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Killer Site #10: Francisco Aveledo – FA DESIGN

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:41:48 +0000

Here is a great Graphic Design Portfolio Site. I was surfing around for some design inspiration for redoing my own portfolio site and stumbled on this. There is some great work and imagery within Francisco Aveledo’s FA DESIGN portfolio. Take a look see! This guy really has it goin’ on.

Francisco Aveledo – FA DESIGN

Blotter Art – Trippy Tiles

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:46:32 +0000

I came across a great site – blotterart.com. Blotter art is the art used on sheets of tiled and perforated paper for ingesting LSD (d-lysergic acid diethylamide). Each tiled piece is a “hit” of LSD. There are some amazing and beautiful designs that have been created throughout the years. Really an inspiration to look at. Blotter Art has become a highly collectible form of art. There are signed additions of famous blotters and such at the site. There are many sites showing examples of this cool art medium, but blotterart.com is a great place to feast your eyes (and maybe lighten your wallet) if you are into collecting. The image below is of a Geisha Girl Blotter signed by the Grandmaster of trippyness himself – Timothy Leary!

Image from Blotterart.com

Tumblr Trove: Bear

admin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:39:15 +0000

I have come across so many great images while checking out peoples blogs at Tumblr. Instead of bookmarking these blogs, I am starting a whole new category called “Tumblr Trove”. Here goes….

This is an image from the “Bear” Blog. Check out more collected images for inspiration and such at the blog.

http://loveyourchaos.tumblr.com

Images posted are from their respective blogs.
The image may be someone else’s altogether.
If this image is yours…
Please let me know so I can give credit and a link!

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Killer Site#6: Rubens LP – Illustrator

admin — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:14:31 +0000

Some more beautiful pixels at Rubens LP. There are some very interesting line drawings at his site. On the higher side of unique. His images seem to lack a traditional “completeness”, but in the way he illustrates with his line art it seems to create even more than the complete image would show if it were in it’s entirety. I don’t know if I am saying that correctly… To find out just what I am talking about, drop on by Rubens LP.

Visit his site
more of his work can also be found at his deviantART Gallery

No Swine, But Buyer Swoons Over Tattoo.

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:06:59 +0000

Here at PaperFlame, I try to keep everything related to the Art, Graphics, Design and blah blah blah world. I try, I really do. We all know that tattooing has to be one of the oldest forms of purposeful art around (art for the sake of art), thus I am including the following story.

At an art show called ShContemporary which is Shanghai’s biggest art show. One of the exhibits was supposed to be of 8 pigs tattooed with logos of Louis Vuitton and Walt Disney characters. The tattooed art is by a Belgian artist named Wim Delvoye so the story goes.

Wim Delvoye

Well it ends up that the swine exhibition was banned by the Chinese authorities. Something to do with animal rights (in china? Don’t they eat dogs?). Go figure. So in the place of all the graffitied pigs, the artist – Delvoye has decided to display a living man instead – named Tim Steiner. Tim has tattooed artwork on his back by Delvoye. The tattoo in question took 35 hours to create and the “tattooee” had no say in what was to be tattooed on his own back.

Now I hear ya… you say, SO WHAT!? Hold on, hold on.. it doesn’t end there. What is completely over the top here is that the tattoo itself (including skin) has been sold for the sum of $215,000 to some collector… get this, the collector has the right to remove the tattooed skin from his back when the man dies. Steiner is also under contract to display the tattooed art on his back at certain events.

The whole thing makes me think of the line “It puts the lotion in the basket” from the movie Silence of the Lambs. It all seems kinda sick. I have to add though, I think it’s kinda neat that there are people in this world that will pay exhorbinent amounts of money for art… of any kind.

Louisa Lim/NPR

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