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Art

Kuniyoshi

Toying with the idea of heading to London next week to see a few friends and the Kuniyoshi exhibition is definitely swaying me.

He’s my second favourite student of the Utagawa school (after Hiroshige) and I think the chance to see 150 of his works is well worth eight and a half pounds of my hard-earned cash.

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Art

Dali AT-AT Tattoo

A new contender for geekiest tattoo? (where by geekiest I mean awesomest)

For pure geek see this.

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Art

Anatomical sculpture

A strangely awesome sculpture by Dirk Staschke

(via Boing Boing)

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Art Photography

Khoda

What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minutes film that would meet high personal standards.


Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi on Vimeo.

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Art

Bish Bash Bosch

Google Earth now has ultra-high resolution versions (as in 14,000 million pixels) of 14 of the masterpieces from the Museo del Prado in Spain, including one of my all-time favourite works of art – Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (where by all-time favourite I mean I love it though it also freaks the hell out of me).

They’ve also got a self-portrait of one of my heroes, Albrecht Dürer.

I have to admit I quickly lost interest with Google Earth when I first installed it but if they start getting more content like this then I think it could be a bit of a winner.

Talking of Google this is also quite cool:

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Art

Pollock

A day late (I blame Wednesday Club) but still awesome – a Flash movie where you can create your own Jackson Pollock.