Tag: art

Happy Maewyn Succat Day!

St. Patrick Stained Glass

aka Saint Patrick.

[Image found here. For more St. Patrick’s Day stuff, click here and follow the links.]

Pistachiaoliens.

pistalien

Guess who’s gonna eat it.

[Found here.]

The .GIF Post No. 427 – House Addition, Tripping Down The Stairs & Bouncy Train

House
Trippy

Goat Train

[Found here (via), here and here.]

Jack The Robot

Jack The Robot

[Found here.]

Bigass Farm Crabs

Field Crabs

To raise awareness to the issue of air and environmental pollution, artists created three gigantic straw crabs on Shanghai’s Chongming Island late last month [Dec. 2015].
[…]
Coal is the biggest source of China’s air pollution, but straw burning is also an issue of major concern. Although straw burning is banned, many farmers continue the age-old tradition to turn leftover straw into ash fertilizer. Crop burning also helps farmers save on labor costs and is considered an efficient way to rid farmlands of leftover stalks, which are seen as waste material. The practice is most prevalent in the China North Plain, and winds carry the smoke to nearby regions.

Damn those industrious peasants. They always find ways to get things done cheaper… because they have to.

[Found here; description with more photos here. Somewhat related posts here and here.]

Alfred Hitchcock’s Storyboards

Storyboards are planning tools, cartoon sketches that depict critical or pertinent scenes in animation, movies (and even amusement park rides). It’s an easy editing process for something that has yet to be filmed, but you already knew that, ya? Have you seen any? Check out these thumbnails.

Jamaica Inn 1936
Jamaica Inn 1936.

Saboteur 1942

Saboteur 1942 2
Saboteur 1942.

Vertigo 1958
Vertigo 1958.

The Birds 1963
The Birds 1963.

Marnie 1964
Marnie 1964.

Family Plot 1976
Family Plot 1976.

Alfred Hitchcock used storyboards for all his movies, and there’s a nice collection here [via].

The .Gif Friday Post No. 421 – 15mph Stupid, Googly Eyes & Still Life With Monkey

Brilliant FacePlant

Googly

Still Life With Monkey

[Found here and here, and I messed with the last one a tad.]

Arcul de Triumf Bucharest

Bucharest-monument

In response to this post, fellow blogger wheels sent me the photo above with this caption:

Reminds me of what I saw on a trip to eastern Europe (Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria). When they put up scaffolding around a monument or building for repair work, they put up screening fabric printed with an image of what it looks like.

That’s the Arcul de Triumf, a monument dedicated to the veterans of Romania’s War of Independence against the oppression of the Ottoman Empire (and later for Romania’s role in WWI). This is its 3rd incarnation: the 1st was wooden, erected in 1878. It was replaced with another in 1922, then that one was demolished and rebuilt in 1936. So what’s behind the curtain? This:

Arcul de Triumf Bucharest December 2015

Apparently, that poor guy in the red car has been trapped in the roundabout since December 2015.

Here’s what it’s supposed to look like:

Arcul de Triumf Bucharest

Monetary Disfigurement

Coin Disfiguration

Zombie coins. Someone’s probably trying to make a pithy artistic political statement, but they’re still kinda cool.

[Found here.]

1930 College Yearbook Stereotypes

1930 Cactus

1930s college majors: MRS, Meteorology, English Literature, Chemistry, Law & Architecture. Draw your own conclusions.

[Found here.]