French street artist Oakoak is back to his clever ways. He recently put up a piece titled The little girl and the little Apple tree which shows a silhouette of a girl reaching up to grab tiny “apples.” Love how whimsical this one is.
For more works by Oakoak, make sure to check out his website.
Artist Christopher David Ryan has just come out with a new set of prints and they’re sure to make you smile. I love how simple but sweet they are. While Quite a Pair is cute, in a sassy kind of way, Doing My Best, is hilarious, with the poor guy lying completely flat on the floor.
On a side note, sorry I’ve been spotty with the posts lately. Yesterday we drove down to San Diego for an interview for Parker’s kindergarten so I couldn’t be at my computer. Hope today’s barrage of posts makes up for it!
Above: Doing My Best
Right Here Right Now
Quite a Pair
Sounds Like Us
Coffees
I’m so excited about this! I know I throw around the word “favorite” a lot on this site but Audrey Kawasaki is really one of my favorite artists of all time. She has a new solo show coming up called Interlude beginning Saturday, November 12 and running till December 3 at Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City. Can’t wait for this! In the same project room will be Stella Im Hultberg’s exhibition, Hollow Resonance. The two together!? Now this is a must-see.
One of my favorite paper artists, Peter Callesen, is showing new works at the Faaborg Artmuseum in Denmark. From now till March 12, 2017, come see the exhibition Suspended Death, where he interprets the artworks of three artists who are all connected to the Faaborg Artmuseum as a part of the permanent collection.
The artists Peter was inspired by are Kai Nielsen and his stone sculptures ‘Marmorpigen’ (The Marble Girl) and ‘Granittøsen’ (The Granite Lass), Anna Syberg and her watercolor paintings of flowers: ‘Blooming Phyllocactus’, ‘Wild Rose’ and ‘Apple Branch’ and finally Johannes Larsen’s delicate illustration ‘Woodpigeons’.
According to Callesen, “The exhibition thematizes death and decay, as well as it deals with oppositions between lightness and weight, between soaring and falling.”
The first work in this post, an installation of a dove flying, is my favorite.
Above: ‘Dead Dove’ 2016, Installation, Faaborg Artmuseum, Fåborg, DK. 385 x 258 x 75 cm 120 g. paper and glue. photo: Kirstine Mengel
‘Apple Blossom’ 2016, 44 x 44 x 9 cm Acid-free 120 g. paper, pencil, water colour, glue and oak frame
‘Wild White Roses’ 2016, 120 x 100 x 13 cm Acid-free 120 g, paper, glue and ash wood frame photo: Kirstine Mengel
‘Girl’ made from small notes, 2016, Installation, 200 x 200 x 155 cm, Small sheets of 34 g. Zairei Japanese paper and glue. photo: Kirstine Mengel
‘Flying and Falling Sparrows’ 2016. detail, Installation, 250 x 150 x 45 cm 120 g. paper and glue
My sister has been using Monkeys and Peas services for years now. The photo company, led by Trina, always makes my sister’s X-mas cards look simple yet stylish. I just came across this adorable baby photo inspired by Harry Potter on Monkey and Peas’ Instagram. I love that the sweet, sleeping baby is holding a wand and is wrapped in Gryffindor colors.
Opening this Sunday, October 16, at Museum Sinclair-Haus in Bad Homburg, Germany, artist Su Blackwell will be presenting two ethereal works. Called The Grass Grows between her Toes and While you were Sleeping, two beautiful dresses appear intact, until you notice the shredded at the bottom. The resulting trains appear like something you’d see out of a fairy tale. Blackwell combines textile, in the form of the Victorian dresses, with her traditional papercut art, to create something extraordinary.
Here’s the meaning to one of them. “While You Were Sleeping is a dress with thousands of cut-out moths escaping from its skirts. It was based on the Burmese tradition that people’s souls turn into butterflies while they sleep and if you wake them up the soul doesn’t have time to return to the body so they die.”
These works are part of the exhibition Second Skin. It’s where international artists, explore our relationship between skin, clothing and nature. You can see these up close and personal until February 12, 2017.
