Awesome Art

Cartoonist Dan Hipp created a these Adventures of Tintin-inspired book covers as tributes to classic science fiction films lie Star Wars, Alien and Tron. We only wish these books were real.

David Murray has teamed up with Mia Schwartz to create this highly enjoyable pixelated spectre of a t-shirt – on sale until 5/13/11 right here. Any way you slice it, this is good old fashioned fun.

You wouldn’t believe it from the looks of this image, but what you’re looking at is an incredible, working miniature model of an airport. More images and videos of the Knuffingen Airport here.

Because we all need to smile today: check out Adam Nilsson’s self-titled instrument of mass destruction, a complicated technical solution to aid in simple acts of vandalism art. (Thanks Robert!)

The fine folks over at Paste Magazine have rounded up a gallery of sweet and geeky old school posters propagating the Galactic Civil War from both sides of the fight. Thumbs up. (Thanks Levi!)

Individual light paintings take a lot of time and effort to pull off. So a light painted music video is a real feat. Darcy Prendergast of Oh Yeah Wow spent 6 months making this video for All India Radio.

(Slightly NSFW) An award-winning Lovecraftian short film about a Sex-Ed class gone horribly wrong. Directed by Craig Macneill and written and masterfully narrated by Clay McLeod Chapman.

Takauki Hori printed these skeletons of endangered species onto translucent paper. When flat, they just look like a bunch of random bones, but properly assembled, they form a 3-dimensional skeleton.

Many of Myeongbeom Kim’s creations combine man-made objects and places with items from nature, creating a tension that should be hard to experience but somehow ends up being beautiful.

Keep track of the F1 season as your favorite racers zip and move around the world with these unofficial Formula 1 Grand Prix posters by JP Tierney. Each A2 digital print is hand-signed and dated.

Taras Lesko was commissioned by Audi to create a scale model of the Audi A7. It took him 285 sheets of paper and 245 hours to finish the incredibly detailed model, which has a total of 750 parts.

Rolling Through the Bay is a kinetic sculpture made of about 100,000 toothpicks made by artist Scott Weaver. Weaver began making it 34 years ago and is still modifying and adding to it. Pics here.

A profile of Kiva Ford by online arts & crafts market Etsy. Ford is an expert glassblower who crafts both decorative and scientific glassware. Check out his shop and his website for more.

Chris Parks’ irreverent ode to The Last Supper is redone cleverly: on a set of 12 skateboard decks painted to resemble the famous painting, but with Mexican wrestlers, tacos, burritos and beer.

Some terrific creativity was found at the Scotch Off the Roll Tape Sculpture Contest. The second annual contest challenged artists of every level to create original sculptures using just packaging tape.

Not only do these artist-designed wooden eggs look really cool, they’re decorated by a robot. And if that’s not enough for you, a portion of proceeds go to The British Red Cross’ Japan Tsunami Appeal.

adNAU’s Tino Schaedler and Achim Lippoth combine photography with CG digital landscapes from The Scope to create this Mad Max-esque post-apocalyptic world for a kid’s fashion shoot.

A set of posters inspired by classic novels, made by various artists for Required Reading exhibit at Gallery 1988. There’s some seriously sweet artwork to be had for very reasonable prices.

Paper animator Eric Power weaves an action-packed, bloody tale of a lone samurai as he takes on a demon lord and his army. Eric says the short offers “more paper cuts than you can handle.”

Turn your iPad, Android tablet or smartphone into a virtual canvas with these special brushes that work with capacitive touchscreens. This Kickstarter project needs your pledge if you want one.

Photographer Ryan Kothe uses stop-motion to incredible effect in his exploration of the deterioration of everyday objects. If your stuff wears out this quick, you’ve got big problems.

This like an old photograph from the 1950s, but it’s actually a detailed model from artist Michael Paul Smith, who’s compiled his scenes into Elgin Park, a book about a fictitious retro-style town.

At first glance, Dark Matters’ music video for Kenton Slash Demon’s Daemon looks like laser beams, but on closer inspection, you’ll see that all of the shapes are made from illuminated string.