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Movies as NES Games

The Shining, NES Splash

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. Read more

Art in Your Coffee

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.

Arcade Expressionism Paintings

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

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Travisty’s Beard

Travisty’s Beard a collective blog from the Arts Dept. of Dreamworks.

Organs as Pills or Pills as Organs

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

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Movie Posters for Minimalists

Minimalistic remakes of movie posters. Some might take a second to figure out and typography could have been improved in many. Still a nice set.

What Happened to the Art of Handwriting?

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Recently I reverted to using real paper notebooks, with assorted fountain pen, and I rediscovered the joy of taking notes but more so even the joy of writing on paper. The joy of what I think is a nice font, my own style.
I’ve known since ages that taking notes on a computer or PDA, or with ‘all-in-one-bucket software’ such as the much hyped Evernote or even options like Simplenote for iPhone or WriteRoom for iPhone just weren’t my cup of tea. Sync options or not.

I am not the person who can scribble something down on ePaper. It’s too slow and misses the beautifully handcrafted and written words. Words just look better when written by hand. Read more

Cool sculptures made out of gum

Maurizio Savini created some totally awesome sculptures with chewing gum. Some better than the other but the first two pictured below are totally awesome.

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Classic Star Wars art

Classic Star Wars art over at SA.

Sand sculpture stop-motion

Awesome stop-motion video of the creation of a sand sculpture

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