Bodies in Motion

Leaping from the page in an array of balletic poses and moves, the illustrations of Leah Yerpe are marvelous creations. Sketched beautifully in pencil, she achieves a high level of realism and contrast between light and dark. A native New Yorker, she has exhibited extensively across the US.

Leah Yerpe‘s charcoal drawings depict the true beauty and joy of movement. Her work somehow captures the both the constrains of human anatomy, and also the freedom we can experience in our own bodies. Her figures are twisted, but graceful; tightly bound, but free. Her figures’ faces are typically obscured, which leaves their expressions and emotions a mystery. Their poses could represent pain or ecstasy. They could be falling or flying. They overlap like elements in a collage, but the larger image is one of cohesion as bodies blend together to create beautiful new forms.

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Premiere: “Text Me Merry Christmas” With Kristen Bell And Straight No Chaser

See the animated video for the modern holiday song we’ve been waiting for.

This vintage-feeling holiday video is a combined effort from Atlantic Records, Kristen Bell, Straight No Chaser, JASH, and songwriters Adam Schlesinger and David Javerbaum. The modern Christmas tune was later animated by Cuppa Coffee Studios. It’s another sign-o-the-times, don’t you think?

Atlantic Records

Atlantic Records

Because no music video would be complete without a selfie with Santa.

Atlantic Records

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Duncan Campbell Wins the 2014 Turner Prize

This year’s Turner Prize, the United Kingdom’s most highly esteemed and controversial art award, has been given to Duncan Campbell for his film It for Others. The 42-year-old Irish artist now joins the ranks of such past winners as Damien Hirst , Douglas Gordon, Steve McQueen, and Martin Creed. The prize comes with £25,000 (about $39,000) prize.

Shot on 16 millimeter film and transferred to digital video, It for Others takes its cues from Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislain Cloquet’s 1953 film essay Statues Also Die. Campbell’s 54-minute film looks at cultural imperialism, specifically in the way that museums snatch up artifacts and remove them from their original context. Divided into sections, the film includes images of African masks, bottles, jars, packets, and Das Kapital-inspired Michael Clark choreography. The Guardian’s Laura Cumming, who called Campbell the “obvious winner” in her review of the show of nominees’ work held at the Tate Modern, also noted the political subtext of the 2013 film—it also refers to the way images of IRA martyrs are exploited for emotional and political reasons.

The 2014 edition of the Turner Prize was unusual because none of its nominees—Campbell, James Richards, Tris Vonna-Michell, and Ciara Phillips—generated any scandals through or around their work. All of the work had a strong conceptual component, which has become the norm for the Turner Prize, and none of it involved painting or sculpture.

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Amazing Bushwick Collective Street Art Photos Taken By Marcela Nowak

Marcela Nowak  is an industrial design student from Poland,who loves taking pictures! While visiting New york city he couldn’t resist a visit to Bushwick Collective Art.

His tour around New york city took him to  Bushwick Collective Art , the Bushwick collective Art  is an outdoor Gallery of artists from all over the world. The Bushwick Collective is a bit harder to find since it’s spread out over a few blocks ..street art culture is alive .

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Artist Creates Hyper-Realistic Drawings On Wooden Boards

Ivan Hoo, a talented hyper-realistic artist from Singapore………

Hoo uses colored pencils, pastels and ink to create his realistic artwork. He works on boards of wood, which give the background a unique texture.

“I always love to draw realistic art or artworks that tease the eyes and the brain, by working on wood, it gives me a lot of dimension and ideas to create something close to reality and it works really well with pastels, too.“

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Street Artist Jay Shells Paints Hip Hop-Inspired Mural in Brooklyn

The street artist Jay Shells has painted a mural in Brooklyn featuring lyrics by the hip hop artist Mos Def, Complex Magazine reports. The mural is a continuation of Shells’ Rap Quotes project, in which he installed street signs with rap lyrics. In a video, Shells explains that the project “plots the…corners and very specific locations mentioned in rap songs.”

“I was always hoping that the street sign project would open the door for something more permanent,” Shells told Animal. “Although I realize it wouldn’t always be possible to do a wall or a plaque on the floor for every single [rap quote], I thought it would be great to get a good handful of them to be more permanent.”

The mural, located near the intersection of Broadway and Myrtle Avenue, says: “I’m blacker than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle,” referring to the location that Mos Def mentioned in his song Mathematics. “I have found that this is an interesting way to interact with the public, to get a message out and to hear back what the public is telling me,” Shells toldComplex.

Shells first started attracting attention with his Subway Etiquette project, in which he put up screen prints and posters in New York City’s subway stations, trains, and platforms, urging New Yorkers to be respectful to each other while using the public transport network.

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Step By Step From A Blank Page To The Complete Drawing Of A Steampunk Lion

  Paula Duță is an interior designer from Romania . Who  loves to draw.

Here is one work that she is fond of. The Steampunk Lion is a 100/70 cm drawing on which different markers, pens, watercolors and a lot of other materials were used .

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Big Art For Little Kids

These are illustrations from a children’s Art Book about the 30 most famous paintings and their funny (or sometimes not so funny) history!

Written and illustrated by Belgian children’s book writer Thaïs Vanderheyden. Published by Borgerhoff & Lamberigts in 2013.

Munch

Da Vinci

David

Klimt

Mondriaan

Vermeer

Piero della Francesca

Van Gogh

Keith Haring

Pollock

Hockney

Matisse

Picasso

Monet

Cezanne

Van Eyck

Music Video: Stop-motion Music Video for James’ Moving On

 

Moving On is a stop-motion video from BAFTA-nominated animator, writer, and director Ainslie Henderson. The clip was created as a music video for British rock band James and tells a story of life and death through characters depicted with yellow yarn. Sad, but wonderfully done.

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Stop Motion Animation Merged with Hand-Illustrated Cels Held in Front of an iPhone

Animator Marty Cooper just released a sequel to his wildly popular Aug(De)Mented Reality video that blends stop motion with hand-illustrated cels that he holds in front of his iPhone while shooting. Whimsical characters interact with both foreground and background elements like clouds, buildings, animals, and even real people. Earlier this summer, Cooper was invited to stop by Adam Savage’s legendary workshop where he discussed his process and animated a short piece incorporating Savage.

UPDATE: Cooper posts many of his animated clips to Instagram.

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