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  • Jud Turner - Sculpture Gallery - Duel Nature - 2010
    "'Duel Nature' is my latest 'Impossible Flying Machine' sculpture. It's about the unnatural act of war-making, expressed by heavily arming 2 trees; it's also about the fact that much of what appears to be pastoral nature is also a war between plants for sunlight and nutrients played out very slowly."
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    My work involves the construction of small-scale meticulously detailed models using various materials and objects to create emotive landscapes.

Links:

• Managing Your Big Idea So That It Doesn’t Eat Your Brain | Men With Pens – Why are you doing this? Seriously. That’s the most crucial, integral and important question to answer before launching yet another blog, yet another business, yet another BIG IDEA into the world.
• Portraits made from type – Boing Boing – A series of advertisements featuring portraits of people composed of typographical characters.
• HistoryShots – Information Graphics – History Related – We create informational graphics that tell stories about subjects, time periods and events. Our purpose is to inform and entertain you with intense content embedded in an elegant design.
• A 3-Minute Fairy Tale of Mixed Emoticons – information aesthetics – Storyteller and poet Rives tells a typographical fairy tale that’s short and bittersweet. On stage, his poems burst in many directions, too, exposing multiple layers and unexpected treats

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• FM 100 Hue Test – Drag and drop the colors in each row to arrange them by hue order.
• Calamity Coach – Thirteen reasons not to travel – A non-narrative pictorial sequence of imaginary events designed to discourage even the bravest of souls from vehicular travel.
• Dropping Adsense – Saying Goodbye to $100K Per Year in Easy Income – I found myself feeling increasingly disconnected from most of the ads that were being displayed. I don’t want to generate income in a manner that makes me feel disconnected.
• You should make one, too. – We’re at an interesting juncture in publishing history. An individual can produce a book as polished as a corporate outlet can for about the same price
• http://drawn.ca/2008/09/26/le-tone-lake-of-udaipur/ – In this clever music video, the drawings of a travel sketchbook come to life.

Links:

• Mail Me Art: The Book, HAI Promo » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog – MAiLmeART project which invited illustrators to send him decorated parcels and postcards as works of art has been turned into a book, which is available on Amazon for pre-orders.
• Laura Plansker » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog – Creepy-cute photo-dioramas from artist Laura Plankser. I love this kind of thing, and it has me itching to create my own little characters and worlds.
• Linzie Hunter’s spam one-liners as postcards » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog – A shining example of how personal creative exercises — in this case, illustrating e-mail spam messages — can turn into something incredibly rewarding. Postcards seem to be the perfect canvas for these typographic non sequiturs
• Jillian Tamaki Sketchbook: Idea Generation – Following this guide will not guarantee you success, conceptually, professionally, or otherwise. It’s just my way of working and I know for a fact it will not work for everyone.
• Typocalypse: what your fonts say about you » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog – I enjoyed this somewhat snarky Flickr set of the messages your typeface choices are sending about you: Typocalypse.
• 700 Mole-Men Begin Surfacing on Flickr » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog – The instructions, should you choose to play along, are simple: Find and consider the list of 700 Mole-Men and their occupations. Create an image depicting one (or more) of the Mole-Men. Post it to flickr and add it to this group.
• Adele Lack’s micropaintings – Boing Boing – Berlin-based artist Adele Lack has a show of her micro paintings.
• Atom Bomb Bikini: Happy Halloween! – I compromised, and came up with something totally gross yet pretty funny. I used the cover of an oft-seen collection of pin-up paintings by the great Gil Elvgren as a starting point, and did my own little homage to this familiar image.
• Tamagotchi Life Clocks – The Jinsei Tokei Alarm (GALLERY) – The Jinsei Tokei or Life Clock is an alarm clock that contains an animated avatar inside that mimics your real-life events in Tamagotchi-like fashion.

I just found and bookmarked the following link Ye Olde Google Charts Directions for Columbus’ First Trip. I didn’t read the entire post at first, just saw the headline and the old-fashioned looking map. My 7 year old daughter recently learned about Columbus in school and we’d been discussing the route he’d taken. Great, I thought, now I’ll be able to show her Columbus’ route on Google Maps, with an old-fashioned chart and all. It was only when I re-read the post and noticed the link was from CollegeHumor.com that I realised it probably wasn’t what I thought it was. An amusing post nonetheless, but would probably result in more questions than answers for a 7 year old.