Culture Buzz Toy company Child's Own turns kids' drawings into real life plush toys. Terrifying and endearing all at once.
These all-types-of-awesome drawings were created on the hit mobile app Draw Something by OMGPOP.
Celebrity Buzz People are obsessed with this woman. Singer/songwriter/lightning rod Lana Del Rey isn't just a muse for music critics' venomous quills, she seems to have inspired quite a few visual artists as well.
Where’s Waldo? Now where’s your favorite pop culture icon or character, because they’re probably in this picture, too. Click here to enlarge.
Culture Buzz Christoph Niemann, a cartoonist from the New York Times (remember this), live-drew and tweeted his entire NYC marathon run. This is honestly one of the coolest/most impressive things I've ever seen. What did you do today?
Culture Buzz Based out of Brooklyn, artist Joe Fenton creates large-scale pieces out of graphite, ink, and acrylics on watercolor paper. See much more here. (via emptykingdom.com)
Singapore-based art director and designer Chan Hwee Chong uses a single long line to create spiral recreations of famous artworks. See more here. (via odditycentral.com)
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Draw me like one of your french cats.
Ever wonder what takes place on /b/, 4chan's infamous random board? Well, look no further! Seriously, look no further. It's not pretty.
Culture Buzz From an MIT exhibit called Ground Zero 1945: Pictures By Atomic Bomb Survivors, stunning and tragic pieces of art from those who witnessed the horrors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. These have eerie parallels with some of the scenes of destruction we see in Japan today. WARNING: Many of these portraits are disturbing.
Culture Buzz Initially a computer programming student, Jenni “JWoww” Farley switched majors to attend the New York Institute of Technology and pursue a love of art. Then Jersey Shore happened. Now her student site from NYIT has come to light, showcasing the paintings, drawings and sketches she made there. If Snooki can write the Great American Novel, maybe JWoww is the future of American art. (Via.)
Are they animal, vegetable, or mineral? Well, I guess they're not mineral. (via 9gag)
Redditor alanstanwyk arrived home from work to find that his 4 year old son had installed a new dino-proof security system on their house. How could this NOT keep dinosaurs out?
Culture Buzz Brandon Bird is the geek Da Vinci. Here's a selection of his paintings and drawings. (More at The Swedish Bed.)
Nedroid and his friend Emmy found that after drawing Bill Cosby separately, their Cosbies were nearly identical! So they set out to explore the “collective consciousness of Cosby” by getting 190 people to draw the Cosby. They expected sweaters and pudding pop references, but discovered that not all associated Bill with those two stereotypes — only 8 of 190 drawings had both the Cosby sweater and the Jell-O pudding pop.
This economie is no fun for poor ol' Timothy Geithner. It just won't fly!
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Does it make you feel better that you weren't the only one who imagined this double entendre? Harry Swartz-Turfle imagines the O faces of your fave Presidents. Whether you were curious or not.