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Art: Underground artist Banksy gives away hi-res images of his work for free

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UK underground artist Banksy who created quite an uproar with his exhibition in L.A. last autumn, has put up a series of high resolution images of his work for download from “his web site”. Banksy, who’s painting are selling for above USD 100,000 lately, seems to have gotten fed up with all those selling pirated prints of his work on eBay. Looks like pirates don’t like to get pirated themselves…

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Paper Art: Peter Callesen

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Incredible what Peter Callesen does with a sheet of paper. Particularly outstanding is his large scale work. More information on “Peter Callesen’s” web site…

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India: Santa Claus on the beach

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The Indian sand sculpture artist Sudarsan Patnaik has with the help from 15 students created the largest sand sculpture in India…

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Movie: Yellow Submarine online

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The Beatles movie “Yellow Submarine” is still an outstanding piece of art after more then 30 years. Those who have never seen it, can now also watch it online. Available in full length at…

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Video: Javier García - Autobahn Polizei

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Together with Michal Levy’s “Giant Steps” Javier Garcia with “Autobahn Polizei” has created one of the best Jazz music videos available on the web…

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Christmas Shopping ideas: Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings

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There are seemingly still some copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s silk screen print of “Trout’s Tomb” available. Two links for those of you that don’t know who “Kurt Vonnegut” or “Kilgore Trout” are…

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Art: Josh Keyes Painting

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The imagery of US artist Josh Keyes has been described as a response to the endless storm of information, events, and visual phenomena that we encounter in today’s culture…

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Design: Ithemba light bulbs

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In 2003 two South African designers, Cyrille Varet and Scott Hart, started to ask well known fashion designers and artists to design light bulbs. And since then more than 60 of the best know artist in the world have joint their efforts to support women affected by AIDS. The list includes Fashion designers like John Galliano, JC de Castelbajac, Vivienne Westwood, Thierry Mugler, Calvin Klein and many others (full list below)…

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Happy Birthday Tomi Ungerer

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Today Tomi Ungerer, satirist and illustrator, turns 75. When Tomi Ungerer is compared to other artists often the names of the very best like Goya, Hogarth, George Grosz or Daumier are used to describe his work. He became famous with witty children books but also for his erotic, sarcastic and political drawings. 1998 he was given the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his life work on children books. But still until today it is almost impossible to buy one of his books in the UK or the US…

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Manufactured Landscapes

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Last month Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary “Manufactured Landscapes”, a portrait of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky won the Toronto-City Award for the Best Canadian Feature Film. The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country…

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