the kingdom

------------John David Deardourff---------

2012-01-26T12:17:00.000+01:00

Once again, the guy behind booooooom.com made me slightly jealous for finding these great screen prints from John David Deardourff first.

-----------James Ulmer---------

2012-01-25T18:24:00.000+01:00

work by James Ulmer.

Thank you for the link, Christian!

------------Quenton Miller----------

2012-01-13T23:16:00.000+01:00

It's not very likely that a drawing-and text-combination actually make us laugh.
Quenton Miller's work totally did; Almost every of his little witty drawings showing humans or animals in absurd situations combined with seemingly off-hand scribbly texts does work.
Quenton Miller is like David Shrigley in funny and more anarchistic.
So we hope to see more of him in the future.

----------------Jul Gordon------------

2012-01-10T01:56:00.000+01:00

very nice work from Julia Gordon, made during her stay in Kyoto.
She has an upcoming book release on Wednesday, in my favorite Hamburg bookstore Strips and Stories.

------------The Bookshelf----------

2012-01-08T11:29:00.000+01:00

John Lurie: Learn to Draw

Yes, John Lurie, the actor and musician.
He made the book "Learn to Draw Vol.1" which is full of funny, ironic scribbly drawings, and another book with paintings, called "A Fine Example of Art" (which I haven't seen yet, unfortunately).
Here's a link to more of his art.

Thanks to Seamus for lending me the book (saying that he really needs it back. Which was in 2010. It's gonna happen, I promise.)

----------The Great Grey Shrike---------

2012-01-04T19:36:00.000+01:00

Hallõgija / The Great Grey Shrike from Chintis Lundgren on Vimeo.
Lovely and funny animation from Estonia.
Thank you for the link, Anu!

------------Thomas Hirschhorn---------

2011-12-31T09:58:00.001+01:00

Last post of 2011: Swiss installation artist Thomas Hirschhorn, one of my favorites. (If you ever have a chance to see one of his exhibitions, don't miss it.)

Best Wishes for 2012!

----------------------the bookshelf---------

2011-12-30T15:43:00.003+01:00

FRESH- Cutting Edge Illustration, 1-3

Besides the compilation "Illustrators Unlimited - the Essence of Contemporary Illustration" from Gestalten Publishing, there has been another release on illustration in 2011, edited by Slanted Magazine: "Fresh - Cutting Edge Illustration".
Generally, books with words like "essence", "ultimate" or "cutting edge" in the title instantly evoke a strong scepticism in me. Also the in-your-face cover design of "Fresh", with some strangely unmotivated pixel-like patterns on the spine, made me almost not look inside.
But both books, "Illustrators Unlimited" and "Fresh" turned out to be pleasant surprises.
"Fresh" comes along as quite an ambitious project: it's a box with 3 books, dividing illustration into the categories Object, Public and Print.
One might argue that Public and Object are displaying works that should rather be shown in books on Street Art and Industrial Design, but for me, looking at the choices, the compilation presents a convincing concept and an interesting take on the term "illustration".
The artists featured in the book were selected through a Call for Entries in March. Interestingly, in the comment section of this Open Call unfolded a long discussion about whether or not illustrators should try to have their ideas and personal style displayed in compilations like "Fresh" while not getting paid for it.

-----------Daehyun Kim--------

2011-12-29T08:45:00.000+01:00

Very intriguing drawings by Korean artist Daehyun Kim, a.k.a. Moonassi.

Found on booooooom.com.

----------the monster engine--------

2011-12-24T02:35:00.001+01:00

The Monster Engine is a project by illustrator Dave de Vries : It's all about what children's drawing's would look like if they were painted realistically.

Happy Holidays everybody!

------------huber.huber----------------

2011-12-19T16:25:00.001+01:00

Oh wow: just when I thought 2011 is as-good-as-over and no more surprises are waiting, I stumbled upon the book "Universen" by the Swiss twins/art duo Reto and Markus Huber a.k.a. huber.huber.
I (obviously) have a weak spot for Swiss artists, but I had never heard of them before.
They have really a lot of great work on their website and "Universen" is already their 4th publication.
from top to bottom: from survival of the fittest, hunting women, cover of Universen.

