Lunch Bag Delight

Check out Lunch Bag Art, where a dad draws on his kids' lunchbags everyday:

Geez, his kids must be the most popular in school. Maybe not as popular as I was when would go to the Portuguese chicken place at lunch and bring back a bag of fries to the schoolyard, but I digress...

Via Drawn!

The Post-It Art Movement

Post-It Notes are everywhere, and now, not just in an nagging evocation of your doomed bureaucratic existence, kind of way.

Now these ubiquitous little pieces of paper are serving as the canvas for artists and doodlers all over the internet.

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Even the Post-It company has caught on and are hosting a video contest on Youtube.

Check out how UC Santa Cruz Engineering students turned 6400 post-it notes into a completely rad Donkey Kong tribute. Or this post-it Calvin & Hobbes tribute.

There seems to be tonnes going on, and I've tried to collect just a sampling of some of the sites and notes that have stuck out to me (click images to enlarge).

The Post-It Project - a collection of various artists works:


Stickynote Theatre - another site that collect various cool stickies:



Close Without Saving by Kyle - an awesomely hilarious post-it comic strip blog


My Life in a Cube by Shane Johnson - chronicles of an office worker on post-its, and other stationery scraps


Savage Chickens by Doug Savage - chickens running irreverently amok


just post it by TSO - this italian blog features some awesome moving post-it art


Ulf Nawrot's Post-it Art - some really magnificent stuff by this tireless post-it artist


It's also definitely worth checking out Fiona Harding's project "100 Notes in Japan", which led to the Post It Project in February:

Collisions of the Real: Fantastic Quotidian

Another photo series chronicling the fantasy's invasion into our lives has been caught in the internets.

Via the always entertaining Kung Fu Rodeo, comes artist Steve Schofield's oddly touching photos of superfans in domestic settings.



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Half upsetting, half inspiring, these photos are reminiscent of Cedric Delsaux's photography and fall into the same category of work that I recently posted about:

there is some kind of need out there to invest in magic and make believe having a place in our physical world.

Is the real world that awful? Probably, yes.

The Knack of... Matt Furie

The other day I was browsing through T-shirts online and I came across a wicked weird artist named Matt Furie (his website).

Sample some of his cute, cuddly and profoundly disturbing work. It might make you drool into your throat. (click to enlarge)

Collisions in the Real

As we move out of the noughts and into the 10s or the teens, 'the now' seems to be developing a few definitive character traits. One of which that is emerging is the invasion of childhood fantasies into the real - whether it's life imitating art or vice versa.

While religious fundamentalism, terrorism, natural disasters, the oil panic, and the food shortage crisis are dominating socio-polit-economic concerns, a remarkable number of people/artists are transforming their real worlds into fantastic ones that hearken back to their childhoods.

In an era where superhero movies like The Dark Knight and Hancock go to great lengths to make the division between fantasy and reality seamless, there is some kind of need out there to invest in magic and make believe having a place in our physical world. It's no surprise then either, that the biggest literary phenomenon of the last decade is the Harry Potter series, which cast its spell on adults as much as children. [Read Rachel Abromowitz's article in the LA Times for more dissection of the current superhero trend in film.]

Lately I've noticed a bunch of art-work floating around the internet that speaks to this psych-aesthetic. I've collected a few examples below:

Retro Video Games Invade the Physical World
Retronoob, aka Lee Vidal, merges such classics as Street Fighter and Mario Kart into natural landscape photography.



Kids Drawings as Photographs
Photographer Yeonjoo Dung creates elaborate, posed photos based on children's crayon drawings. Via boingboing



Kids Animal Drawings as Stuffed Toys
Lizette Greco and family "create sewn art and artifacts based on the drawings of our two children using only thrifted and recycled materials." Via Drawn!

Graffiti at the Movies

Wicked street art... (see more at /film)



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Urban Futurism

Something out of place here?

Yes, that's a Clone Trooper lurking around your local subway concourse. Watch it Trekkies.

Artist Cedric Delsaux created this realm traveling urban Star Wars photoset. Check out Cinematical's photo gallery for the rest.