Incredible Marilyn Monroe Portrait Written with a Word Processing Application

This Marilyn Monroe creation by Martin Missfeldt, was done or written in 2008 with openOffice.org (comparable with Microsoft WORD). Amazing.




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The Beautiful 'Painting of Light' by Hory Ma

This installation by Russian photographer Hory Ma is called The painting of light 2008“. "The photo is executed in technics which is the painting of light or LightGraphic. In any event, the visual effects are really terrific!















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SNL Video of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as Katie Couric - Absolutely Hilarious!

I happen to disagree with just about everything Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin stands for. However, she is really getting trampled by her detractors and some parts of the non-Fox media. Indeed, the woman has become an industry onto herself.

Having said that, this Saturday Night Live video clip from this past saturday's "recreation" of the recent Katie Couric interview of Sarah Palin with Tina Fey as Palin and Amy Poehler as Katie Couric is too hilarious to pass up!

The Art of Gustav Klimt Reproduced in Fantastic Photos

"Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918) was a brilliant Austrian iconoclast who rose from childhood impoverishment to become an artist who enormously impacted the Viennese Secession and Art Nouveau movement. Known for elaborate, explicitly sensual paintings and murals, Klimt’s works also encompass themes of regeneration, love and death. Embedding his work with images symbolizing the freedom of art from traditional Western culture, Klimt’s eclectic range of influences included Egyptian, Classical Greek, Byzantine and Medieval styles. A forerunner of Modernism and the Art Deco movements, Klimt’s huge creative influence still resonates in modern art, decorations and jewelry."

These collection of beautiful and artistic photos is called "La Esencia de Klimt" which translates to "Klimt's Essence". The photographer is Moises González and he created these beautiful pictures for Ae Magazine. Art Direction, digital art, illustrated and Styling by Kattaca. I added the Klimt's paintings for contrast. I can't say that Klimt is among my favorite painters but I really like this work by Gonzalez and Kattaca.

Water Serpents I, c.1907




Adam and Eve




The Kiss, c.1907




Judith 2




The Dancer




The Virgin




Mada Primavesi




Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I




Judith




Danae, 1907




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"La Esencia de Klimt" images via Behance
Klimt Paintings via Art.com

Digitalized Celebrities - Jolie, Elvis, Alba, Freeman, Hayek, Pitt, W. Smith, Portman

This is some of the best vector art I have ever seen. Vector graphics, as the whole world knows, are graphics that, hum, have something to do with mathematical equations. In any event, go to Wikipedia here if you want to know more about vector graphics.

I don't know the name of the creator of this fabuloso work. But this much I can say: These digitalized renditions are freakin' amazing!
























































































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Updated Trailer of Heath Ledger's Last Movie - The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Images via Just Jared

Wikipedia describes the film's plot thus:
In the present day, immortal 1,000-year-old Doctor Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) leads a traveling theater troupe that offers audience members a chance to go beyond reality through a magical mirror in his possession. Members of the troupe include a sleight of hand expert, Anton (Andrew Garfield), and a dwarf (Verne Troyer), Percy Parnassus had been able to guide the imagination of others through a deal with the Devil (Tom Waits), who now comes to collect on the arrangement, targeting the doctor's daughter (Lily Cole). The troupe, which is joined by a mysterious outsider named Tony (portrayed by Ledger, Depp, Law, and Farrell),embark through parallel worlds to rescue the girl.

Vanity Fair, meanwhile, notes on it's August 10th issue:

"The phantasmagorical dreamscapes in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus are, judging by the newly released trailer, as wildly, awesomely imaginative as anything director Terry Gilliam has done since his absurdist animations in Monty Python’s Flying Circus: stepping stones floating among cosmically large high-heeled shoes; Tom Waits morphing into a cobra snake; a hot-air balloon (that Gilliam staple) made of a dozen faces; giant flying jellyfish… (As a diehard fan of Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, another film that dissolves the curtain between theater and fantasy, I was disappointed only by the extent to which the director has relied on computer graphics to craft his illusions.)

