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Went out to an art opening Saturday night, as planned.

As expected, the art I went to see (and the artist I went to support) was fantastic.

But what really surprised me was the timing and overall serendipity of it all.

Getting off the Metro in Alexandria, Josh and I immediately met ( Read more... )

...or who just love to look at amazing things.

I give you the art of Steven Anderson.

I've seen the stuff he's done on the Star Wars book covers before, but his Stargate and Battlestar stuff is just plain amazing. I would love to have one or two of his things hanging on my wall ( Read more... )

Buddy of mind sent me a link to some art of the Battlestar crew as Simpsons characters. Fun stuff, there. Neat community (pantsketch) all around for anyone who like browsing art. I even bounced back the artist's (Dylan Meconis) main page. She's got some awesome stuff.

I found this one particularly awesome (for a number of reasons ( Read more... )

bobodacious (who's up in NY and really should come down to see this with lots of people here) pointed out this NYT link earlier today. Since we have until March, we should be able to pull together some sort of group trip to see what sounds like a fantastic art exhibit.

Artist Celebrates Scars’ Fierce Beauty
The gated garrison of the Walter Reed Army Medical ( Read more... )

Police arrest pretend zombies for possessing pretend weapons
In Minneapolis, it is apparently against the law to pretend to look like an undead ghoul carrying a bag "with wires sticking out."
Saw this in the commuter paper this morning. Would have known about it yesterday if I hadn't been behind in my fun RSS feeds. A true example of over-reaction ( Read more... )

The Fantastic in Art and Fiction is a great little repository of scanned images from very old printed works. While they're taken out of context, there are references attached to each image that would allow you to track it down in context ( Read more... )

Those of you out there who are really into comics--not just the characters and the stories but the medium itself--probably already know Scott McCloud. He wrote Understanding Comics, considered by many to be one of (if not The) definitive (comic) book about the comic book.

I just stumbled across his website for the first time. There is a lot of ( Read more... )

...the ones that are causing all the trouble?

Well, looks like a bunch of other editorial cartoonists are taking issue with the whole mess.

U. S. Cartoonists fight back

I like these. A lot.

The Embassy of Uruguay requests your presence at a charity art auction in aid of the Hurricane Katrina Victims* on October 18th, 2005 at 6:00 pm at the Salón de las Artes, Embassy of Uruguay, 1913 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 ( Read more... )