Remove Garfield from the picture (literally) and you turn a bland comic into one that is strange, delusional, desperate, lonely, and often hilarious.

Kudos to Jon Davis, creator of Garfield, for being cool with the idea and saying so.
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The fine folks at MODOFLY make incredible, customized Moleskines. A few samples of at least 50 designs, one of which I’m not showing here despite its Simian nature:

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I am speechless in my awe at these photographic-style portraits done entirely with ballpoint pen by Juan Francisco Casas. More examples in the article and at his site, but this gives an idea of the scale and detail:

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A few pieces of art that caught my eye by Suzanne Treister and Rosalind Brodsky, rumored to be the same person…
From Treister’s Nato Classification series:

And from Brodsky’s Delusional Time-Traveling Watercolours:

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Let the commoners tell you, while I shall eat cake…

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Why has the I/O Brush never made it to market? The video demo is pretty amazing.

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Considering how tedious and difficult I once found it to cut out a block letter stencil, the intricacy of paper cutting art continues to blow my mind. Beatrice Coron has some wonderful items on display as well as an incredible set of links to paper artists, traditions, history, tools, and more. Some of the links [...]

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At first I saw this little work of flash photography digital art and thought “that’s interesting.” Then I read the tips and played some more and discovered it is damn cool, tight, phat, neato keeno, hot, gnarly, whatever…

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Ever wonder what happened to that one kid who thought making the bunny ears on the screen before the movie started was so hilarious he had to do it every single time the teacher showed a film in class? Apparently he went on to become this guy
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Some quite interesting street installations… concrete, the urban street, the body.

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From that wild and crazy Jim comes a fantabulous link to a street poster collection

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I heart these paper-thin ceramics…

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Daily Poetics has become one of my favorite looky-look blogs, and from there I just discovered It’s Nice That– resurrecting the positive idea of nice, creative things– which is just as good. So I wanted to point out some recent treasured gleaned from one and the other.
The book cave combines three of my favorite things: [...]

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There are some powerful images in this Slate exhibit about how to approach the disappeared artistically, but none more so than this video of an artist painting– with water on stone– the likenesses of disappeared individuals, a race against time before the images inevitably fade away…

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Not sure what to make of this:

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I spent way too much time today browsing the Museum of Bad Album Covers…

From “Metal Mayhem” to “It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time” you’ll find some old friends and make a few new favorites…

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A friend pointed me to a web collection of Van Gogh’s letters divided into topics from art equipment and women to suicide, nightmares and agoraphobia. The content is fascinating, though I wish there more images of the letters themselves like the one above.
Which reminds me that I owe a lot of letters. Yes, I do [...]

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Scott McLemee of Crooked Timber has a “real” blog now: Quick Study. Right now I have little time for reading things that aren’t directly related to work, but Quick Study is going on the shortlist.

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From the always wonderful Ironic Sans comes this conception for an art show:

Isn’t this practically what a lot of users are seeing when they see a show anyway? Between the interpretations, the politics, the personal assessments of the artist, and the seemingly unbreakable pre-conceived notions about what the art is and is not, what it [...]

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Inspired by Indexed– one of my favorite, quirky visual blogs– Le Grand Content is an intriguing short film unlike any other you have seen.

Information about the film from the filmmakers is available, but watch it first!

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