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There’s a good chance you’ve seen this charming documentation of the ways in which a painter’s child corrects him, but I want to save it for posterity.

(via SM)

I swear this article appears at least semiannually in some paper somewhere. This one chose the “epicenter of artistic talent” angle.

(via Ideas)

Someone’s adding Photoshop pallettes and dialogues to obviously altered advertisements on the Berlin Metro.

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An ephemeral art display explains the beauty of ephemerality. For those too lazy to find the translation in the comments, every twelve hours the wall reads:

Time passes, and each time time passes, something gets erased.

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This is my new favorite graph. I feel it should be categorized as something like data naturalism — though that sounds less cool than it should.

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Everyone and their brother have linked to this by now, but I still can’t resist.

The Ideas Blog brings up a topic I’ve never considered: who deserves credit for a photo of graffiti (or other street art), the photographer or the creater of the object being photographed?

It’s been too long since I read anything this long (and it’s pretty short for The New Yorker). In any case, I rather enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell’s article about the difference between prodigies like Picasso and late bloomers like Cézanne.

The Cézannes of the world bloom late not as a result of some defect in character, or distraction, or lack of ambition, but because the kind of creativity that proceeds through trial and error necessarily takes a long time to come to fruition.

(via MeFi, where the early comments are uniformly bitter)

Though I think giving Nigeria’s active but low-budget film scene an “-ollywood” is tacky, these are some interesting (and graphic) photos of it.

(via Boing Boing)

An intelligent-sounding explanation of Lia Holleran’s Dark Skate photographs:

The works blur the boundaries of photography and become self-portraits and drawings as well as records of performances. Light is used to form the drawing line while HALLORAN skateboards at night through different venues. The resulting images are each a trajectory of the artist’s movements over time. The photographs pair urban environments with lines of light which behave as physical objects or break apart into flurries of abstraction.

A less intelligent-sounding explanation: awesome.

(via The Daily Dish)

The Daily Mail believes it has discovered the identity of the famous and anonymous graffiti artist:

It is hard to imagine Banksy, the anti-authoritarian renegade, as a public schoolboy wandering around the 17th Century former monastery, with its upper and lower quadrangles and its prayers in the ancient cathedral.

But we then found a school photograph, taken in 1989, of a bespectacled Robin Gunningham in which he shows a discernible resemblance to the man in the Jamaica photograph.

Indeed, fellow pupils remember Robin, who was in Deans House, as being a particularly gifted artist.

But to that first quoted paragraph I must say: no, it’s really quite easy.

(via Waxy)

Rather than painting on walls, Paul Curtis cleans them.

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This has circulated a lot, but I just noticed that the artist’s site is actually back online. Korean artist Yeondoo Jung offers real-life recreations of the often-misproportioned childrens drawings.

Metafilter user Artw explains it better than I can:

Jake and Dinos Chapman have bought a stack of Adolf Hitlers paintings for £115,000 and defaced them with rainbows and butterflies for their new show, “If Hitler Had Been a Hippy, How Happy Would We Be”. The show also recreates “Fucking Hell”, a huge swastika shaped diorama of tiny plastic nazis torturing and killing each other, which had been destroyed in a fire.

An example of their modifications to the painting. I’m honestly unsure if this is an act of historic vandalism or legitmate art.

By now, everyone’s probably seen this. But We Made This’s theory that it was actually viral marketing is interesting enough to note:

A lot of people are saying that either the GPS signal wouldn’t transmit through the metal exterior of a plane, or that the flight plan would simply be too damned expensive, even if DHL are footing the bill. So did it actually happen, or is just a (rather finely crafted) viral? The site seems oddly free of the expected background to the genesis of the project, and Nordenankar seems to have very little web presence before doing it… though he did win a D&AD student award in an advertising category last year…

UPDATE (5/27/2008): The page has been changed to refelct that it is, indeed, a work of fiction. More at The Telegraph. (via waxy)

An interesting concept: Emily Jo Cureton draws pictures inspired by a few words in that day’s New York Times crossword.

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On a related note, Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle is interesting.

This one’s been making the rounds. Stop motion animation made by careful graffiti is a fascinating thing to watch.

I’m not quite sure how to explain twistori without all the magic escaping. Just go give it a look.

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It sounds frivolous but that’s doesn’t mean it’s not beautiful. In fact, that may make it more so.

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