----------Sunna Ben Guðrúnardóttir----

2011-12-12T20:47:00.000+01:00

Sunna Ben (1989, Iceland) is quite freshly graduated from art school. I really like her drawing series "wonderful news", in which she illustrates stories from the news.

------------12 drawings a day-------------

2011-12-06T11:11:00.001+01:00

12 drawings a day is a really nice animation by French animation director Denis Chapon. He says about it:

"During 3 years (2008-2011) i have been drawing 12 drawing of animation every day, it make one second of film. I had no plans what so ever before starting the first drawing. And then, each of the folowing days, I took the 3 last drawing from the day before and kept on animating. I use a none erasable pen, and drew on the back side of used A4 paper."

Here's the link, enjoy!

--------------Tala Madani--------

2011-11-22T00:30:00.000+01:00

Tala Madani! I like her work a lot.
Thanks Alexander for the link.

------pencil in the studio-----

2011-11-18T21:12:00.001+01:00

Pencil in the Studio is the blog of Maria Calandra. She visits artists and draws their studios.

-----------Geoff J. Kim-----------

2011-11-10T18:24:00.000+01:00

My new favorite collages are from American artist and illustrator Geoff J. Kim.
He's based in Amsterdam and he's going to be part of the Drawings Expo of The Berm Collective, opening 18th Nov.

--------------------book week------------

2011-11-05T16:25:00.002+01:00

Well, last post of the book"week" (which unexpectedly took 4 months...):
The book Behind the Zines: Self-Publishing Culture is simply a great, interesting book. Everyone who has a soft spot for self-published small edition magazines is going to love it.
Coming, like the previous book I posted, from Gestalten Publishing.

--------------------book week------------

2011-11-03T20:00:00.002+01:00

very nice brand-new compilation of contemporary illustrators, coming from Gestalten Publishing.

more here.

--------------------book week------------

2011-11-02T08:44:00.000+01:00

I received this lovely booklet from Korea: Cicciolina the cat by illustrator Jung Eun Park.
Thank you, Anu!

--------------------book week------------

2011-10-31T22:19:00.002+01:00

I stumbled upon Drawings from the Gulag by Danzig Baldaev last summer in the American Bookshop in Amsterdam. It was standing next to Baldaev's "Russian Criminal Tattoos", which I had seen before but wasn't too impressed about.
Drawings from the Gulag is a lot more explicit then his series of Tattoo-books; and to be honest, I didn't really like it either; too pornographic, too violent.
If you happen to see it somewhere, have a look yourself and decide, and here's a review from The Guardian.

--------------------book week------------

2011-08-04T00:25:00.000+02:00

Drawing Autism

Drawing Autism is published by Mark Batty Publishing. Sounds like a really great book, I hope I'll find it somewhere to have a look at it.

found on the blog 50watts

--------------------book week------------

2011-06-20T02:34:00.001+02:00

Beni Bischof: No more pie in the sky

New from Swiss publishers Nieves: bloody but funny zine by Beni Bischof. (And: Nieves is going to publish a book by him soon.)

--------------------book week------------

2011-06-09T02:25:00.000+02:00

Werner Mannaers: Cahiers de Brouillons

Cahiers de Brouillons by Belgian artist Werner Mannaers is a lovely book that consists only of pages from his sketchbook.
Thanks to Gwendolyn for showing it to me!

--------------------book week------------

2011-06-08T14:19:00.003+02:00

Alexander Binder: Allerseelen

ja,ja, I know: that's not drawing. But I saw Allerseelen by Alexander Binder recently on the Amsterdam Art Book Fair and it was my favorite of all the books there. It's published by London-based publishing house Mörel Books.

