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The awesomeness of art in the age of mechanical reproduction

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Been tryin’ to dust off this website lately and maybe even make it functional, and what could inspire me more than these action-figure-like figurines based on famous artists? I got this link (via a Flores email) and immediately started drooling.
Monster Playing the Harp based on Hieronymus Bosch. It reminds me of a Skeksis.
A [...]

Anything with “dark” in the title is guaranteed to be good

Monday, September 19th, 2005

And sometimes things just appear at your fingertips. Today (thanks to del.icio.us/popular) I stumbed upon Ðarkςτridεr.net.
From Jiri Barta’s Krysar (Pied Piper) / Ðarkςτridεr.net
Damn. This site is amazing: a look at stop-motion animation from around the world, concentrating on Czech and other Eastern European animators. It is filled with video clips and seems [...]

The design of this site is original but is based on the the work of various amazing artists of the past, especially that of Alphonse Mucha. I’ve also incorporated some of the work of Grandville, Edmund J. Sullivan, and Henry van de Velde. The fonts used for headings are Berlin Regular and Airplane (Maniackers Design).

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