Fossil News

A new fossil find links humans and lemurs. Okay. Lemurs are cute.

Especially lemurs with black and white striped tails.

Story:

National Geographic

J J Grandville in Black and White

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I took a little hiatus, but I'm back now. I blogged about illustrator J J Grandville before: his flower women. Born in 1803-died in 1847...he wasn't around very long, but he left a cleverly surreal body of work behind.

Try this LINK to view more.

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Musical Saw Engraved with Your Name

You can buy this musical saw and get your name engraved on it for a reasonable price here:

Musical Saws

If you want to read a history of saw-playing go here. LINK

Thanks, Shelley Rickey for link, who can be seen playing one in a photo on her blog.
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New Encyclopedia of Surreal Art, German Edition

"The Caged Wonder" painting 2008 by Amy Crehore

My art has been published in "Lexikon der phantastischen Künstler" by Gerhard Habarta.
It's an international encyclopedia of fantastic & surrealistic & symbolist & visionary artists (living and dead). The German language edition has just been released. I am honored that Mr. Habarta selected my biography, plus an additional reproduction in colour of "The Caged Wonder" painting.
There are 1122 artist biographies from 69 countries, 462 pages, 950 b/w + 458 colour reproductions. ISBN: ISBN: 9 783837 084276
www.lexikon-surreal.com

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2 Cool Blogs

Painting by Amy Crehore 2009

A couple of really nice blogs featured my paintings recently.

Lost at E Minor had an interesting review written by Gerry Mak. LINK

And Cool Hunting : here. A big thank you from me.

Both of these blogs publish excellent articles daily about art and design.

And we are all on twitter, too. :)

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Frantisek Drtikol, Photographer

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Originally uploaded by Confetta

"The Soul" 1930
Strange and beautiful.
Read more about this photographer
on Confetta's squidoo lense:
http://www.squidoo.com/FrantisekDrtikol

Ukulele is in the Lead...

I am offering two new artist-signed limited edition prints for $50. each ...with small, signed pencil drawings tucked into at least ten of the orders (at random) for good measure. So far, the "ukulele" prints are leading the "guitar" prints in sales, 2 to 1. We shall see, as the days go by, which one sells out first. One image has two girls, a uke and mostly monkeys. The other has an allegorical feel to it with lots of different characters and one girl with a guitar. Thanks, boingboing.net for mentioning them here. And thanks, Creep Machine.

For more details, to purchase a print (with a chance at receiving a lucky pencil drawing):

Click HERE (new prints)

Before they are gone. Only 75 prints in these editions.

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