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Cute world domination rabbit by Marc Johns (buy print). The original is available on Marc Johns’ Flickr account.

See also: Stalin

Carved relief of naked German political leaders grabbing each other’s genitals

“…curious Germans have flocked [in Bodman-Ludwigshafen, in the far south of Germany] for over a week to see a new work by the sculptor Peter Lenk, [a] carved relief of naked German political leaders [former German Finance Minister Hans Eichel, former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, current Chancellor Angela Merkel, former governor of Bavaria Edmund Stoiber and current leader of the Free Democrats, Guido Westerwelle] … naked and laughing and grabbing each other’s genitals. A banner over their heads reads, in English, “Global Players.”"

Little Girl Beatbox

Fineartphotoblog is a wonderful collection of quite varying but extraordinarily vivid photos. The above sample is “Our Final Exit” by Mathias Pastwa.

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Italian museum displays crucified frog despite accusations of blasphemy

“The wooden sculpture by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger depicts a frog about one metre 30 centimetres high nailed to brown cross and holding a beer mug in one outstretched hand and an egg in another.”

Photo from Ecopolis.

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The Early George Carlin

Includes links to Youtube clips

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GITMO simulation at Coney Island amusement park

“If you climb up a few cinderblock steps to the small window, you can look through the bars at a scene meant to invoke a Guantánamo Bay interrogation. A lifesize figure in a dark sweatshirt, the hood drawn low over his face, leans over another figure in an orange jumpsuit, his face covered by a towel and his body strapped down on a tilted surface.”

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Street art: “Vote for Nobody”

The Truth is strong in Nobody

According to the notes of another photo, this is located on a wall in Guelph, Ontario, CA.

Cartoonist draws “anything” for $2

Webcomic artist DJ Coffman will apparently draw anything for $2. After having looked at his gallery of custom drawings, I ordered one myself.

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Video: artist creating amazing cosmic spray paint art

A deceivingly simple technique resulting in detailed space scenery.

Sopranos inspired painting sold for record price

Federico Castelluccio, who played a hitman in the critically acclaimed American television show The Sopranos has painted a portrait of the series’ lead characters, Tony and Carmela Soprano. The work is inspired by Piero della Francesca’s 15th century painting of Federico da Montefeltro and his wife Battista Sforza.

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Photos: Mother makes wooden Simpsons cut-outs for son’s graduation

My mom never did anything like these for me. I’d prefer to have a lawnfull of characters from Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python animations, though. I can think of nothing better than decapitated Victorian aristocracy to show off in a garden.

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Creative farm juicing process

“Behind the scenes tour of of an award-winning creative farm, juicing process and distribution in South West England.”

I guess you’re old enough to know what creativity is made from.

Browser based art generator

Thanks to Aza Raskin, you can now generate one-click art using a simple, open source javascript tool in your browser. Demo video included.

Here’s an example of what can be done with this.

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Fascinating graphics artist

The most interesting work of “tebe_interesno“, a Moscow based graphics artist, seems to involve photorealistic scenery with strange drawn creatures inserted.

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