The March 17th 2008 Are

Lost America Very nice collection of nighttime photography from America's western badlands. Forgotten towns, forgotten film.

Mario rendered realistically Creepy. Freaky. Clearly Creaky.

Empty Gesture Try not to get into too much politics here, but I lurve this, undeniably.

Beyond the Valley of Micro-bops Richard Edson of Sonic Youth does close up photography of toys. Again, clearly Creaky. Not to mention awesome.

NYC Garbage I always say that good design can trump just about anything, and in this case, good taste is the one falling by the wayside.

Batman fascinated by window frame One of my new favorite blogs, Photoshop disasters is all about spotting shoppery. THIS is why we go to school kids. Either you learn enough so you can spot these things, or enough to know how not to make it.

Flickrvision and what might be may be my new favorite thing in a long time, one that I wish I had as a screensaver. Watch in 3d or flat earth, flickr uploads as they are happening.

The Modern Are

The Imaginary Foundation These guys are one of my favorite t-shirt designers, if not my favorite, and I don't normally buy new shirts. I am a T-shirt fiend, and I am pretty damn picky. But these guys... these guys are something else. Anyway, they got new designs, joy.

1 year old fleeces art world Neatorama doles it out: "To the untrained eye, they appear to be simple daubs that could have been created by a two year old. Which is precisely what they are. But that didn’t stop the supposed experts falling over themselves to acclaim them. The toddler in question is Freddie Linsky, who has fooled the art world into buying and asking to exhibit his paintings." And this is why Modern is bullshit, this is the second time in last few years a child under 5 has made money with abstract art. bah.

Nanami Cowdroy I want. Who wants to buy it for me? only $210. seriously, that's sick (also, Gallery 1988 is having a holiday sale of prints, they are teh goodness.

Niel Gaiman helps fan propose In yet another example of why Neil Gaimen is pretty bad ass, he helped a fan propose to his girlfriend at a con, which it took the girl 4 times to finally notice what he had written. Also, a little liqour on the ground today as it was recently revealed that Gaimen's partner in writing Good Omens, Terry Pratchett, has a rare form of early Alzheimers, sucks.

if Da Vinci used Photoshop, heh.

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The Return Are

The school year has ended and The Illust (me) finally have some time to sit down and get some posts out of the way. Stuff has been piling up, and there's a whole host of things to pass on, as well as some ideas for features I never could get to. For now, it'll probably just be a bunch of quick hits of goodness, with larger posts later until I can set up some sort of functional routine. Anyway, here's some stuff I've had open in some tabs for a bit.

Steven Lefcourt - tastypaints.com Really awesome and surreal vector work. Somehow his digital paintings don't quite have the same oomph, but still very impressive...and awesome. Plus, one splendiforous site name.

Secret Wall Tattoos I feel like this site has already made the rounds on the internet, but anything good on the internet it like herpes, just when you think it's gone, it flares up again. Anyway, a really nice site devoted to stuff people have drawn/painted/left behind fixtures in hotels. Always look behind anything that's not suppossed to be moved. Looking through this site though, I can't help but wonder, do this many people really bring that much paint with them on business trips?

Hang coat rack F-ing love it. found via Design-milk, which looks very intriuging, will be keeping tabs and stealing posts, etc etc etc.

NY Times Mag Annual Year In Ideas Nothing too Illusty, just a bunch of ideas which looks pretty interesting. enjoy.

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The Friday Are

Sunset effects in Photoshop Nothing too special here, bascially it's how to take an existing photo and spruce it up, but the technique on how to get sun flares, and some other things are pretty right on.

Gallery of Illustrated Book Endpapers Before book endpapers were blank, they used to have thematic illustrations, check it out.

Artblog of juvenile lifers in prison

Vintage ads featuring OJ For some reason OJ sports a booted third leg. Strange, weird, awesome, and now, just a tiny bit sad.

15 examples of great web typography After being linked to from Digg, this post crashed ILT's server. Excellent type, and well-written analysis.

Collection of old magazine scans Guy publishes an archive of old magazine scans, nice nice.

Beehive in bell jar Amazing slideshow of someone who put a bell jar on top of hole in a beehive, bees build hive within the belljar, instant honey!

Tea-bag art "Join the group in four easy steps: 1. Drop a bag of tea on an index card 2. Allow to dry 3. Finish drawing 4. Scan and share on Flickr 4. Drink tea The above “leg warmers” image is by Flickr user, Dave Gray."

This video is so awesome, it got loaded twice into the same clip. Drawn stop-motion animation using walls as the animating surface, so sweet.

Baby Hands Soap!

Drink Pepsi

Help! Replaced by CGI!

Mona Lisa in tiny increments

Steampunk PC!

Round & Round

Urban cup-holders for street parties

Tilt-shift photography

Rolled-up Newspaper sculpture

Knitting's New Wave

Kids Rock

Soul finds excellent photos from the war.

Guiness coaster

Tom Ford's New Perfume Ads

Rachell Sumpter

Stewart R Justin

Justin Quinn

John Connelly Presents

Coop just Coop

Unknown Artist

Luc Melanson

Dr Lakra

Becky Cloonan

Chen Lei

Joshua Middleton

Anna Faith Nicholls

Faile Just Faile

Eamo Donnelly

Arms rock