Link Round-Up: May 10, 2012

Chibi Avengers get their Weapons taken Away

Via: Reddit

The 50 Best Star Wars Pictures

Final Fantasy Disney Characters

Game of Thrones TV Posters

Has the "Art world" become less about art and more about “the spectacle of art" due to the parallels between art and our world of technology?

Will Facial-Recognition Software Finally Reveal Mona Lisa’s True Identity?

Link Round-Up: May 7, 2012

"Gilded" by Sam Spratt

Black Widow paper toy available for download.

Brush up on your Game of Thrones history with these beautifully animated shorts.

In the 2011 image series, If I Could Use Photoshop in Real Life…, Sad and Useless has humorously imagined how Photoshop could have some handy real world applications.

Type Connection is a game that helps you learn how to pair typefaces.

Vesa Lehtimäki crafts and photographs extremely intricate Lego Star Wars action scenes. Some are even stereoscopic. If you like these, you may love Kristina Alexanderson's project, CClones. This is a favourite of mine.

Link Round-Up: May 2, 2012

"Star Wars Geometric" by Ashraf Omar

143 hours and four ink pens

200,000 Clay Figures: British sculptor Antony Gormley is well-known for his life-size sculptures that creatively mimic the human body, but the figurative clay mounds from his series titled Field, though not as accurate in depicting mankind's form, holds deeper value for the artist. Gormley says of this project, "I wanted to work with people and to make a work about our collective future and our responsibility for it. I wanted the art to look back at us, its makers (and later viewers), as if we were responsible - responsible for the world that it [FIELD] and we were in."


The Creative Personality: Ten paradoxical traits of the creative personality

Free Comic Book Day is back again! It's the one day a year when comic book stores in North America and around the world will be handing out free books -- mainly as an attempt to lure new readers to the genre. Some shops do signings, too. See you at the comic book shops on May 5th!

The Hunger Games Gets a NES 8-Bit Makeover


The Trashcam project: garbage bins converted to pinhole cameras.

Link Round-Up: May 1, 2012

Derek Gores is an American artist specializing in collage. From pieces of torn magazines and newspapers, he creates highly detailed figurative portraits.

Check out the Mondo Avengers posters. I think the style for Iron Man is “Art Nueromanceau,” but I could be wrong.

Check out these amazing pencil portraits done on old matchbooks, including characters from Creepshow and Young Frankenstein.

Cthulhu's distant cousin, the Cthonian Elephant

Sheep Invaders is a sweater and from designer Monsieur Lacenarie. But you can play an online version of Sheep Invaders on their Facebook here.

Link Round-Up: April 30, 2012

A statue featuring superheroes Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman was displayed during a media preview for the Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The exhibit examined how Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and others have influenced big-name fashion designers.

After a 4 year hiatus, the popular web comedy series “You Suck at Photoshop” has returned to My Damn Channel for a 3rd season (episode 1 and episode 2).
Blind-Pixel777 has posted a gallery of Minimalist Game Posters for Assassin's Creed, BioShock, Portal 2, and more.

Brooklyn-based graphic designer and custom chalk letterer Dana Tanamachi creates beautiful typographic chalk art for store displays, magazines, and even wedding invitations

I've featured Rod Gillies's microscale Star Wars Lego creations several times. You can now vote and try to get them published as genuine sets.

Just the First Framedisplays the first panel of dozens of recently updated webcomics, so that you can discover new comics based on how well they hook you in with their art and just a few words.

Link Round-Up: April 26, 2012

"Am I Living Up To My Creative Potential?"

This global study by Adobe shows 75% of people don’t think they are.

@irkafirka illustrates tweets. Illustrator Nick Hilditch (@Pockless) makes cute little cartoons out of selected twitter posts. Also available on twitter, of course.

Jordan Speer's 3D modeling work is colorful and strange. Examples: CHUNDERMUSCLE, Abduction of the Arcade Fiend, Sob Museum, Kontrascope, Deep Hell Discovery Probe, and The Bullshit Dragon of Fake-ass Mountain.

"The Secret Pet Society"  is an fantastical series of paintings with descriptions by artist Travis Louie which features Victorian-era styled people posing alongside their mythical creatures. Arrested Motion has an interview with the artist.

Start Ups: This is how Design works. A guide for non-designers by Wells Riley

Why can't Start Ups find designers?

Link Round-Up: April 25, 2012

Make your own Legend of Zelda Pixel Cookies

9 Totally Awesome 404 Pages

Lego has released a free movie-making app.

Looking MARVELous is a tumblr that provides comic book-inspired fashion based on Marvel comic book characters. You'll find not only popular characters, like Spider-man or Iron Man. Some of the inspired outfits come from lesser-known characters such as Squirrel Girl (who?) and Molly Hayes (umm?). Here is the full page version. 

