Category Archives: Art

You’re Doing Art All Wrong…

Posted on January 22, 2020 by cPaul

Damien Hirst medicine cabinet bought for £600 goes on sale for over £1m “I lived with that medicine cabinet for seven years with people telling me it was crap” — ROBERT TIBBLES https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/early-damien-hirst-medicine-cabinet-bought-for-gbp600-goes-on-sale

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A project to algorithmically generate all “prior art” and obviate the patent system

Posted on April 12, 2016 by cPaul

“All Prior Art is a project attempting to algorithmically create and publicly publish all possible new prior art, thereby making the published concepts not patent-able.” So far, the project has generated 1,660,000 inventions. 1460392748-9803eaba-cda7-4761-b5c2-a4a15e5a5cf2 An adjustable visual optical element is … Continue reading →

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Man will be your real-life Elf on the Shelf for $100 an hour

Posted on December 18, 2015 by cPaul

Boston man will be your real-life Elf on the Shelf for $100 an hour   Finally, you can ditch the cute stuffed toy for a large, adult man.   APPLE.NEWS|BY MAX KNOBLAUCH    

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Free Nfld

Posted on October 31, 2015 by cPaul

This improbable island! Excellent. FREE NFLD   If FREE NFLD is a call to action, what is it asking us to do?     THEINDEPENDENT.CA

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Celebrated Canadian painter Alex Colville – dead at 92

Posted on July 17, 2013 by cPaul

RIP, Alex. WOLFVILLE, N.S. – Celebrated painter Alex Colville, whose meticulously crafted scenes of everyday life established him as one of Canada’s most well-known modern artists, has died at the age of 92. Official site of Alex Coville

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Protected: PJB artwork dump

Posted on April 11, 2007 by cPaul

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Condiment Packet Museum

Posted on September 13, 2006 by cPaul

The Internet has got everything, including an online condiment packet museum with over 900 ketchup, mustard, relish, and other condiment packets in their collection! Link

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The Advertising Art of Dr. Seuss

Posted on September 9, 2006 by cPaul

  The doctor named Seuss is well known for books But here are some other pics worthy of looks: Some ad art for sugar, some ad art for clocks, Some ad art for shaving cream inside a box, Some ad … Continue reading →

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Artificial Cartoon-Character Skeletons

Posted on September 2, 2006 by cPaul

This Korean art exhibition explores the fictional anatomy of cartoon characters, with elaborate faked-up skeletons for Looney Toons characters, anatomical drawings of Mickey and friends, and many other artifacts from the study of toon anatomy. Link Posted on Saturday, September … Continue reading →

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Anatomical anomalies of the famous monsters of filmland

Posted on September 1, 2006 by cPaul

Michael C. LaBarbera, a professor in Organismal Biology & Anatomy at the University of Chicago, published this wonderful paper about the reality of movie-monster anatomy in 2003. In the paper, LaBarbera explores the implications of extremely large and extremely small … Continue reading →

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