Ektopia

I’m not normally fussed about fancy photoshopery but Oilcorner’s animal hybrids caught my attention.

The artwork around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been floating around for a while now. I was talking to a friend recently and was reminded of the project and came home to check what I had written about it. Turns out that I didn’t post any thing at all so here it is.

Diego Gravinese’s amazing photorealism paintings. Stunning. [via]

My Anatomy are a series of imaginary anatomical cards. Bizarre and brilliant all the way. [via]

Urban Dirty is Delarge’s online repository of freeware stock textures that also used Adobe Kuler to recommend some colour schemes. Great idea.

Twink. Six albums in (counting a special edition of Supercute) and there seems to be no sign of Mr Twink slowing, slacking or stopping. This time it’s with the release of A Very Fine Adventure and a very fine adventure it is too. For those that don’t already know, Twink is is a one-man toy piano nut who also just happens to be an amazing tune writer and recording artist. I’ve always been a fan. In fact, Twink was one of my original Ektopia posts back in…let me check…2002! So, six years and six albums later and here we are; another collection of tunes. There’s a little more synth compared with earlier Twink releases but still enough Twinkness to know exactly who you’re listening to; still definitely a toy piano band. Drum programming is the best to date too IMHO with such subtle brilliance. As for stand out tunes - Flytrap is a killer tune with all the discordant madness that you could wish for! Toadstall Tea sounds like it would sit perfectly alongside an animated version of Amelie. Come to think of it, all of Twink’s music would work well with animation I think. Anyways, it’s 12 tracker and as usual it’s packaged brilliantly. This time it has a fold out sleeve that you can refold several ways to create your chosen cover for your own fine adventure and, again, it’s all been created by Mr Twink. Can you ever have too much of this kind of thing? While Twink are running the show the answer has to still be “no”. Another awesome CD.

Loving Lindsay Campbell’s sketchy goodness.

The Golden Brick is 300 printed portraits on bricks to represent a new Terracotta Army as a tribute for those immigrant workers who died in the making of modern Beijing. [via]

Fleshmap: Studies of Desire - “We asked hundreds of people how much they like being caressed on various parts of their body, and how exciting it is to touch different places on their lovers. Their answers, a total of 33,871 ratings covering 707 points on male and female bodies, provide a collective portrait of desire.” Basically, men aren’t being touched where they want to as much as they want to and women are being touched too much where the men want too! No real news there then! And in this image below you’ll notice that men aren’t at all interested in womens’ left scapula! [via]