Tag Archives: art

Outdoorsman; Artist

  By Riley | June 13, 2011 - 5:47 pm | Pics & Toons
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Having just finished pissing on Bear Grylls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name: James Walker

Age: 26

Hometown: Midland Park, New Jersey

Responds to: James, Jim, Jimbo, Big Money, Buffalo Boy

Allergies: Hay, shit like that

Self-portrait, below. During his time in the Jersey Highlands, Jim studied white-tailed deer and drank whiskey. In a small steno pad he recorded his observations of the wildlife, as well as documentation of his shelter and surroundings. This self-portrait was created one night while he drank whiskey and watched Bambi. They say that life imitates art, and in this case, Jim’s art imitated the life he lived alone in the woods.

Self-portrait

Subway Graffiti

  By Riley | January 20, 2011 - 6:17 pm | Pics & Toons
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Someone’s been marking up some moustaches across the City’s underground world.

Here are just a few: No one is exempt from the graffiti – not even this no-name model for a culinary school in the City-

Culinary school can't teach you how to grow THIS

Or Kevin Pereira, the host of Attack of the Show that isn’t Olivia Munn-

Kindaaa celebrities

Even females can’t escape the Moustache-graffiti Phantom: This is the new co-host of Attack of the Show, Candace Bailey-

Not Olivia Munn

Not Olivia Munn

There are literally HUNDREDS of these markings on ads throughout the subways in NYC. Keep an eye out.

NYC through camera-phone

  By Riley | December 5, 2010 - 11:07 pm | Pics & Toons
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The "Bomb" from the "Hero King" of Queens

It’s got ham, turkey, roast beef, salami, cheese (provolone and American) lettuce, tomato, roasted red peppers, mayonnaise and oil on a thirteen inch sesame seed loaf. Plus the old-fashioned soda. The reviews for Sal, Kris, & Charlie’s Deli do not disappoint.

Two kids, three instruments. Great use of orifices.

These two kids, whom I assume hail from NYU, were performing near Union Square Park. I caught them playing “Yesterday” by the Beatles, followed by a Tom Petty song which escapes me now, but what really matters after such a great ballad. I just hope those recorders aren’t donated to first grade classrooms in Harlem. These kids aren’t even busking… or at least hadn’t acquired any donations yet.

How Did I Not Hear About This?

  By Riley | October 12, 2010 - 9:24 pm | Pics & Toons
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In an attempt to prove a friend wrong, a German man created this website to show that he could collect over a million pictures of giraffes. 440 Days later and 5,244 depictions of giraffes over his goal, he did it.

Did you know?

Giraffes are the tallest living animal!

Only half the countries that visited the man’s giraffe-picture-amassing site actually contributed to it! (That’s a lot of lurkers…)

A giraffe’s tongue is black! (If you get this reference, you truly are a product of the ’90′s.)

giraffe, one million giraffes, e-contest, new media, ithacan't, ICLA

just a small percentage of his collection

Over one million giraffes were submitted from over 102 countries, and only 4.1% were from the United States. That’s still 41,215, but still, this is the United States. People our age are constantly online, aware of the latest publicity ploy and pop culture phenomenon! My question is, Wie war ich ahnungslos???

Boredom Yields Productivity

  By Riley | September 23, 2010 - 5:56 pm | Pics & Toons
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At work, I spend a lot of time pulling weeds, trimming bushes and cutting lawns. But I also revel in my lunch break, as well as my fifteen-minute breaks at 10:00 and 2:00. It was during these breaks – sitting in a garage full of tools and equipment – that I was struck with a creative muse, and this is the result:

Friends of the Garage

“Friends of the Garage” was originally inspired by the nickname I attributed to the large garbage barrels I use everyday, Daryl. From there I went on to give rhyming nicknames to other common garage implements. Frank the Propane Tank, Dave the Microwave, Dan the Fan, and Jack Hume – the vacuum. (The last one might be a stretch, but then again, depicting inanimate objects to kill fifteen minutes isn’t exactly ordinary.)

Portrait of the Workshop

“Portrait of the Workshop” is something I worked on for a few days in the winter, when I came in to work to do snow removal. Amidst this cluster of lines and shadows, can you see a hex wrench? 9-volt battery? cell phone? razorblade? logic?

I honestly thought this shred of paper was thrown away after I left to return for school, but after showing “Friends” to a co-worker, he dug this one out from behind a box of doorknobs. I guess someone thought it was worth saving.

Artists Bring Cartoons to Life

  By Riley | August 23, 2010 - 2:57 pm | Pics & Toons
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A Cartoon Standard

Few shows have captured the pop culture zeitgeist and contextualized so many references like The Simpsons have. Accordingly, the characters of the show have been modified and made hyperrealistic.

Spongebob Squarepants is seemingly everyone’s guilty pleasure cartoon. Perhaps a user on Reddit.com summed it up best:

Guys, I’m fucking sick of this. I’m almost 20 and haven’t been able to score a better job than a fucking cook at a local fast food joint. What makes it worse is that I live in a small town so business is pretty limited, and where I work is the only place that’ll hire high school graduates. I’d get the hell out of this town if I could actually drive too, but I’ve failed every damn test I’ve ever taken. I’m socially awkward, even my only other co-worker fucking hates my guts. I have repressed lust for one of my best friends too; she’s athletic, smart and a gorgeous southern bell. I love her. You know what it’s like; I’ve been friend zoned real hard. She’s my only real friend, besides this one kid, who I’m pretty sure is only hanging around me because he is mentally challenged. I guess he’s the only one that can tolerate me. And what makes this all fucking worse is that I live in a fucking pineapple under the sea.

The realism may make you question their relationship

It’s hard to imagine that the boys from South Park could actually be real children bundled up in a small Colorado town. But this might make you think again.

Not Until Just Now

A final cartoon whose characters have been hyper-modified, is one I grew up with (I’ll admit it!), Rugrats. Here are Tommy, Chucky, Phil and Lil. And check out Angelica- she looks like even more of a bitch in “real” life.

Klasky-Csupo.....squirt~

Don’t you just love the evolution and malleability of a good ol’ cartoon?