Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Colossally Creative Guacamole

If you're into art and haven't checked out Colossal at least once then you're missing out.  Christopher Jobson is instrumental is sharing a constant stream of inspiring, thought provoking, or just down right weird art.

This post (click here) features an awesome video by PES showing guacamole prepared from (among other things) plastic hand grenades.  I just had to share it - it's brilliant!



Thanks Christopher!  Keep 'em coming!

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Campbell's Tomato Soup, Warhol Style

We have a really high stud in our apartment, almost like a mezzanine floor.  This means there is a lot of white wall space above our sofa begging to be filled.  Wait no more!


I love food enough to put it on my wall


The Journey

I cannot bring myself to tear pages out of magazines.  It somehow seems sacrilegious, like folding over the corner of a book instead of finding a book mark.  This means I'm often inspired by what I see and read, but then promptly forget it once the magazine is finished.  Once I bought an iPhone I had the solution - take a quick snap of the idea or inspiring image and it's stored away for future reference.  Now my image archive is full of home-wear items, design ideas, clothes, shoes... basically anything beautiful or eye-catching.

Which brings me to Warhol's iconic Campbell's Tomato Soup.  While flicking through an old issue of Hello magazine I came across an interview with a couple about their home.  The article itself wasn't that interesting (I have completely forgotten the who/what/where) but a piece of art on their wall stopped me.  ''I want this'', I thought.  Snap.




When getting ready for our April visit to Ho Chi Minh City we read that you can get paintings copied - eureka!  So off we went with an image in hand.  After two long months of waiting, they have finally arrived and they're every bit as good as I hoped.











We're still playing around a bit with the final layout.  Currently the center-left piece is sitting further out and we'll probably move the top-right piece up and out a bit too.

I love it!