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The Persistence of Dali

franky — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:06:14 +0000

Salvador Dali by Tim Bower

Dali caught in his own world. By Tim Bower.

Movies as NES Games

franky — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:27:03 +0000

The Shining, NES Splash

Since many years already the NES obsession has continued and with the 8Bit hype in the last 2-3 years it’s no surprise that we are starting to see even more awesome 8Bit art, reminiscent of the much loved gaming console in our young days.

VGJunk is one of those nostalgic NES lovers and a great 8Bit artist. His collection of Licensed NES Games That Don’t Exist revolves around popular, and great, movies.

Léon - NES Edition

Night of The Living Dead - NES Edition

Blade Runner for NES

Clockwork Orange for NES

Hellraiser - NES Edition

American Psycho on NES

Visit VGJunk for more 8Bit nostalgia.

Cereals for Geeks: Health in a Cardboard Box

franky — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:04:57 +0000

Back to the Future Cereal Art

Over the last months Ian Glaubinger, Doodles from my Noodle, has gradually been releasing a series of cereal box art. That is art on a cereal box in case you didn’t know.

The theme of his art should appeal to most geeks out there but why say more. Let’s instead let his art do the work.

Gremlins Cereal Art

Goonies Cereal Art

Ghostbusters Cereal Art

Follow Ian and his art over at Doodles from My Noodle.

Human Default Facebook Avatars. Humanized Avatars?

franky — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:08:58 +0000

If you’re a Facebook troll, chances are that you also like Avatar and James Cameron. If you don’t like either, STFU. We are being serious here, bokay?

Who am I kidding. Just look at these awesome Default Facebook Avatar photos. Go change yours now and be ~~creative~~ a copycat.

Facebook Default Avatar Human

More concepts by Thomas M. after the jump.

Facebook Default Avatar Human

You can thank us now.

Dept. of Retired Super Heroes: Le Bat

franky — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 04:30:45 +0000

From the Dept. of retired super heroes: Le Bat by Jason Yarmosky.

Retired Batman with Bunny

More awesome drawings by Jason Yarmosky.

For Those About to Rock, We Salute Your Alphabet

franky — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:51:14 +0000

The alphabet. Typography. Rock. Three words, one awesome A1 poster.

No word on whether still available or not but for only 30€ I could see this against the wall of the soon to be equipped gym. Or the same room might be used for an office rather than a gym.

If That R2D2 Swimming Suit Is Too Much for You…

franky — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:41:38 +0000

So you might not be the person to wear or endorse the R2D2 swimming suit, fear not there’s always the Steampunk alternative. Not as a bathing suit of course and actually it is not ‘real Steampunk‘, whatever that may be for people who don’t read Boing Boing, either. The creator of the ‘Antique R2D2′ featured below is good though. After lots of R2s over the last years, this is probably one of the best ones I’ve seen.

More pictures after the jump.

Visit Mark Edwards DeviantArt for even more pictures.

Halloween Body Art?

franky — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:27:04 +0000

I don’t get it. Just.don’t.get.it.

So yeah, mI like me some nice body art and tattoos. Even scarification can be nice but this… it looks like a frakkin’ pumpkin carved for Halloween. I even can not imagine it looking nice when healed. Too detailed for a nice scarification.

Let’s just stick with Halloween Body Art for now.

Art in Your Coffee

franky — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:30:51 +0000

I know there are fans of coffee art among the frankylicious readers, so I thought I might as well post a link to it here. Even though I would not want to wait or have a barista make a lovely piece of art I would ruin by stirring it up. No, I never would waste any of the guests’ time layering flavoured mocchas. Anyway, here you go : Art in My Coffee.

Why Not Be Creative And Buy A Simpsons Stained Glass For Your Condo

franky — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:28:12 +0000

There are no limits anymore nowadays and if body art is one of the great and regularly covered topics here at frankylicious, we certainly need to spend more time to ‘real life art’. Like stained windows. No, not your operating system, FFS!

Windows as in windows, those small glass things you look out in the real world trough! Yeah, windows. That’s exactly what I said!

And why shouldn’t you have your own original Simpsons Stained Window?

Source: Stained windows master Joseph Cavalieri.

Arcade Expressionism Paintings

franky — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:04:34 +0000

Three creative paintings by Brock Davis. I guess everyone remembers these games, ya all that old already, aren’t you?

David Brock website.

Organs as Pills or Pills as Organs

franky — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:20:09 +0000

Sara Asnaghi is both pills and organs artist and what way to better express this as with pills sculpted as organs.

Visit Sara’s portfolio at Béhance to see more organ art.

Cartography Nerds: 10 Awesome Map Tattoos

franky — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:08:19 +0000

WE here at frankylicious are big tattoo fans and urgently need more ink ourselves. Recently the attention was drawn to this gorgeous whole back world map tattoo and today we have some more cool map tattoos to show you.

The whole world, tattooed over both feet is a great concept and it looks ace. Too bad that Britain is barely visible and Eurasia and Africa need both feet. Ace tattoo though.

In the same spirit this world map spread over both cheeks. It is not clear if this is a tattoo or a temporary airbrush, but no matter what it is this makes anyone want to explore the desert.

If you prefer it more old-style this original world map is for you. Again both cheeks are needed.

Cool colours, not too clear what Western part of the world in this image. It looks like distorted Britain, with a splash of Scandinavia or something like that.

Awesome Australia map tattoo.

The Galapagos Archipel.

The Philippines, together with the surname of the owner.

The last ‘cheeks map’ in this list. Again it is hard to see if this is a real tattoo. My bet goes to a temporary airbrush. It does clearify that the Middle East is in shit though.

This is how our galaxy would look from a distance.

