Really nice illustration, installation, conceptual work, design, photography and more (yes… more) by Jessica Williams.

See more of light sculptures and other works of Ron’s here.

Michaela Thelenova’s Landscapes

One of the guys in the family (Scott to be specific) bought me a Five and a Half journal a year or two ago and it sat on my shelf up until a few weeks ago. I couldn’t bring myself to tarnish the unbelievable beauty of it. The different recycled stocks coming from classrooms to accountant offices made me look at it over and over again like it was a book full of photos. I know… I’m weird. But they are soooooo cool! The thumbnails at the bottom of the image are just a small sample of all the different papers bound in one pretty little 5×7 package.

A documentary about a guy, Jim Killeen, who Googled himself and then went all over the world meeting others with his name.

Film home page.

Watch on Youtube.

Chiharu Shiota likes to use black wool thread and wrap things from floor to celling like a cocoon. The results of her work are incredibly dramatic, slightly unnerving, peculiar…maybe a little capricious, but definitely not whimsical.

Oh, and she burns the piano and chairs before she wraps them. According to this article they still smell of fire.

I am a sucker for over saturation and awkward crops. Here is the whimsical bliss of lomography captured by Kimm Whiskie.

Hooray!! We made it to the big 5-0-0. Thanks to all of you… ya’ll rule. Even though I still think no one else reads our blog because of all the spelling and grammar errors. I’ll take the blame… Davey’s writing is impeccable. O well… that’s why we are artist types and not journalists!

Those of you who know me are aware of that fact that I absolutely can’t live without popcorn. So you can image my excitement when I found the brilliant work of Nina Katchadourian. I’ll let her explain…

“Talking Popcorn is a sound sculpture that evolved out of my interest in language, translation, and Morse Code. A microphone in the cabinet of the popcorn machine picks up sound of popping corn, and a computer hidden in the pedestal runs a custom-written program that translates the popping sounds according to the patterns and dictates of Morse Code. A computer-generated voice provides a simultaneous spoken translation.”

via Paper Crane

Yes, it is exactly what you think it is. Check out this blog and flickr pool for more info and photos.

Photos above from mick l.

Who would have ever thought you could stumble upon a great artist via an image search for “ampersand”. Well thats how I found Maureen Brouillette and her work kills. It’s too bad that, like usual, the website blows. Why is it that great fine artists have no concept of design?

A super surreal flickr set from an abandoned resort outside Taipei, Taiwan called San Zhi. Very interesting to see something so modern in such shambles.

A little bit more info and other photos over at our new friends’ place, rolu | dsgn.

The Post Family’s very own Rod Hunting’s print featured on a piece about Polaroid’s legacy on ABC.

Annie Han + Daniel Mihalyo of Lead Pencil Studio are a Seattle-based collaborative duo who explore the intangible conditions of architecture.

Chris Jordan has added two new pieces to his ‘Running the Numbers’ series. The first piece depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006. The second one depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours. The pictures can be seen in more detail on his page.

Really cool and robust collection of line work by Nigel Peake.

Dan Funderburgh has some great pattern work, a good eye for design and illustration skills. Nice triple threat.

Check out THINKMULE for the Illustration and designs of Jeremy Pruitt.

“Anke Bauer makes the intrigued hunt their way in and out of her meticulously painted landscapes. Infinite, colorful, and shrill, these curious tower-blocks, futuristic Space-Shuttles, a busy motorway intersection and idyllic suburban villas (complete with well-ordered lawns and entertaining inhabitants) impress upon the viewer a creeping sense of both utopian hopefulness and industrial uneasiness.”

“The spaciously laid-out roads and motorways give the impression of something having died away. People seem almost as an afterthought, little evidence of their footprint remains. In this private seclusion the world seems distorted and disarranged, however, perhaps it has always been distorted and disarranged when looking in from the outside.”
- Creative Thriftshop

Branislav Kropilak.’Photo from his landings’ series.