assuming the mistake

Pekar & Crumb: Talking ’bout Art | The Pekar Project

Ohhhhhh these stickers are like frosted flakes. Which is to say: Grrrrrrrrrreat! Wordplay, you fools! Wordplay. Via F.A.T.  » AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE (the Sticker).

There are 178 people in the picture. All people were shot from the same spot on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summer 2007. We’re All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence’

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“Low Blow: And Other Species of Confusion” brings together 18 artists and their visions of disgraced politicians, severed body parts, miniature strip clubs, and other images of beautiful decay. Via.

“American Still-Life” by civil engineer-turned-artist Pamela Michelle Johnson is a series of larger than life paintings that depicts our most gluttonous American indulgences. Based in Chicago, Johnson uses photo-realism to create her work by first photographing her subjects, and then sketching and painting them on canvas. The works are massive, standing between five to six feet in height. Each painting takes about two months to complete. (via “American Still Life” Paintings by Pamela Michelle Johnson [food art] - Eat Me Daily

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Graffiti Taxonomy presents isolated letters from various graffiti tags, reproduced in similar scales and at close proximity. The intent of these studies is to show the diversity of styles as expressed in a single character. In these photographs, the ‘S’ is reproduced from photographs of tags taken in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, while the ‘A’ is reproduced from tags from Central Park North to 125th St. in Harlem. (via Graffiti Taxonomy)

Terrible Yellow Eyes is a collection of works inspired by the beloved classic, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.

MoMa will be starting a Tim Burton retrospective in November…Following the current of his visual imagination from his earliest childhood drawing through his mature work, the exhibition presents artwork generated during the conception and production of his films, and highlights a number of unrealized projects and never-before-seen pieces, as well as student art, his earliest non-professional films, and examples of his work as a storyteller and graphic artist for non-film projects. (via MoMA | Tim Burton)

19th-century pregnant dolls

Simon Schubert’s Paper Rooms

Foley Gallery

The Brief: A dinosaur eating a R and an O and an S and a I and a E

The Critique: That’s not what I want. That’s a Brachiosaurus. I want a T Rex. He’s supposed to have the other letters in his mouth too. See look! He’s only eating that one. What letter is that?

Job Status: Rejected (via Tiny Art Director, a splendid blog in which a four-year-old comissions and critiques drawings from her father.)