Category: Art

When you were a kid, you probably often heard your mother chiding that “money doesn’t grow on trees” in an attempt to curb your expensive demands. If only you knew, you could have told her that money, in fact, does grow on trees. At least in England they do.

There are places in England where you can find trees with coins hammered and bent into the bark. Nobody knows for sure why people pushed coins into the trees. Some believe it brings good luck. Others believe that the amount of coins pushed in by an individual may result in them producing the same amount of children.

Money trees can be found all over Britain. All I need is a plane ticket… and a pair of pliers.

[From The Strange Money Trees of England | Amusing Planet]

[From Swedish subway system – leenks.com]

Sigrid from Norway emailed with a reader request that I thought I’d tackle today, because it’s an easy one. “I love library and rooms and walls full with bookshelves. I would be honoured if you could post some pictures of rooms and walls full with bookshelves.” I would give anything to have a library, a room filled with floor to ceiling bookcases to fill with my ever-growing collection of shelter mags and books. I love to see how people cope with their own book and mag collections. Here are some rooms where large collections are easily stored away.

[From desire to inspire – desiretoinspire.net – Reader request – bookshelves]

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth of our techniques, the adaptability and precision they have attained, the ideas and habits they are creating, make it a certainty that profound changes are impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful. —Paul Valéry, Aesthetics

[From Pixelsatanexhibition.com – Art of the iPhone]

[From YouTube – SPACE : ”Running in the city” (1978)]

Utterly amazing installations by Heike Weber. She draws with permanentmarkers on acrylic floor and walls – surfaces that have reached up to 600 m2.

I can’t begin to imagine how time consuming these breathtaking installations must have been.

[From Heike Weber Installations | bumbumbum]

John Lennon’s Long Lost Stash of LSD Found Buried at His Kenwood Home
by Howard Wyman

[Via Billboard] According to Beatles lore, in 1967 the band sent emissaries to the Monterey Pop Festival in San Francisco posing as filmmakers with the real mission of tracking down The Bear, a.k.a. Owsley Stanley, famed LSD chef and sound technician. Allegedly, the agents of The Beatles found The Bear, obtained a shitload of liquid acid and smuggled it back to John Lennon, who later decided to bury what was left of it on the grounds of his house in Kenwood, Surrey once he and the other Beatles decided to give up drugs and try Transcendental Meditation instead. When they got back from India, though, Lennon changed his mind, tried to unearth his buried treasure, and couldn’t find it. Legend has it that the massive acid stash was never found, and so became the stuff of drug mythology.

[From John Lennon’s Long Lost Stash of LSD Found Buried at His Kenwood Home | Crawdaddy!]

[From The 8 world’s most prominent hyper-realist sculptors – FrancescoMugnai.com – Graphic Design Inspiration and Web Design Trends]

Creepy Black and White Photos

[From Creepy Black and White Photos | SadAndUseless.com]

My process is always changing. Typically I collect images, diagrams, math and words and surround myself with them before I begin a set of pieces – though once I start working I only refer to them rarely. I throw it all into the brain blender and see what comes out. I usually work on several pieces at a time because creating certain effects in clay is labor intensive and then when something doesn’t fit it usually get used somewhere else. I try to sculpt freely, creating parts, using them or not, and see what begins to appear. I sketch the larger overreaching ideas as they come and maybe use them or not. I’m always playing with the balance of tackling the technical challenges the clay poses, with the desire to keep moving forward with more immediate techniques. Most importantly though, I try to keep my head out of it and work from a open & quiet state.

[From Fecal Face – Meredith Dittmar Interview]

When I first looked at the photos, I thought the “mirror man” was a sculpture. But I found this information from a photographer nicknamed SilverSky who took the pictures, he states “I was in LA and this guy shows up in a suit from head to toe made of glass. I thought it was pretty cool.”

[From The Mysterious “Mirror Man” appears in L.A. — Illusion 360 – World’s Most Amazing Art, Design, Technology, Video]

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Kids are ditching the gangsta look for the skinny jeans and neon colors of jerkin’.

[From Kids are ditching the gangsta look for jerkin’ geek chic – latimes.com]

In the first episode of “Treme,” to be broadcast tonight on HBO, a character will reach into her purse and produce an apple-flavored Hubig’s pie. She will do this in late November 2005. With the rest of her dessert menu no longer available, the character, a local chef, will then serve the local delicacy to a patron of her restaurant.

[From HBO’s ‘Treme’ creator David Simon explains it all for you | Treme – The HBO Series | News, Blogs and Reviews – NOLA.com ]

[From YouTube – Long and Natural Toenails]

[From YouTube – Venus Gang – Space Woman]

[From YouTube – CELESTIAL MASS presents J.P MASSIERA LIVE AT DIESEL:U:MUSIC RADIO]

In the first installment of “Continental Picture Show,” the photographer Alec Soth explores cycles of sin and redemption in the aftermath of Mardi Gras.

[From ‘Ash Wednesday, New Orleans’ – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com]

People love to be entertained. That is why laughter has an enormous power when it comes to advertising. The use of humor in advertising campaigns does not only get the attention of consumers, it also make your product or service easier to recall or remember. If there is one advertisement that you seem to remember up to this day, I am sure it is one of those funny ads you saw on a billboard while driving on a highway.

[From 35 Cool Billboard Ads from Around the World | Best Design Options]

Up on the roof watching the world go by. Nothing like a modern penthouse dropped down slap bang on the roof of an old warehouse complex. Up here it’s just the birds and no pesky neighbours to right or left. Modern simplicity and a pretty cool art collection. Real estate stalking again. Link here while it lasts.

[From desire to inspire – desiretoinspire.net – Stalking on the roof top]

Police hunt ‘The Midnight Knitter’ wool graffiti bandit
A guerilla knitter is gradually covering a New Jersey town in brightly coloured wool – and authorities have no clue who the rogue crafter is.

[From Police hunt ‘The Midnight Knitter’ wool graffiti bandit | Metro.co.uk]

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From Karl Persson – Paintings – beinArt Surreal Art Collective]

Un superbe travail de l’artiste français Baptiste Debombourg créant des œuvres d’art très impressionnantes avec l’utilisation de plus de 35 000 agrafes. Des fresques sur mur intitulées Air Force One et Air Force Two. Plus de détails et d’images dans la suite.

[From Staples Art | Fubiz™]

In 1996, German artist HA Schult installed 1,000 life-sized “Trash People” made from, you guessed it, trash, in the Ampitheatre of Xanten. Since then, his trash people have traveled to nearly every big city in the world.

[From Junk Art (PHOTOS): 10 Amazing Artists Using Recycled Materials]

[From YouTube – Tree Branch Falls On Power Lines]

Amazing Album Covers Mix and Match

[From Amazing Album Covers Mix and Match | The Design Inspiration]