Salvador Dali on What’s My Line
Found via Michelle Cosco
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The War of the Worlds, 1978
Jeff Wayne’s 1978 progressive rock disco show tunes concept album War of the Worlds is both a masterpiece and a hairbrained idea.
I have the original two LP set, illustrated with large paintings by artists Peter Goodfellow, Geoff Taylor and Michael Trim (pictured) – showing a Victorian world gone mad. Richard Burton narrates the invasion, with text from H.G. Wells original novel. [Read more →]
Plastic in the Pacific Ocean
‘Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world’s oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean.’
From Chris Jordan’s Running the Numbers II: Portraits of global mass culture. Details here.
Anderson: Cooper Black
David M. Anderson’s Chaotic Times of Cooper Black, 2008. Mixed media on canvas.
Based on the type of Ozwald Cooper (1879-1940). From my Typography 3 course at Art Institute of California Sacramento.
Stella McCartney + Ed Ruscha
‘When it comes to their lines of work, fashion designer Stella McCartney and American artist Ed Ruscha love to push the envelope. Stella and Ed get together to chat about Stella’s burning passion for clothes and Ed’s zest for painting.’
Preview above. Watch the complete episode in its entirety here (note: small fee required via iTunes or Netflix).
Part of Sundance’s Iconoclasts series.
Found via sfgirlbybay
Bowie + Picasso, interpreted by Stéphane Evezard
Short animated film produced in 2004 by Paris8 University masters student Stéphane Evezard. Based on Bowie’s Pablo Picasso; from the album Reality.
Visit Stéphane’s site here.
Found via Jeanne Mehallo
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