Creepy PVC Creatures

These are cool. Also creepy.

Dogs Left in Cars

Pictures of dogs in cars.

Staircases

Some awesome staircases here. An example:

(Thanks MGKH)

Where Children Sleep

A photo tour of children & their bedrooms from around the world. Two examples:

Old is New

I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today... A few months ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future.

More here. [Edit: That blockquote is from the woman who took these pictures, who is not me.]

Cups of Paint

Some more mesmerizing art-making. If I were doing that, I would totally step in one of the puddles and ruin everything.

Here's some more of Holton Rower's work, some of which is pretty cool and some of which I just do not get.
Do not get.

Maybe I get? It's funny, right? I think it's funny.

Definitely do not get.

Pretty.

Watermelon Roses

This is kind of mesmerizing.

Virtual Art Museum

The Google Art Project is worth a few minutes of your time.

Water Art

Art by Shinichi Maruayama. More here.

Games as Art

Videogame designer Brenda Brathwaite has designed a few board games that are more about art and social statements than games. One of them is called Train. Two players play Train. They have boxcars, and they can use their turns to speed down the track, load the boxcar with yellow pawns, or slow its progress. The goal of the game is to reach the end of the track. At that point the player draws a Terminus card, which has the name of a place on it. Like Dachau. The players aren't told in advance that it's a game about the Holocaust. (But, come on. You're racing to shove little yellow men into trains. Might you suspect something?) Brathwaite says her goal was to put the player in the shoes of the train conductor -- make them feel a sense of complicity.

The game doesn't end when the game officially reveals itself as a Holocaust game. The players can choose to continue until all the pawns are moved. The players can also use the rules to slow the trains down and save the pawns. For the most part, players never move all the pawns over, and they use the rules to save the pawns. I find it pretty fascinating that most players feel either morally obligated or socially pressured to save tiny, wooden pawns.

I recommend the whole article.

Mini Sculpture

Tiny sculptures carves in the graphite of old pencils. More here.

Weird Wonder Bread

Wonder Bread Art. I am not loving it.

Michelangelo

Is there a brain stem in God's neck?

Painting with Tape

Mark Khaisman uses packing tape and then backlights the image.

Waves

More photos by Clark Little here.

Art

Pencil drawings by Paul Lung here and here.

Art

I thought this was fun. More Patti Warashina here.

Sand Art

More here.

Awesomeness

That is not your run-of-the-mill painting. That is a real person with paint on him. See more here.