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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. -Theodor Adorno

Gene Blakefield

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A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing. -William Dobell

John F. Green

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Peter Griffin (Family Guy) by mataleoneBR

Worth1000 is a company that creates web-based internet applications for artists. But what’s really fun about the company is that they’ve decided to generate buzz by hosting a series of Photoshop image manipulation contests. The resulting entries can be astoundingly strange.

The Reality Cartoon Contest asked contestants to “make a photorealistic image which depicts what a cartoon character would look like if they came to life.” See the deeply disconcerting results by clicking on these links:

Reality Cartoons 1

Reality Cartoons 2

Beavis by mataleoneBR

Another contest after the jump…
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Look at the RAW Art today!

Ralph Sutter

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RAW=Really Amazing Work

Glen Bosiwang

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The always entertaining website Dark Roasted Blend is home to a two-part series about fright-inducing playgrounds from around the world. Cartoon characters—most of them unidentifiable—are featured. Russia predominates in this area of kid-centric creepiness.

Nightmare Playgrounds: Part One.

Nightmare Playgrounds: Part Two.

After the jump, some All American playgrounds that are just a wee bit disturbing.

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Looks like somebody’s happy it’s Friday!

Ralph Sutter

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The San Diego Comic Con has come and gone. It was pretty busy, with the entire show selling out. Preview Night was just as busy (if not more so) than any other day. I would love to see some sort of expansion of the Con to cut back on crowd size. Maybe a professionals only night, or perhaps making the Con a full week?

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“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.” -Eckhart Tolle

Denny Furlong

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As the hoards converge on Comicon this weekend (and I sit in sticky, hot Brooklyn, recalling the days when the Gaslamp District was still scuzzy and you didn’t have to book your hotel room two years in advance) let me tell you about an upcoming, far more intimate event that promises to be fascinating: Pictoplasma NYC: Conference on Contemporary Character Design and Art at New York University’s Skirball Center, from September 5-6.

Described as a “character design Mecca”, Pictoplasm will spotlight “the importance of character design in contemporary visual culture.” Today’s popular graphic personalities cross cultural and commercial borders and it’s becoming commonplace to see the same character on both museum walls and pencil sets. This is an opportunity to learn, talk, and schmooze with some of today’s most innovative icon creators.

Guests include Tim Biskup, Gangpol Und Mit, and Friends With You. Saturday has the bulk of the animation talk with Akinori Oishi (Japan) and Studio AKA (UK) appearing.

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