I’m a big Hayao Miyazaki fan, so this Lego version of Howl’s Moving Castle made me very happy. If you haven’t seen the film, I highly recommend it! [via BoingBoin g] [ Read More ] [ Comments ]

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Howl’s Moving Castle in Lego

I can’t wait for the opening of Over and Under , an embroidered art show curated by Jenny Hart , this weekend here in Austin at Yard Dog Art Gallery .

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Over And Under Embroidered Art Show in Austin

San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts is hosting a thought-provoking group exhibit that opens this upcoming Wednesday, November the 4th. From the site: Featuring the work of eight artists living in Tehran, Iran — Nima Alizadeh, Saba Alizadeh, Mohammad Ghazali, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Abbas Kowsari, Mehran Mohajer, Neda Razavipour, and Homayoun Sirizi — alongside new work by San Francisco- based artist Taraneh Hemami, this exhibition compiles a collective narrative of everyday Tehran, the largest city in the Middle East and the 16th most populated city in the world with close to 8 million residents. Representing the current unpredictability of each day in Tehran and also the hope that comes from imagining a better future, the artists chronicle narratives of place and time, demystifying life in a country that has been misunderstood and maligned for decades

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One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran

As part of the summer-long Fame Festival in Italy that culminated in a final show last month, artists Blu and David Ellis spent a long week collaborating to create this amazing animation clip, made by filming morphing hand-painted murals. The video loops twice, in case you are beyond astounded the first time around

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Combo: A Collaborative Animation by Blu and David Ellis

Andrea Dezso is an artist in a wide variety of media (animation, sculpture, book design, fibers), and while her heart embroidery from 2004 isn’t new, it is certainly impressive. More: Pricked: Extreme Embroidery [ Read More ] [ Comments ]

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Heart Embroidery

I’m in awe of the detail in this newly completed fiber book from Million Little Stitches . She’s included pages for each month, and the intricate stitching, gorgeous design and meticulous attention to detail is stunning.

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Completed Fiber Book

Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vinylville definitely has the most clever handmade Mac-specific stickers out there. I just got my Snow’s Revenge (pictured above and also available in white) in the mail, and I love it. You can actually apply these to any glossy surface, so I’m inclined to smack it onto my Subaru and put an Apple logo sticker in her hand, just so I can see Snow White actually in the snow

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Vinylville’s Mac Laptop Stickers

My neighbor Teresa Cuseo is an amazing artist and crafter — every time I talk to her or go over for a visit she’s doing something creative, from terrific mosaics to yummy baked goods to cool jewelry and clever shrines. She recently bought a Day of the Dead crafting book and has plans to make some Day of the Dead altars, but the shrines and altars she’s created thus far pay homage to the various incarnations of the Virgin Mary, bicycling, her loved ones, other religious figures, and roses.

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Shrines, Just Because

Since Disney bought Marvel comics, there have been a number of artists offering up creative image mashups. Perhaps my favorite is character designer/story artist Jeffrey Thomas’ Dark Princesses series. Thomas reinterprets iconic Disney female characters with a seriously dark twist

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Jeffrey Thomas’ Dark Princesses

Janet Echelman is a public artist who makes large-scale fiber works. This one, called Her Secret is Patience , is in Phoenix, Arizona, and is made from painted galvanized steel and recyclable high-tenacity polyester braided twine netting.

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Janet Echelman’s Her Secret is Patience

This collection of solar system-inspired from artist Jimmy McBride have left me breathless. What really has me excited, though, is his post about his next project .

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Solar System-Inspired Quilts from Jimmy McBride

Amy of Glitter, Vinyl and Thread came up with this fascinating entry for the Craftster Good Cause Challenge . Inspired by the vibrant and “deceptively beautiful” images of breast cancer cells she found while researching the subject, she designed this plush version of breast cancer cells .

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Plush Breast Cancer Cells Sculpture

Kristen posted up pictures from this year’s Plush You! show in Seattle at Schmancy, and it looks so great! If you’re around Seattle, be sure to check out the show through the end of October! [ Read More ] [ Comments ]

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Pictures from Plush You! 2009

Every other week, CRAFT’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Craft: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Ed Troxell, photo intern Looking for some entertainment that kids will love?

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Intern’s Corner: How to make sand art with kids

Artist Kiel Johnson made this cardboard twin-lens reflex camera, which works as a pinhole camera. The build video is adorably edited. From BoingBoing : His next exhibition, opening October 17 at the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, CA, is dedicated to the printing press

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Kiel Johnson’s Cardboard Camera

Bread Heads By Anna Dilemna One of the most popular animated children’s characters in Japan is a superhero named Anpanman (Mr. Sweet Bun), who is made entirely of bread. Together with his doughy cohorts (who have names such as Mr

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Bread Heads

Erwin Wurm is one of my favorite contemporary artists. He often uses people and clothing in his work, either as models for photographs or molds for sculptures. His work is often funny, silly, while at the same time awkward and unsettling

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Erwin Wurm’s Gulp

It's been months since I've written much besides Facebook comments. Usually, I've at least got a couple of fan stories on the boil, or some poetry, but right now—nada. I've been so busy working with others on their creative projects or absorbing new material in the form of travel that my head has been empty of ideas.

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Sweat and Inspiration

I've been thinking about getting a small tabletop press for a while, just to experiment with but most of them print such a small area that you can only do 5×7 cards at most, and they take up a lot of room on the tabletop. This little doodad seems to solve at least one of those problems: It's from Lifestyle Crafts and is called the L Letterpress . It's not yet available, but the price is a pretty reasonable $149.

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Letterpress on the cheap?

I’m starting to knit for the I heart Kings Cross art project : http://iheartkx.wordpress.com – the knitted pieces are going to be tied to poles and trees as part of an art project in Kings Cross (Sydney) in october.

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i <3 kings X project – art knitting