Clint Eastwood's daughter under fire after destroying a $100,000 Hermes Birkin handbag - Telegraph

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG9297175/Clint-Eastwoods-daughter-under-fire-after-destroying-a-100000-Hermes-Birkin-handbag.html

iPad Tortured to Death in Mass Social Experiment Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

http://www.infowars.com/ipad-tortured-to-death-in-psychological-experiment/

Just Duckie::

Grandpa's ducks reconstructed::

Pointedly impressed by dots cohesively conveying a message

I was discussing my project with a friend who did not realize the illustration I used was comprised of tiny dots (i.e. pointillism).

 

Pointillism ( /ˈpwɛntɨlɪzəm/) is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term Pointillism was first coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists, and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation.^[1] Neo-impressionism and Divisionism are also terms used to describe this technique of painting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism

 

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sunday_Afternoon_on_the_Island_of_La_Grande_Jatte

 

Roy Lichtenstein

Seascape, 1996

Oil and Magna on canvas

49 x 102 inches; 124.5 x 259.1 cm

http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/3489.htm

 

Hello Kickstarter World! I'd like to enlist the Kickstarter community in the process of furthering the distribution of my children's book – Amazona and Mama.
Your interest will help me get a round of print-on-demand hardcopies and ebook formats.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dittrich-industries/amazona-and-mama?ref=live

 

SketchChair: Furniture Designed by You by Diatom — Kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/diatom/sketchchair-furniture-designed-by-you?ref=category


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When girls play soldier

It's Official! Just launched my Kickstarter project: Amazona & Mama!!!

Amazona and Mama::

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dittrich-industries/amazona-and-mama

 

This is my “pilot” project (I’ve got a couple others I plan on setting up).

Please post/share/buzz my Kickstarter link with others who can help make my project a success!

 

Thank you to those who have already shown their support!!!

 

Inspiration for the spotty-dotty-pointed nature of the illustration is owed to the masterpiece::

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sunday_Afternoon_on_the_Island_of_La_Grande_Jatte

 

“Silently Mama scaled the tree...

For what was in the branches above was her lunch to be...”

 

(For the curious…ahh, yes, a nom de plume, a  literary double I am.)

Joan Miro Study of Inverted Personages (Pastels, circa 1990)

Rediscovered this packed away with a bunch of other sketches, paintings, and art.

(I also found a pencil sketch my sister did.  Looking out from the Cadiz apartment – priceless.)

 

http://www.obit-mag.com/articles/magic-miro

 

http://www.art.com/products/p10032656-sa-i845965/joan-miro-inverted-personages.htm

 

Found Print:: C. Chandler Ross ( - 1952) - Treasures from China (24"x36")::

Love the frame (that’s why I grabbed it).

Not sure of the provenance (I found it at a thrift shop).

Mostly likely, not a valuable print (damaged and you can see the cardboard backing).

http://www.newamericancastle.com/collections-fine_art.html

http://www.artnet.com/artists/c.+chandler-ross/past-auction-results

func art

Corrugated Metal Sculpture::

http://maker-of-things.blogspot.com/2009/03/core-made-it.html

 

Abstract Lattice (Schematic)

2"x2"s: ~ 45"x90"

http://maker-of-things.blogspot.com/2011/12/abstract-lattice-schematic-completed.html

 

Coral Coil Sledge::

http://maker-of-things.blogspot.com/2011/09/coral-coral-sledge.html

 

Iron-Wood-Coppera

http://maker-of-things.blogspot.com/2012/04/iron-wood-coppera.html

 

Prototype: Bamboo Butterfly Birdhouse (License Plate Roof)::

http://maker-of-things.blogspot.com/2011/09/prototype-bamboo-butterfly-birdhouse.html

 

Didgeridoo Hues (Bamboo)

http://maker-of-things.blogspot.com/2012/05/didgeridoo-hues-bamboo.html

 

Mosaic Tile Mirror

http://maker-of-things.blogspot.com/2012/05/mosaic-tile-mirror-circa-1999.html

 

“locus” maps (36”x48”)::

(line-work is based on parcel data):



locus - srm
http://maker-of-things.blogspot.com/2011/12/locus-srm.html

locus dp ka
http://maker-of-things.blogspot.com/2011/10/locus-dp-ka.html

locus wc
http://maker-of-things.blogspot.com/2011/12/locus-wc.html

locus eb
http://maker-of-things.blogspot.com/2011/10/locus-eb.html

locus - jl
http://maker-of-things.blogspot.com/2011/12/locus-jl.html

locus dc wm
http://maker-of-things.blogspot.com/2011/10/locus-dc-wm.html

locus map - hj
http://maker-of-things.blogspot.com/2011/10/locus-map-hj.html

Didgeridoo Hues (Bamboo)

Dijeridus (circa ’97 – ’99):

 

Eight-eyes (gray/orange/yellow/white)::

 

The Natural, Zebra, & Tribal::

 

Fiery Angels, Tribal & The Pharaoh, Merman, & The Devil::

Mosaic Tile Mirror (circa 1999)

Mosaic tile mirror was made from surf tumbled rubble, found along a beach in southern Spain.