The film was Heath Ledger’s last. From the few clips we of his performance, Ledger’s manic theatricality stands up to Gilliam’s, and might even live up to his own Oscar-winning tour-de-force as the Joker in The Dark Knight. In the August issue, Peter Biskind wrote about the actor’s final days—he died of a lethal mix of prescription medication halfway through the filming of Parnassus—and about how working on this film provided Ledger with daily respite from personal tumult".



Other Heath Ledger posts in Lunatica

A humble tribute to Heath Ledger
Possibly last video footage of Heath alive
Heath Ledger portrait nominated for award
Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell to sub for Heath in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Early Renaissance Portraiture and Modern Photography:Transfiguration

"These images are from ‘Transfigurations,’ the result of a collaboration between London-based American photographer Richard Bram and painter Silvia Willkens of Mainz, Germany.

Utilising Willkens’ paintings, inspired by the faces in Early Renaissance masters such as Giotto and della Francesca, Bram and Willkens used the paintings as masks, the identity of the flesh-and-blood model merging with the painted image. The resulting photographs made over several years move forward and back through time and through the picture plane, between real and imagined personæ, theme and variations in a visual fugue. All the work is done in-camera, without digital manipulation or collage" says lensculture.

No digital manipulation or collage here? Wow! It's all I can say. I usually prefer colorful stuff as you may or may not have noted, but this stuff is fan-freakin'-tastic. I love the Renaissance portraiture aspect. The sober and demure female faces superimposed on the black and white pictures. Awesimocity and fantasticality I tell ya!.
















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Provocative Female Images Layered on Famous Portraits of Men - Deborah Oropallo's Magnificent 'Guise'

These fantastic art collection called Guise are photo-based prints by Deborah Oropallo. She works by layering the portraits of 17th and 18th century men with sensual and provocative female images in various poses and highly erotic guises.

"The images in her current body of work were initially borrowed from internet sites for sexy costume. Women in revealing pirate, soldier, and other outfits are posed in photographs that recall, in Oropallo's words, "the formal portraiture male power stance with elaborate costume." The artist deconstructs and enhances the images to investigate the seduction and power that are evoked by gesture and pose.

In GUISE, Oropallo further explores the concept by layering the images of men from 17th and 18th century portrait paintings. Painted portraits did not simply document the likeness of the sitter but were often contrived to convey a sense of his importance and authority. Nobility and dignity were attributes portrayed through stance, gesture, and attire, and portraits often involved costume and props. Soldiers wore elaborate uniforms and weaponry to show their bravery and stature; noblemen donned luxurious articles of clothing; and scholars and politicians stood with books at hand attesting to their knowledge" says lensculture.

I tried to post the paintings the layered prints were based upon but I was only successful in identifying a handful of paintings. If you recognize the work of art behind a layered print not yet identified, please leave the info in the comment section. I will be forever indebted to you.


Portrait of a Man, Paulus Moreelse


Lacy


Portrait Of Joris de Caullery by Rembrandt


Gladiator


Baby Blue


George Washington, Charles Willson Peale


George


Lawless


Napoleon, Jacques Louis David


Napoleon


Helle's Belle


Sir Duncan Campbell, Scot Guards, Sir Henry Raeburn


Knockout


Gold Digger


The Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough


Blue


Chamber Maid


Boots

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Lisa Kudrow of "Friends" Fame Stars in Lexus Hilarious Web-Based Comedy

"Lexus is making an ambitious foray into online entertainment with former "Friends" star Lisa Kudrow in the driver's seat.

The carmaker is launching an Internet-only branded channel Tuesday (September 23) stocked with a full slate of original programing headlined by Kudrow in a shortform comedy series in which she plays a nutty shrink.

The choice of the Emmy-winning Kudrow for the lead role in "Web Therapy" should bring attention to what Lexus is calling L Studio, available at LStudio.com.

In "Therapy," Kudrow plays Fiona Wallice, a psychotherapist who conducts absurdly abridged three-minute sessions via the Internet that do little to help her clients." says the New York Times. The 3 episode "session" below is called "An Old Flame"

An Old Flame-Episode 1


Episode 2


Episode 3


via L Studio and the New York Times

Abelardo Morell's Fantastic Camera Obscura Images

This is the marvelous work of Cuban-American photographer Abelardo Morell. Morell uses the ingenious Camera Obscura method on these pictures and the result is fantastic.