Two of my favorite illustrators, Dave Perillo and Tom Whalen, will be in a two person show, opening Thursday, November 3rd at SPOKE SF.
A selection of art by Banksy will be on exhibition at Andipa in London starting October 13th.
Love that these new candy jewelry-inspired tattoos smell!
Music to shake your booty to.
Do we live in the Matrix?
I’m eyeing this new coat (in pink).
I’d give this guy a chance just for his creativity.
This glow-in-the-dark bicycle path is otherworldly.
Cool, single-trace animal illustration. (via Quipsologies)
I liked these suggestions, starting with Be present.
How cute is everything on this Instagram?
These father/daughter watercolor illustrations make my heart full.
This futuristic office pod got my attention!
Canon, what an idea! Four photographers were given a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV and then asked them to capture images for display in the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC only 24 hours later.
These well-traveled sketchbooks contain beautiful works of art.
Photo via Bored Panda
The 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest is now well underway. Today, I thought I’d bring you a handful of standout entries in the Animal Portraits category. There are only four categories: Landscape, Environmental Issues, Action and Animal Portraits. The grand-prize winner will receive a 10-day trip for two to the Galápagos with National Geographic Expeditions and two 15-minute image portfolio reviews with National Geographic photo editors.
You only have until November 4th now to submit your photos. Enter before it’s too late!
Above: Two Plus Four 7
Emperor Penguin. Antarctica, On frozen ice.
We were camping on 3m thick frozen sea water, just 1.5 miles away from a big emperor penguin colony, with lots of mega cute chicks. I concentrated especially on taking images of the adorable chicks in the harsh conditions of their environment. The image shows several emperor penguin chicks in front of adult penguins to shield from the forces of the storm.
Photo and Caption by Gunther Riehle/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Water Drops
Nagano, Japan
The Water Drops of melted snow.
Photo and Caption by Takeshi Marumoto/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
![Tripodfish, Bathypterois grallator, Plankton; larval fish; pelagic larval marine life; vertical migration marine creatures; South Atlantic Ocean, Gulfstream current, The tripodfish or tripod spiderfish, Bathypterois grallator, is a deep-sea benthic fish in the Ipnopidae family found at lower latitudes. It is now relatively well known from photographs and submersible observations, and seem to prefer to perch on the ooze using much elongated fin rays in the tail and two pelvic fins to stand, facing upstream with the pectoral fins turned forward so the outthrust projecting fin rays resemble multiple antennae, and are indeed used as tactile organs. B. grallator is hermaphroditic. At least 18 species are placed in the genus Bathypterois, several of which have similar appearance and behavior to B. grallator. Like a lot of deep-sea creatures, they tend to grow larger than most shallow-water fish. This benthic fish grows to be 3 ft.Scientists have suggested that fluids are pumped into these fins when the fish is 'standing' to make them more rigid.Bathypterois grallator has been found relatively widely in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans from 40°N to 40°S. It is a wide-ranging eurybathic fish found from 878 to 4,720 m (2,881 to 15,486 ft) deep.[1] Along with the giant squid, deep-sea anglerfish, and black swallower, it is one of the permanent residents found in the abyssal zone and was directly observed on the historic voyage of the bathyscaphe Trieste to the Mariana Trench.](https://www.adventuresofyoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/nat-geo-03.jpg)
I recently discovered this Tripodfish, Bathypterois grallator, a larval fish during a “black water” scuba diving expedition to document vertical migration marine creatures. This is done in the South Atlantic Ocean, Gulfstream current, The tripodfish or tripod spiderfish, Bathypterois grallator, is a deep-sea benthic fish, known mostly from photographs from submersibles. This fish comes up from the depths of 2,400 feet to 15,000 feet during a vertical migration occurring in the ocean.
