The Armless Wonder

Just another example of how auctions have really awesome stuff. This one is the "Fall Toy and Americana" auction through Mosby & Co.

A Circus Sideshow banner:

Or this incredible Robot toy!

Brigitte Bardot

It's been months since I posted, so I wanted to kick it off again with something awesome a friend just showed me. It's a dvd titled "Divine B.B," which is a collection of Brigitte Bardot music videos that are amazing. The music is totally cheesy, the sets incredible visions of 60's mod and theatrics, and naturally Bardot is utterly intoxicating in every scene. I've only picked one, but watching the entire thing is gemful- except maybe one of them...it's very clearly from the seventie's and there's awkward straddling of a motorcycle involved.


You can get the dvd here.

want it: brad adkins

Untitled (pink balloon end), 2006

C-print

36 x 36 inches

artspeak: paula rego

"I was very scared and a bit daunted! But to find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like, Alice; you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own way into things..."
- Paula Rego

make crochet, not war

I love these creative crochet bombs from woowork.com. Make them yourself!
There is even a video to go along with it ;-) Enjoy.

Green 'round Grenades from WooWork on Vimeo.

love it: reuben margolin

Reuben Margolin's kinetic sculptures are pretty amazing. Sculptors like this really blend the line between engineering and art- and nature for that matter.

RIP Sam Maloof

Designer and woodworker Sam Maloof has passed away. I saw a documentary on PBS a few years back on his work that blew my mind. He was the kind of artist who wanted to infuse the artist, the art, and the viewer in one experience. He refused to commercializre his work when offered multi-million dollar design deals because he felt his art and design would be lost without the touch of the woodworkers hands. He wrote books on how to make his furniture so everyone could be an artist and (up until his death), prefered to be refered to as a 'woodworker' because, "I like the word. It's an honest word." Here is a link to a fantastic article in the Los Angeles Times about his work and his life.