iris hutegger

bit of photography. bit of textile. iris hutegger wins!

more soklak elgato

Soklak Elgato @ work // calligraffiti 2011 from soklak elgato on Vimeo.

soklak elgato

art, music, calligraphy. is soklak elgato telling me i should be using my time more effectively?

oleg denysenko

so, a dragon with chicken's feet? on wheels. who wouldn't be beguiled by oleg denysenko? check out his sculpture also

jiwoo park

lots of images done by jiwoo pal online but precious little about her. search for psycolapse. nicely transtions from street art and calligraphy to tattoo work.

nathan bartell

mahalia jackson

more yazan halwani

yazan halwani

looking at yazan halwani's work feels like looking at old movie posters from a generation and language i don't understand. which, very possibly, is an entirely mistaken interpretation.

tahmineh monzavi

i particularly like monzavi's pictures of groups of women. see them here

pooya aryanpour

i'd love to be able to tell you a bit more about pooya aryanpour but i can't. check out these and make something up!

rondellus

what's that you say - no more than one black sabbath cover album in a day? well if you've no room in your life for a bunch of rearranged songs, on medieval instruments, from estonia i can't help you!

brown sabbath

so you know exactly who this is for. in  which case put the tea on, put down the sea glass, kick back and imagine what the lad would've made of this.....

donald byrd

yasuhiro ogawa

monday feeling like a little bit much? dip your toe into the world of yasuhiro ogawa and that'll sort you right out

john lee hooker

miles davis

transferring an image to a linocut bloock

i have to stress that this isn't a technique i've ever used but, if the image is transferred (and you don't mind a flipped image) without tearing the paper, it might be worth a try - you need to watch her follow up videos to see here whole process

soemone

abandoned buildings, guerilla installation, strange made up alphabets. yeah, soemone ticks my boxes

retna

apparently well famous this retna. i must've had his work with the likes of nike and justin bieber pass me by.which is a pity as i'm loving these forms.

jidenna

tarek benaoum

calligraphy you say? just check tarek benaoum out!

helen abbas

there are some people whose use of colour just makes me glad to bea human being. and desperate to run off and dipp my face in pigment!! hello helen abbas

coleman hawkins

making a collagraph

this is a pretty decent wee video on how to make a realistic collagraph. some good chat re tools - see the gripper for those people who have problems with prolonged, precise cutting. watch the follow up video for hand colouring tips

more charles bradley

liking that charles bradley? here's his story...

registering a linocut

there are many ways to register a print so here's one. 'available in my shop'. you could buy one....

charles bradley

eunice kim

the very notion of dots, spots and tessellations gets me excited. eunice kim - i thank you!

mohammad bozorgi

i'd love to tell you i know how he did these. but i totally don't. click on the link - get lost in these

tam van tran

as seems to be more and more the case there's little detail about tam van tran. which im some ways is good as it lets you focus on the work.and i'm loving what i'm seeing

ernie and the top notes

personalize your kitchen knives

why have stuff that looks like everyone else's? some handy techniques in this series from make

el seed

print, graffiti, calligrpahy - el seed's work is just dazzling

buying a ukelele

i've become a bit of an evangelist for the ukelele recently. it's a great entry level instruments, brilliant for kids, isn't as intimidating as a guitar (but you can really improve your technique by 'playing' on the ukelele) and, most importantly, it's a fabulous instrument all on its own. just play one!

this is a wee guide to getting your first one.

*i feel it's only fair that as the owner of multiple guitars and ukeleles the n+1 rule fully applies

eva foam

going back thru my library of instructional videos so time to start posting. starting with eva foam

hydrographic maps

it seems the national library of scotland has digitised all their historical hydrographic maps. what could these be used for? who knows? who cares!!? just look at the loveliness....

lev alimov

lev alimov - you could just get yourself lost in these images

old school turkey

all those old school turkish tracks on one playlist...

kris kuksi

kris kuksi - just a big bag of baroque mental. i would love to see these in real life!

the buzzer

it should be no surprise that the swiss lounge has a partiality to all things russian. true, most of this might be based on a certain stereotypical view of a quality called russian-ness but i've had it since i was tiny and trying to learn the cyrillic alphabet from the tv. so i make no apologies.

lateley one of the more niche expressions of my russophilia has been short wave station uvb-76. what's it all about? i don't know and i don't care. but i do love it's grabbed a certain part of the population's imagination. if you're listening mr putin - keep this caper going!

here's a bit of background