The Prisoner Production Design Sketches

Episode 4, "Free for All." Production sketch by art director Jack Shampan.

The Prisoner 1960s Production Design Sketches

Disembodied Beardscape

Disembodied Beardscape — Abraham Lincoln (some real, some fake), 2007

Clive Murphy

60 Noses

Sixty female and male noses, arranged chronologically from people ages 16-90. (click image to embiggen)

Shawn Feeney drew these while working as the forensic artist for a police department on Long Island, NY. Prints are available here.

via CEE BEE
by way of JOYENGINE

Hanna von Goeler - My Money, My Currency

Hanna von Goeler:

The interstitial quality of money as it travels from person to person is the point of departure for "My Money, My Currency". This ongoing project chronicles my struggle and relationship with money...

via CEE BEE

Martin Ramirez

Untitled (Gallion on Water)
Martin Ramirez (1895-1963), DeWitt State Hospital, Auburn, Calif., circa 1960-1963.

Art and Mental Illness:

Martin Ramirez (1895-1963) created hundreds of drawings and collages while institutionalized at the DeWitt State Hospital In Auburn, California, where he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. He is considered one of the self-taught masters of 20th century art...

more here

Fridge over troubled waters

Simon Drew

via On An Overgrown Path

The Comedian Mark II

The origins of Watchmen:

Alan Moore's initial outline for Watchmen was already more than Dave Gibbons 'could have imagined', but it went on to become one of the greatest graphic novels of all time. Here we present preliminary designs and early sketches which chart the development of their alternate reality

Paul Warhola

Gurney Journey:

Mr. Warhola is the older brother of Andy Warhol. In the early 1990s he took time away from his junkyard business for a series of chicken feet paintings. As I sketched him at his son's house in Tivoli, New York, I wrote down word-for-word the story of his life as he told it to me....

Graphic Poem: Emily Dickinson, “It was not death, for I stood up”

The Poem as Comic Strip #2

via In the Labyrinth

Drawings of Stravinsky

Miguel Covarrubias

Drawings of Stravinsky

Diary of a Wartime Artist

guardian.co.uk:

The work of first world war artist Len Smith, who made daring forays into no man's land to sketch German positions, is celebrated in a new book. His sketches have been made public for the first time in a book published prior to the 90th anniversary of the Armistice.

sample the book at Forgotten Titles

For a long time Beach Boys fan

from pep-pep-peptide

stray bullets

Tinker, tailor, soldier, defector — John le Carré: I nearly left the West John le Carré, the espionage writer, has revealed that he was tempted to defect to the Soviet Union during the cold war.... Le Carré’s remarks are particularly intriguing because his own career as a secret agent was in effect destroyed by the treachery of Kim Philby, the double agent.

Briton was safe-cracker for Osama Bin Laden and Idi Amin He described the Al-Q'aeda head as "friendly" and the Ugandan dictator as "fun". I heard a rumor that when Osama was training with the CIA in the U.S. during the Russia-Afghanistan War that he was known as Tim Osmond. When the first "Wanted" photos were released in the late 1990s, some CIA officers were reported to have said, "Hey, that's Tim!"

Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time Prof Stephen Hawking is to unveil a remarkable £1 million clock with no hands that pays tribute to the world's greatest clockmaker.

Hurricane Ike's Sprawl a Meteorological Mystery Considering the vastly different dangers posed by these storms, it's natural to wonder just why some storms get so big while others stay small, despite having the same hurricane-force winds. Why, in other words, is Ike such a titan? also: History's Worst Storm Surges

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How to Draw Anything in One Step
How To Master Photoshop In Just One Week (via)

viddy:
The Peanut Vendor - Len Lye 1933 (via)
Kunstbar (careful what you drink at the Artbar)
Richie Hawtin 2008 DJ Setup
Bebe Barron on Anaïs Nin
The Natural History of the Chicken part 1/6 (via)

Jacek Yerka

Praire House, 2005
pastel, paper, 47 x 59 cm

from yerkaland.com

see more of Yerka's surreal worldscapes here
Culture - Jacek Yerka

inspired by Jahsonic

Heiko Müller - Anfrage zu diesem Bild

4 Faces of Foofaraw

Heiko Müller
Heiko Müller's photostream

via WFMU's Beware of the Blog