Those of us afflicted with OSA will find these crayon sculptures by Pete Goldlust fascinating. Check out the details (and larger image) at his web site.
Thanks to Boing Boing for the link.
Eye candy
I’ve been rather immersed lately in HTML, CSS and web design. But I need a break every once in awhile. Here are a few places I visit when I want a little eye candy:
Denis Brown’s website. This guy knows quills and he knows digital. After a week-long workshop two years ago, I brought home a slew of notes and experiments and his DVD, none of which I’ve yet digested.
Thomas Ingmire’s website. You’ve got to have Flash to look at it, but it’s worth looking at. You’d think that the “Collections” and “Gallery” links would be the best — and they are great — but the most interesting work on the site is in “Commissions”: a book of Richard Braudigan’s poetry, in code invented by Thomas Ingmire; poetry by Rimbaud; Canto V from Dante’s Inferno. I’ve taken week-long workshops with him several times over the past 15 years. His craftsmanship is unparalleled.
Martin Jackson’s website. He’s got portfolios of lettering samples and commercial art, which I like, but I especially like the portfolio of fine art. I’ve never taken and class from him, but I know several people who rave over his teaching.
The Box Doodle Project
Inspire Me Thursday is back, and directing visitors to an interesting gallery of box art. Click the title of this post to see several pages of box art. These pieces are interesting to me as a book artist because they span the art disciplines of paper, line, color, sculpture, and, in a few notable cases, time — the same disciplines in which book artists work.
Dafatir: An Exhibition of Contemporary Iraqui Book Art
This art exhibit, organized by the University of North Texas Art Gallery, is currently on display at Carleton College. Surprisingly, I hadn’t heard anything about this exhibit through the book arts channels. Instead, I read about it in this post on the blog Across the Great Divide. While there are plenty of images at this Carleton College link,the blog post provides some interesting background information on Mohammed Al Shammarey, one of the artists, as well as a link to his own gallery.
Nabuaki Date
An intriguing idea, beautifully executed. Keepsake ukeleles made with materials from demolished buildings. Although a ukelele with a green blackboard back can’t possibly resonate musically, the idea of memory certainly resonates, and it’s a beautiful piece, yellow staff lines and all.
Cathy Connolley
I want to use black and white the way Cathy Connolley does. She does color, too, but here‘s a gallery of just black and white.
Obsessive Drawing
The drive to doodle: compulsive therapy.
I read this review in the New York Times (click the title of this post if you’ve subscribed to NYT online), and I want to head right on over to the American Folk Art Museum. Too bad I’m 1,110.39 miles away.
A few more images of the show are here at American Folk Art Museum’s website.
"Depth"
Here’s an artist I discovered through Illustration Friday. I just love her colors, shapes, symbols … everything.
Pop-up Galleries
Robert Sabuda, a creative pop-up book artist, has put together an inspirational website all about pop-ups.
The gallery of international pop-ups by country and artist is still growing. Click on the link below each country flag; sometimes clicking on the flags themselves gets you a 404 error message.
Guild of Book Workers’ Exhibition
A little inspiration — Abecedarium: An Exhibit of Alphabet Books.
And a terrible tease. A single image of a book gives you less information about that book than a trailer does for its movie. But whatcha gonna do? short of shooting a movie of someone turning the pages of the book, or somehow expropriating the Turning the Page software the British Museum. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/digitisation1.html
Pretty wonderful software.
A single image of a book is still better than nothing at all. After all, I’ve got single images of hundreds of books at my website.