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A piece from Tim Burton's MOMA exhibit

Tim Burton, master of the dark and the quirky, has an exhibit of his personal drawings, paintings and stop motion video at MOMA. Too bad the exhibit is in New York and not in Newton.

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  • artist, draw, exhibition, tim burton, weird

 

This is good programming shit, made with good ASCII art shit.

Speaking of which, have you noticed the Google logo when you search for ascii art?

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  • animation, ascii, iframe, javascript, morph, programming, real time

 

Some hilarious drawings by Ian Stevenson that livened up the women's toilets at Mother

Ian Stevenson has a wicked sense of humour.

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  • british, funny, illustration, toilet, weird

 

Deconstructed manic urbanity

Twisting tarmac and roving runways in twisting, manic planes — wonderful collages from Hubert Blanz.

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  • airport, artist, collage, deconstruction, prints, urban

 

Fantastic optical illusion — the blown off wall, the Egyptian stuff and the woman peering in are all drawn!

Incredible life-like Trompe-l’œil paintings!

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  • 3D, painting, techniques, Trompe-l'œil

 

Meet ‘Flyhead’, ‘Viewatomiser’ and ‘Drizzler’ in 1968

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  • cold war, haus-rucker-co, helmet, weird

 

Beautiful in execution, genius in thought!

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  • bailout, barack obama, cartoon, economy, editorial, illustration, politics, president, terrence nowicki jr

 
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  • animation, gif, psychdelic, weird

 
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  • clever, funny, silhouette, stories, weird, wilhelm staehle, wit

 

Stampy looks like a lot of fun!

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  • design collective, draw, fun, stamp

 

Despite being diagnosed with autism at three, Stephen Wiltshire displayed his talents from a young age

Stephen Wiltshire is a British artist with an amazing gift. He can eyeball the moxt complex cityscapes and draw them from memory with amazing detail and in almost perfect scale. His panoramic hand-rendering of Tokyo is just hair raising when you realize it was all done from his photographic memory. It’s really no wonder he’s dubbed “The Human Camera”.

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  • architecture, artist, autism, british, draw, landscape, stephen wiltshire, urban

 

Inner city snail, a slow-moving street art project by Slinkachu

Another great street art project called Inner city snail, from the same guy who brought us the awesome Little People. Speaking of which, I think I will go buy the Little People In The City book soon.

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  • beauty, graffiti, london, people, slinkachu, street art

 

A beautiful drawing on a lunch bag a day by a dad for his kids

An incredibly dedicated and talented dad draws on his kids’ lunch bags everyday. Way to go, dad dude!

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  • bag, children, draw, illustration, kids, love, lunch, pop

 

Riitta Ikonen is an insanely talented Finnish artist

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  • finland, junk mail, mail art, post, postcard

 

Blood on the streets flows into the drains

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  • drain, grafitti, sewage, stock market, street art

 

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