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wetheurban:SPOTLIGHT: Visual Artist Brock DavisBrock Davis is...

wetheurban:

SPOTLIGHT: Visual Artist Brock Davis

Brock Davis is an award-winning, multidisciplinary artist and creative director with a knack for creating ground-breaking work.

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diirtyglam:Patrick Jacobs“Jacobs’s dioramas provide peeks...

diirtyglam:

Patrick Jacobs

“Jacobs’s dioramas provide peeks into a world in which reality is presented in such exquisite detail it begins to look surreal.

The artist draws from art history and garden pest control brochures alike to create miniature 3D works of art, viewed through a circular glass lens. Viewers get the impression that they are looking into another realm, simultaneously natural and constructed, familiar and unknown. In a way, we get a taste for a fish’s life from inside the bowl.”

likeafieldmouse:Tom LaDuke

likeafieldmouse:

Tom LaDuke

exhibition-ism:Vittorio Ciccarelli de-contextualizes classical...

exhibition-ism:

Vittorio Ciccarelli de-contextualizes classical works of art to give them a whole new meaning. 

fancyadance:Frozen Lighthouses on Lake Michiganmore

fancyadance:

Frozen Lighthouses on Lake Michigan

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beyond9thave: Sarah Robbins | Painting Washington, D.C.

beyond9thave:

 Sarah Robbins | Painting

 Washington, D.C.

archiemcphee:Japanese street artist Jun Kitagawa uses zippers,...

archiemcphee:

Japanese street artist Jun Kitagawa uses zippers, both painted and sculpted, to playfully suggest the idea that our surroundings are merely a surface layer that can be peeled back so we may explore whatever lies beneath.

Johnny Strategy writes:

"One of his most fascinating works are an ongoing series in which he installs 3-dimensional zippers in various public spaces around Japan, offering an intimate look – one that’s often left up to the imagination – into our world. “I like to surprise people with a light eroticism,”* explains Kitagawa in a statement."

So what do you think, if you happened upon a giant zipper on a wall, street, or even a lake, would you go head and unzip it? You never know what sorts of awesomeness might be on the other side.

Click here to learn more about the artwork of Jun Kitagawa.

[via Neatorama]

"I just know from experience that my instincts are better than my cerebration."

““I just know from experience that my instincts are better than my cerebration.””

- George Saunders (via theparisreview)

"Don’t tell thin women to eat a cheeseburger. Don’t tell fat women to put down the fork. Don’t tell..."

“Don’t tell thin women to eat a cheeseburger. Don’t tell fat women to put down the fork. Don’t tell underweight men to bulk up. Don’t tell women with facial hair to wax, don’t tell uncircumcised men they’re gross, don’t tell muscular women to go easy on the dead-lift, don’t tell dark-skinned women to bleach their vaginas, don’t tell black women to relax their hair, don’t tell flat-chested women to get breast implants, don’t tell “apple-shaped” women what’s “flattering,” don’t tell mothers to hide their stretch marks, and don’t tell people whose toes you don’t approve of not to wear flip-flops. And so on, etc, etc, in every iteration until the mountains crumble to the sea. Basically, just go ahead and CEASE telling other human beings what they “should” and “shouldn’t” do with their bodies unless a) you are their doctor, or b) SOMEBODY GODDAMN ASKED YOU.”

- Lindy West, Thin Women: I’ve Got Your Back. Could You Get Mine?  (via forlornes)

slowartday:Kathryn Frund

slowartday:

Kathryn Frund