism, National & International Photographer, West Palm Beach, FL

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Co-workers who look like paintings.

I'd love to start a blog like this. Oh, for more time in a day...


I took this during a webcast session in our conference room yesterday. The painting is one of my faves. And I love the modern take – with a pen.

Alain Delorme's Manufactured Totems.

Gorgeously strange.





In his “Manufactured Totems” series, which we spotted thanks to Trend Land, Paris-based photographer Alain Delorme presents individual portraits of migrant workers who transport unbelievable piles of products across the city, driving everyday life in Shanghai.

Flavorwire: Manufactured Totems

Ben Walker.

Yes, I'm totally in touch with my inner nerd. Saw this guy's work at Comic-Con in San Diego and LOVED it.



IO9: Only the mighty moose can challenge the giant jackalope

The Hello Wall.

If I were to write a crime novel, I would SO use this as a plot device to help my fleeing protagonists communicate.


Wasted Spaces commissioned London-based artist duo Hellicar & Lewis to develop The Hello Wall.

The installation went live this Monday, March 8th. It uses Twitter to let the public interact with the huge wall projection on Wembley High Road.

Until Sunday March 14th, you can get interact with this live artwork by Tweeting commands to @thehellowall. You can use shapes (triangles, squares, circles), commands (more, less, shake) or just say hello@thehellowall.


The Hello Wall.

Looks like they're looking for another space for it now. Wish we could afford to bring it over here to shine on our office building...

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Campbell's Soup Can Light.

Love.


AnDIY Warhol: Recycled Campbell's Soup Can Lights Fetch Art Market Prices | The L Magazine Culture Guide

Whoa. It's a giant book fort.

An installation by artist Matej Kren. Very cool.





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Harrier and Jaguar, 2010

Tate Britain 28 June 2010 – 3 January 2011

Fiona Banner, talented young British artist, was awarded the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010. Here's a peak at her work:

Harrier, 2010, BAe Sea Harrier aircraft, paint 7.6 m x 14.2 m x 3.71 m © Tate Photography / Andrew Dunkley and Sam Drake

The Wish Tree (Washington D.C.)

Every autumn, sometime in November, the leaves fall off and the tree becomes a whispering tree. Rather than hang their wishes from the tree on small strips of paper, as they do during the warmer months, visitors are encouraged to snuggle up to the tree and whisper their wishes to it.

But, come June, the tree buds again and the Hirshhorn provides pencils and little tags to write with and to hang on the tree.

Each day exhibit staff and intern volunteers pluck the tags from the tree.

“We harvest the wishes and send them to the Yoko Ono Peace Tower in Iceland where they become part of a larger collection of wishes that the artist has amassed,” Hirshhorn communications director Gabriel Riera told me in an e-mail.

When You Wish Upon a Tree at the Hirshhorn | Around The Mall

Staple Art.

Impressive.




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