----------Hello, it's book week-------

2011-06-06T13:33:00.001+02:00

Charley Harper -An Illustrated Life by Todd Oldham

This beautiful book with the nature illustrations from american artist Charley Harper is on my book wishlist. The design of the book is great and I just love Harper's work.

-------Jasmijn Visser------

2011-05-30T22:37:00.003+02:00

Dutch artist Jasmijn Visser definitely wins the award for best website. Everybody who is tired of looking at online portfolios should see this 360 degree-presentation of her great drawings.

------------Dylan Graham------------

2011-05-24T21:22:00.000+02:00

And more papercuts. These are from Dylan Graham, artist from New Zealand, living in Amsterdam, who is doing really amazing things. (the last work is called "Kingdom", btw.)

--------Anette Schröter------------

2011-05-24T21:15:00.000+02:00

hello, we are back! With these great papercuts from Anette Schröter.

Thanks again to Christian Finne for guest posting.

----------Rose Eken-------------

2011-05-01T11:33:00.003+02:00

a fine danish artist based in berlin nowadays without further adoo here is some very nice embroidery.

http://roseeken.dk/

posted by Christian Finne.

------------Emil Westman Hertz---------

2011-04-18T12:11:00.001+02:00

all these drawings are from EMILWESTMAN HERTZ A PRODIGIUS TRAVELLER OF THE DARK CONTINENT.

posted by Christian.

-------------Daniel Milan----------

2011-04-15T12:22:00.003+02:00

Daniel Milan is a danish artist currently living and working in Uganda in the city of Kampala there is a certain leftwing political stance in his work.

posted by Christian.

------------we have a guest------------

2011-04-15T12:15:00.000+02:00

guest editor for the time coming is Christian Finne, Danish artist living in Berlin.
We posted his work in 2008 and we are happy to have him as a guest.

------Brecht Vandenbroucke---------

2011-04-11T21:45:00.000+02:00

Awesome work from belgian artist and illustrator Brecht Vandenbroucke.

-----------Aron of Kangeq------------

2011-04-11T21:30:00.001+02:00

heard about the greenlandic painter/storyteller from my friend Alexander, who just came back from Greenland.

(here is some information. and here: http://slaederejsen.skolemedia.dk/materialer/1oplevelse/aron/s2o_aron.htm (but in Danish)

-----------Eleni Kamma---------

2011-04-08T23:09:00.000+02:00

Interesting drawings by artist Eleni Kamma, who also makes books and videos.

--------Leila Peacock----------

2011-04-04T20:10:00.001+02:00

Besides from having a fantastic artist name (it's her real name, actually), Leila Peacock makes really great drawings. The work above is not from her website, but a collaboration with her friend, artist Liam Tickner, who sends her photographs that she uses for drawings.

-----------the Royal Art Lodge-----

2011-04-04T18:22:00.001+02:00

hello. I'm back! And for the 3rd time posting work from The Royal Art Lodge. I can't help it, this is great.

-------Otto Dix-----

2011-03-23T13:26:00.004+01:00

ok, almost complete portfolio here, please lick on the green right arrow to continue...

posted by Adam

------Willehad Eilers-------

2011-03-23T13:18:00.002+01:00

Somehow I tried to make a trilogy post on some German drawings, since I can't post Kokoschka or just refuse the Bauhaus stuff or anything else between the world wars. I stole some images from this contemporary website.

posted by Adam

--------George Grosz--------

2011-03-23T10:30:00.007+01:00

Kind of my fav. selection of G.G.
You find almost the whole oeuvre here , here , here , here, here, here, here and heeeeeerrrre.

ah ja, there is also a very nice documentary called ENEMY OF THE STATE.

posted by Adam

-------Alberto Martini--------

2011-03-23T10:19:00.007+01:00

posted by Adam

-------- Stanisław Wyspiański---------

2011-03-22T16:38:00.005+01:00

"Wyspiański was one of the most outstanding and multifaceted artists of his time in Europe", says Wikipedia.

posted by Adam

-----Gustave Dore-----

2011-03-18T23:20:00.006+01:00

I hope everybody saw it soo far. Gustave Dore's illustrations for the divine comedy.....unfortunately there is nothing more to say, except check it out, man, here.