"Abelardo Morell travels the world and converts full-size rooms (some spare, some ornately rococo) into immense camera obscura devices. He brings the outside in through a tiny pin-hole, and by the alchemy of optics, the outside is projected quite naturally upside down superimposing and hugging the surfaces of everything in the room. Then, he photographs the resulting “installation” with his 8 x 10 view camera and enlarges the prints to mural size.

The effect is dizzying and delightful. And the photographs get better and better as you study them and soak in the exquisite overlapping details" says lensculture.


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View of Volta del Canal in Palazzo Room Painted wit Jungle Motif, Venice Italy 2008

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Image of the Coliseum inside Room #20 at the Hotel Gladiatori

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Image of the Coliseum inside Room #20 at the Hotel Gladiatori

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Camera Obscura Image of The Philadelphia Museum of Art East Entrance in Gallery #171 with a DeChirico Painting, 2005

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Santa Maria della Salute in Palazzo Livingroom. Venice, Italy, 2006

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Central Park Looking North,Summer 2008

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Upright Camera Obscura Image of the Piazzeta San Marco Looking Southeast in Office, 2007.

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View of the Grand Canal Looking Northeast from Room in Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy 2008

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Santa Maria della Salute in Palazzo Bedroom. Venice, Italy, 2006

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Santa Maria della Salute with Scaffolding in Palazzo Bedroom, Venice 2007

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The Tower Bridge in the Tower Hotel, 2001

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The Courtyard Building, Lacock Abbey, England, March 16, 2003

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Manhattan View Looking South in Large Room, 1996

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Camera Obscura Image of the Pantheon in the Hotel Des Grands Hommes, 1999
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A Fantastic 3D Animated Video Featuring Paintings by Picasso, Dali, van Gogh and Escher

I absolutely love this video. This is a beautiful animated amalgam of four works of art produced by Marcelo Ricardo Ortiz from the Vancouver Film School. Ortiz calls his work Guernica after Pablo Picasso's masterpiece about which Lunatica posted a marvelous 3D animated rendition a while back. Featured in this video are also Vincent van Gogh's Room in Arles which was also showcased in Lunatica in two beautiful videos not long ago; Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory and Dutch painter M.C Escher who is famous for his gravity-defying etchings and illustrations such as Relativity which is being featured in Ortiz' fabulous work. Sit (or stand if you please) and enjoy this beautiful work.


Guernica, 1937


Relativity, 1953


Room in Arles, 1889


The Persistence of Memory, 1931


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Hilarious "Translation" of Natalie Portman's Movie "V for Vendetta"

If you saw the movie V for Vendetta with Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving and Stephen Rea, you will no doubt remember the long and oh so freaking confusing speech V (Hugo Weaving)unleashed upon Natalie Portman's character Evey. V used long, complicated words and all kinds of alliterations which are, off course, the repetition of the first consonant sound in a phrase. Well, if you're, like me, still wondering what hell was said there, here is a very funny "translation" of V's long-ass speech.

The Subversive Art of Shepard Fairey

We have featured Shepard Fairey in Lunatica Desnuda before and we are happy to be able to present his subversive , anti establishment art again.

VIMBY - Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey's website
video via juxtapoz
images via shooting gallery

MTV's Beautiful Public Service Ad - The Green Song

MTV Switch 2008: The Green Song. A PSA about well, becoming green. Beautifully done and cleverly executed spot by the 180 Amsterdam Agency.

Animation Company: Deli Pictures
Director: Michael Reissinger
Producer: Martin Klauder
Art Direction: Robert Rhee, Michael Reissinger
Motion Graphics and Animation: Robert Rhee, Eike Braselmann
VFX: Christoph Zaplethal
Additional Animation: PepperMelon, Buenos Aires

Music Company: Sizzer Amsterdam
Composers: Lentink/Billinger & Marsman
Music Supervisor: Sander van Maarschalkerweerd
Vocals: Bertolf Lentink
Lyrics: 180 Amsterdam


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"Wanderlust" and "Dull Flame of Desire": Björk's Latest Amazing Videos

This is the video for Dull Flame of Desire a song which I really love. The video, starring Bjork and Antony Hegarty, may be just a tad too quaint for my taste. But then again, Bjork is anything but pedestrian; The woman has her own unique style and flair.