The last tattoo map is a tattoo for all geeks. Better than a map of the Middle Earth this is the map of Thrór, the King under the Mountain at Erebor.

Bonus map: subway map tattoo.

Flightpattern by Gwen Vanhee

franky — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:40:26 +0000

It surely seems to be a video heavy Friday afternoon so what’s a video more? Gwen Vanhee, a fellow Belgian, is a master of audioresponsive video. Especially hand-drawn art. He released his latest video ‘Flightpattern’ some days ago.

Also check out his other pieces of art.

Finally: Man as Industrial Palast Animation

franky — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:20:25 +0000

This has taken too long to be animated, but finally Henning Lederer did it: Fitz Kahns’ Man As Industrial Palast (animated).

For thousands of years human beings have used metaphors as ways of understanding the body. We talk about our ‘ear drums’, or our ‘mind’s eye’. When we are in love we say our hearts are ‘bursting’ or ‘broken’. When we are nervous we say we have ‘butterflies in our stomach’. When we are impatient we have ‘itchy feet’. These familiar images help to explain the unfamiliar and to comprehend the complexity of our bodies.

The image above, by the artist Fritz Kahn, shows the nervous system as a complex electronic signalling system, complete with buttons, charts and busy workers. Fritz Kahn’s books and illustrations explored the inner machinery of the human body, using metaphors of modern industrial life. Kahn turned the brain into a complex factory with light projectors, conveyor belts, secretaries and cinema screens; he showed the journeys of blood cells as locomotives encircling the globe; and he compared bones to modern building materials such as reinforced concrete.

Industrial Palace website.

Cristiano Who?

franky — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:17:13 +0000

I’m a latecomer to this one, but it certainly makes you think ‘Cristiano Who?’. Cristiano Ronaldo certainly wishes he were as good as the guys from Team Ryouko, even if the majority of this video is edited.

FYI, Team Ryouko is a martial arts team, not some kind of football juggling group.

Font Nerds: LAIKA Is The Future of Fonts

franky — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:58:35 +0000

No of course not Laika the dog but LAIKA the font.

A font that is able to move between its extremes in real time. An interactive font that is able to respond to its surroundings. A font that questions deadlocked dogmas and throws up completely new design questions, and thus has the potential to revolutionise the understanding of digital typography.

Test run LAIKA here.

Nocturne by Vincent Laforet

franky — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:40:15 +0000

All that really needs to be said about this video is that it was shot with a DSLR. HD-DSLR. In 1080p. Without using any external, additional light source other than the poor lightning in the industrial area of East 6th and Mateo St. in LA.

With a photo camera it was shot.

Without additional external light sources.

Mainly shot in ISO 6400, except for some shots in ISO 3200.

The story behind this video can be read at Vincent Laforet’s blog. The video is viewable in full 1080p at SmugMug.

The camera? The soon to be launched Canon 1D MKIV. Go ahead for $4.999 this is a steal. Yes, you’ll have to steal some lenses as well. The only question left over is whether the built-in micro is good enough for (hard) rock concerts.

Ukraine’s Got Talent!?

franky — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:39:04 +0000

It seems a nice performance, acceptably cheesy music included, but to make it the winner of Ukraine’s Got Talent 2009 show makes me wonder of the quality of the candidates. It is certain that Simon Cowell would not vote for this, nor would Paula Abdul find this *hic* interesting. Wait, that was a different show or?

Anyway, sacrifice almost 9 minutes of yours and look at this dramatic performance of how Germany invaded Ukraine in WWII… in sand on a lightbox!

Home of TV Series Stars Blueprints: Bruce Wayne Mansion

franky — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:40:29 +0000

Artist Mark Bennet has several prints of maps of the house of TV Series stars up for sale. Interesting or boring, I don’t know. The jury’s still out on that one but a map of the House of The Jetons or the Bruce Wayne Mansion always is welcome here.

More blueprints at Mark Bennet’s online gallery.

Give Him Three Balls and Send Him to Bermuda

franky — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:45:08 +0000

Michael Moschen and balls go hand in hand. Now he even uses a triangle. Awesome art. And juggling.

And no that wasn’t David Bowie juggling that crystal ball in Labyrinth but the master himself, AKA Michael Moschen.

Keloid Art

franky — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:22:47 +0000

Scarification might not be everyone’s cup of coffee but this is one amazingly hot example of gorgeous keloid art. If ever one wants to get scarring done, one can only hope to heal as perfectly as Sam. Awesome work and body modification by John.

More pictures at BME.

Frankenfashion

franky — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:09:20 +0000

Although the music in this video rather annoying seems, I like the edits and can perfectly understand that the video has been exclusively commissioned by Dazed & Confused.

Exclusively commissioned by Dazed & Confused and featured as part of onedotzero and Dazed’s Fashion in Film program at the BFI, Frankenfashion is being screened alongside the works of Chris Cunningham, Solve Sundsbo & Saam Farahmand. In his contribution, Turvey takes inspiration from the mythical Dr Frankenstein who took parts from different bodies to make a new being. Here, a macabre sequence of events sees fashion follow suit, leading to a surreal and transformational climax.

Niemann LEGOs NY

franky — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:43:12 +0000

Christoph Niemann, columnist par excellence for the NYT, and known for brilliant pieces such as his A History of Coffee Love, which I mentioned at ifranky in pre-frankylicious times, always is worth a read. Rands reminded me of this brilliant piece about New York: I LEGO NY.

If you have never read Niemann’s illustrated stories for the NYT, check out New York Cheat Sheets and The Boys and The Subway.

Mind-tripping Stop-Motion

franky — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:29:11 +0000

Stop-motion. once more. Finally. Oh well… I’m back.