Category Archives: Art

Walt Dali

By tone | Published: July 3, 2009
Hollywood had a love affair with Salvador Dali and a friendship with Walt Disney was nurtured to a point where they worked on a potential short film called Destino. The project was abandoned in 1946, only 18 seconds of test footage was created. The project re-surfaced in 1999 for Fantasia 2000, Disney’s nephew Roy Edward [...]
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Bagel Head

By tone | Published: July 2, 2009
Here are two guys your daughter should never bring home. Tattoos and body piercing is one thing, but saline inflation is the latest craze of stupidity. These two bagel heads come without cream cheese. Find what people do to their bodies at Bizarre.
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Dennis the Menace and Dairy Queen

By tone | Published: July 1, 2009
From 1971 till 2001 Dennis the Menace was the poster boy for Dairy Queen. The company dropped the character because they felt he no longer represented the youth culture. The demise of this campaign in many ways hurt the strip. Be it irrelevance or just corporate greed, I miss the old Dennis character sprawled on [...]
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Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater

By tone | Published: June 30, 2009
Manga has exploded like mushrooms throughout the years. There are many book stores that now have sections dedicated to the current version of manga. Mostly North American young girls flock to manga. At one time manga was not about giant robots and fantasy elements, the stories were about real people on the street. In Japan [...]
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Sci-Fi Art

By tone | Published: June 25, 2009
At one time sci-fi artists were great visionaries of the future. Their covers is what made or broke the sales of many sci-fi books gobbled by young minds in famine for a better future. These celebrated artists work graced many paperbacks,ads, and record covers for fans who loved and followed these seers of the future. [...]
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Dinomixer

By tone | Published: June 17, 2009
If you were holding back on buying either an iPhone/iPod Touch, here is a good reason to buy one. There are so many kinds of apps out there. Into the fold many artists are finding new ways to generate income with this new milieu. Dinomixer is truly a cool App with artwork by Charley Parker, [...]
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Levis For Little Toughies

By tone | Published: June 16, 2009
Levis is starting a new campaign with their line of kid jeans with fairy tale modern versions of the old classics. Advertising for kids can be fun if envisioned the right way. Levis has a winner here as created by BBH Asia Pacific for the Asian market. See more ads at Super-Punch.
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Google Fame

By tone | Published: June 15, 2009
Artists Say No to Google to work for free. Trading food on your plate for millions of views is not a prospect that a starving artist would want for himself of herself. That is exactly what Melinda Beck a Brooklyn-based illustrator came across, sacrifice for fame. Google a rich company bartering fame for free publicity [...]
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Wedding Invites

By tone | Published: June 15, 2009
When it comes to wedding invites, couples would like to think that their invite is so unique that it stands above all. Well folks nobody has one on this beauty. It’s a story within a story of bliss and miss. With wedding season already full force, Jill and Matt really thought out their wedding. I [...]
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Bad Artists

By tone | Published: June 15, 2009
Here is the pic and quote of the day. “The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal” – Banksy
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