The single is scheduled to drop on October 22nd. My favorite video by Björk is definitely Wanderlust. That mofo is really beautiful and damn trippy. Check it out after Dull Flame of Desire



Wanderlust

Madonna's "Get Stupid" Video from the "Sticky and Sweet" Tour

Lunatica Desnuda featured parts of this video a couple of weeks ago when we posted about Madge's Sticky and Sweet tour kick off in Scotland. This is the full video featuring the Material Girl pontificating and chastising mofos about planet earth's shitty predicament. I think I may have recycled something today so I feel pure.

Amazingly thou, even when she pontificates and preaches to the rest of you (I don't include myself 'cause I may have recycled some crap today. Remember?) planet earth molesters, Madonna has to look bitchy, nasty, raunchy and kinkier than Ditta von Teese on crack.

Melony Brown - A Raunchy Animated Ad for Virgin Media Starring Spice Girl Mel B.

Spice Girl Melanie--Scary Spice--Brown signed up with Virgin Media to star in an animated advert to promote Virgin's movies on demand outfit.

Laden with raunchy jokes, the ad features a German plastic surgeon whom Mel sought out for a consultation and Mel B. clad in a tight, really tight leopard skin outfit which accentuate an impossibly huge set of racks the size of Rhode Island. At the end of the entertaining ad, the doctor rips off his mask revealing his identity to be that of Virgin's founder Richard Branson.The clever and entertaining commercial, called Melony Brown, was created by US company So! Animation and written by Chris Hodgkiss and Pip Bishop at ad agency Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R.

Michelle Obama's Sexy, Bare Chested, Tattooed Bust

A new bust of first lady hopeful Michelle Obama was revealed on 9/17. The bust named "Michelle Obama's Makeover for America" which is the work of sculptor Daniel Edwards, reveals, according to the Leo Kesting Gallery's website, a "sexy, bare-shouldered style-enhancement [which] highlights Obama’s ethnicity to create a new fashion template for the 21st Century First Lady."

The Leo Kesting Gallery further says that “Michelle Obama’s Makeover for America” presents an accessorized mannequin bust of Obama that foregoes the conventional pearl necklace, and provides for her a ‘signature look’ to take to Washington. “The goal is to create a look for Michelle Obama that eliminates excessive comparisons to Jackie Kennedy,” said Edwards, who studied under the tutelage of legendary fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, “like supermodel Tyra Banks’s photos in Harper’s Bazaar, or the puzzling comment from CBS’s Byron Pitts that recommended ‘less Jackee, more Jackie O.

A pearl-studded Afro pick, shaped like an eagle, demonstrates the makeover’s fashion mix of Black African and White House heritage to reinvigorate the traditional First Lady pearls. A tight, spiral-textured mane complements Michelle Obama’s likeness, with the pearl Afro pick placed modishly askew in a Nefertiti-esque hairstyle. Included are big hoop earrings shaped like O’s that seem to suggest, according to a gallery spokesman, “Look out Oprah, a new ‘Lady O’s’ in charge.

Adorning the breasts of Michelle Obama’s bust are temporary tattoos, of which an American flag is depicted, to compensate for Barack’s pin-free lapels. Additional breast tattoo designs for Mrs. Obama, by Chicago tattoo artist Alex Higgins, will also be exhibited."

The bust will be unveiled at the Leo Kesting Gallery on October 1st.




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Primetime Emmy Awards Hosts' Fist Fight On Jimmy Kimmel -Ryan Seacrest, Howie Mandel, Tom Bergeron and Jeff Probst

Is this for real? Four of the five celebrities scheduled to host the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards-American Idol's Ryan Seacrest, Survivor's Jeff Probst, Dancing with the Stars' Tom Bergeron, Deal or no Deal's Howie Mandel and Project Runway's Heidi Klum- go to blows over the subject of who's getting paid what to host the event. Heidi Klum wisely stayed the hell away from the brawl.

