Graffiti Time-Lapse

So many pieces and a well edited video to show them off.

Touch of Death

Massive Voodoo is far and away my favorite miniature site. They post fantastic completed works, work in progress post and spot on tutorials. The picture seen above is a recently completed project by MV member Picster. It is all built from scratch. No plastic minis here, he designed, sculpted, 3D printed and painted it all by hand.

Photos and Post of the completed project

Behind the scenes photos of the sculpt/print

Dice Cast

A man's connection to his dice, after any significant time at the game table, is strong. I know my dice like the back of my hand, but can also appreciate the tiny polyhedrons as a medium for art. Kim Hyun has created beautiful art and also some inspiration for a super meta D&D monster.

[Via: Colossal]

Pop Culture Cash

Art that uses United States legal tender as a medium always gets me. So James Charles pop culture figures plastered over the founding fathers is right up my alley. Some awesome work here.

[Via: DudeCraft]

BMW 328 Hommage

Cool concept cars used to be a staple of my tumblr blog before I merged my efforts there with my efforts here. It is time to start getting back to my original intent with this beauty.

[Via: LikeCOOL]

Portal Turret Replica

The internet has been a wash with Portal art following the release of the second game. Deservedly so I'd say. The sequel was mind crushingly amazing. It held up to the original surprisingly well. I could go on, but instead have a look at this turret replica instead. "Are you still there?"

[Via: Make]

Howl's Moving Castle in Paper

One of, if not our favorite Studio Ghibli film done in paper. It took nine plus months to complete and looks incredible. Note to self, make more papercraft.

[via: Reddit]

Hubless Rear Wheel

Belt-driven, hubless rear wheel bicycle or Lunartic.

[Via: Make]

Billboard Swings

Love this concept by Didier Faustino, though I imagine anyone with a fear of heights just broke into a cold sweat upon seeing it.

[Via: Dude Craft]

Spidey on a Bike

Mike Joo's collection of iconic characters on bikes is wicked cool. Spidey, Vader, Wonder Woman and Han stand out for me as the best examples. Might just have to snag a print.

Where is the Courage?

Just the right amount of dark humor to start off my Monday. Reminds me of how much I love the apocalypse Wizard of Oz survivors minis. There has to be a game I can run with these.

Exit Through the Gift Shop

The closest I ever got to street art myself was paint penning small works in notebooks and *cough* other places in high school. I consumed obscure UK based graffiti mags and even hung around folks who were ballsy enough to throw up bigger pieces. Now ten years removed from that fascination and I still appreciate good street art. So I was more than a little geeked to see Exit Through the Gift Shop.

I had heard of Banksy long ago, critics were raving about the film and friends were recommending it. Done and done. I re-upped my Netflix account and dove in. What I got was surprising. I was not expecting the film to be about someone who had attempted to document the next wave of street art. Attempted may be the wrong word. He certainly documented it, he just never did anything with it. Following his path still gave a unique history of street art over the past ten years, but also an interesting narrative.

Where the film starts and ends are two very different places. I was left churning over the meaning of art. Piecing together parts of the film that could be clues to it being a prank and ultimately enjoying it for what it was. It made me think and I believe that was the point in the first place. It is extremely well made and worth your time to sit down and watch it.

Steampunk Insects

I know I have seen these some where before and may have even posted them on my now dead Tumblr, but I still wanted to share them. It would be wicked cool to have one of these on my desk at the home office, albeit wicked creepy too.

[Via: LikeCOOL]

Kusho

Kusho is water and/or ink that is, for a brief moment, turned into beautiful Japanese calligraphy by artist Shinichi Maruyama, before falling back to earth.

[Via: NPR and Grant]

Boba Fett vs. 300

A super slick mash up, that looks relatively simple by design, but also incredibly well made. Drink it in!

[Via: Super Punch]

A Very Hellboy Christmas

I love Mike Mignola's art, his wicked cool character and Christmas is this week. What more could a boy ask for?

[Via: Hey Oscar Wilde!]

BoomCase

Oh man, do I wish I had a reason to buy a BoomCase or even better, to try and make my own. Their usefulness to me not withstanding they look amazing.

[Via: LikeCOOL]

SkullKickers

It's a rare occasion for me to make the trip to a comic store these days.  It takes a special breed of comic to draw me away from the low cost and fast shipping haven of the internet.  Wednesday last week was one such occasion though.  I picked up Kaden after work and drove down to my local comic store.  We were in search of SkullKickers #1. They were sold out already.

So why am I writing about a comic I have not read yet?  The failings of the brick and mortar comic shop aside I can still expound upon the virtues of SkullKickers #0.  Their might be a issue #1 preview buried in there too.  The spawn of all this was a Penny Arcade post a while back, but reading the prequel sealed the deal.  The art is clean and modern and the writing is short and crisp.

If and when I get my hands on #1 I'll be back here to speak more on it.

Thor in Lego

The things some folks can create in Lego never fail to astound me.  When the work they create includes any of my other hobbies, in this case gaming, I can be found mouth agape and mind blown.  Now where is the fully transformable Viking?

[Via: Super Punch]

Tetris Final Boss

[Via: LikeCOOL]