My spectator-only relationship with tattoos continues as I watch more and more episodes of Best Ink on Oxygen.
Hey — some people watch morning talk shows; I watch Entertainment OnDemand.
Maybe that’s why I have started noticing tattoos on people in the street… and on television… and in random Google searches.
Get a load of this girl.
I may have commitment issues with tats, but I think hers will stand the test of time.
She chose right.
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Tagged art, artwork, Best Ink, commentary, design, Fashion, Humor, life, Oxygen channel, tattoo, tattoo artist, Television
When I was in Singapore this past weekend, I thought about flying on to Australia. It’s only a seven-hour flight.
This guy made that voyage by water…in the opposite direction.
Rubber Duck, a ginormous piece of conceptual art by Florentijin Hofman, was last spied bobbing about in Sydney’s Darling Harbor. Today the inflatable duck, which measures 46 feet tall and 55 feet long, arrived in Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong for a month’s stay with a little help from a much smaller tug boat.
Let’s call it a Duck Boat — it’s earned it!
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Tagged animals, art, Australia, Darling Horbor, duck, duck boat, flight, Florentijin Hofman, holy duck, Hong Kong, Humor, inflatable duck, life, rubber duck, Rubber Duck conceptural art, Singapore, Sydney, transportation, Travel, tug boat, Victoria Harbour, water voyage
This NCAA Final is stressful to watch! To keep from biting my nails, I created this cherry pop art print. (The cherries are on my pj’s.) Inspiration comes in the darnedest places.
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Tagged art, basketball, cherries, design, Humor, March Madness, NCAA, Sports, stress
When I worked at Hallmark Cards, I had the good fortune to work with a lot of very talented writers and artists.
Maura Cluthe was one of ‘em.
She has her own website now — with a shop where you can buy posters, prints, books, buttons and stickers featuring her distinctive artwork.
My favorite?
Her new happy blue button.
Look at that face — gotta love those big, angelic-yet-mischievous eyes.
I wonder if she gives volume discounts? 
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Tagged art, artists, artwork, big eyes, books, Business, buttons, cute as a button, design, Hallmark Cards, happy blue button, Humor, Internet, life, Maura Cluthe, online shopping, posters, prints, shopping, stickers, volume discounts, website, writers
Emerald may be the Pantone Color of the Year for 2013…but what is the Pantone Pairing?
Milk and cookies?
Bacon and eggs?
Ham and cheese?
Minneapolis-based illustrator and art director David Schwen has re-imagined all our favorite comfort foods as Pantone color swatches on his Instagram blog.
The idea came to him quite by accident, but the visual experiment somehow gets to the art at the heart of the culinary combinations we hold most dear.
My nomination for favorite Pantone Pairing? Peanut butter and cheese.
Don’t knock it till you’ve paired it.
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I don’t have that many walls in my New York City apartment, but I am willing to make room for these beauties.
This set of minimalist posters — a tribute to the films of Pixar — was created by Wonchan Lee, an Australian designer.
I love the color palette, and the way Lee was able to reference each film with simple yet brilliant icons.
Can you imagine his take on this year’s nine Oscar-nominated films? Or the TV series nominated for Emmy awards? I mean, what would a poster for Downton Abbey look like from Lee’s point of view?
I’d buy that poster. I’d buy these posters.
I need some more walls.
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Tagged art, Australia, color palette, commentary, design, Downton Abbey, Emmys, entertainment, Humor, icons, less is more, life, minimalism, Movies, New York City, Oscars, Pixar, posters, TV, Wonchan Lee
Seems like we spend a lot of time these days debating what’s in the food we eat….and depending on the day, landing on different sides.
It almost kills the taste.
Photographer Caren Alpert takes a different — or should I say much closer – view. She uses an electron microscope to look at the foods we eat to reveal different landscapes, textures and patterns.
Cake Sprinkles
Table Salt
Celery Leaf
She makes the ordinary exotic. And maybe it’s just lunchtime…
But she’s making me hungry.
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Tagged art, cake sprinkles, Caren Alpert, celery leaf, come closer, commentary, design, electron microscope, Health, hungry, life, patterns, photography, table salt, taste, texture
What does a migraine feel like?
Exactly.
This is just one example of the mind boggling work of Swedish photographer and Photoshop guru Erik Johansson.
And the most mind boggling thing? He’s only 21 years old.
Now my head really hurts.
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Tagged art, design, erik johansson, headache, Humor, life, migraine, ouch, photography, Photoshop, retouch artist, Swedish photographer
Stone cold fox
Ever found it difficult to get excited about classic sculpture?
Just couldn’t relate??
Well, hold on to your fig leaf — Today I Learned Something New, a UK-based website, has brought together the past and present in their feature…
‘Classical sculptures dressed like hipsters’
Gone is the overwhelming expanse of chalk-white skin, the blank stare, the disproportionately small family jewels. These male models’ newly casual look and ‘tude would do any catalog or magazine ad proud.
And if they’re quiet on a date…well, that’s really to be expected.
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