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Rowan LeCompte is awesome

Erik — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:59:34 +0000

While waking up this Saturday morning, I heard one of the best interviews I’ve ever listened to on NPR. Rowan LeCompte, a stained glass artist who has contributed greatly to the Washington National Cathedral, is interestingly agnostic. His explanation of a philosophy of kindness is wonderful. Have a listen. (Start at 3:55 if you’re short on time)

Vandalisn’t

Erik — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:30:00 +0000

This beautiful art wasn’t created with a spray can – it was made with some clean rags. This massively dirty tunnel was selectively cleaned by OSSARIO, an artist from Sao Paulo, Brazil. There needs to be more of this…

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Update

Here’s some more from Brooklyn. So awesome.

More Art

Erik — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:26:00 +0000

I received a wonderful piece of art in the mail today. It’s a print by Shepard Fairey of Obey Giant.

The Artist

My Print

I Love it.

E Pluribus Venom

Erik — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:18:00 +0000

This has to be one of the coolest works of art I’ve ever seen.

Find more information here. Find more art here.

Does Alicia Silverstone love meat?

Erik — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:14:00 +0000

I saw this today, and thought it was hilarious. Basically, this is the main point of the whole thing:

So I decided to have some fun.

I saw this today, and thought it was hilarious. Basically, this is the main point of the whole thing:

So I decided to have some fun. Here are the results:

The obvious one

This one just couldn’t help being done.

Fun with filters

These were all made using The GIMP – it has some pretty cool filters like this one, which is sparkle. I used the hue and saturation tool to get the blue effect.