The World Wide Fund (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization for the conservation, research and restoration of the environment. It is the world’s largest independent conservation organization with over 5 million supporters worldwide, working in more than 90 countries, supporting 100 conservation and environmental projects around the world. It is a charity, with approximately 9% of its funding coming from voluntary donations by private individuals and businesses.
The group says...
Posted by kavefish on 10 19th, 2008
Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist S...
Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor working in the UK. His incredible sculptures of creepy, grotesque, mottled skin and uncannily gigantic proportional figures have adorned the Millennium Dome as well as Charles Saatchi’s living room for a number of years now. It would be fair to say, Mueck’s one of the leading contemporary artists of today.
His early career was as a model maker...
Posted by kavefish on 09 15th, 2008
More of the Thousand Islan...
Over the past few months, I have made a couple of posts (link and link) about the Thousand Islands chain that straddles the United States / Canada border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. Here are a few more pictures of some of the larger and smaller islands of the chain, and the magnificent houses on them.
Posted by kavefish on 08 4th, 2008
How to Die...
What better way of learning the alphabet while learning how to die a gruesome death? These morbid pictures were drawn by Edward Gorey (1925-2000), and were published in the 1963 book The Gashlycrumb Tinies.
Posted by kavefish on 06 9th, 2008
The fountains and art of I...
Most people are familiar with these giant water tap illusions seen in water parks all over the world.
Isamu Noguchi (1904 - 1988) was a prominent Japanese-American artist and architect, whose career spanned from the 1920s until his death six decades later. Known widely for his sculptures and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets and also various lamps and furniture pieces.
Noguchi took...
Posted by kavefish on 04 24th, 2008
That’s a bus stop?...
What an interesting design for a bus stop! This fully functioning bus stop is in Ventura, California, and looks like a mutant snake house. The face of the house vaguely reminds me of the strange house in Beetlejuice.
The designer of the bus stop is Dennis Oppenheim, a pioneering artist in conceptualism, land art, body art, video, and sculpture since the 1960s. In 1997, he created the sculpture shown...
Posted by kavefish on 03 13th, 2008
Anatomy of Humor: “A...
No one knows when the first joke beginning with the six words “A guy walks into a bar . . .” was told, or how it went. Nevertheless, an entire genre of jokes has been created revolving around that opening scenario. Here’s a sampling of some of the variants that have sprung up, many now involving animals or inanimate objects:
A guy walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his...
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