i really really want to believe this story is true, just because its such fun… but i’m struggling… the images look just too good to be true, what do you think?
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make things up
‘cheeky’ dutch duo (at least that’s what they seem to get called these days) lernert & sander were picked up on by UK tabloid newspaper ‘the daily mail’, i was already familiar with the story but not that they had tried to kill an intern… that’s not very nice guys… (link via ‘pascal friedrichs’)
in the picture
a fascinating flickr set from the ‘american library of congress’ collection with photographers appearing inadvertently in the images, the best of which is the reflection revealed in the eye of geronimo in the famous portrait of him… when greatly enlarged, see the whole set here
(link via ‘design related’)
before and after (8)
one of my posters, but then improved somewhat with the help of the weather and some nice decay…
leo fitzmaurice
a series of football shirts cleverly made (during the past 10 years) from reappropriated cigarette packs (more than 800 of them) found all over the world by british artist ‘leo fitzmaurice’ with the brands and graphic forms & now representing the heraldry and national colours of the soccer world…
his work often makes use of reappropriation of branding and packaging from commercial products, he doesn’t appear to have a website but i found several articles which give a better picture of the man and his work, see here, or here, plus here and finally here