Photo and Caption by Suzan Meldonian/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Ocean Guest
Sleeping walrus on the shore
Photo and Caption by Mike Korostelev/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Now You See Me
A baby Owlet uses its camouflage to hide from its predators as it spots me from quite a ways away using a focal length of 1600mm by combing a Sigma 800mm with a Canon 2.0 Extender
Photo and Caption by S. Dere/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Paradise for Flamingoes 2
Thousands of flamingoes live in Bogoria lake where (it’s) likes paradise for them.
Photo and Caption by Yu huiping/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Dawn Admiring in the Frozen Continent
It was very early in the Antarctic morning and I was walking along the beach admiring the sunrise, then suddenly I had a wonderful surprise: meet this Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) already looking at the sun that was just on the horizon. At that moment I had the sensation that, like me, he had woken up very early to contemplate such a beautiful dawn. King George Island, Antarctica.
Photo and Caption by Edson Vandeira/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
The Path Less Trodden
A polar bear ekes out a lonely existence in a barren world of ice
Photo and Caption by Harry Lyndon-Skeggs/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
If you’re in the market to buy art, but you don’t want to buy a cheap print and you can’t afford something from Sotheby’s, check out the new website Twyla. The company takes all the hassle out of buying limited edition prints: they’ve hired a team of expert curators who have selected 300 pieces from 80 well-known artists from around the world whose works can be found at the Whitney, the Guggenheim, and the MoMa. Worried about framing? Each item arrives at the buyer’s home framed and protected in a sturdy box designed for Twyla by an aerospace engineer. For $150, Twyla can even send expert a gallery-trained handler to install the print on your wall, or you can install it yourself using a special “welcome kit” that Twyla created.
After perusing their site, I came across a lot of pretty artworks. Take a look yourself and then tell me what you think.
Above: Arno Elias, Elephant Rainbow
Warren Neidich, Skirting the Half Truths of our Love Drained
Marina Vernicos, Milos
Miya Ando, Bodhi Leaf Mandala (pink)
Miya Ando, “Obon” (The return of the spirits 2), floating phosphorescent Bodhi Leaves in a pond
Marina Vernicos, Sifnos
Peter Ruehle, Abstract Landscape 16
via Fast Company
At this year’s Burning Man, one of the most spectacular art pieces was the Space Whale, a monumental stained glass and steel sculpture consisting of two humpback whales. A mother is diving down to the Earth’s surface supported by her calf. The sculpture evokes the dynamic bond between child and parent and the intrinsic need to preserve our planet. At 50-feet-tall, the pair was a sight to behold.
I love that 3,200 stained glass panels were used to create this magnificent piece. Not only could you see this sculpture, you could hear it, too. It sang whale songs at the same frequency and decibel level as real whales, creating an ethereal experience for the visitor. The idea was executed by The Pier Group, an international collective of artists and builders led by Matthew Schultz as well as Android Jones, a “digital painter.”
Photographer Cliff Baise said this about his experience: “Every angle of this incredible sculpture was a treat to behold. I saw it utilized for meditation as well as serving as a backdrop for many weddings. In addition to the twinkling led’s, a beautiful whale song would resonate from within. Matthew, Android, and the rest of the Pier Group did such an amazing job. Appreciation is the name of the game. Realizing that every moment is fleeting and taking the time to stop and wonder, and give gratitude is key.”
Hello, I’m Alice Yoo! I’m founder and CEO of Skylar Yoo, a company dedicated to inspiring and empowering women to be bold. We sell apparel, art prints and accessories to the modern feminist.
In my former life, I was editor-in-chief of the art and culture blog My Modern Met, which I founded back in 2007. I curated and wrote about art, design and photography for more than seven years. (In fact, I published over 7,000 articles which were seen by millions of people worldwide.) I’m also co-author of a book called For Love: 25 Heartwarming Celebrations of Humanity, which is on Amazon and wherever books are sold.
I live in southern California along with my husband and my two toddler boys.
This blog is about what I love, the tough experiences that I’ve learned from, and my journey as a second time entrepreneur. Right now, I’m in the midst of a 365 day challenge, to read one book a day. If you share my passions or want to learn some cool new facts, come along for the ride. I hope to inspire, educate and entertain you!
