I love these paintings by Esther Pearl Watson! Growing up, her father liked to build huge flying saucers out of scrap metal and car engines, and now her father’s hobby lives on in her work. I have always loved the idea of Calvin and Hobbes in that, Calvin is the only one who sees Hobbes as a living tiger. These paintings capture that same kind of thing – giant scraps of metal from one point of view, and yet hovering all around town from another.
Paintings by Julienne Hsu. Something about them reminds me of an artist I featured some time ago, Steve Kim.
There’s been a few spots circulating for Nokia’s Beautiful Connections campaign and this one by Universal Everything is my favourite of the bunch!
This other one by Marcus Wendt is pretty rad as well!
Aurumania took a page out of the Damien Hirst handbook and built ten 24k gold plated track bikes. If that wasn’t enough they stuck 600 Swarovski crystals on each one. Price tag: $102,418.60 USD. What’s with the rubber tires? They better be made outta some extinct whale blubber or I ain’t buying it!
Collage work and drawings by Andreas Banderas (whose first and last name are almost an anagram! so close you can taste it!).
