"If I Had A Heart I Could Love You" by Malene Hartmann Rasmussen:

In this project I work with how we perceive the world, twisting and changing the perception of the space to create an eerie surreal and otherworldly feeling. The setting is a wooden hut as we know it from the folk talesof Brothers Grimm. The viewer is intruding this reality shifting dark place. It is a fake wooden hut, a piece of theater-like scenery made from drawn wood planks, the “Flintstones” aesthetic and Technicolor quality of the ceramics underlines the hyper real dreamlike feeling.

In the hut there is a fireplace, the burning logs look like hearts, but the hearts look like real hearts and the branches sticking out of them resembles blood filled arteries and veins. The hut is in a forest or maybe the hut is the forest; the wooden planks are sprouting and coming to life, or maybe they were alive and someone is cutting them down?This uncanny and dark fairytale is fragmented, like in a crime story the clues are scattered around, the viewer is the detective trying to make sense of it all.

Via.

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Genevieve 27 by James Hill.

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1. Since my dumbphone works great and is cheap, I've been waiting for an iTouch with a solid camera. Optional 3G would be the cherry on top.

2. Seriously, it's one report after another of Google deleting accounts without warning, and then restoring them for celebrities. Some class action attorney should look into it. And you'd have to be nuts to buy a Chrome OS netbook.

3. Sculpture of a pigeon pooping on a Nazi. (But I was actually looking for video of this from the opening.)

4. Has there been any evidence that the News of the World phone hackers used their misdeeds to expose actual news? Or was it just to go after tabloidy gossip?

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Someone has been leaving mysterious miniature paper sculptures in various locations in Scotland.

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1. I've mentioned this once or twice, but there's a charity raffle for some really incredibly painted Warhammer 40K miniatures. You have one more week to enter the raffle.

2. "Last night, the Culver City Cultural Affairs Commission unanimously approved the art work concept for Tony Tasset's Rainbow, which will soon tower over Sony's Culver City lot." You can see what it'll look like at the link.

3. Large, new, and probably NSFW illustration by McBess.

4. If you buy all #1 issues of DC's upcoming relaunched comics, they'll be 50% off at TFAW.

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Otherwordly by Gregory Euclide. Via these sites.

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"My Drifting Heart" by Brent Nolasco, J*Ryu, and Dodgrr, to be sold at Dragatomi's booth at SDCC. (I prefer the unpainted version.)

It reminds me of the main characters from the Bioshock Infinite trailer.

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1. Spider-Man redesign contest announced at Project Rooftop.

2. The Princess Diana fanfic cover got all the attention for the most recent issue of Newsweek, but there's another inspid feature inside about how some mob wives end up poor:

"This is not some glamorous fantasy," says Schiro, known as Big Linda, while her daughter is called Little Linda. She spends most of her days at the kitchen counter of the rented, sparsely furnished Staten Island condo that she shares with Linda and three of Linda’s four children. Instead of gazing at a banquet-length dining table laden with stolen diamonds and gold, as she did many nights during her 30 years with Scarpa, Schiro clears a place amid the box of Cheez-Its and sleeves of Oreos to rest her elbows and put her graying head in her hands. A pair of Yorkshire terriers yap nonstop at her feet. "This is hell, my life."

3. 27 foot tall cardboard box sculpture of a man that was installed in Cordoba, Argentina in 2006.

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"The Murderer of Your Heritage" garden of giant statues by Adrián Villar Rojas.

*Previously: Forest head.

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Ghost tree and little girl sculpture by J★RYU.

*Previously: Tree of sorrows.

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Hellboy Munny commission by Jared Cain.

*See more custom Hellboy toys at Toycutter.

*Buy Hellboy toys at eBay.

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A Riot in a Jam Jar series of sculptures by James Cauty. Via.

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Amanda Visell's Topsy Turvy Croc available for $350.00 on July 1st.

*Buy Amanda Visell toys at eBay.

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New lady cosmonauts by Colin Christian. Watch the video to appreciate how much detail there is on the sculpture's face. Via these sites.

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Mr. Badger's New Book sculpture by Brian Stuckey and Maria Clapsis.

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The Goddess by kidrobot:

Bow before her; the Goddess approaches. Unshroud Doze Green's mystical black Goddess from her premium packaging and discover why faithful pilgrims journey far and wide to bask in her splendor. By far the most magnificent Kidrobot Black creation ever conceived, this visionary vinyl towers at 20 inches to the top of her horns and celebrates the life and love granted by the eternal Mother. Exquisitely rendered in matte vinyl and embellished with gloss-touched details, Doze's latest depiction of the symbol of fertility will have you in awe of her organic-mechanized mythic form. Encased in luxurious black and gold quarters bearing Doze Green's signature in gold foil, this striking sculpture is individually numbered and limited to only 200 pieces worldwide.

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Fennec fox.



Lightning strike.



Arctic fox and meal.



Soldier after battle.



Wisdom from Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake.




Wire sculpture.



Ferris wheel on a cold winter day.

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1. Alex CF posted several photos of the taxidermied White Rabbit he created for Gallery 1988.

2. Medieval Justice League by Ulises Farinas.

3. "The government of Norway has begun offering training for foreign diplomats in black metal, following a reported rise in global interest in the genre." "'We now have 106 foreign service missions and they get many enquiries from people who want information about Norwegian black metal as a phenomenon.'" I didn't watch it, but apparently this episode of the Vice Guide to Everything includes feature on Norwegian Black Metal. Via.

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"Calendario Azteca" Piedra de Sacrificio Edition, i.e., a really fancy Dunny by the Beast Brothers:

Straight from the crate of The Beast Brothers Museum archives - "Calendario Azteca" Piedra de Sacrificio Edition!

The most sought ofter design in the Dunny Azteca 2 Mini Series is now supercharged into a larger-than life custom.

This insanely detailed 8" custom is hand painted and adorned with Swarovski Crystals, sacrificial knife an enlarged heart ripped right out of some poor soul. And as always, this figure is packed in a special hand made wooden crate!

And each artifact is packaged in a laser engraved wooden box.

Just like the gold version in the series, this custom will be very rare. It will only be available for sale Friday, June 10th for ONLY 24 HOURS. After that, the Sacrificio calendar will be buried forever.

On sale here.

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