Stalking Venus

Well, I had to have a bit of a laugh at this, Newsweek’s cover story: “The Making of a terrorist-coddling, warmongering, Wall Street-loving, socialist, godless Muslim president.” What a fantastic headline! What’s even better is the fact that Obama isn’t any of these things. Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter meticulously picks apart each of these myths, exposing [...]

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

Source: Melissa Shoes, Australia

Here’s a guy that makes sculptures and puts them in the ocean. Once the salt water and tides take their toll, he takes photos. Pretty cool.

Everyone’s bound to have seen some of these ‘light paintings’ floating around on the net. It’s basically long-exposure digital photographs with people using LED lights, light arrays and laser pointers to create interesting effects. French blog, Fubiz has some of the best ones I’ve seen so far, created by light-artists Jan Wöllert and Jörd Miedza. [...]

Great post on Dark Roasted Blend this morning about Jim Denevan, a sand artist who makes some of the most amazing transient artworks I’ve ever seen. Scale is his thing, and his latest project is massive, representing about 8 days of walking. So much work and it’s all gone the next time it rains. Go [...]

Awesome un-tooned version of Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV by Pixeloo.

The Desktopography 2008 exhibition is up! Integrating design, typography, art and illustration, the Desktopography series is always worth a visit. Not a year has gone by that I don’t have one of these designs set as my desktop background for at least a few weeks. Check out this year’s additions as well as the arcives [...]

So there’s a guy called Carl Warner. He makes landscapes with food. Takes photos. Gets web fame… Here, for your average 0.48 minutes of Stalking Venus article viewing pleasure, are his incredible edible foodscapes. (I like the way that sounds: “incredible edible”. “Incredibly edible edibles”. Edibly edible edibles.) In the photo above, Carl sets up [...]