What would a child’s drawing look like if it were painted realistically? The Monster Engine takes children’s drawings and paints them realistically. This project is probably one of my favorite projects. Check out some other drawings after the break.
More totally freaked out drawings at the link.
A very cool communal project where participants are asked to create one frame of the film for the song "There ain't no grave."
As they describe it:
The Johnny Cash Project is a global collective art project, and we would love for you to participate. Through this website, we invite you to share your vision of Johnny Cash, as he lives on in your mind’s eye. Working with a single image as a template, and using a custom drawing tool, you’ll create a unique and personal portrait of Johnny. Your work will then be combined with art from participants around the world, and integrated into a collective whole: a music video for "Ain’t No Grave", rising from a sea of one-of-a-kind portraits.
Strung together and played in sequence over the song, the portraits will create a moving, ever evolving homage to this beloved musical icon. What’s more, as new people discover and contribute to the project, this living portrait will continue to transform and grow, so it’s virtually never the same video twice.
The drawings shown here are from Hitler's failed attempt to gain entry into the Vienna Academy of Art. The drawings are set to be auctioned.
(via the telegraph)Some have speculated that Hitler's rejection from art college helped shape his character in later years.
He believed that it was a Jewish professor who had rejected his application to study at the academy.
The works consist of nudes, human figures, various objects and landscapes including buildings.
Most are dated 1908 - the year he was rejected by the academy for the second time and was not even permitted to sit the exam - and some are dated a year later that were added to his portfolio.
Hitler moved to Vienna as a young man in 1905 and lived a bohemian life, making small amounts of money by selling pictures he copied from postcards.
At one point he ended up in a hostel for the homeless and later he claimed it was in Vienna where the fires of his anti-Semitism were ignited.
Many artists are quite passionate about their work and rejection can be something taken very personally. Rumour has it that jazz piano great, Keith Jarrett, was told by a professor at Berkeley that he had no talent and that he should find another vocation. Rather than disappearing into oblivion, Keith got even. He practiced all the harder and became great.
Hitler, on the other hand, was obviously unbalanced from an early age and the rejection of his art might have been a trigger for the monstrously evil deeds he did later. One can only speculate on what might have happened had he been accepted.
