Here is Terry Gilliam in 1970 explaining how he made the classic “fig leaf” stop-motion animation for Monty Python’s Flying Circus, in a spare bedroom at his apartment. (via Dangerous Minds)
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Brian Walker’s Surreal Pop Culture Photography
Brian walker is a contemporary digital artist whose images explore and exploit the realm between fantasy and reality, recreating scenes that meld illustration and fashion with an element of surprise.Stemming from a passion for illustration to depict his ideas and concepts of surrealist landscapes and characters, Walker first began using photography as a tool to represent these ideas of the impossible within the believable context of photography.
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Wendy Tsao Turns Children’s Doodles Into Real Toys
The Child’s Own Studio is where she transforms drawings of children into plush and cloth dolls. Wendy Tsao receives requests from parents all over the world, and she made several hundreds soft toys based on children’s drawings, each one as unique as the child who drew it. Details and color choices are reproduced as closely as possible so that the stuffed toy that arrives in the mail is immediately recognizable to the child who designed it.
“It’s a fun, rewarding process, and kids love seeing their drawings come alive”, she says. VIA: –AMUSING PLANET–
Sculptures Made out of Magazines and Used Books
Chris Jones creates sculptures composed of fragmented images from magazines and used books that are beautiful, frightening, and exquisitely detailed: a macabre headless horse, a 19th century stagecoach, a disheveled TV.
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Beautiful Nightmares & Fairy Tale Tragedies
Chelsea Greene Lewyta is an illustrator and artist who deals in the stuff of nightmare fairy tales and tragedies. Her delicate, often sexually charged watercolors portray women whose brutalization and victimization (in short, trauma) is manifested in the natural world (in little creatures, deer, branches, woods) and in surreal distortions of their personal anatomies.
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