posted by Adam

-------Mark Manders--------

2011-03-15T10:57:00.004+01:00

Drawings from the dutch artist Mark Manders, if you are not familiar with his artistic ouvre, have a look here or here.
If you like what u see, but have a perplex feeling......check out his lecture.

posted by Adam

-------MICHAËL BORREMANS-----

2011-03-11T22:36:00.008+01:00

Personally I know that the Belgians have an amazing tradition in culture.
M.B. started as a photographer, as far as I know, and in some point he decided to paint and make drawings, afterwards some video art which is not that strong (I think).

But still, HELL YEAH, good shit.

posted by Adam

-------Michael Krebber--------

2011-03-05T16:31:00.004+01:00

Since we are already in Cologne...............I would describe the work of M.K. as 'conceptual minimalistic dandy ism', in the sense of a painter. Somehow I cannot figure my mind, but strangely enough I like it.

posted by Adam

-----------we have a guest.--------

2011-02-14T23:58:00.008+01:00

for the coming weeks we are going to have polish-german artist Adam Etmanski as our guest editor.

And as always before taking a break: I just found some interesting works... from Emma Kunz (CH, 1892 - 1963, top image) and Unica Zürn (D, 1916-1970).

--------Urban Sketchers---------

2011-02-14T23:25:00.008+01:00

Urban Sketchers is a blog that has been around for a couple of years. It features a whole lot of people from all over the world, who can apply for membership and then post sketches of their hometowns, holidays or where ever they are. The quality of the drawings differ a lot but it's anyways a great initative.

------Deedee Cheriel-----------

2011-02-13T02:23:00.004+01:00

work of Deedee Cheriel, found on the blog The Jealous Curator.

----------Nigel Peake--------

2011-02-04T16:23:00.007+01:00

yesterday I browsed through a german magazine about underground buildings-- with beautiful illustrations by someone called Nigel Peake. He also made a lot of great little publications you can see on his website.

2011-02-03T00:41:00.004+01:00

Anybody in Berlin today? FUKT Magazine presents an animation screening at Gallery Fruehsorge tonight at 19.15 and 20.30.

And here is a really nice animation made by Geoff Mcfetridge (who is also in the screening tonight) for the song last leaf by OK GO.

-------------Maess-----------

2011-01-31T12:19:00.004+01:00

work from Polish artist Maess.

thanks to Michel Fopp for the link.

--------Armsrock--------

2011-01-26T23:10:00.004+01:00

work from Danish artist Armsrock, who also uses projected drawings in public space in a very intriguing way.

------------The Bookshelf----------

2011-01-24T18:51:00.006+01:00

The Bookshelf IX: Ulla Saar

I just got the lovely book "not entirely brown" as a present from my friend Anu, with drawings from her fellow Estonian artist Ulla Saar. The drawings, centered around a specific area of Tallinn, can be coloured and sent to the author.

-----------Markus Vater----------

2011-01-22T12:56:00.003+01:00

Animation The Cave Has been Moved by German artist Markus Vater.

thanks to Adam for the link.

-----------Ursula Döbereiner---------

2011-01-18T12:49:00.004+01:00

drawings from Ursula Döbereiner, who also makes really nice animations.

-----------------Rafael Rozendaal----------

2011-01-15T12:03:00.002+01:00

Artist Rafael Rozendaal makes interactive websites: visually appealing, very playful, poetic and funny.

-----Big Bang Big Boom------

2011-01-09T13:47:00.003+01:00

Big Boom Big Bang by Blu is probably the best animation I saw on Vimeo so far.

It's an unscientific take on evolution made with animated wall paintings. Very skilled and with a lot of great ideas and details in it.

--------Fieldlines---------

2011-01-07T01:40:00.002+01:00

From the website of DJ and producer Flying Lotus: Free download of the augmented reality application Cosmogramma Fieldlines. The animation can be controlled, using the webcam or the mouse. Worth to try out.

