Here’s a link to some really amazing photos and images to start your day. Some absolutely beautiful landscape photos as well as very interesting images to make you think a little bit.
15 Awesome Pictures

Charlie Kratzer had basement that he wanted to make special. He did just that with $10 in Sharpie markers, a steady hand and lots of spare time.
When Charlie Kratzer started on the basement art project in his south Lexington home, he was surrounded by walls painted a classic cream. Ten dollars of Magic Marker and Sharpie later, the place was black and cream and drawn all over.

One of these days I’ll have a house with a basement. Hopefully it will be as unique as this one. I’d love to see a before and after photos of the work though. …read more

I’m not sure where I first came across or heard about the art of Jen Stark, but I was surprised when I did a quick search on this blog and that I hadn’t showcased it before now.
Jen Stark’s work in paper sculpture is amazing to me. This is the kind of things I had envisioned in my head as a child but could never figure out or understand how to interpret it into the physical world through art.
Stark has taken these visions and made them realities through some amazing work in the cutting and sculpting of paper.
That’s not …read more

Everyone is probably familiar with word clouds or tag clouds, but Wordle puts that idea to use and makes it art.
Just paste some text into the input box, type in a website with an RSS feed, or submit a del.icio.us username and you’ve immediately got an artistic interpretation of the words presented on the sources with variations in font size and color dependent on their usage and popularity in the document.
You can modify the fonts and colors to get the fine-tuned look you’re after, but sometimes just letting Wordle do it’s magic is where all the fun comes from.
Here’s …read more

First there was the Falling Sand Game, now you’ve got falling sand art with the ThisIsSand.com website.
Just visit the site, click your mouse and start sprinkling sand across the page. As you can see from my quick image above, you can create various piles and even change the color of your sand to create some pretty cool effects.
My kids love this kind of stuff and it’s also the type of thing that could end up sucking away far too much of the work day if you’re not careful.
Let’s see what you can create!
Uncovered by kmakice and weirdo513
www.thisissand.com

We’ve all taken a piece of a paper and tried to fold it into something else. Growing up I used to make little paper frogs that would hop across my school desk. Once I was able to fold a crane, never to be able to repeat it again.
Richard Sweeney has taken the task of folding, cutting and creasing paper to an absolute high-art form.

The transformation of flat sheet material into three dimensional forms is my central motivation, and working with paper and synthetic sheet materials I take a hands-on approach. Using this process I can gain a better insight into …read more

What was your favorite and most frustrating toy as a kid? The Rubik’s Cube? No, not hardly, that sucker was easy! You could either break it apart and put it back together right, or just peel the stickers off.
The most frustrating toy for me was the Etch-a-Sketch. I loved drawing with this thing! I was really good at drawing…boxes!
George Vlosich III has overcome those boundaries of perpendicular lines and transitioned into full artistic expressionism with this childhood toy.

Yep, that image there was created on an Etch-a-Sketch. Just two little white knobs, a little patience, and NO SHAKING!
Visit his website at …read more