Archive for the 'Art' Category



From Patrick Doughterty’s website

“Dougherty’s works allude to nests, cocoons, hives, and lairs built by animals, as well as the manmade forms of huts, haystacks, and baskets, created by
interweaving branches and twigs together. Many of his works look ‘found’ rather than made, as if they were created by the natural force of a tornado sweeping across […]

Chris Drury is one of my favourite Eco Artists. He has built installations around the world working with aperature to create camera obscura architecture - basically his outdoor installations create an inverted image of the natural world outside and projected inside his installation.
Here are some pics:
Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky

here is the outside […]

The Eco-art of Nils-Udo

Nils Udo is a bavarian eco-artists. A quote from Nils Udo:

“Sketching with flowers. Painting with clouds. Writing with water. Tracing the May wind, the path of a falling leaf. Working for a thunderstorm. Awaiting a glacier. Bending the wind. Directing water and light. The May-green call of the cuckoo and the invisible trace of its […]

Mikael Hansen is a Danish artist that does “earth art”. Check my favourite work, an outdoor installation called “Organic Highway” below. From Mikael’s Absolute Arts profile:
Since my participation in the first earth-art project in Denmark in 1983 I have been fascinated by this mode of artistic expression (landart). Parallel to this I am working with […]

I recently did an image search on google (I can’t remember the search string) and found some interesting and twisted work of the Norwegian painter “Odd Nerdum”
from www.spamula.net:
Nerdrum is renowned for his emulation of old-master techniques and textures: there are in his paintings many echoes of Rembrandt and Caravaggio, in particular. Beyond that, his devotion […]

I’ll be back posting in a week or soo, but in the meantime I thought I would share a great photo sharing site (unfortunately/fortunately its by invitation only). Its geared mainly towards arty type stuff - but there are some great finds here if you have a chance. Here are some samples of the unusual […]

Here are few of the art links “World without US” - these were done by Kenn Brown of Mondolithic Studios in British Columbia Canada.
I have taken a few screenshots from Alan Weismans “World Without Us” website (Funny as I read that, I often see that as a play on words: “World without U.S.“).

Steampunk Laptop

Steampunk is a form of fiction set in an alternate Victorian-era past. Richard Nagy is one such artist who modifies modern devices such as laptops, ipods, phones. His work has been featured in Wired, Gizmodo, Slashdot, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, the NY Times, BoingBoing, Make Magazine and countless other publications including features in Germany, […]