Category Archives: art

The World of Marwencol

By tone | Published: March 16, 2010
Mark Hogancamp’s world is a constant struggle to stay afloat in reality. His traumatic beating outside a bar scarred him for life. Coping with life made the reclusive photographer create Marwencol, a safe environment where he is in control of. The tragic genesis of this fantasy world is sad but a study of human self [...]
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I am With CoCo Artist Mike Mitchell Cashing In

By tone | Published: March 15, 2010
Mike Mitchell the artist behind the “I’m With CoCo” image that spun into a grassroots support for the dethroned Tonight Show stalwart Conan O’Brien helped Conan become the sweetheart of the internet community along the way. The image has helped Conan build and increase his savvy online supporters. Conan who has become the multimillionaire of [...]
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My Life with Charlie Brown

By tone | Published: March 13, 2010
The book Schulz and Peanuts a Biography by David Michaelis left a bitter taste in the mouth with the Schulz estate who gladly opened the doors to him with an exclusivity into the Peanuts world and in return David misconstrued the cartoonist in a rather negative light. Die-hard fans were not too impressed by a [...]
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The Making of a Book Cover

By tone | Published: March 12, 2010
What took six hours to make is a fully sped up segment of how a book is made in a montage sequence of layering with clip art. The soon to be released Blameless by Gail Carriger is the third in the series The Parasol Protectorate. The Parasol Protectorate Series books are comedies of manners set in [...]
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Augmented (hyper)Reality: The Future of Mankind

By tone | Published: March 11, 2010
Will mankind and machine merge together? Are we at the threshold of mankind’s greatest leap into cerebral commercialism and slave to big industry? The future looks promising but Matrix like haunting and freedom-less of human contact. Hyper-reality is a thing of sci-fi but not an impossibility. The latter half of the 20th century saw the [...]
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Christoph Niemann Absrtact City Maps

By tone | Published: March 11, 2010
Sandbox World favorite Christoph Niemann the author of “The Pet Dragon,” which teaches Chinese characters to young readers strikes again with his latest Absrtact City Maps collection of well thought out maps of ideas. Christoph has a knack for breaking things down to the purest form and while conveying universal messages. See more maps>>
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Salvador Dali In Wonderland

By tone | Published: March 10, 2010
The fascination with Alice in Wonderland has amassed a vast encompassing body of homage works by many in the entertainment world past and future. From art to cinema, it seems many muses have dipped into to the well of inspiration to further explore the themes in the book. Salvador Dali spawned the book into a [...]
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WWF Earth Hour / The Dark Side Saves the Planet

By tone | Published: March 9, 2010
WWF has turned to the Dark Side to promote Earth Hour by joining the dark forces and switching off power for one hour. So come March 27 you can safely say you aligned yourself with Darth Vader for one hour.
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Rapunzel Tangled by Disney

By tone | Published: March 9, 2010
The classic Grimm’s fairy tale “Rapunzel” has been rechristened as “Tangled” because of Disney’s last movie, “The Princess and the Frog” which was a death knell at the box office with the princess title that turned boys away from the movie. An Errol Flynn-styled male lead was injected into the girl-centric Rapunzel movie. Disney’s top [...]
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New Alice in Wonderland Art by Hugh Dandrade

By tone | Published: March 9, 2010
Hugh D’Andrade’s marriage of typography and illustration is a thing of beauty. His art graces many books and rock posters and really does justice to the project at hand. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories is the latest book cover he was commissioned for the Lewis Carroll classic.
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