Sotheby's sale of Edward Munch's 'The Scream' brings $119.9 million - latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-edvard-munch-the-scream-at-sothebys-20120502,0,3775078.story?track=rss


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Amanda Palmer's Kickstarter record, art book and tour

Amanda Palmer's Kickstarter record, art book and tour

By Cory Doctorow at 11:23 am Tuesday, May 1

Cory

May 11, Copenhagen: EBLIDA May 22, DC: Freedom to Connect Jun 1, Sydney Vivid

Amanda Fucking Palmer's next album is a big, super-duper extravanganza, with lots of bells and whistles funded by Kickstarter. She wants $100K. She's at 258K as of this morning. And I just kicked in:

hi folks, it's AFP. this is my first BIG, LEGIT studio album undertaking since breaking from a major label. i've spent four years writing the songs for this record, and more recently, putting together the perfect band, The Grand Theft Orchestra, comprised of genius musicians/arrangers/programmers MICHAEL MCQUILKEN, CHAD RAINES, and JHEREK BISCHOFF. in march, we locked ourselves up in a studio in Australia and, with the help of producer/engineer John Congleton (who's worked with a zillion amazing people including St. Vincent, Modest Mouse, and Xiu Xiu), we made what I believe is my best fucking album to date. it sounds...BEYOND EPIC. we laid down "The Bed Song", "Massachusetts Avenue", "The Killing Type", "Trout Heart Replica" and a slew of other tracks...some solo piano, but many featuring HORNS (locally sourced in Melbourne, Australia!), SYNTHESIZERS, GUITAAAARRRRR, and BIG BAD-ASS ORCHESTRAL ARRANGEMENTS that will blow your domepiece. we're working on finalizing the arrangements and mastering as i write this text. i expect great, big, giant things to happen when this record comes out in september. the band & i will be touring it across the globe ALL YEAR. here is me with the band, plus performance artists anthony cleave & jess daly, in melbourne right before taking stage:

NOW, about the ARTWORK. over the last six months i've been working in secret with OVER THIRTY visual artist friends of mine (full list below) to create a massive explosion of song-inspired album art, in all different kinds of media. some people took the project really literally and made super lyrics-specific paintings....some people went way abstract. the end result is an EXPLOSION of incredible art. here is the list of artists who made things (alphabetically by first name): Amanda Palmer, Barnaby Whitfield, Blake Brasher, Cassandra Long, Conrad Keely (...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead), Cynthia von Buhler, David Mack, Desi, DJ Spooky (Paul Miller), Empire SNAFU Restoration Project, Hans Rickheit, Heide Hatry, Judith Clute, Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses), Kyle Cassidy, Lee Barron, Meghan Howland, Michael Pope, Michael Zulli, Molly Crabapple, Neil Gaiman, Nicole Duennebier, Rick Berry, Robyn Hitchcock, Sarah Beetson, Shepard Fairey, Steven Bogart, Sylvia K, Tao Lin, Tony Albert, Vladimir Zimikov, Walter Sickert, and Zea Barker.

since i'm now without a giant label to front the gazillions of dollars that it always takes to manufacture and promote a record this big, i'm coming to you to gather funds so that i have the capital to put it out with a huge fucking bang. i think kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms like this are the BEST way to put out music right now - no label, no rules, no fuss, no muss. just us, the music, and the art. i'm also making sure EVERY PRODUCT sold through this kickstarter is unique to this campaign, to reward all of you who KNEW ME WHEN and were willing to support me from Day One.

Amanda Palmer: The new RECORD, ART BOOK, and TOUR

The Original Hardtail

National Bike Month: Draisines are the new fixies

By Xeni Jardin at 12:00 pm Tuesday, May 1

xeni jardin

Boing Boing partner, Boing Boing Video host and executive producer. Xeni.net, Twitter, Google+. Email: xeni@xeni.net.

Cycling Hipsters, if you were truly worth your ironic sideburns and artisanal grease stains, you'd abandon that fixie and mount one of these bad boys. The Smithsonian honors National Bike Month with a dive into the image archives for this photo, the forerunner of the modern bicycle: a draisine from around 1818. More about this "dandy horse," below.

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