garfield (minus garfield)

Garfield minus Garfield is “a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.” It takes Garfield (sans speech bubbles) to the next level.

If I were living alone with the memories of all the failed dates I’d been on, I’d begin hallucinating too!

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classic
edit: yes, this is filed dubiously under “art”

for the love of god

Damien Hirst, For the Love of God [enlarge]

This piece of art, entitled “For the Love of God”, was created by Damien Hirst and will be on display at White Cube Mason’s Yard. It’s a skull made out of platinum, diamonds, and human teeth. The total thing has 8,601 diamonds and comes in at 1,106.18 carats. It’s the most expensive piece of art ever created, costing between $16 and $20 million to make, and $99 million to buy. And totally worth it if you ask me. Why feed starving children in Africa when you can glue diamonds to a skull? It just makes sense.

Extract from geekologie.com
http://www.geekologie.com/2007/06/damien_hirsts_for_the_love_of.php

Absolutely the bestest YBA (Young British Artist) ever with one of the most reasonably priced works of “art”. Plus, the sarcasm of the writer is infectious.

I tend to agree with the Stuckists.

Is it that a dead shark isn’t art at all?

giuseppe arcimboldo

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi; 1527 – July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books — that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognisable likeness of the portrait subject.

Wikipedia Giuseppe Arcimboldo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Winter [enlarge]

Giuseppe Arcimbolde, Summer [enlarge]

Really places portrait art in a whole new perspective.
You can check out more of his stuff at the wikipedia article linked above.

Fruity guy, though.