I really don't know if this is for real or just another case of "Lets do something mad stupid and watch it go viral on the internet." In any event, staged or not, it is my sacred duty to post it here.

Celebrity Caricatures - The Fantastic Work of Court Jones

This is the outstanding and really awesome work of Court Jones who is an award winning caricature illustrator.

"In Court's caricature illustrations, he draws upon elements of traditional illustration and portrait painting. It has been said that all art is a form of caricature. It's only a matter of how much and to what end you push the forms"






















Court Jones

Scott Blake's Fascinating Barcode Portraits of Famous People Such as Oprah, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, Madonna and Others

Scott Blake makes beautiful art using a strange medium:barcodes. Below, in no particular order, are the portraits of some famous and infamous people such as Oprah, Bruce Lee, O.J Simpson, Marilyn Manson, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Manson, Madonna, Andy Warhol, Mao Tse Tung, Elvis, Ozzie Osbourne and Governor Arnold. Lean back in your chair or take a step back for a better viewing experience.

There are also 3 fascinating videos showing how the barcode portraits work.

"Scott Blake takes barcodes and turns them into art - art that is simultaneously pop and op, intellectual and personal, minimal and ocular. Blake uses the black and white icon of our data-drenched existence to stimulate thought on topics from consumerism to religion and individual identity. He urges the viewer to consider the limitations of digitized human expression and to appropriate these symbols of commodity"(Scott Blake's website).










Scanning Bruce Lee






Scanning Ozzie Osborne


Scanning Marylin Monroe


Scanning Jane Fonda
Scott Blake

Coke Zero's James Bond "Quantum of Solace" Animated Commercial

Coke Zero and Bond, James Bond have teamed up for an integrated campaign to promote Coke Zero and the latest 007 flick Quantum of Solace. The result is an animated James Bond-themed, action packed Coke Zero ad that kicks major ass with the obligatory extreme car chases, pretty babes, Martial arts and all that action James Bond stuff we have come to expect from Her Majesty's Secret Service smooth operator. Last I heard Quantum of Solace is due for release sometime in November, 2008.

Coke Zero commercial


Quantum of Solace trailer

"Holy Hip Hop" - A Life-Size Portrait Exhibit of Mega Stars Such as 50 Cent, Kanye West, Snoop Dog and Others

Russian-born painter Alexander Melamid painted the portraits of 12 Hip Hop stars represented by rappers, 50 Cent, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Common and Lil Jon with his ever present "grill". There were also influential promoters such as Russel Simmons, designer Mak Ecko and some other dudes that I have frankly never heard of (excuse the low Hip Hop IQ). These portraits are part of an exhibit called Holy Hip Hop which was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit from February to April 2008. Right now, the show is being featured at the Forum Gallery in Los Angeles from Sept. 12 to Nov. 1.

"...the portraits -- rendered larger than life and cast in an amber light that references the Old Masters -- find the figures all about their business: on the telephone, at the computer, ready to take a meeting, poised for performance. They are decorated with the trappings, or iconography, of their time -- diamonds, cellphones, designer watches and shoes" says the LA Times


50 Cent


Kanye West


Snoop Dogg


Reverend Run, a hip-hop pioneer as a member of Run-DMC. Star of MTV’s Run’s House



Common


Hip Hop Mogul Russell Simmons


Lil Jon



Duke


Whoo Kid


Easy Mo Bee


Marc Ecko


Don "Magic" Juan



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Al Dente - A Beautiful Animated Film that Combines Opera and Pasta

Al Dente was presented at the past SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival by the French school Supinfocom. "Al Dente combines opera, pasta, and a knife-wielding chef and the result is another delicious animated short from this prolific school" says Reuters.

"Supinfocom (école SUPérieure d'INFOrmatique de COMmunication, roughly University of Communication Science) is a computer graphics university with campuses in Valenciennes and Arles, France.

Founded in 1988 in Valenciennes, the school offers a five-year course leading to a diploma of digital direction (certified Level I). A second campus in Arles opened in 2000, and the school is preparing to open a new campus in India.

In November 2007, the school was ranked No. 1 worldwide by the American magazine "3D World," with criteria such as the distribution of student films and prizes in festivals around the world" says Wikipedia.


