Counterfeit Artwork, Giant Money from Aisling Smyth
/I've featured Aisling's work before, and she just emailed me to tell me about her latest finished piece. Oh my god- stunning stitching. A giant bank note, check out Aisling's blog here.
The King & Queen of Vine, Marlo Meekins & WhoisMaxwell
/Vine is the newest iPhone (so far) social network. With celebs and plebs alike signing up in their thousands, Vine gives you six seconds to make a masterpiece. There are lots of talented artists and musicians on it too, and my favourite Famous Viners are definitely the ones who play for laughs.
Marlo Meekins Vine is a beautifully insane world of characters like nerdy Rose, who seems to have trouble with tubes, Marlo's pet dogs and she herself being bloody hilarious. I dare you to watch her feed and not fall in love with her.
I won Marlo's little competition to have a personalised Vine made. You'll know it when you scroll through and see it. You might have nightmares though.
Marlo is an artist by trade and her style oxymoronically mashes up the really feminine with crude bodily functions & grim jokes. She has an online store too, so if you can't access her Vine, please do check out her wares.
'Mister Vine' has to be WhoisMaxwell, Max Burlingame. I don't know quite as much about this character, except that he is a budding cartoonist & it's never safe to watch his new Vines around your five year old!
Max is funny, self-depreciating and wonderfully weird. He seems to have disappeared from Vine this week, but hopefully if you add him, he will be back soon.
Max drew me about a month ago, in his super creepy John Kricfalusi style.
So who do you like on Vine? You can also find me being an idiot on there.
Rudedoodle by WhoisMaxwell
Groovy Beatles' Fan Gypsy Child Painting
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Sean emailed me with his eBay listing of this Jolyelle print he's selling. It's in perfect condition, despite living in a house with 450+ cacti! A collecting family after my own heart.
Unfortunately I can't add to my collection, so if you would like to adopt the Beatles' Fan, here is the listing.
Love Struck Poultry by StrangePaul.com
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I won @Ben_Cameron's Twitter competition this week to win these cool, hand drawn illustrations. Check out his work at www.StrangePaul.com
What Happens When Creepy Breeds with Cute? - The Blood Draw Creature Collection
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Northern Irish illustrator Claire Miskimmin's work mashes up the stuff of nightmares with something you'd quite like to pet on your lap. Her gothic beasts wouldn't look out of place in Tim Burton's back garden, foraging for grubs for dinner.
Claire's work is available to take home at http://blooddraw.bigcartel.com and at her blog www.blooddraw.tumblr.com the bizarre menagerie is added to often.
Locally, you can view, buy, or have tattooed onto you these beasties at Skullduggery Tattoo, Belfast, N.Ireland. I'm very tempted to adopt one onto my skin myself in the coming year.
She also plays in the band Girls Names http://girlsnames-deadtome.tumblr.com/ check them out.
Manti Te'o's Imaginary Pancake Girlfriend, by Dan Lacey
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"Notre Dame is French for 'Our Lady' but here it represents the sorrowful Notre Dame des Douleurs as the pancake Co-Redemptrix is mourned by fabulous Mormon linebacker and Heisman Trophy finalist Manti Te'o.
We see in Manti's powerful visualization an understanding that love, once imagined, is not only beyond our grasp but also defies any demanded description or definition, especially when the object of one's affection is meant not for possession but as personalized inspiration.
In the classic two pancake stack Manti sees the eternal loss of the unification of the Christian Church, with divergent origins in God/Man Peter/Paul Catholic/Protestant coming to final manifestation in the questions concerning the authenticity of his own faith, sexuality, and lack of straight line speed. For as much as a good breakfast is desired, it sometimes remains an elusive ideal, as overly idealized as the Venus of Willendorf and as geopersonally separated as East versus West.
In the death of the professed idol Manti is able to overcome all of these false parallels, but yet the loss is shared by both the creator and the created, the latter shedding butter tears and with syrup mouth rotund in the anguish of assassinated myth."
Dollybirds Art
/Dollybirds are beautiful illustrations by Northern Irish artist Eimear Maguire. They'd make a beautiful Christmas gift, and from this weekend you can find them at the Avoca Store in Belfast.
If you fancy seeing even more, Eimear has an exhibition at Oscar & Oscar this month, or if you are further afield you can visit her Facebook page