---------Fumi Mini Nakamura-----------

2011-01-03T09:41:00.004+01:00

The Kingdom says Happy New Year with super cute illustrations from Fumi Mini Nakamura.

---------------Graham Little----------

2010-12-23T22:57:00.005+01:00

drawings from Graham Little.

thanks to Adam for the link.

------------The Bookshelf----------

2010-12-17T18:25:00.004+01:00

the bookshelf VIII: Nieves

Nieves is a publishing house based in Zurich, specialized in artist' books and zines. If you never heard of them, go on their website, they have such great publications that I could easily make a 10 page christmas wishlist.

images (from top to bottom): Wesley Willis, Stefan Marx, Ingo Giezendanner and Mike Mills.

-----------Jürgen von Dückerhoff-------

2010-12-16T22:02:00.004+01:00

don't know if it counts as drawings, but the work of german artist Jürgen von Dückerhoff is great.

thanks to Adam for the link.

----------------Francesc Ruiz-------------

2010-12-09T11:43:00.007+01:00

Francesc Ruiz' exhibition Yaoi shows drawings from the japanese comic book genre Yaoi, which depicts male homoerotic narratives that are produced and consumed by woman.

Exhibition in Gasworks, London, until 26th of January.

thanks to Hercules from TETO Projects for the link.

---------Rinus van de Velde-------

2010-12-04T11:39:00.004+01:00

Rinus van de Velde has quite an Oeuvre on his website. I really like that he presents his work in chronological order, showing the development of his drawings.

His work is currently in a group show in Smart Project Space in Amsterdam.

thanks to Adam for the link.

-------------Julien Beneyton---------

2010-11-29T11:59:00.004+01:00

work from french painter Julien Beneyton. Worth checking out his website, especially the "tributes on paper" to Hip Hop stars.

------------call for entrys----------

2010-11-24T23:18:00.006+01:00

Open Call from Manifest, a gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio: they publish an International Drawing Annual and the call for entrys for Number 6 is online right now (Deadline 31st of December).

To be honest, some of the drawings they chose for the last issues are not really what I personally like, but I really appreciate the initiative. Still worth to submit some work.

-----------------Ryota Sato----------------

2010-11-23T12:04:00.003+01:00

work from japanese artist Ryota Sato.

-------------Florencia Sfoggia-----------

2010-11-18T10:30:00.006+01:00

Another member of the Hand Drawing Collective: great work from Florencia Sfoggia.

---------Marcel van Eeden-------------

2010-11-07T09:26:00.003+01:00

From Marcel van Eeden's website with daily drawings from 2001-2009.

-------------Evelien Lohbeck--------

2010-10-27T15:10:00.005+02:00

Really charming animation from Evelien Lohbeck. More to see on her Website.

---------------The Sketchbook Project-------

2010-10-25T21:27:00.005+02:00

The Sketchbook Project is initiated by the Brooklyn Art Library. Everybody can join, participation fee is 25$ and the deadline for signing up is the 31st of October.

----------------------Lucas Soi---------------

2010-10-21T21:59:00.003+02:00

drawings from the series Cradle Stories 2009-2010 by Canadian artist Lucas Soi. His website somehow disappeared in the past few days, but I found an interview with him.

----------------hello, sorry-----------------

2010-10-21T01:03:00.007+02:00

I would love to post the latest treasures, but the image upload function has been disabled (due to maintenance).
Meanwhile, here are some links:
Banksy made the opening credits of the Simpsons
RSAnimate made an animation on Dan Pink's talk about what motivates us
and one on Barbara Ehrenreich's talk on the darker side of positive thinking
furthermore: the Bone dry is still going strong, blogging about painting
iheartphotograph had a lot of great guests recently
and -to my surprise- there is somebody out there, blogging about blogs.

