Tools for Action

http://cca-actions.org/

Actions: What You Can Do With the City documents and presents specific projects by a large and diverse group of activists whose personal involvement has triggered radical change in today’s cities. These human motors of change include architects, engineers, university professors, students, children, pastors, artists, skateboarders, cyclists, root eaters, pedestrians, municipal employees, and many others who answer the question of what can be done to improve the urban experience with surprising and often playful actions.

Take you riding in my car...

Cute and very clever stop animation, would post it here but it too wide and looks messy. View it on youtube.

Emma Kidd

Digging this artist's sketchbook work, she is a friend of a friend. I have not met her.
http://www.benconservato.com/

"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. "

- Henry Miller

Know Hope

Excited today about this artist, Know Hope.
www.thisislimbo.com
Article about Know Hope:
http://www.sezio.org/feature/Know-Hope.aspx

Joann Sfar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joann_Sfar

Aya Takano

http://english.kaikaikiki.co.jp/artists/list/C5/

Blonde Redhead Video featuring Miranda July

Miranda July Interview

It's Chris Ware...and I it like it!

We Meet Again Emperor Zombie!

Have recently re-read this wonderful Mike Mignola book. It so deserved the 2003 Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication. The pacing is perfection.

A Plague o' Bad Beets Will Kick Your Ass

Here is a detail of Melbourne illustrator Jo Waite's take on the bad beetroots. Pure Trouble.

The Festival Club

David Blumenstein drew this sketch of us all seated at a table in the This Is Not Art festival club last Friday.There was a ranting competition going on onstage which we couldn't really hear, even if we wanted to, so we swapped sketchbooks and drew instead. David was the only one to draw a group portrait, so I'm lucky it was in my sketchbook.

The next day I overheard someone commenting on how much they didn't like the performance and how they were amused to see "Nicki Greenberg's" table ignoring it all and just drawing.

James Gleeson

I've never been into James Gleeson's paintings much, but I am always deeply affected by his black and white drawings and collages that are the starting point for his larger works. There is a raw, surprising quality to them that i enjoy and a very sensual, ether-like use of charcoal. Apologies I couldn't find any really good reproductions.

Shadow Puppetry

Shadow puppets live in the intersection between my love of comics, sculpture and photography.

I'm thinking to play around with an element of shadow puppetry with the longer project I've got in mind at the moment.

The Shadow Tall exhibition pieces were all done on tracing film and I'm wondering if this would be an interesting medium to base more work on.

Eerie and Delicate.

Thanks to the cover of Neko Case's album The Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, I have discovered this artist, Julie Morstad, her website is http://www.juliemorstad.com

Teacups to Cry Into.

Here is my favorite artwork from last week's shared items, I've been haunted by these emotive line drawings since seeing them. To drink out of them would be something special. I was sorely tempted to buy one, but now they are all sold out.

The artist, Irana Douer, is also the creator of the online-only art zine Ruby Mag. Issue 20 just came out the last few days.

Favorite Image of the Week (kind of)

"Tony Blair Heckled" by Tim McGrath.

This artist was featured in Drawn.ca on July 29th, but I couldn't pass him up even if he's over a week's old news.

View more of his work here:
http://tedmcgrath.com/