Unlikely prize fights

03Apr08

From Zooilogix A new exhibition of nature drawings, paintings and renderings has just opened at Buckingham Palace. The event focuses around four artists and a collector (Leonardo da Vinci, Cassiano dal Pozzo, Alexander Marshal, Maria Sibylla Merian and Mark Catesby) who lived from the mid 15th century to the late 18th. As an added bonus […]

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Tags: animals, art, dinosaur, natural history, squid, whale

Wilfrid Wood

02Apr08

Take a look at Wilfrid Wood’s peculiar organisms… He used to work on the British satirical tv show Spitting Image. Via Drawn!

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Tags: art, artists, illustration

The Metamorphosis

01Apr08

Franz Kafka’s tale of a salesman that wakes up to find he has been transformed into an insect is a favourite of mine. Scenes from the book lend themselves to illustration, and two illustrators that are capable of rendering images with suitable pathos have interpreted it within within the past few years Peter Kuper’s adaption […]

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Tags: art, comics, crumb, illustration, kafka, kuper, literature

Brian Eno – What he’s changed his mind about

31Mar08

Brian Eno answers the question “What have you changed your mind about?” at The World Question Center. I like the idea of Another Green World Question Center.

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Tags: ambient, Brian Eno, music, politics, prog rock