Artist who paints on Chewing Gum
Ben Wilson spends everyday on the streets of North London, painting on the blobs of chewing gum that deface London’s pavement. Check Miriam’s blog post below to read all about Ben and his art!!
Link via: Writer Miriam Halahmy’s Blog – Wednesday, March 10,2010
http://miriamhalahmy.blogspot.com/2010/03/chewing-gum-artist.html
Who designed the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Mascots?
Canadian-designed Vancouver 2010 plush mascot – Miga, the Sea-Bear. Miga is wearing the Vancouver 2010 must-have memento – Red Mittens.
The designers of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic mascots (Quatchi, Miga and Sumi… and Mukmuk) is Meomi (MEOMI is Vicki Wong and Michael Murphy (Vancouver / Los Angeles).
Oogly Woogly Miss Helen CJOH
Miss Helen drawing my favourite childhood character – Oogly Woogly (the little boy worm)
Another show – Uncle Chichimus
You Can’t DO that on Television – (yes, that’s Alanis Morissette in the second row, far right)
On January 29, 1979, CJOH aired the first episode of this television series. YCDTOTV aired live on Saturday mornings with musical guests, games, slap-stick humor and call-in segments.
I was so saddened to hear the news about the fire at the CTV Ottawa building, especially sad is the loss of the archives, read today’s CTV news article – so many great shows were aired on the ( CJOH ) station back when I was a child. I fondly remember the Miss Helen show which was my favourite!
image credits: CJOH 40th Anniversary photos
Print on demand Art Portfolios
How cool would it be to have YOUR ART displayed in your very own slick printed magazine!
Talk about professional looking!
I was over at theartblog.org this morning, and came across their post about MagCloud. Being curious, I clicked over to the MagCloud website to read more.
image from MagCloud website – http://magcloud.com/browse/Issue/53757
“MagCloud started as an HP Labs incubation project to evaluate new, online marketplaces for buying and selling custom and niche magazines with print on demand fulfillment. MagCloud is inventing new ways to bring consumers and publishers together in a web-based marketplace where choice, flexibility and print on demand are the cornerstones of the community.” snippet from their website
What caught my eye is a great new feature they are working on that would make creating your art or photo portfolio a breeze:
“It’s our mission in life to make magazine publishing accessible to everyone, so we are putting the finishing touches on a great new feature that lets you easily turn your online photo albums into a magazine without leaving MagCloud’s website.” snippet from their website
see more, read more about MagCloud on their website: http://www.magcloud.com
Spaghetti Bench
image credit: artist – Pablo Reinoso via carpentersworkshopgallery.com
Pablo Reinoso: French-Argentine artist and designer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1955. Lives and works in Paris since 1979.
“The Spaghetti Bench takes it’s inspiration from the universal park bench “everyone has sat on a bench like this, some have been kissed on one, others have waited for their kid on one, they are common to everybody”. The benches are not only conceptual works but also feats of handcrafted dexterity. Each wooden slat is hand-carved to create the sinuous curve, the human intervention of the manufacture once again triumphs over the straight lines of the traditional park bench. “
link via: smartpeopleiknow.wordpress.com