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The Provocative and Amazingly Beautiful Digital Art of Natalie Shau

This stuff is absolutely awesome! I'm totally in love with the work of Lithuanian-based digital artist Natalie Shau. Her evocative, edgy, provocative and aesthetically beautiful style is very similar to that of Ray Caesar who has been featured at Lunatica Desnuda before. The first 7 images come from a commercial campaign called Fairy Tales for French jewelry designer Lydia Courteille. The rest of the soulful portraits come from a collection called Art of Mourning





































Paintalicious|Natalie Shau

Fallen Shadows - Prada's Surrealist Animated Film

Miuccia Prada,scion of the Prada fashion powerhouse, rolled out an animated surrealist and futuristic 6 minute film to present her 2008 Fall collection. The animated short, Fallen Shadows, was screened in NYC on September 10th. The dreamlike reel evokes, for me anyway, visions of the bizarro world of Surrealist masters Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte among others. Sweet dreams are made of this...







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Fredy Wenzel's Fantastic and Amazing 3-D Sci-Fi Art

This is the work of German 3-D graphic artist Fredy Wenzel who specializes in scifi, fantasy, pinup and poster style art. This stuff is exceptional and rather impressive; this dude got mad skills! The only knock (knockers?) that I can see on these beautiful images is the fact that they seem to have been created with the horny 13 to 35 male demographic in mind: I mean, scantily clad young women with gravity-defying racks are the protagonists of most of these fantasy sagas. But then again, this is no different from what we see on the popular video games and such so let me shut the hell up. Enjoy.
















































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Fredy's Deviant Art page

Giant Mechanical Spider Hangs from a Building in Liverpool, England

this image via guardian.co.uk



last 3 images via flickr

The humongous mechanical spider which weighs 37 tons and stands 50 feet high, is dangling from a 15 story building in Liverpool. The contraption was built by Le Machines whose creative force is François Delarozière. The gigantic mechanical arachnoid, which was built at a cost of cost £2m ($3,511,600.01), will be taken down the building on Thursday (today) and exhibited thorough out the city.

In addition to hanging from buildings and freaking the living shit out of people, what does this thing do? If anybody knows let me know please.

Family Guy Creator Seth MacFarlane Hilarious Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy

Seth McFarlane, the creator and executive producer of the wildly popular cartoon series Family Guy, in partnership with Burger King, will produce a series of short weekly cartoons starting on September 10th called Seth MacFarlane Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy.

These are two of the first offerings. I love Family Guy; that stuff cracks me up big time! These two cartoons are very, very funny but I'm sure we will see much better from the mind of McFarlane's comedic genius! The first one is "A Dog on the $25,000 Pyramid" and the other is called "Super Mario Rescues the Princess"





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Van Gogh Self Portrait Painting Made to Look Like a Photograph

This is, in my opinion, a great real-life rendition by Mataleone of one of Vincent van Gogh's many self portraits. I really like the photoshopped work 'cause I believe that, for the most part, Mataleone succeeds in capturing and encapsulating some of the essence of the painting. I particularly like the penetrating eyes on the real life version. Who's eyes are those you ask?

Lunatica Desnuda has published "humanized" cartoons in the past but this is one of the best pictorialized anything I've seen before. Visit this link to see the cartoons "Untooning Stewie, Peter Griffin, Marge Simpson,Dumbo and More - Cartoons Made to Look Alive"

Thank you Lucius and Pablo for this great link!


Self Portrait, 1889, Musee d'Orsay, Paris



Visit Mataleone here for more great work

Hilarious Sarah Palin Gangsta Rap Video Satire

I knew it was inevitable and that it was only a matter of time. Well, here it is: The Sarah Palin Gangsta Rap.

Performed by Heather Anne Campbell as Palin, this video has the Alaska governor and Republican VP rapping about her qualifications for the Vice Presidency of the United States of America. I think this is some funny shit! (Gotta curse a little to sound tragically (or comically)hip and get into the whole gangsta thang)! But I must warn you that the song contains strong language(gasp! nah..really?) so parental neglect is advised. What? Just listen to the thing!

