You can't have enough action figures of famous artists...

Hoth 2014 - You're our only hope!

Phantastic stuff at animationarchive.org. Never heard of the guy, but "Lost And Foundry" (Quicktime 7 / 10 megs, a click to the right for download), a Fleischer Popeye cartoon from 1937 makes you think why animation is all about cuteness in ugly times like these.

Tags: cartoons, comics, design, Popeye

"For now the database is starting with a few objects only ... but through the next days and weeks all the old stuff, and a lot of cool new stuff will find it's way to eboy.com."

"EbOY Blog!

This is such great stuff Watch the trailer for her animated film "Blood Tea and Red String" (70 min.)

Tags: Animation, Film

Incredible videos! Check out the flying dogs!

"Videocast VernissageTV provides insight to the social side of the world of art, architecture and design. For you, Vernissage TV is talking with artists, curators and gallery owners in a relaxed style."

See it here!

Tag: Media

A media performance and urban installation in which 0100101110101101.ORG's fake movie hits the streets of your city ...and your mind

Don't miss this online exhibitions at The National Archives. There is a lot to see!

Thanks to The Cartoonist

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"The Manufacturer's Blog posts a new pro-manufacturing poster every Wednesday. WHAT IS GOOD FOR INDUSTRY IS GOOD FOR YOUR FAMILY!"

Via boingboing

www.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.com and tinkin.com have some nice surprises up there.

"Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. We, the public, fill concert halls and cinemas every day. We read novels by the millions and buy records by the billions. We, the people, affect the making, the taste and the quality of our culture."

Buy some groovy art at picturesonwalls.com

-> POW group show in Stockholm. Works by Eine, D*Face, Banksy, Mode2, Insect, Jamie Hewlett, Bäst, Faile and Stanley Donwood in one place at one time in Scandinavia - a Smorgasbord.

20th September - 23rd October - Allmänna Galleriet Str 925, Kroerbergsgatan 37, Stockholm, Sweden.

Dutch site with a huge collection of old circus posters. Highly recommended for the graphic artists out there!

"NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more."

found at drawn.ca, " a phantastic new multi-author blog devoted to art, illustration, cartooning and drawing

"Propaganda posters constitute one of the most poignant documents that remain from the Spanish Civil War. As the remarks of numerous eyewitnesses demonstrate, the posters provided an essential part of the visual landscape in which individuals living the tragedy of the war went about their daily business of survival. The British writer Christopher Caudwell wrote home from Barcelona in December of 1936:"On almost every building there are party posters: posters against Fascism, posters about the defense of Madrid, posters appealing for recruits to the militia...and even posters for the emancipation of women and against venereal disease." The Visual Front

Rick Tremblee has a great archive with graphical movie-reviews and everything you ever wanted to konow about SNUB: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN DEVICES (The band that never "was")

Subwayoutlaws.com is filled with pictures, anecdotes and everything you ever wanted to know about the early days of aerosol-art.

"The lifestyle was hard. Some writers were throwaways or runaways, living wherever they could. Almost all of them were out stealing paint, sneaking into subway yards and tunnels at all hours, and getting into fights with other writers over territory, real and imagined slights, and raids on each others’ paint supplies. They tell wild stories about escape attempts, successful and otherwise, when the police showed up. Although their joy was great when they saw a car they’d painted in use in the subway system, in effect a traveling billboard for their work, there was always a good chance that the cars they’d just gone to so much trouble to paint were going to immediately get hauled into maintenance and buffed straight down to the metal, so that no one would ever see what they did."

Quoted from Nielsen Hayden's Weblog

Found at boingboing.net

Great place with lots of pictures of food packaging, Marvel Monster Comics, Cereal Boxes, gum cards, 50s animation and lots of other things that might inspire you in one way or another. TICK TOCK TOYS - Archives and Galleries - a cavalcade of images and ideas

After having fled to Czechoslovakia in 1933, Helmut Herzfeld alias John Heartfield led an extra-ordinary one-man-crusade against a certain mystical austrian. Now there's a musical about the grand old dadaist and some of his art ended up on the web.

found at Lumbago's

"Stay Free"-Magazine put together a show called "Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age" which is coming to the Nexus Gallery in Philadelphia from October 3rd to November 2nd, 2003. The website has some great artwork online and offers free downloads of various banned songs.

Here is a good article on the Art of the FBI. Excerpt: "In the late 1960s, the Black Panthers started a Free Breakfast for Children program, serving thousands of black and poor kids across the U.S. Concerned that the program would spread anti-white propaganda, the FBI decided to spread their own anti-white propaganda as a pre-emptive strike. The bureau produced a 24-page coloring book, making it appear as if it had been created by the Panthers. Intending to gut public support for the group, the books contained inflamatory pictures, some of which featured young black kids shooting pigs dressed as policemen. The FBI sent copies of the coloring book to the Panthers’ white contributors and to businesses that supported the free breakfast program, such as Safeway and Jack-In-The-Box. When copies of the forgery reached the Panthers’ national leadership, Bobby Seale destroyed it, saying it "did not correctly reflect the ideology of the Black Panther Party." –Brian Boling" images from the coloring book