Make cinemagraphs with this free app from Microsoft.

Pipe Dream: Not the video game, but the CGI animation that likely played on a bajillion TVs set up in stores like Radio Shack back in the day. An attempt to build a real-life version of this was attempted recently, but it just wasn’t the same.

Link Round-Up: April 23, 2012

Aperture Daleks

"We EXTERMINATE because we can."

18 stunning sci-fi guitars that'll shred your geek world

25 Dieselpunk Themed Desktop Wallpapers

Cake Wrecks has a gallery of Sweet Robot Cakes, including Daleks, K-9, and more.

The Dalek Factor is a site devoted to variations on the classic Doctor Who Dalek

The Nerdist takes a look at The Art of Science Tattoos

Some hilarity is to be had in McSweeny’s Amateur Art History transcription, unless you are an art history major, in which case… sorry?

Link Round-Up: April 17, 2012

"Cthulhugami" by Miguel Romero

Chad Person is Making Art With Money. Cutting up dollar bills and rearranging them in collages, he’s created these imposing images of military hardware, from aircraft carriers to pistols.

N.C. Winters Turns Pop Culture Heroes into Religious Icons

Timeline of 20th Centure Art and New Media

'What If' Thomas Perkins Art Imagines Obscure Heroes in 'Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes'

Link Round-Up: April 16, 2012

"The Right Beer For the Occasion" by Gamelaner

Via: it8bit

Batman and Darth Vader invade art history, in these absolutely deranged paintings

Can QR Codes Be the Next Pop Art Meme?

Clouds 365 Project. The goal? To shoot an image or video of clouds every day. Sorted by month or time of day, or personal favorites of the photographer, Kelly DeLay.

The Evolution of the Sci Fi Movie Poster

Incredibly detailed miniature food sculptures by Shay Aaron, available on Etsy.

Let's add some monsters to thrift store paintings! Artists Chris McMahon and Thryza Segal decided to inject a little fun into these discarded works and give them a second life by adding monsters to the scenic landscapes.

Link Round-Up: April 13, 2012

DeviantArt user Dynamaito mocked up the above image of a fighter video game based on A Game of Thrones. Khal Drogo vs Robb Stark is the first round, but Tyrion vs Cersei is on the way!


Bricks and Brains: Lego Shaun of The Dead Set Gains 10,000 Supporters 

The Good, The Bad, and The Wookie

I've just been told 500px is the new Flickr. Speak among yourselves.

Is Data Visualization the Future of Art?

What if your favorite websites were dresses?

Link Round-Up: April 9, 2012

Dr Who? by Mandie Manzano

10 alternative Disney movie posters

Advice for designing and presenting conference posters. Don't miss the worst poster ever.

Argentian artist (and eccentric) Raul Lemesoff drives around Buenos Aires in a homemade tank distributing free books to the masses.

Jonathan Roberts does Fantastic Maps. Whether you're looking for tutorials for tabletop RPG mapmaking, or just want to check out the designs of a professional fantasy cartographer, the only place to go is Fantastic Maps. And if you're a GRR Martin fan, you'll soon be more familiar with Roberts' name, since he has been picked to do the cartography for the October 2012 atlas of the lands of A Song of Ice and Fire.

The Steampunk (Alpha Dominche): A Curious Coffee Contrapulation: "With just a few quick taps on the touch screen, the barista customizes the STEAMPUNK brewing process to optimize the flavor of each beverage. The anticipation then begins. The customer is treated to a dazzling theatrical presentation as the STEAMPUNK’s gleaming glass crucibles fill with swirling steam. The barista then places the ground coffee on the piston and plunges it into the crucible. The grinds whirl and dance as they’re agitated and aerated by the millions of tiny bubbles. At the barista’s command, the liquid coffee is pulled by vacuum through a specially designed ultrafine photo-milled metal filter, and the dark brown elixir streams gracefully into the awaiting cup."

Link Round-Up: April 6, 2012

Source: Touge Tied

The art behind the "Game of Thrones" opening title sequence

Dinner's coming! Game Of Thrones House Pizzas you'll need a sword to cut

Download a papercraft Battle Droid courtesy of Lucasarts.

Jacek Yerka, laberinto surrealista creates fascinating works of fantasy art

What if Doctor Who were a Super Nintendo roleplaying game?

Link Round-Up: April 5, 2012

How to retrofit your old turntables into an analog drawing apparatus by Robert Howsare

News: New 'World of Warcraft' Mega Bloks Bring the MMO to Bricky Life

The 12 Illustrations blog has kicked off a month of Batman Beyond tribute art and is currently taking submissions.

