Fun-Sized Exciting Misshapen Variety Pack

During my meanderings through the world of images I have a habit of picking up pictures from here and there and then forgetting where they are from and why I have them. Sometimes I don't have titles, artists, dates etc written down either, which is bad art blog practice as well as probably breaking all sorts of fun copywrite laws. Oh well, never mind. There are some interesting images here, so I thought, why let them moulder away, stolen but not appreciated, on my hard drive? Put them out in the open, in no particular order. Anything you like the look of?

??, Saitoh Yusuke

(??, Courtesy of Bibliodyssey)

Pica Flora, Lorenzo Homar, wood engraving

??, Joel Holland

Haight Ashbury, San Francisco, 2007

Drawing, Barbara Hepworth

Fibonnaci Spiral Stair, ??, courtesy of Ffffound!

(?? Etsy print)

Swimming Carp, David Bull

(??)

(??, Courtesy of Bibliodyssey)

Marion Bantjes, Ministry of Type

Poster for Brick (1995)

Balloon Ballroom (??) (Courtesy of Ffffound!)

Halliwell poster collection at VADS, ??

Art Deco poster (??)

Ripe to the Core, Amy McKay

Love and Rockets cover 30, Jaime Hernandez

The Escapist comic artwork, Mike Mignola

How Did He Get up There?

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Garon makes it look so easy! Clearly all one needs in life is determination and stick-to-it-iveness. We can all learn a lesson from his effortless rock climbing scamperings.

Hammerpress

A few band posters from Hammerpress here, connoisseurs of letterpress printing. Kaia saw a few of these in a shop, told me about them, made me wish I was in that particular shop. I want to buy attractive prints. Old fashioned frontier lettering and images, good colours, good bands too. Including Spoon; why is everyone clamoring to design posters for Spoon? (For that matter, how come the same Spoon songs are in every new movie trailer?)

My only quibble is that the designs don't always have much to do with the particular band they're advertising. Posters designed by Aesthetic Apparatus have the distinct AA style, but take care to reference the band in some way - an image from a song, an album, the tour title, musical style, whatever. These posters are all distinctly Hammerpress, but most could be interchangeable. Well whatever, they look cool. I yearn to go have some letterpress fun now. (I've never done it before. It's one of those print techniques I constantly get confused.)

(I am having a terrible time with spacing these pictures by the way, so I apologise for that. I fail at layout.)

The Architect's Brother

The Visitation

I wish I knew how on earth these prints were made. Although lets face it, I am imagining complicated printmaking techniques and the answer probably involves some fancy piece of illustration software I have never heard of. I'm so stuck in the past. The artist here is Robert ParkeHarrison, and I know next to nothing about him, although I gather he is expensive. All the images here are from a series called The Architect's Brother, and all picture the same man achieving impossible feats and operating bizarre devices. These little contrivances seem to avoid sepia nostalgia and whimsy by the bleak landscapes they inhabit. Usually I would hate this sort of thing, but these... really, they're just about a hopeful guy trying to make things better in broken-down world! That's so sad. I might go and cry now. The whole series is here.

Windmaker

Cloud Burst

The Navigator

Suspension

Night Garden

The Clearing

Garden of Selves

Da Vinci's Wings

The Sower