All that is gold does not glitter...: December 2008

Friday, December 12, 2008

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

At a Christie's auction in Hong Kong, Japanese artist Tenmyouya Hisashi's traditional-meets-modern Gundam painting "RX-78-2 Kabuki-mono 2005 Version" went for HK$4.8 million (approx. US$600,000). WoW! Hisashi says

In Japan there are many "Gundam-Otaku's," and their adoration of Gundam is intense. Therefore, I did not want to change their image of Gundam. By changing Gundam's "mobile suit" to tattoos, I altered his body, and made him even more customized. I emphasized the very concept of the "mobile suit," and by setting Gundam against a background of gold leaf from traditional Japanese painting, I emphasized Gundam's samurai origins.

Linked from likecool.com

Friday, December 5, 2008

Ian Kim's artwork

Really nice work.

"Monkey"

"Circumcision"

"Librarians on Ice"

http://www.iankim.net/

Mucus dispenser

Oooh. I like! http://www.potpourrigift.com/itemdy00.asp?T1=R85103#zoom
It comes as "Breast dispensers" as well. But I don't want to link that.

Xtreme Geek

http://www.x-tremegeek.com/templates/TshirtStoreDetail.asp?StyleID=140
(If you're still wondering, the picture won't load.)

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Morfai

I dunno what the title means or where this statue is... but it's super awesome!

http://pan-dan.blogspot.com/2008/10/m-o-r-f-i.html

Type the Sky

The site isn't in English so I have no idea what is being written, but I love the shots.
http://www.slanted.de/eintrag/type-sky

Man Chair

No link for this one, picture taken from http://www.likecool.com

Bodylicious

Bodylicious X, inspired by Nyotaimori, the contraversial art of displaying sushi on a naked woman, using her body as a tray. Bodylicious Y, comes in the male form, also known as Nantaimori.

http://www.designcode.es/

Francoise Neilly

Love her work: http://www.francoise-nielly.com/en/index.html

Things to do before I die:

(In this probable order)

1. Eat a honeypot ant.

2. Go luxury camping at Uluru, Ayers Rock and witness the rock by sunset. This one has to be luxury camping. This will do: http://www.longitude131.com.au/ Or this one: http://www.nikiomahe.com/architecture-design/architecture-design-longitude-131°-australia/

3. Walk with lions in Zimbabwe’s Antelope Park that has a breeding program being run, meaning plenty of juvenile lions tame enough for tourists to walk with in the savannah.

4. Go camping in Alaska and witness the aurora borealis. I'd like to rough it out in the wild for this one.. Really be one with nature so to speak. Maybe that's a bit nuts. I'll settle for a warm log cabin too I guess.

5. Witness the migration of the Monarch butterflies in North America.

6. Cage dive with Great White sharks in "Shark Alley", near Cape Town, South Africa.

7. Mountain bike on the noticeably alien landscape around Moab, Utah.

8. Dive to the “centre” of the Earth in Iceland where a gap in the Earth's tectonic plates give front-row seats to the centre of the planet.

I’ll keep adding…

Quotes

"Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “When you go to sleep tonight, what are you going to regret not doing today?”
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X Men 2 - Nightcrawler: "Then why not stay in disguise all the time… You know, look like everyone else?" Mystique:" Because we shouldn't have to."
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"Obsession breeds rejection."
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I love you. I say this all too often yet never enough.
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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. - Margaret Mitchell