extraordinary ...

I have been meaning to share this with your for a while ... Back in October my favourite art blog Colossal posted about an artist called Chris LaPorte, who took over 1200 hours, using over 100 pencils to create this-

A hand draw gigantic life like picture of his Grandfathers high school marching band.

It is just extraordinary! Do check out the Colossal blog for more information, and lots more other great artworks.

Shelly

crochet ....

For all you crochet fans out there .....  I happened upon this on the fantastic Colossal blog.  If you only do one thing today, check out Colossal ...

It is a music video for Wax Tailor featuring Aloe Blacc, which was shot by a crew at the Australian firm Oh Yeah Wow. It is Directed by Darcy Prendergast and Seamus Spilsbury.  

recycling ...

Any of you who are card makers will know the copious amounts of recycling that gets done .... whether it is re using old scraps of paper, ribbon ends from new clothing, or old boxes to make templates, us crafters do seem to hang onto a lot of things 'just in case' !!!

The Colossal blog has brought a really interesting post that I wanted to share with your today .......  you can check out the post here ...

It is all about how Garth Britzman has used plastic bottles ... 

[Photos taken from the Colossal blog, May 2012]

and I love it! I am not sure whether its water proof, but it certainly looks amazing, and reminds me of the ceiling in the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas ....  I can't find my Las Vegas photos, but if you check out this link you will see what I mean!

Happy Sunday all! X

post card writing....

I just wanted to share a little video that I came across via The colossal blog:

Made byhey hey hey- its a machine to write a postcard on ... 

With the advent of e-mail, twitter and facebook, there is something about this that just really strikes a chord with me.

Enjoy! X

paper butterflies ...

Just a super quick post to share some photos that I came across today ....

Its amazing what you can create with paper butterflies ....

I found the information from this website.  It details the installation of A Butterfly’s Eye View by artist Eiji Watanabe . The blog 'Collossal'  collated the images via a number of Flickr accounts.