MOCCA - Now and Then

Did you ever wonder what comic artists drew like when they were 12 years old? Wonder no longer.

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art presents Now and Then featuring the early childhood illustrations of professional illustrators. Excellent presentation. Also goes to show that people really hang on to those old sketchbooks.

via Drawn!

The Artist as Curator

Wooster Collective reports that:

"Over the last couple of days, a British pensioner has visited four of New York's Most Famous Museums...The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Museum of Natural History. In each museum the pensioner surreptitiously installed a piece of artwork."

The artist in question is Banksy and I really love this idea of not waiting for the fine art establishment to recognise your talent. Why wait when you can just put on a fake beard and overcoat and stick up your own works.

One thing I do wonder though is how a fake beard and overcoat made him less suspicious looking...Are art museum security guards that easy to dupe? As I write this 2 of the 4 works are still on display.

Wooster Collective : A Celebration of Street Art

Wooster Collective - if you love street art, stencils, etc then your hungry eyes will devour this site. Bon appetit.

Food Art

Latte Art photoset on Flickr and Chinese Watermelon Art. Undeniably cool, undeniably scrumptious. Both via Core77

Gunner Palace

quote: "Some war stories will never make the nightly news" :- Gunner Palace is a documentary movie which explores the day to day lives of ordinary American soldiers who are stationed in a palace in Baghdad. What I really like about this site is the Baghdad diaries section which is incredibly compelling, humourous and at times heartbreaking to read. The diaries recount the time the film crew spent in Baghdad filming and are in my opinion a worthy stand-alone project independent of the film. If the film is anywhere near as moving then it will be a must-see. I wonder if the world leaders who send young men off to kill, suffer and be killed have read these diaries.