Homeland Security Blanket Sebastian Martorana’s sculpture encompasses the novel, the mundane, and the curious liminal space between the two – well worth your perusal. via Valentina Tanni

They shoot horses don’t they (via Happy Famous Artists) is the recent work of Stephan Balleux. Combining portraits with nuanced and menacing aberrations of swirling grey matter comes naturally and even flows with the theme of paint as a rebellious medium itself imparting a fabricated essence or semiotic undercurrent into each distorted vision of the [...]

… and many other desirably lethal objets d’arte at Al Farrow Sculpturevia Who Killed Bambi?

Voxel art from Kazuki Takamatsu … oddly enough, didn’t require any of the threshold+layer mixing I tend to do (it arrives this way). via Who Killed Bambi?

“Chestnut Gap” Urban Aerial Map Artwork by Ross Racine I love it when art showswhere reality crossed the line. In 1986 there were 28,496 shopping centers in the U.S., boasting 3.5 billion square feet of space. Today there are 46,438 malls and such with 5.8 billion square feet of space. Ah, you say, but the [...]

via The New Shelton Wet/Dry The glass itself contains and compresses the world within it, seeming to suspend time itself—with all its accompanying anguish, fear, and bliss. By sealing the works in this fashion, I hope to distill the debris of human experience down to single, fragile moments. Like blackboxes bobbing in the flotsam, these [...]

The bootleg mashup scene is a great example of a novelty made possible by the broad reach (and general lawlessness) of the internet – sites like BootieUSA.com freely redistribute the works of various mashup artists who freely distribute their works composed of other artists’ works which (with the notable exception of Annie Lennox) are not [...]

By various channels of information… (despite having subscribed to Dangerous Minds after seeing Chris at Cynical-C sourcing them regularly, I still saw it under Phonebook Carvings at Cynical-C first) “In carving and painting a head from a phone directory, I’m celebrating the individual lost in the anonymous list of thousands of names that describe the [...]

… no reason to avoid finding the beauty in a filthy greenback. I rede that oure hoost heere shal bigynne, For he is moost envoluped in synne. Com forth, sire hoost, and offre first anon, And thou shalt kisse the relikes everychon, Ye, for a grote! unbokele anon thy purs. – The Pardoner’s Taleby Geoffrey [...]

Alex Trochut is an impressive artist – but don’t take my word for it… go to his site and drool over the exceedingly-slick typographical arrangements for yourself.