Does Digital Art Hold Value?


Joseph Larson's 3D-printed custom chess set forms a friggin' chess piece mech to rival the Megazord. Larson's even gifted humankind with all with the schematics to make their own copy (provided they have 3D printers). Via: Gizmodo

Link Round-Up: April 4, 2012

The Lord of the Rings: Shields of Middle-Earth Poster  from Weta

Price: US$14.99

This poster is a beautiful collection of photos of some of the props created by the artists and craftsmen at Weta for The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. These shields are the ones used in the movies.

'Game of Thrones' Mashup Art Brings Winter to Muppets, Ponies and More

Shaun Of The Dead Winchester Bar LEGO Set

The How Not To Kill Your Baby Official Growth Chart Of Doom

Underwater Rapture from Bioshock built for Brickworld 2011

Who says science is boring? Watch the world's most extraordinary 'kinetic sculpture'

Link Round-Up: March 28, 2012

Source: Books Pinterest by Nathan Komosinski

8-Bit Movie Posters on the Behance Network

NASA charts out the flow of the oceans over the course of decades in a beautiful video reminiscent of the work of Van Gogh

Unused Storyboards For WB's Live Action AKIRA Movie

Victor Hugo imagines Marvel's Iron Man films with a Pixar aesthetic.

Yarn Trek: The Next Generation

Link Round-Up: March 20, 2012

Controller Tree by Steve Wink

Infographic: The Art of Color Coordination

Amazing macro photos of ants "at work" and "at play." There are many, many more photos here. My favorite is the weightlifting ant. Ants are incredibly strong for their size, as this amazing picture of an ant holding a snail shows.

Heidi Kenney threw a Minecraft-themed party complete with Creeper pinata.

Leveling-up at the Smithsonian: The medium of video games, after 40 years, is "worthy of examination as an art form," he said. It is also the first reflection of nerd culture within a museum that, Melissinos said, is arguably one of the arbiters of what is art in the world. The weight of the Smithsonian's stamp of approval not only starts a cultural dialogue about whether "Pitfall!" is art, but also what devotion to video games actually means.

Phil Toledano takes pictures of gamers playing video games

Link Round-Up: March 16, 2012

Godzilla vs the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man by Rabittooth

DC Nation Shows Us How to Draw Robin

For $3000, you too can live in a Hobbit hole

Guerrilla Tree Sculptor Takes Over UK Town

Mondo's Amazing New Gallery Opens with Sci-Fi Art at SXSW 2012

The mystery itself is a masterpiece: A $10 million painting by Degas — a simple figure of a ballerina in a yellow and red tutu pointing her toe – vanished from the New York City apartments of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, and wound up, innocently enough, on the living room wall of Henry Bloch, a Kansas art collector better known as the “H” in the tax company H&R Block. How it got there is a multi-layered tale involving one of the more colorful transactions in the history of high-end art.
For readers who have been following the Clark mystery story on msnbc.com, this episode provides a new piece of evidence that could be important in the legal battle over her $400 million estate.

What Fantasy Art Looked Like Before Photoshop

Link Round-Up: March 13, 2012

The Starks of Winterfell by LunasCrafts

These adorable Kawaii Starks are almost enough to make a fan boy squee.  I can hardly wait for season two!

News: Researchers in Italy say they may have found traces of a Leonardo Da Vinci work hidden under a Florentine fresco.

3D-Printer with Nano-Precision: Ultra-high-resolution 3D Printer Breaks Speed-Records at Vienna University of Technology.

Five Ways that Star Wars Counts as High Art

LED Wallpaper by Ingo Maurer

Nintendo Papercraft is a blog jam-packed with paper versions of your favorite classic Nintendo characters.

Old Book Illustrations are vintage pictures that were originally wood engravings or woodcuts, etchings or metal engravings. Old Book Art is pictures, drawings, maps and other images from antiquarian, public-domain books and other old documents.

Photographer Ondrej Pakan takes macro pictures of insects. Pakan's portfolio on 500px.

Link Round-Up: March 14, 2012

"Infinite Possibility" by Ben Badger

This is an abstract based on polyhedral dice used for table top roleplaying games.

12 Amazing Recycled Dragons

Fascinating set of images of Undressing a Sony NEX Camera and revealing the innards of a modern digital camera.

How to draw a cartoon leprechaun

Stratocam (explore the world through Google Satellite imagery, share shapshots of your own discoveries)

Toy Shining (inspired Toy Story/Shining mashup created on the iPad)

The Water Tank Project has set out to beautify New York City this coming spring.