Jim Woodring now has a blog, syndicated for your convenience at woodringmonitor.

(Yes, I know, I probably would have been informed had I been reading all your livejournals, which I haven't been lately, because I suck.)

Infinitely zooming recursive picture mosaic. Requires the Shockwave plugin (remember that?), but it's worth it.

I hate people who can draw.

From Lance: A documentary about Henry Darger and his artwork is coming to SF and NY over Christmas/New Year's. Showtime information here.

Darger was a janitor at a Chicago hospital who spent his evenings working on his 15,000 page novel, The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War ( Read more... )

Via omarius: Skeletal systems of cartoon characters.

Woohoo--the plastinated bodies exhibit is in the US till January! It's in Los Angeles, so certain people in the area (*cough* tongodeon *cough* matrushkaka) are REQUIRED to see it, if they haven't already, and Bay Area folks should really consider taking a roadtrip.

For those who don't know, plastination is a process for long-term durable preservation of human ( Read more... )

Armed robbers steal "The Scream"

Take a healthy slice of Francis Bacon, add in a dollop of Giger and an occasional pinch of Escher, ferment with Phineas Gage, and you might get Nasosov.

I guess this guy's been around awhile, but I'd never seen his stuff: amazing trompe l'oeil sidewalk chalk paintings. Yes, they're actually flat.


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Orisinal is a collection of beautiful Flash minigames. They're not all equally fun, but some of them are more complex and subtle than they seem at first (like Hydrophobia), and all of them are artfully charming (like Snowrider).