via theparisreview.org, Wacław Szpakowski, A1, 1930, ink on tracing paper, 9 5/8″ x 14 3/4″
These works did not reach an audience until 1978, five years after Szpakowki’s death; today they’re still obscure and easily misunderstood ... dhruva posted the Paris Review's Rhythmical Lines about Polish artist Wacław Szpakowski's "series of labyrinthine geometrical abstractions, each one produced from a single continuous line." Such interesting work and life!
One fine day in 2003, a man stopped in a McDonald’s for a meal, but instead discovered the amazing artist, Wes Cook. Take the 20 minutes and enjoy this magical story that zig zags along on a fantastic journey, you won't be disappointed!
Wolfdog came across Impossible World and wants to share it with you! It’s a site dedicated to art and illusion, where the images displayed can not actually exist in the real 3D visit. Come for the art, stay for the mind bending!
photo via designboom.com
If you haven't seen the bejeweled rotting fruit sculptures of Kathleen Ryan, you might want to see the bejeweled rotting fruit sculptures of Kathleen Ryan. Nice art find from lucidium!
Comparison of the Pentium weaving with a Pentium die photo from Intel.
Monday, stony Monday posted the excellent The Pentium as a Navajo weaving, about a unique rug design based on Intel's Pentium chip (the P54C, to be exact), painstakingly made using traditional Navajo materials and techniques ... and the fascinating and complex social, cultural, and technological history behind it. (hat tip to grumpybear69 for the title!)
Community member wubbie absolutely loves posters, especially movie posters! So they built a cloud based service that allows anyone to stream over 3,500 movie posters to their device for the most epic and love and movie art ever!
A screenshot from the adaptation
Citizenk took the time to remind us of an old, yet incredibly ambitious project, Blade Runner: the Aquarel Edition. It's a shot by shot recreation of the movie, but done in watercolors and it is stunning to see.
Monotype print using a selfmade gelli by aab_art via r/printmaking on reddit
Monotypes are "undergoing a revival of sorts thanks to the Gel Plate which has made it very easy for the beginner (like me!) to make their own prints and papers." Art_Pot posted Monoprinting with the Gel Plate with a pile of getting-started links and some examples. Nice!
Cover detail from Anton Chekhov's The Kiss
Book love meets graphic design love meets collectible love in cupcakeninja's post on Greg Neville's Penguin Series Design. ❤️ 📔🐧
miniature diorama of Christine inside Darnell's garage by member Laura Palmer's Cold Dead Kiss
In HearHere's post on a miniature renaissance, Laura Palmer's Cold Dead Kiss shared their impressive creation, a diorama of Darnell's Garage from the movie Christine. Flagged as Fury 58 FANTASTIC!
Art by Will Quinn (https://www.willquinnart.com/)
What's the bunny quotation in your life, are you getting enough? If not, cupcakeninja has a post about artist Will Quinn, who has delightful daily solutions to this problem!
Courtesy of Thomas Dambo Art
Zenzenobia highlights Thomas Dambo, who does a lot of trolling, but only in the woods and when it involves trash.
Image via pixabay.com
So, DMelanogaster is seeking a community of graphic memoirists for sharing and advice, both technical and companionable, and this sounds so cool ... and also a nice excuse for us to peek in at the progress on their own work, which was posted in Projects a couple of months ago.
signal posted Ludicity's peppery thoughts about AI grifting and attendant ubiquitous bluesky ML/LLM technobabble burnout, and the Mefi community is feeling it. Likewise sweary, Lucy Mangan's Guardian review of BBC's "The Stormtrooper Scandal" about just one of the grubby, greedy tales arising from the great NFT racket, posted by ec2y. Ahhh, NFTs. 'member them? (HT to fiercekitten for the post title)
Photo by Arvell Dorsey Jr., via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/chicagofd1996/with/44650379712/)
Chicago, USA is a city known by several names and vibes. But to photographer Paul D’Amato it's the working class neighborhoods near Midway Airport that show a unique and wonderful side of the city, as seen in this post created by lwxxyyzz
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