Compartir: Cuando hablamos de la publicidad vintage lo hacemos casi siempre en términos elogiosos. Y no sin motivo. Algunos anuncios del siglo XX son auténticas joyas de las que proporcionan a los creativos de hoy valiosas lecciones en cuestión de creatividad, estilo, uso del color y fusión de textos e imágenes. Sin embargo, los publicitarios […]
Sicily, Italy based artist Sasha Vinci creates haunting sculptures and installations that contemplate the nature of man's existence. While his works can be morbid and a bit terrifying, as in his series of fleshy seated subjects waiting for eternity, Vinci also finds beauty and sexuality in the human figure. Known for his captivating and carnal sculptures, Vinci is a true multimedia artist, also exploring drawing, painting, writing, sound design and performance art.
To finish our trio of Sleeping Beauty posts, let's turn to the figure of the Thirteenth Fairy.* This quote comes, once again, from About the Sleeping Beauty by P.L. Travers: "The appearance of this lady at the christening is the...
These epic outdoor and backyard birthday party ideas include outdoor games for kids they'll never get bored playing.
A lot of shows for children will try to sneak in some jokes for parents to make it tolerable. But, sometimes kids shows are just plain creepy. Here's a list of the five creepiest kid's shows I could find.
Прекрасная реклама времен героев не менее прекрасного сериала Mad Men . Реклама шин, 1953 Реклама замороженной еды, 1955 Реклама железнодорожной компании, 1945 Реклама топливной компании, 1954 Реклама запеченной ветчины, 1959 Реклама телевизионного приемника, 1954 Реклама баночного…
City dweller, successful fella, worked in a bank as a clerk but he thought to himself, “I want to live a life that’s a lot less monetary.” So he taught himself to paint and draw and all his friends who saw his work said “Cor! You ought to take this up, seriously.” And that, in the musical stylings of Blur, is a brief introduction to Artuš Scheiner (1863-1938), the quiet little white collar worker who gave up his career as a pencil-pushing, number-cruncher at the Financial General in Prague, to become one of Bohemia’s most successful artists and who produced a phenomenal amount of work during his seventy-five years. Yet, for such an industrious and commercially successful artist, there is, perhaps surprisingly, little written, well, in English at least, about Scheiner other than he lived, he worked and he died, which is really quite fine as it means we get to concentrate solely on the work he produced. In his twenties, Scheiner started selling comic illustrations to the local newspapers and magazines. He had taught himself how to draw and paint but kept his passion a secret in fear he would be ridiculed for having such high...
Yes, this lithograph is by Mela Koehler (1865 – 1960), a close collaborator with the Wiener Werkstätte. Founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, the Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna W…
P.E. in summer? No thank you.
“If you go to Microsoft Paint, you’ll see all the different stars that the guy could pick from."
Gosh, time flies! It does not seem a fortnight since I wrote the last inspiration post for the HSF! Things come around quickly! This particular challenge, #20: Alternative Universe (due Sat 1 Nov, because hey, Halloween is the day before and look, sometimes I can plan!) is quite exciting, because it’s the one challenge of the year where doesn’t require you to be properly historical. The brief is simple: make something from an alternative universe, that shows elements of costume history within our universe. With the Alternative Universe challenge we’re exploring all the ways in which history has influenced fantasy, and all the ways in which we’ve imagined the world would look if events had gone differently, or all the ways in which we would dress if we simply lived in another world, with another set of rules and history and species. There are so many choices to pick from. There are realms from literature: Middle Earth, Narnia, Westeros & Essos, Damar, Hogwarts, Diskworld, Oz, Barsoom, Dinotopia, Earthsea, and Neverland, to name just a few! …
It’s a hashtag that has been taking over the crochet corner of Instagram like mad over the last few months. The Rustic Lace Square is a design that nobody seems to be able to find the origina…
Detail of a miniature of, on the left, Alexander the Great on the Wheel of Fortune, rising to prosperity and falling to ruin, and, on the right, his grandmother Queen Euridyce looking down at her murdered son, Alexander II; from Jean de Courcy, Chronique de la Bouquechardière, France (Normandy, Rouen),...
