Positive Thought of the Day

"Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement." ---Edward Rickenbacker

Dennis Knecht

Dennis is an emerging artist from Hudson, MA.

Keturah Bobo

Keturah Bobo is an artist from Columbus, Ohio.

Positive Thought of the Day

Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind. --- Louise Nevelson

KAWS

KAWS is from the NY area. He began as a graffitti artist and after college, hebriefly did freelance work for Disney. His company, Original Fake makes clothing, toys and fashion accessories.

Focusing on two thematic series of artworks based on the cartoon “Smurfs,” and “Spongebob” series commissioned by ultra-producer and international tastemaker PHARRELL, the show featured a new extended edition of Spongebob pieces that were quickly snapped up by an array of international collectors.

Justine Smith ( Money makes the world go 'round!)

Justine Smith lives and works in London, creating beautiful money sculptures for everyone to enjoy.On a physical level, a banknote is just a piece of paper, but it is what a banknote actually represents that is central to Smith’s practice.Her work as an exploration of our relationship with money and our response to it, in a political, moral and social sense, whilst also exploiting the physical beauty of the note.

(kanyeuniversecity.com)

Positive Thought of the Day

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. ---Eleanor Roosevelt

Toronto's Smallest House

Bottle Houses

The Airlie Gardens Bottle House was created by a local artist, Virginia Wright-Frierson in 2004. It is officially named the “Minnie Evans Sculpture Garden Bottle House” after an artist/gatekeeper that worked at Airlie for many years. This bottle house is also referred to as the “chapel”. Frierson used bottles of all shapes and sizes as well as cement and chicken wire in its creation.

Apparently back in the 60’s Mr. Heineken came up with the idea of makeing the beer bottles and size and shape of bricks, while concerned about the about of litter and wastage beer bottles were causing. They never came to be, however.

Building with bottles has often been a choice of folk artists, early settlers and the poor in some countries, as they used whatever resources they had to build shelter.

Beer Bottle Chapel created by Martin Sanchez of Riverside California
Ann’s Bottle House B&B in Arizona
Tom Kelly’s Rhyolite Bottle House
The Bottle Houses of Prince Edward Island

(unusuallife.com)

Thought of the Day

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ---Swedish Proverb

Sugzmguz

Paintings done by Susan, a graphic designer from Woodland Hills, CA.

Positive Thought of the Day

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ---Ghandi

Barack Obama Behind the Scenes

This man is an inspiration...and hopefully will become the next President of the United States of America...just my opinion though.

Nathan Sawaya

Nathan Sawaya is a New York-based artist who creates awe-inspiring works out of some of the most unlikely things. His recent North American museum tours feature large-scale sculptures using only toy building blocks. LEGO® bricks to be exact.
Sawaya’s art is currently touring North American museums in a show titled, The Art of the Brick. It’s the only exhibition focusing exclusively on LEGO as an art medium. The creations, constructed from nearly one million pieces, were built from standard bricks beginning as early as 2000.
Born in Colville, Washington and raised in Veneta, Oregon, Sawaya’s childhood dreams were always fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories and perfected magic tricks. Of course much of his playtime centered on the emerging LEGO City he created in his parent’s living room. For more than twelve years the LEGO City flourished. And this is where Sawaya’s imagination soared, and consequently fine-tuned his future art form. (brickartist.com)