Awesome Painting

Pssst. Need to hit the refresh button on your brain today? Give yourself four minutes to space out and watch this painterly video, from the peeps who brought us Tokyo/Glow. Seriously. It’ll help.

Designed to capture moments from motivational words to “I Love Yous” to a baby’s first words, VoicePrints allows anyone to turn their unique voice into a custom, one of a kind work of art.

You don’t have to be an art critic to figure out Paul Mutant’s “This painting is not available in your country” (2010, acrylic on canvas). Maybe he should add “there’s always torrents though”.

Zac Freeman collects junk, found objects and trash which he combines to create portraits. Up close, the pieces look like crap cobbled together; when viewed from afar, the work is quite compelling.

When we first saw the works of Alexa Meade, we thought they were paintings on canvas. On closer inspection, we realized they were models covered with paint. Minds officially blown. More pics here.

Robert Burden makes amazing tapestry-style paintings of the action figures he loved as a child, from G.I. Joe to Voltron to Hulk Hogan. Print versions of his paintings are for sale at his website.

When we think about how much work it must have taken BLU to create this 10 minute long animation about the evolution of man, using graffiti on walls, floors and objects, it makes our heads spin.

Would you believe Andrey Gordeev’s amusing (if just a wee-bit stereotypical) point-of-view illustration series Around the World was created for a trucking company’s calendar? Us neither.

BMW has announced that the 17th Art Car created by Jeff Koons will race where the first art cars did – at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France on June 12th and 13th. Koons’ canvas is a BMW M3 GT2.

If you doubt that color can be powerful and uplifting, you may change your mind after watching the 2 minutes of Let’s Colour, a worldwide initiative from Dulux to spread color all over the world.

Artist Alex Andreyev’s evocative paintings envision a slightly askew world filled with zero-gravity vehicles, gigantic dirigibles and tentacled creatures. We’re not sure it looks like a fun place to live.

The Graffomat vending machine is fully stocked with graffiti supplies, including spray paint and ski masks, just in case you run out mid-spray while creating a mural in a dark alley at 4 am.

Florida-based artist Jim Hance takes his inspiration from childhood television shows and movies to create humorous and playful paintings, like these fun Star Wars pieces.

Would you like to see all of the paintings in the Museum of Modern Art? Got two minutes and five seconds? Watch this video for a warp-speed tour of MoMA’s wondrous collection.

The Deluxx Fluxx Arcade is an enveloping art collaboration between famed street artists Faile & Bast, where game rooms and machines are transformed into an interactive experience.

Illustrator Franco Brambilla envisions a world of alien invasions, carefully compositied into vintage postcards. There are a variety of lifeforms in the series, the Star Wars images are classics.

Artist Rosemarie Fiore doesn’t use brushes to create her bold modern works of art. She blows things up. To put a finer point on it, she “paints” by placing lit firecrackers under small cans of paint.