-------------------Ben Kruisdijk--------

2010-10-15T22:00:00.006+02:00

We are back with beautiful drawings from Dutch artist Ben Kruisdijk,

-----------Patrick Nilsson--------

2010-10-10T01:12:00.008+02:00

Large scale drawings by Swedish artist Patrick Nilsson.
http://www.patricknilsson.se/

this was the last post from guest blogger Björn Hegardt. Big Thanks to him and lots of success with the great FUKT magazine!

---------------Tina Jonsbu------------

2010-10-05T10:01:00.006+02:00

Beautiful line drawings (graph paper with coloured pencil) by Tina Jonsbu.
Her website (in Norwegian): http://www.tinajonsbu.no/

posted by Björn.

------Abdelkader Benchamma-------

2010-09-30T12:27:00.004+02:00

French artist Abdelkader Benchamma's surreal and magic pen and ink drawings. He is also doing beautiful wall drawings and animations.

http://www.kaderbenchamma.com/

posted by Björn.

------Matthias Reinhold-----

2010-09-27T18:23:00.005+02:00

Drawings from german artist Matthias Reinhold and his drawing project and interactive website Ikonolog: http://www.ikonolog.de/
- an associative, infinite chain of images...
posted by Björn

---------- we have a guest.----------

2010-09-27T18:09:00.006+02:00

Guest on the Kingdom for the coming two weeks is
Björn Hegardt, Norwegian artists based in Berlin who runs the great drawing magazine Fukt.
hello welcome! and thank you!

----------------Nick White-----------

2010-09-26T13:43:00.006+02:00

personal work from british illustrator Nick White (who has a really lovely website).

----------------Scott Hunt--------------

2010-09-21T12:12:00.006+02:00

Virtous charcoal drawings from artist and illustrator Scott Hunt. He uses found black and white snapshots and borrows elements from them to create his own narrative.
Found on Booooooom.

----------------------the bookshelf---------

2010-09-16T23:44:00.009+02:00

the bookshelf VII: Some British Birds

Some British Birds is a book with illustrations by Edwyn Collins. Yes, Edwyn Collins the Musician. He made these drawings on a daily basis after suffering from two cerebral hemorrhages in 2005 and had lost control of his right hand.
On the website of Mörel Books they write: "Not only do the illustrations chart his unrelenting endeavor to recover, but the birds ability to defy gravity seem to echo Edwyn’s ability to defy even the most deliberating fate."

--------------------Abner Preis---------

2010-09-15T19:03:00.008+02:00

great drawings from US-artist Abner Preis, who is based in Rotterdam. Hope to see his work once in real life.
He's a member of the network No New Enemys, that features a lot of interesting artists.

----------Kaspars Groshevs---------

2010-09-12T13:26:00.007+02:00

new drawings from Kaspars Groshevs ... (the first latvian artist on the kingdom, by the way)

---------------Sidney Pink-------------

2010-09-10T02:34:00.009+02:00

found a postcard from Sidney Pink in a shop in Cologne... reminded me of Marcel Dzama's drawings, but then with Japanese schoolgirls and space- and businessmen. Worth to check out.

-------------------Anna Hillbom-----------

2010-09-10T02:29:00.007+02:00

And some more souvenirs from the holidays: drawings from Anna Hillbom (Sweden), who also participated in the Žagarė Summer Academy on Lithuania.

-----------Jowhara AlSaud-----------------

2010-09-07T19:55:00.011+02:00

Jowhara AlSaud has a solo-show in Witzenhausen Gallery in Amsterdam right now.
They explain about it:
Al Saud’s body of work, developed over the past years, was inspired by the effects on visual communication caused by censorship in Saudi Arabia. (...) In her unique and yet traditional darkroom technique, the artist makes a drawing emitting skin, faces and detailed features which is then etched in an 8x10 inch negative, the same negative that was used to photograph what will become the background of the image. This technique brings to mind the experimental use of photography as an artistic medium instead of a means of documenting reality, characteristic of the avant-garde in the early 20th century. It is this vulnerability of the image under the lens of a camera and other manipulation processes involved, that Al Saud wishes to highlight in her work.
found on iheartphotograph

------Vivienne Griffin--------

2010-09-04T03:48:00.008+02:00

More souvenirs from Lithuania: work from irish artist Vinvienne Griffin, who participated in the Žagarė Summer Academy.

