Jason Padgett

"Jason D. Padgett is a number theorist with Acquired Savant Syndrome from Anchorage Alaska, currently living in Tacoma Washington."

Real ‘Beautiful Mind’: College Dropout Became Mathematical Genius After Mugging

Images from: http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/jason-padgett.html

George Bellows

"George Wesley Bellows (1882 - 1925) was an American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City"

http://www.georgebellows.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bellows
http://www.artfinder.com/artist/george-wesley-bellows/

More dazzle camouflage

This is new to me, but it seems like dazzle patterns have been making a comeback recently over the past couple years. Check out some of these modern dazzle camouflage inspired items and art:

Installations by Tobias Rehberger:

Art by Håvard Pedersen:

Billionaire Dakis Joannou's yacht, the "Guilty", designed by Jeff Koons:

uhurudesign's War Craft coffee table:

Alexander McQueen Fall 09:

Silent Disco by architect Barbara Bestor (image-Joshua White):

London Underground x maharishi x Hardy Blechman’s DPM umbrella:

Man Half-Tube

Found this guy's awesome work on iStockphoto of all places. He has a pretty sweet collection of spot illustrations of objects and characters. I couldn't find an "official" site, but his flickr page has more stuff that kind of look like they might be gig posters. His real name might be Человек Полтюбика... I don't know Russian.

Check out his stock illustrations and his flickr page.

Sebastian Errazuriz

"Chilean born, New York based artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz seeks to create works that can remind people of their mortality, invite them to look again at their lives and question at their daily routines.

His obsession with the dichotomies of life and death are present in his sculptures, public art works, consumer objects, furniture and even fashion.

Selected one of the top emerging designers by I.D magazine, he has also been chosen Chilean Designer of the Year, and received multiple awards by design competitions, and the international media."

John Gutmann

"John Gutmann (1905–1998) was a German-born American photographer and painter. After fleeing Nazi Germany for being a Jew, Gutmann acquired a job in the United States as a photographer for various German magazines. Gutmann quickly took an interest in the American way of life and sought to capture it through the lens of his camera. He especially took an interest in the Jazz music scene.

Gutmann is recognized for his unique "worm's-eye view" camera angle. He enjoyed taking photos of ordinary things and making them seem special.

The full archive of John Gutmann's work is located at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which also manages the copyright of his work.[1]" Wikipedia

Helmet Week

Because I start weeks on Sundays at 12:30 AM. You always find kooky things while you're researching stuff on image search. I found a bunch of helmet-related things today so there you go, a theme for the next few days.

Check out Helmet B by designer Julien Bergignat and Patrice Mouille that can be laid out flat for easy packing.

Gotye - State Of The Art

This is a sweet song, but the main reason I'm posting it is because the video is awesome. It's animated in a mid-century cartoon/illustrative style. A stereotypical nuclear family is turned into robots and transported to another world by a magical electronic organ. The lyrics talk about an electronic organ and it's amazing capabilities (custom flute presets!). Check it.

Hugh Ferriss

I have a feeling I might have posted his work before but I can't find anything in a search of the site... so here it is.

"Hugh Ferriss (1889 – 1962) was an American delineator (one who creates perspective drawings of buildings) and architect. According to Daniel Okrent, Ferriss never designed a single noteworthy building, but after his death a colleague said he 'influenced my generation of architects' more than any other man. Ferriss also influenced popular culture, for example Gotham City (the setting for Batman) and Kerry Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."

"By 1920, Ferriss had begun to develop his own style, frequently presenting the building at night, lit up by spotlights, or in a fog, as if photographed with a soft focus. The shadows cast by and on the building became almost as important as the revealed surfaces. He had somehow managed to develop a style that would elicit emotional responses from the viewer. His drawings were being regularly featured by such diverse publications as Century, the Christian Science Monitor, Harper's Magazine and Vanity Fair. His writings began to also appear in various publications."(Wikipedia)

 

Josh Kirby

Back in the day I used to read Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels. They are totally awesome, but what first drew me in as a kid were the mind-blowing covers Josh Kirby created for the books. Check out his website here

"Ronald William "Josh" Kirby (27 November 1928 – 23 October 2001) was an English commercial artist born in Waterloo, on the outskirts of Liverpool, Merseyside.

Kirby painted film-posters, magazine and book covers. Creating a total of over 400 cover paintings, his personal preference was for science fiction jackets and his work on the covers of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels is well known. He also created the poster art for Monty Python's Life of Brian and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He worked almost exclusively in oils. Charles de Lint said Kirby stood apart from most genre commercial artists for 'his own flair and unique vision'" (Wikipedia article)

yowayowa camera woman

This has probably been all over the internet already, but I just found out about her yesterday. Basically, she takes self portraits of herself jumping. Pretty self-explanatory but the results are awesome.

"Lives in Tokyo with two cats. Photographs mainly levitating self-portraits (and cats not levitating). yowayowa is a Japanese term meaning "weak" or "feeble." Since I'm yowayowa, it's really heavy to carry SLR cameras around."

Her about page has more info on her process.

Aubrey Beardsley

"Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings, executed in black ink and influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau style and the poster movement was significant, despite the brevity of his career before his early death from tuberculosis."

Definitely one of my favorite artists... and like many of the great artists from the late 1800's/early 1900's, he was quite eccentric and had an interesting and tragic life. His compositions and the quality of his line is simply amazing. He style constantly evolved during his career from Pre-Raphaelite influences to almost completely abstract, but there was always a common thread through it all, which was his use of black ink. My favorite illustrations of his are probably the ultra-detailed drawings for "The Rape of the Lock" (a couple pics below).

More reading and images here and here