Cool Art Exhibitions: One Hundred Dollars

I discovered the One Hundred Dollars art exhibition on one of my favourite doodling websites ever and thought it was pretty schweet because it reminded me of this awesome local art exhibition in South Africa (which I will certainly blog about soon). The concept is simple but it's the artists that were chosen who used a huge variety of styles and mediums that made it so interesting.

The art exhibition was held 14th July - 9th August 2012 in Brooklyn, New York. The exhibition's  blog says this about the exhibition:

 "All the artwork for this show utilizes the U.S. One Dollar Bill as a canvas. There will be one hundred artists in the show. All the artwork is available for one hundred dollars each." 

Let me repeat that....one hundred dollars each.

Yeah, no, look like it'll be one of those "can I help?", "oh no thanks, just looking :)" scenes then.

However, we can oogle at the doodles... So here is a collection of some of the works that were for sale:

Julie Elizabeth Brady - One Hundred Dollars

Benjamin Martins - One Hundred Dollars

Jennifer Grimyser - One Hundred Dollars

Casey Farnum - One Hundred Dollars

And just a quote (some true artsy bollocks here) by the Huffington Post just for good measure:

"The exhibition explores how two concepts, art and money, can be both so intimately intertwined and so diametrically opposed. While many artists choose to live outside mainstream corporate society, art is inevitably wound up with money. Both are bound up with value, with symbols and with power. Both are simple objects which garner great importance."

Jeff Faerber - One Hundred Dollars

That's all folks! Maybe next year!

The Funniest Web Comics: Part 1

It's a rather dangerous act, disovering a new web comic. Once you find a goodie, you scour  archives for hours on end. It's some sort of shot to relieve the bout of FOMO you felt coming on, or an attempt to label yourself as their "biggest fan". Now these aren't online graphic novels or some true only-this-corner-of-the-internet-knows-about-it comics. They're short, sweet, funny, and most are so mainstream it'll make you want to gag.

Warning: Your internet cap about to cringe, so I'll put these in several posts. Suggest more in the comments.

1. The Doghouse Diaries

The Doghouse Diaries

The Doghouse Diaries

2. Brainless Tales

Brainless Tales

Brainless Tales

3. Buttersafe

Buttersafe

Buttersafe

4. The Oatmeal

The Oatmeal

5. Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey 

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey 

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

Illustration and Street Art

There are few things that inspire me more than illustration and doodling. Probably because the art it is not limited by the medium, style or content; and so; doodling breeds ideas. We etch on desks, scribble in notepads, scratch on napkins and spraypaint walls. It's one of the few arts that is a universal habit- we all doodle. Even accountants doodle. Perhaps on the backpage of a ledger to get their ballpoint pen ink flowing again, but still, it counts.


So having 8 odd billion artists to choose from I impressively managed to whittle the list down to my 11 favourite artists of 2012. Here is a collection (in random order) of my favourite people; illustrators, doodlers, street artists and sometimes all three:

1) James Jean

James Jean

2) Mattias Adolfsson

Mattias Adolfsson

Mattias Adolfsson

3) Silke Werzinger

Silke Werzinger

4) Audrey Kawasaki

Audrey Kawasaki

5) BLU

BLU

BLU

6) Colin David Stewart

Colin David Stewart

Colin David Stewart

7) SAN

SAN

8) Tom Gauld

Tom Gauld

Tom Gauld

9) Scott Garrett

Scott Garrett

Scott Garrett

10)   Gemma Correll 

Gemma Correll

Gemma Correll

11) And lastly, Jon Burgerman. My favourite. Legend. Doodler extraordinaire. 

Jon Burgerman

Jon Burgerman

And best of all - he's Burgered me!

Tah-dah! 

Jon Burgerman's portrait of me 

So where'd I find all these amazing people? I'd recommend you spend a bit of time here,  here and here :)