The satire is not exactly gentle with or complimentary of Governor Palin so if you are offended by this in any way, shape or form, feel free to leave a few scathing insults via the comment section. The insults will (more than likely) be published as Lunatica Desnuda is a Fair and Balanced outlet just like Fox News (That's for you Fran).

Hilarious "John McCain VP Rejects" Cartoon Video

SuperNews brings us this very funny video featuring Republican Prez nominee John McCain making phone calls to his other supposed vice presidential contenders to explain that he chose Alaska governor Sarah Palin over them. Among McCain's supposed candidates were Rambo, California Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger, Megatron from the Transformers cartoon and even Hillary Clinton. Very, very funny stuff!


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Jakob Dylan's Latest Music Video - Evil is Alive and Well

"Jakob Luke Dylan, born December 9, 1969 in New York City, is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Wallflowers and as the son of legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan" says Wikipedia. This is Jakob's video for his song "Evil is Alive and Well". Very nice ballad. He sounds a lot like his legendary father.

Octavio Ocampo's Beautiful and Amazing Illusion Paintings

Octavio Ocampo (Feb, 1943)is a Mexican painter known for his evocative paintings in which detailed images are intricately woven together to create larger images - the optical illusions fading back and stepping forward as you study the pieces, notice the details, and finally recognize the large scale intention. This is what Octavio Ocampo terms his "metamorphic" style. Most of this text was lifted from Ocampos' Wiki here.

The paintings in the gallery provide a glimpse of Ocampo's tremendous skill as an illusion master. Look closely at each painting and you will see several images hidden in every single one.

Marilyn in the Mirror



Marlena


Imagine


Hollywood Lights


Jane Fonda


Madonna Rocaille


Woman of Substance


Visions of Quixote


Patron of the Homeless


Mouth of the Flower


Absents of the Mermaid


Buddha


Friendship of Don Quixote


The General's Family


Mona Lisa
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Animated Norman Rockwell Self-Portrait - "Portrait of Norman Rockwell Painting the Soda Jerk"

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) is one of the best known American painters and illustrators of the 20th century. "His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four decades" says Wikipedia.

I really like the short, computer animated YouTube video of Rockwell's Portrait of Norman Rockwell Painting the Soda Jerk painting. Until the painter stiffly drops his head and then picks it up at the end of the vid's 14 second run, I could have sworn it was an old reel of the American master at work. My only wish is that the cleverly done animated work would have been longer.

I added Rockwell's "Triple Self Portrait" just for the hell of it and 'cause it is my favorite.

"Portrait of Norman Rockwell Painting the Soda Jerk", 1953




"Triple Self Portrait", 1960
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Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates in Witty New Microsoft Commercial

Jerry Seinfeld plays his witty, funny self and Bill Gates in actually not bad! Nice, funny commercial.

Vincent van Gogh's "Bedroom in Arles" Real Life and Digital Recreations

Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh doesn't need a lot of introduction; just about everyone has heard of van Gogh, his incredible genius and his tragic demise.

Bedroom in Arles is one of van Gogh's best known masterpieces. But what is not as well known is the fact that there are 3 authentic versions of the painting in existence. The 3 versions are pretty similar in their depictions but they can be easily told apart by many different details such as the small room's floor configuration and color scheme, the details on the paintings hung on the wall to the right, and the walls' colors.

"Bedroom in Arles (French: La Chambre à butts; Dutch: Slaapkamer te Arles) is the title given to each of three similar paintings by 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh".

Van Gogh's own title for this composition was simply The Bedroom (French: La Chambre à coucher). There are three authentic versions described in his letters, easily discernible from one another by the pictures on the wall to the right" says Wikipedia.


Bedroom in Arles, 1888 (First Version) Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam


Bedroom in Arles, 1889 (Second Version)Art Institute of Chicago


Bedroom in Arles,1889 (Third Version)Musée d'Orsay

The video below skillfully dissects Bedroom in Arles. It is narrated in Spanish but it is still very interesting to watch even if you don't understand the language.



