Once upon a time there was an artist named Kurt Pio, and he made these incredible works of art, that are actually works of book. They’re based on those classic Penguin Book covers. By Kurt Pio I first saw something similar to this when I was in Amsterdam a couple of years ago and they…
Category: art
Go away, I'm reading.
My good friend, The Design Goddess, sent me this a while ago: I seriously love it. It reminds me of these paintings I saw in Amsterdam last year: I apologise for the bad quality of the pics, but the art was on the inside of the gallery and I was on the outside….
The ceramic vagina.
My good friend Lisa lives with her hubby and two gorgeous kids. I found this post on her facebook page this week and i laughed so hard I cracked a rib, so I had to copy and paste it for all of you. All her words are in pink. What do you do when you…
Crayons, not just for colouring anymore.
Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, you come across something wonderful and sweet and clever and smart. And you think, wow, that thing is just so wonderful and sweet and clever and smart. I think I’ll blog about it. This lady, over here, her name is Diem Chau, creates these carved crayons. I think that set above were…
Dogs playing poker
One of my favourite posts so far this year has been this one, on the classic American Gothic painting. I loved doing the research, finding out about it and writing about it. So I thought I’d take another classic painting and find out about it. This, my friends… …is ‘Dogs Playing Poker’. It was one…
Morbid, macabre and magnificent.
Some children have a terrible time of it. Their parents drop them on their heads and treat them badly, or their brother holds them down while their other brother tickles them till they fart. Or their mother’s start drinking gin at three in the afternoon and listen to show tunes. It’s these children who grow…
Psycho statues
We all know by now, i’m partial to some psycho shit. But this takes the cake. Great, wonderful, superb friend ‘Dummy’ sent me these images. The Devil only knows where he found them. Some genius out there is making these psycho sculptures: A couple months ago in another post i mentioned how an ex boyfriend…