Scott Radke creates beautiful sculptures that take shape into delicate, bizarre and often frightening form.
They offer a darkness. Pretty and sinister. The expressions of his pieces are impactful. Sometimes giving one a feeling of uneasiness as if the piece is alive, then sometimes giving one an urge to protect them. They are helpless and beautiful. They have you under their spell.
Some film makers have brought the creatures to life with stop animation. Check out the Dark Matters project here.
His work is somewhat derivitage of my favourite sculptor Sergio Bustamante. Who’s sculpture of a crocodile on the toilet crying has been my conquest for the last 12 or 15 years. However Scott’s execution is unique and the range of emotion and cloak of mystery his pieces have are truly captivating and unsettling. Our fear of inanimate objects coming to life are burried deep with in them.
Scott’s work was in the recent Alice in Wonderland movie and can be found in this book.
Over the past few days, I have been running a call-in Twitter show in which I quickly (or slowly) sketch up pictures based on ideas sent in by the audience. I call it the Sweatshop, and there have been two rounds so far.
Round 1 was simple: I asked the people for a pair of words.
Kevin Doran sent in “This is why you’re told never to flush used condoms down the toilet.”
I’ve been asked to do another round on Monday night, around 8pm PST, to be streamed live to the DNA Lounge in San Francisco. Which may mean I’ll need to draw less nipples and robot twat, but we’ll see.
Hit the jump to see the rest of the horrors (some are not work safe), and latch onto me at Twitter to leech valuable nutrients from my skin.
Once in a great while, I am pleasantly shocked by the direction taken by self-appointed internet comedy teams. Once in a great, great while.
My friends and I have a yearly tradition that we refer to as LobsterFest. LobsterFest consists entirely of us comically harassing a Red Lobster restaurant and then seeing if they will be willing to serve us afterwards. This year was the 5th year anniversary of LobsterFest so we decided to go for broke and attempt to get banned from the restaurant forever.
Princeton University has announced the winners of the 2009 Art of Science competition. First place this year was awarded to Celeste M. Nelson for this gorgeous, bright field micrograph of squid embryos.
The poster for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s MoCCA Festival 2009 brought a smile to my face this morning, festooned as it is with sea creatures and dapper hats. Running from June 6-9 at the famous 69th Regiment Armory in New York — scant blocks from my alma mater — the festival features an impressive list of comic book heavy hitters including Seth, Gary Panter, Al Jaffee, Molly Crabapple, David Mazzuchelli, and Adrian Tomine. Passes are $10.00 a day or $15.00 for the entire weekend. Definitely worth a look.
I very much enjoy this particular piece by Nemo Gould although perhaps not for the reasons which he indented; for while I understand the idea behind it, and while I appreciate its sleek, shiny carapace and barbed arms it still strikes me as a squid riding a bicycle, an image that fills me with an almost indescribable glee.
Check out his YouTube channel to see this and his other sculptures in action.
In sheer defiance of the World Wide Web Consortium's will, Ectomo was designed using a non-web-standard font. Luckily, it is included in the excellent font pack released by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, which can be freely downloaded in Mac and PC formats here. Ectomo should still look fine without it, though.
