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Memento Mori Theater Bust and other dolls by Gail Lackey

David Halliday — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:15:25 +0000

Above are the works of doll artist Gail Lackey, are they not the most amazing dolls you have ever seen?! I have been saying for the longest time that i will start making dolls and puppets ut between my tattoo studio and the second jobI do I dont have any time right now to much but work! My boyfriend got my a sewing machine to encourag me so I might tryt o learn how to use it tomorrow night! Her dolls faces have the most wonderful expressions and the detail in her costumes are outstanding, she must have …

Normally I don’t like dolls. As art. But these have a creepy feel to them. Like they were almost alive.

Filed under: Culture

Takahiro Kimura

David Halliday — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:30:14 +0000

I have always been a huge fan of Kimura’s work. Its brilliant. Now a short animation has been created of his work by Rui Miyoshi which is very interesting. I’m not crazy about the song attached to it. Its lulling. And I just woke up. From my nap. I’ll listen to it this evening while I’m drinking myself to sleep. This whole project is well worth investigating. Did I say drinking? I meant thinking.

David Garland – The Long ViewMusic performed by David Garland, Sean Lennon, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, and Vashti Bunyan. From Garland’s album Conversations with the Cinnamon Skeleton.
Conversations with the Cinnamon Skeleton
http://www.cinnamonskeleton.com/

Directed by Takahiro Kimura
Animated by Rui Miyoshi

Filed under: art, Collage, Culture, fantasy, photography, surreal, video Tagged: David Garland, Sean Lennon, TAKAHIRO KIMURA

Albert Speer

David Halliday — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:46:06 +0000

What is beauty? Is it’s appreciation reserved for the pure of heart?

Albert Speer is an interesting fellow. And a frightening one. Because he raises the question that many of us don’t appreciate. We assume that art is associated with the good. That beauty is not part of the make up of monsters. Hitler himself was a second grade artist. But so was Churchill. So are most artists.

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Filed under: architecture, art, Culture, history, philosophy, Uncategorized, video Tagged: Albert Speer, Hitler

You must be murdered

David Halliday — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:41:51 +0000

It is the landscape of Eliot and Pound. Uppers and blue pills. Snow drifts and psychiatric hospitals. Streetcars and shock treatments. A delusional young woman boards an airplane hoping to escape the horrors of this world. Some time during the flight she steps off the airplane into another world. In a quaint village where she takes up residence. And then begins her search for the only person who has meant anything to her. Her grandfather. But she soon finds that this village is damned. There is no escape. But one. You must be murdered.

Sleeping Beauty, winner of the 2004 Independent Publisher Award for Best Horror and winner of the 2004 Electronic Publishers Award for Best Horror.

Filed under: art, fantasy, fiction, horror, Novel Tagged: cannibalism, monsters, murder, pedophiles, Sleeping Beauty

Wiyono Sutjipto

David Halliday — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:46:21 +0000

Wiyono Sutjipto is thinking outside the box. Thats the box the parts come in. Think IKEA. And if there are pieces missing. Well, you improvise. Drill a few holes. Of your own. Rip off a piece of fire wood. Now you have arms on the end table. Wiyono has taken Ikea to the next level. Caring for that abandoned furniture by training it to act like art. He even helps out the homeless. Art. So drag that old couch back into the house. Rip it apart. Assemble it again. After a few drinks. And voila!… There it is. Outside. In the garbage. Again.

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Filed under: art, Collage, Culture, fashion, Mixed Media, parody, satire, sculpture, Uncategorized Tagged: Wiyono Sutjipto

Ferdinand Cheval

David Halliday — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:02:00 +0000

Ferdinand Cheval went postal. He was a postman who spent most of his life building what he called the ‘ideal palace’. Everyday he would pick up stones on his route and use them to make his palace. I imagine after a few years he must have had the cleanest town in France. He often worked at night. But that didn’t go unnoticed by the town folk who thought he was… odd. Could you blame them? Near the end of his life he began to receive some kudos from people like Picasso and Andre Breton.

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Filed under: art, Culture, fantasy, naive art, odd, sculpture, surreal, Uncategorized Tagged: Ferdinand Cheval

Nancy Fouts

David Halliday — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:38:49 +0000

There are some artists who just rub you the wrong way. Ms. Fouts sends shivers up your spine. She has a way of animating common objects and creating images that won’t leave you alone. The images are like a virus. I think that using her images with the wrong victims could prove lethal. I wonder if she is aware of the power that she wields.

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Filed under: art, Collage, Culture, digital art, fantasy, humor, photos, sculpture, Uncategorized Tagged: Nancy Fouts

Mattijn Franssen

David Halliday — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:25:13 +0000

Mattijn Franssen creates fabulous images. Adventures of himself and his cat. (Many years ago I wrote a series of novels about myself and a cat called, The Adventures of Fred and Me but that’s another story.) What is so odd to me about Mr. Franssen is that he hasn’t been gobbled up by Disney. He is a Dutchman. And they are very independent. (I don’t know that but it sounds like something you say when you have no idea why someone did or didn’t do something.) I lived in Belgium for four years so I suppose its possible that my work influenced Mr. Franssen. (Possible but not likely). This guy is one terrific artist.

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Filed under: art, Collage, Culture, digital art, fantasy, movies, paintings, photos, surreal, Uncategorized Tagged: Mattijn Franssen

Steve Payne

David Halliday — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:05:21 +0000

“George Dawe was an English portrait artist who painted 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia for the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

I’m using digital copies of these paintings as a basis for my own work which involves incorporating my friends, family and even some celebrities into the paintings using photoshop.”

Mr. Payne has gone to a lot of work here. And for some celebrities, it works. If they don’t look Russian, they do look like they belong in the uniform. I haven’t gone through the whole list but I don’t see any of my favourite Russian, Dolly Parton.

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Filed under: art, Culture, digital art, fantasy, film, humor, paintings, photos, portraits, Uncategorized Tagged: celebrities, Russian generals, Steve Payne

Nicholas DiGenova

David Halliday — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:15:31 +0000

One of my best friend’s sons is named Nick Genova. He is a video artist.

By chance I stumbled across another Nicholas. With a similar last name. And I liked his work. And here it is. His work moves from comic book to surreal to collage. Or perhaps it is just whim. Nicholas DiGenova.

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Filed under: art, comics, Culture, fantasy, surreal, Uncategorized Tagged: Nicholas DiGenova, Nick Genova