I took a nice, long, relaxing walk up Museum Mile the other night and took some neat pictures. I’m planning on doing this more, seeing as it’s on my way home and it’s such a beaut’ of an avenue. Above is (obviously) The Guggenheim. Below is The Metropolitan, The Frick (which technically isn’t part of Museum Mile, but I like to include it, anyway) and Cooper-Hewitt.
Tags: 5th ave, art, Cooper-Hewitt, Frick, Guggenheim, Metropolitan, museum mile, New York
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Very neat, but I don’t think I could do it myself… it would turn my stomach a little to cut up all that money!
As our financial markets continue to meltdown and our currency is in flux (I recently found myself staring blankly at a $14 Whopper at the Zurich International Airport), Mark Wagner seems to be having the time of his life.
Wagner, a collage artist, has been busy cutting up thousands of U.S. one dollar bills and reshuffling the pieces into fantastic works of art. The meticulousness of these collages is awe-inspiring.
Via Cartoon Brew
Tags: art, bills, collage, creative, currency, dollar, money
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Well, last Friday was very productive, indeed, and I plan on keeping up on this limited-internet routine for a while. But before I log off, I wanted to share some pictures from this weekend. Friday night Jack and I ventured down to Banksy’s show, The Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill. It was very cool and not nearly as crazy-packed as I thought it was going to be. (That’s not to say it wasn’t packed… it was… but, I was half-expecting a line around the block.) We hope to check it out again before it closes on the 31st.
Then we saw these 3 Obama mannequins in a clothing store’s window. Then saw 3 more in the other window! Kinda creepy, but think of all the hope and change we could get out of SIX Obamas runnin’ round the White House!
Hilarious video about how, oddly enough, in birth control ads, sex and babies (or the lack thereof) aren’t really mentioned.
Tags: art, banksy, birth control, charcoal grill, humor, mannequin, obama, pet store, women
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Oooo! I’m so excited! Now I can show you what I’ve been up to for a month and why I’ve been neglecting the blog so much. Late, last night Jack and I finally opened our Etsy shop! Check it out at Orignauxmoose.etsy.com!
Jack has put up two great vintage prints and I posted my 3-part “Mark Makes Me Merry” mini-series (mentioned here). I’ll be posted more from the whole first, 15-part series, today. So, go on… *nudges*
Tags: art, design, Etsy, fashion, illustrations, marc jacobs, prints, shopping, store, vintage
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Just coming up for a few minutes and a quick post…
After being tipped off by OnePlusInfinity that infamous artist Banksy had painted a mural downtown, in SOHO (Wooster and Grand), Jack and I tracked it down last night. Very, very cool.
P.S. Jack, feel free to expand upon this, if you wish. 
P.P.S. Now, back to work, for me!
Tags: art, banksy, creative, grafitti, mural, New York, rat, soho, street
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I am so upset I missed this! Funny and creative, artist Chris Rubino really gets the oddities of this city.
‘The Center of Something’ was a solo exhibition and ‘limited tourist attraction’ located in the gallery’s times square space. The show’s theme was a critical examination of New York through an ironic set of prints, t-shirts and other assorted gifts and souvenirs. Samples from new york’s water ways or dirt from central park can be purchased in small vials. or if these aren’t your kind of souvenirs, why not get a ‘I miss new york” t-shirt playing off of Milton Glaser’s famous shirt/slogan.
Via Design Boom | Chris Rubino
Tags: art, creative, design, humor, New York, show, time square
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This is amazing to go through: an international index of hundreds of covers of H.G. Wells’ iconic book! I love seeing the various interpretations different artists have; some go purely typographic, some give small, subtle hints to the story and themes, while others basically make it so you get everything just from the cover.
Via Core 77
Tags: art, book, cover, design, h.g. wells, war of the worlds
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These have been popping up on a lot of people’s blogs, but they’re too beautiful for me not to post them here, too. Glorious work by Nagi Noda. I would love to own that lion or walrus! Sadly, no moose… maybe for the next set, Nagi?
Tags: animals, art, creative, design, hair, hat, nagi noda
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(the real) Banksy | Found via Funky Duds
Tags: art, banksy, britian, graphitti, political, t-shirt
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It’s always a bit disappointing when something so inspirational turns out to be a fake. I mean, the idea is still a great one, but I’m still a little let down.
But after bloggers pointed out holes in Nordenankar’s claim, DHL confirmed to the Telegraph that the artwork was an “entirely fictional project”.
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Many pointed out that DHL delivery planes would have been highly unlikely to make the tight loops in the North Atlantic that form the hair of the self-portrait.Others noted that many of the package’s mid-route stops appear to be in the middle of the ocean.
“[He] could have at least centered the drawing over the land areas, so it would be more believable that DHL had made stops there, as opposed to a DHL plane making loop-the-loops out over the Atlantic,” a reader called Shinanigans posted on the Neatorama blog.
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“A GPS signal cannot penetrate dense materials. That briefcase looks dense enough to block the signal and the roof of a car or thick walls of an airplane blocks the rest,” a blogger named Samppa79 wrote.
Via The Telegraph.co.uk
Tags: art, DHL, drawing, Erik Nordenankar, fake, hoax, largest, let down, world's
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