Isn’t it great when you find out that your friends are up to wonderful things. Not that I knew Polly that well, she was more like a friend-of-a-friend when I was in Melbourne. I always thought she was mighty friendly and had a lovely smile and a very geometric haircut – for a girl.
Anyway, [...]
posted: March 23rd, 2010 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: drawing, illustration, paper, pencil, polly dedman
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for the uninitiated, ross kemp is a uk tough guy. he puts himself into the line of fire to record edgy documentaries on somalian pirates or POWs in Afghanistan.
kemp folds blog features loads of images of him, folded. Hilarious!
thanks to Tom D for the link via email
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posted: August 4th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: art, kemp folds, kempfolds, paper, ross kemp
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twitter on paper is as an intriguing beast and a brilliant idea. for absolutely no money, mr sam potts will – on request – select a random tweet, write it onto paper, and post it to you.
that’s all there is to it.
you can select a specific tweet to be posted to you (or as a [...]
posted: July 22nd, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: jpg, mail, paper, sam potts, send, twitter, twitter on paper
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Kyoko Okubo’s small, gentle figures are meticulous crafted from washi, the traditional paper of Japan.
Her tiny ’symbolic self-portraits’ are simply beautiful. each still piece given a sense of time and of a greater story being told.
see much more here at mobilla gallery
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posted: May 3rd, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: craft, deer, japan, kyoko okubo, paper, penguin, sloth, washi
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helen’s work takes me back to the days of simple pleasure- my childhood.
her fold-em-up-and-cut-em-out creations are all completely original and all delightful to behold.
and they echo the folky, romantic child-like experience of the world like picture story books and cartoons.
i am so deeply in love/awe with her work i could have put EVERY SINGLE ITEM [...]
posted: April 30th, 2009 |
by: lady worthington |
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| tags: art, artist, colour paper, cut out art, cut-outs, deer, folk art, fox, helen musselwhite, owls, paper, paper art
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making a postlerferguston paper AK-47 turned out to be one of the largest projects i’ve undertaken. foolishly believing it would take around two hours to slap together i got stuck in but was soon daunted by the thousands of lines before me. each line either needed to be criped, cut, scored and folded with great [...]
posted: March 25th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: ak 47, AK47, card, glitter, gold, gun, martin postler, paper
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Jack Gregory is UK based artist doing some great subtle geometric works using pencils and paper.
Jack Gregory via bevel and boss
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posted: February 10th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: art, geometric, Jack Gregory, paper, pencil, subtle
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