-----------------Souvenirs------------------

2010-09-01T21:35:00.018+02:00

Niels Bonde

Kim Hiorthøy

Praneet Soi

Some souvenirs from the holidays: These 3 artists participated in the 14th Vilnius Painting Triennale in the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania and I enjoyed seeing their work a lot: Niels Bonde (Denmark), Kim Hiorthøy (Norway) and Praneet Soi (Netherlands).

------------on vacation-----------

2010-08-12T23:45:00.007+02:00

the kingdom is on vacation until September.
for the meantime: the 80ies masterpiece of animated music videos. Strongly recommended, especially on bad days.

--------------Clare Mallison-------

2010-08-12T00:18:00.004+02:00

beautiful work from british illustrator Clare Mallison. I equally like her comissions and her personal drawings (which happens rather rarely). Definately worth seeing!

---------Porous Walker------------

2010-08-11T23:19:00.007+02:00

work by Porous Walker (a.k.a Jimmy DiMarcellis) who is specialized in absurd and pretty funny drawings, sculptures and installations that involve a lot of blasphemy and penis jokes.
No need to check his websites porouswalker.com and owltooth.com, since they only announce R.I.P, but I found a vimeo feature about him by the documentary project The Creative Lives.

---------Michaela Schweiger----------

2010-08-09T23:50:00.007+02:00

German artist Michaela Schweiger just won a video award for her great surreal pseudo-documentory video works.
The drawings above are from 1995 and the first part of the series "Rendezvous der Freunde".
For this work she asked several of her artist friends to draw a portrait of her. For the second part, she asked painter friends to paint a picture as a gift for her. In the third part she showed a collection of different works from fellow artist. For the last part, she invited her friends and teachers for a four-course dinner in their art academy.
I like this project for the simplicity of the idea to fill the blind spots in one's self image by the reflection of other people's view.

---------the Story of Stuff-------

2010-08-09T23:09:00.015+02:00

Mooore animation! This one is made by the Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption and what they have to say seems at first glance to be old news (and it also took me a moment to get used to the way it is narrated) but nevertheless I enjoyed watching it a lot.
Less witty drawings then RSAnimate, but it's interesting to see how the animation is used to explain the cause. And of course: yes, I like the content.
Found on the german blog Diskofrosch.

-------------RSAnimate---------

2010-08-06T13:46:00.015+02:00

The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) produces the RSAnimate series. Witty, great animations to the narration from lectures given at the RSA.
Here is philosopher Slavoj Žižek's talk 'First as Tragedy, Then as Farce'.

--------------Superfreedraw--------

2010-08-04T19:44:00.008+02:00

Superfreedraw is a non-commercial online project; An endless collaborative drawing canvas. Really great idea, although it slightly reminds (with all the penis and boobs-drawings) of the wall in a highschool bathroom. But it's definately fascinating to see what and how people draw and how the project develops.
thank you, Ale for the link!

------------Su-en Wong---------

2010-08-01T21:21:00.007+02:00

oh wow! Virtous self-portraits from Su-en Wong, playing with stereotypes of sexuality, adolescence and race.
http://www.zollaliebermangallery.com/
http://www.danese.com

-------------Matthew Ducmanas---------

2010-07-29T14:19:00.004+02:00

work from Matthew Ducmanas, who started together with Kimi Pryor the Hand Drawing collective (Hand standing for Hooray! a new drawing).
Also worth seeing: Matthew's collection of little notes.

-------------Jeffrey Lewis-----------

2010-07-26T13:31:00.006+02:00

Jeffrey Lewis might be better known for the great comic-tragic narrative folk songs he plays with Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard, but he's also drawing comics and illustrations, which go together really well with his music.
Here are 5 out of 500 drawings he made for the Box Set Project in 2003.