Vincent wrote to his brother Theo in reference to the first version:
"This time it simply reproduces my bedroom; but colour must be abundant in this part, its simplification adding a rank of grandee to the style applied to the objects, getting to suggest a certain rest or dream. Well, I have thought that on watching the composition we stop thinking and imagining. I have painted the walls pale violet. The ground with checked material. The wooden bed and the chairs, yellow like fresh butter; the sheet and the pillows, lemon light green. The bedspread, scarlet coloured. The window, green. The washbasin, orangey; the tank, blue. The doors, lilac. And, that is all. There is not anything else in this room with closed shutters. The square pieces of furniture must express unswerving rest; also the portraits on the wall, the mirror, the bottle, and some costumes. The white colour has not been applied to the picture, so its frame will be white, aimed to get me even with the compulsory rest recommended for me. I have depicted no type of shade or shadow; I have only applied simple plain colours, like those in crêpes."[2]
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Check out this fascinating real life recreation of van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles


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Kim Joon's Mesmerizingly Beautiful Body Art

This is the work of Korean artist Kim Joon. This is body art at it's finest! Absolutely brilliant stuff that I can't seem to be able to take my eyes off of!Mesmerizing!



















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ALMACAN's Amazing Surrealistic Mechanical Digital Portraits

I absolutely love this surrealistic digital portraits! The artist's name is ALMACAN aka Kazuhiko Nakamura and he draws his inspiration from surrealism and cyberpunk. He also acknowledges the influence of 19th century machine designs and armor and those influences are pretty clear in ALMACAN's amazingly evocative, anthropomorphic, pseudo-organic art.

"I began this site (Mechanical Mirage Art Gallery) so that I could publically display my private works of art. I am inspired by surrealism and cyberpunk styles of art. I find myself drawn to 19th century machine designs and armor among other things from that time period as motif. All of these images have been created with a portrait style while still containing a puzzle type quality."

Monorogue

Floating of Antlion

Automaton

The Armed Maiden

Corsetrap

Metamorphosis

Requiem for Industry

Head + Dead

Glasshead

The End of Flight Zone

Triceratops

The Tower of Beetle

Spiral Memory

Shell in the Darkness

Silence in a Sandglass

Beehive

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Fernando Botero's Abu Ghraib

San Francisco's non-profit Meridian Gallery will host an exhibit Art of Democracy: War and Empire, from September 4 to November 4, 2008 where more than 40 artists will be featured. Among the artists represented will be Colombian master Fernando Botero who will present several pieces from his Abu Ghraib collection of paintings and drawings depicting Iraqi prisoners being tortured in Abu Ghraib prison at the hands of American servicemen and women. Botero is mostly known for his paintings of human figures of very exagerated proportions and corpulence.

The first painting in the gallery is one of the pictures that will be exhibited at the Meridian and I decided to add a few more images of Abu Ghraib because I really admire Botero's work and his willingness to tackle a controversial subject through his art.














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Amazing Body Art from the 2008 World Bodypainting Festival in Daegu, South Korea

The World Bodypainting Asian Awards were held in Daegu, South Korea from August 25-31 and renowned body painting artists such as John Vargas who has been featured in Lunatica before, was one of the many artists who participated in the colorful event.

Other really amazing body painters we have featured here are Emma Hack and Emma Cammack. Check out their fantastic work.

"Since 1998 Europe's most colorful event has taken place in Seeboden Austria. The "World Bodypainting Festival" is the largest Art event in the Bodypainting theme and spreads the art form to thousands of interested visitors each year".

Now the Festival is expanding with a vibrant and dedicated team in South Korea to host a second event."

"The World Bodypainting Festival with the Asian Awards was held in the Daegu Stadium(World Cup Stadium), in Daegu from 25 - 31 August 2008 for the first time".

- international contest with the Asian Awards in 4 categories
- Asian Facepainting and Special Effects Make-up Awards
- Semi-professional contest
- Festival Academy with workshops classes and demonstrations
- BodyCircus, the shrill and magical fantasy ball in the "Novotel" hotel(Downtown Daegu)
- Extensive exhibition area with audience contests
- Music & show performances, evening concerts
- International photo contest
- Festival TV with interviews, live broadcasts and web streaming"

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The 2008 themes were:

"Myths and Fairy Tales" and
"Future World" on the final day.


























































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