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Crystal Head Vodka

2009-01-07T16:11:00.004Z

There has never been an beverage that I would have wanted more.

I need it bad, real bad. Please let me have some crystal head vodka

Just to show support for my favourite site

2008-09-10T22:43:00.005Z

Typographic design

2008-05-18T09:00:00.004Z

I have always had a soft spot for a talented typographic design. Usually a simple typo makes a very powerful impact. I admit that my skills in this area are limited in the use of free fonts available online, but that doesn't stop me from drooling pages like Sexy, Bold And Experimental Typography.

I want your skull

2008-04-10T14:33:00.002Z

I have decided to further my ambitition and make a piece of art for the next Iwantyourskull publication. This should keep me challenged as the deadline is the beginning of May.

Typography

2008-04-09T14:48:00.003Z

I've been browsing reference material for new font styles lately and I bumped in to this great movie about typography. It's worth checking out.

Typographics

Chocolate Skulls

2008-04-08T10:54:00.005Z

I love chocolate beyong dreams. Chocolate cheers my day. Want to make a friend, bring me a chocolate. If you have problem to think of a present for me, something like this would bring warmth to the bottom of my heart.

MORI EX CACAO is Death by Chocolate.

Alberto Seveso

2008-04-07T12:31:00.004Z

Alberto Seveso's work. I've been looking his work several times in the last few days. His style is very inspiring. The mix of female form and illustration is mind blowing.

Alberto Seveso

Guinness beer ad spoof

2008-04-07T12:13:00.002Z

I think this would present better the real guinness drinkers, dont you think!

Shoes

2008-04-06T13:02:00.001Z

If all shoes would be like these, I would totally be a foot fetish. These are one yummy ones by Insa. He's painted the one of the tube wholecars in shoreditch, you know them if you've seen them.

Art less pollution 2

2008-04-02T15:09:00.000Z

I posted a while ago about Alexandre Orion’s pollution based project. Now this is the second part of the project. Orion has takes the sooth from the rags used for the original piece and made new paintings out of it. Brilliant.

Singing Ringing Tree

2008-02-04T21:25:00.001Z

A musical sculpture was designed by Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu. When the wind blows, the "tree" sings:

No pants 2008 New York

2008-01-31T10:08:00.000Z

Kuksi

2007-12-17T14:31:00.001Z

I've seen the work of Kuksi before on other art gallery websites, but this was the first time I've ended up into his website. His work is very hard to describe. His sculptures are so detailed and intricate. What can I say, he's work leaves me without a word. See Kuksi website

Laundry Detergent Paintings

2007-12-17T14:22:00.000Z

Remember my secret wall post. This time I show you a work of a painter whose work can only show up under UV light so would only be seen by someone taking the time to actually look for them. Check also his other art work. Paul Nowak’s laundry detergent paintings.

Art Less Pollution

2007-10-31T16:07:00.000Z

London Tattoo Convention 2007

2007-10-13T10:02:00.000Z

Finally I had a chance to attend a tattoo convention, I dreamed about it for over 6 months. Some of the worlds best artist were there, artists that I admire and who's work I would take on any time.

Some of my favorites were: Paul Booth, Filip Leu, Shige,Dan Simmons, Robert Hernandes, Liorcifer, TinTin...

Pictured here is an artist Horiren, one of the few Japanese female tattoo artists. She is self taught and used to be mural painter. Here she does traditional Tebori tattooing, which is a hand poking technique.

Time in the convention went really fast and I wouldn't have minded staying there for the three days it was on. I managed to control myself and only got myself a t-shirt, nothing to do with my prettier side being there as well, honest.

Check Flickr for images.

Butchershop

2007-09-08T18:11:00.000Z

Till Krautkramer of CheapTattooRemoval has created an original style for his art. He takes pictures of tattooed body parts and makes them look like they have been butchered. I think its interesting and wouldn't mind having a picture like this on my wall. In the butchershop you can also buy merchandise like bag with the images, I loove the finger mug.

http://cheaptattooremoval.net/

secret wall tattoos

2007-08-31T10:18:00.000Z

I found an interesting site called secret wall tattoos. Nothing to do with tattoos really except the name, but it is an interesting website anyway. The site has pictures of a hotel rooms, where behind a picture frames someone has drawn arty image. Real anarchy art.

http://www.secretwalltattoos.com/

Realism

2007-08-10T13:25:00.000Z

There is something truly magical in tattoos. The present skills that are being applied into skin are from a different world compared to 20 years ago. My adventures in this fascinating world started over 10 years ago, and some of my best friends were apprenticing. At that time Finland were more or less hill billies in tattoo world as far as I consider it. No true talents existed in Finland.

But ten years is a long time. And now I can say that some of the best come from Finland when I look at this tattoo by Petri Syrjälä. Today I consider him the best animal portrait tattooist in the world. His work is absolutely unbelievable.

See more of Syrjälä's work in http://www.tattooart.fi/

Apple

2007-08-01T21:28:00.000Z

2007-07-28T21:20:00.001Z

Williamsburg tattooer Scott Campbell is offering to customize your laptop. You can either choose from a number of Campbell's designs for $200 or, for an extra $100, you can use a design of your own to create unique laser etched laptop.

Go check more of Campbell's designs

Skull Project

2007-07-19T11:11:00.000Z

I have this strange fascination toward skulls. For some reason I quite like the idea of a skull on my skin, and this new book that's coming out makes me tingle about getting it.

Behold Matthew Amey's Skull project. Amey took 151 contour-line drawings of a human skull from his earlier skull reference book, and sent a page to artists around the world asking them to draw or paint their interpretation of the skull. The result is an array of metamorphoses, skulls in unimaginable beauty.

If you dont like skull, go and have a look anyway, those images are truly a work of art. Check Skull Project

New Host

2007-04-15T17:40:00.000Z

I just moved into a new host. My earlier hosts trial period finished and I found out that I cannot revert my trial unlimited account into cheaper home account. Sneaky people, trying to get more money from customers this way! Well they lost me now! HA.

My new host is totally free and they don't even force any advert into my site. YEAH! Works fine so far, no problems. Database is up and setup nicely. Lets see how it works.

Businesscard garden

2007-04-09T18:47:00.002Z

The Dirt introduces us to this business card micro-terrain by Tur & Partner, landscape architects. It's a portable garden: impregnated with seeds, the paper eventually sprouts.it's "the first direct mail piece that needs watering."

The idea is has some thought, add some flower seeds and it's a great birthday card as well. Idea has it's potential. I think we might see it in cardshops in few years.