Some beautiful shots of Iceland by American, Peter Baker.

MORE…

I was flipping through the channels yesterday and I ended up watching a fascinating documentary about Danish pianist (and comedian) Victor Borge. I realised that I had seen many of his routines on television over the years, but it really hit me yesterday just how insanely talented he was.

This is footage of Victor Borge and violinist Anton Kontra improvising during a spontaneous encore. The music suggested for the encore is a selection that Borge had heard but never played before. Incredible! They are like two jazz musicians conversing with their instruments.

MORE…

I have been meaning to feature the paintings of Tiffany Bozic for some time. You really get the feeling there is a fable or some fantastic story to go along with each image.

MORE…

If Beautiful/Decay is looking for artwork to represent the title of their publication, here it is! The beautifully decayed artwork of Valerie Hegarty.

MORE…

Okay, here is Part 8 of our Free Encouragement project! Today is actually the cut-off day for submissions – We are not accepting anymore submissions at this time! All of the remaining messages will be posted throughout December and then the project shifts over to Design For Mankind! Read through submissions #281 – #320.

MORE…

Beautifully simple graphic work by Pedro Mari.

MORE…

Finally! A blog combining two of my favourite things – no, not homemade spaghetti and cleaning my ears with q-tips – this one’s about art galleries and jumping!

Allison Reimus, creator of JumpingInArtMuseums has been inviting people to send in photos of their jumps for her site and now she is taking it a step further. Next Monday (December 8th). 6:30 PM. MoMA. There will be an organized art jump! So all you New Yorkers get out there – the meeting spot is in front of the Pipilotti Rist exhibit.
MORE…

Intervelometer, by Team DAK (Deniz Merdanogullari, Aparna Kapur and Kunal Sen) won ‘Best Picture’ at the 2nd Annual Trick 17 Stop Motion Animation Contest where 18 teams had 52 hours to make a 1-3 minute film. I also have to mention that they are recent graduates of Emily Carr University, because I went there too!