THE BEST Art

Despite having no real interest or desire to express himself creatively in his waking life, artist Lee Hadwin has a natural talent for producing fairly interesting works of art in his sleep.

Artist Breck Armstrong seems to have a knack for breathing new life into found objects. Like he did with these 6 lb roller skate bookends that will look good and keep your big reads from getting away.

Digital filmmakers KORB created this unofficial Coca-Cola promo for a competition, taking the drink’s iconic glass and liquid-filled bottle and playing with its form through sound.

Artist Cheeming Boey loves Breaking Bad, and decided to treat himself to some art for his B-day with these cool pointillist drawings of Hector, Gus and Tuco. More cup art here. (Thanks Gwen!)

One of the exhibited pieces on Screen, an online art gallery set up by Swedish art center Kulturhuset. So what’s it about? You tell us. We watched the whole thing though. It was awesome.

The El Ateneo Grand Splendid is a bookstore in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Built in 1919, the 21,000 sq.ft. theater was converted into a music and book shop in 2000.

Keep Decepticons off your front lawn with this amazing 7.5 foot-tall sculpture of Bumblebee, handmade from various scrap metal parts by ScrapSculptures. Get Optimus Prime here.

To promote his rolling papers, Snoop Dogg teamed up with Pereira & O’Dell to create Rolling Words. Its pages are filled with song lyrics and double as rolling papers. The spine acts as a match striker.

Wander through the public spaces of the White House and explore its artworks from the comfort of your computer, thanks to Google’s collaboration with President Obama and the First Lady.

A group of colorful beings bring an equally colorful city to life with their mind in this eye-popping animated short film by Argentinian design and motion graphics studio 2veinte.

A young man experiences afterlife in the Old West, still haunted by memories of his lover. An animated visual feast directed by Mike Roberts, based on the music of Canadian indie rock band The Sadies.

David Lindecrantz created this cool retro-style app which takes your iOS device back to the 80s, complete with classic Macintosh and Game Boy B&W dithering algorithms. Sample images here.

Cribble put the envelopes given to him by his university’s career department to send out resumes in to good use as the background for this imaginative and often nonsensical short animation.

Now through April 15th, 100% of the net proceeds of these cool art prints, magnets and keychains from ExBoyfriend go to help save the lives of animals through the Maryland SPCA. DJ Kitty FTW!

The title says it all for this awesome print from The Oatmeal. The perfect print for any kitchen, as Grizz spices up his kill with an ample dose of hot sauce. Signed by the artist and measures ~19″x27″.

Youtuber rikkitikkiberger captured the long process of lathing that woodturner Soren Berger uses to make one of his unique lampshades. Don’t worry, he repurposes all that scrap material.

Australian painter Jeremy Geddes often uses space travelers in urban environments as a motif in his hyperreal/surreal work. The results are amazing dreamlike images like these.

It was this epic poster for a Mastodon show that first drew us to designer/illustrator John Vogl’s work. Truth is that his great style and clever touch make it hard to find a print of his we don’t like.

Illustrator Stephen Wildish tries to make something witty each Friday. These film alphabets with clever graphics corresponding to each letter are great examples and available in plenty of print options.

There’s something strangely compelling about the way that the classic cello of Yo-Yo Ma perfectly complements the smooth moves of Los Angeles based dancer Charles “Lil Buck” Riley.

Daniel Franke and Cedric Kiefer created this digital sculpture by capturing the movements and sounds of a dancer using three Kinects, then rendering them into abstract volumetric 3D forms.

To create these images, R. Iida and Y. Tanaka captured numerous portraits of a subject sitting still over a three-minute period, then layered them to reveal the small movements they each made.

Samsung Portugal produced this eye-popping clip which features some of the coolest projection mapping we’ve seen – using a human being as the projection surface instead of a building or screens.

Someday a “book” will be but bits of data, just one of the many functions embedded in our gadgets. Here’s a look at the soon-to-be lost art of printing and bookbinding, courtesy of Glen Milner.

Sam Hallows made five illustrations of Star Wars characters, vehicles and ships. They’re bare sketches, but what makes them impressive is that they were each made with a single, continuous line.

You’ve probably seen pictures of this crazy room floating around the Web. Watch the video to see how graffiti artist Tilt and his friends created the split-personality Panic Room at Au Vieux Panier.