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Awhile back we posted some cool art made from stuff on your desk, but there were several artists we didn’t get a chance to cover. These aren’t your typical bent paperclips or folded paper jabberwockies that tell you which of your coworkers you’ll someday marry (and subsequently divorce). These are works made from office supplies that have been exhibited in museums.
PACKING TAPE
Mark Khaisman is a Ukrainian artist who started working with traditional stained glass. Later he started using layers of translucent packing tape backlit with colored lights to create archetypal images. The pictures above and the first six photos in the gallery below are his work. This guy makes some great portraits with packing tape and light. Meanwhile, I can’t get packing tape off the roll without accidentally folding it onto itself. And the last time I tried to change a light bulb was a disaster. It took hours to find a second blonde to help spin the stepladder.
PENCILS
Jennifer Maestre is a South African artist who makes sculptures primarily from colored pencils or nails. She cuts the pencils into one inch sections, then drills a hole in one end and sharpens the other. Then she uses traditional beadwork techniques (like peyote stitch) to make organic-looking structures. She was originally inspired to do this by looking at a sea urchin. When I looked at a sea urchin it just made me wish I had some peyote. Can you imagine how awesome one of those things would look when you’re trippin’ balls?
STAPLES
Peter Root is an American artist who says he prefers “extremely fragile, temporary arrangements” and that his “structures have to be pure – without glues, tape or other forms of artificial connection.” I don’t know what all that means, but his latest work, Ephemicropolis (which is Greek for “a whale’s vagina”), is made of over 100,000 staples. Here’s a making-of video:
The video doesn’t have audio, but this Yakety Sax seems fitting. Go ahead and play both at the same time.
PERMANENT MARKERS
Heike Weber is a German minimalist. She draws directly on floors, walls, and ceilings with permanent markers. Sure, but when I do it I get arrested. Is it because I was drawing wangs?
STYROFOAM CUPS
Tara Donovan is an American artist who uses mass-produced, ordinary objects (like the Styrofoam cups above) to make large, biomorphic sculptures. I’m going to try to do something this productive with my pile of empties. And when I’m done with the beer can sculpture I’ll nod knowingly, with determination, and say, “This means something.”
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Yet again you ignore my artistically filled water bottles full of dip spit, you bourgeois jerk.
These are all awesome, but I especially love the pencil sculptures.
Just because you leave those sitting in museums doesn’t mean they’ve been “exhibited” Burnsy.
Am I the only one who feels like I’m at Epcot right now?
Are you in a Viking ship going backwards?
Where can I order 16 copies of the packing tape cleavage picture?
She was going to make one of Justin Bieber, but there’s no such thing as fudge-packing tape.
“She was going to make one of Justin Bieber, but there’s no such thing as fudge-packing tape.”
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LOL that was hilarious
Where can I order 16 copies of the packing tape cleavage picture?
I swear to God, it was sticky when I got there.
Sometimes I use scotch tape to make my face look disfigured, then I chase people around doing my De Niro “Frankenstein” impression. Does that count?
I wanted to share this amazing artwork, but I’ll try to find the originals instead of sharing this. Your sophomoric commentary is unnecessary, distracting, and off-putting. (‘Ephemicropolis’ does not mean ‘whale’s vagina’.) You put down the original artist with such fourth-grade remarks, and I will not reward you for it.
@anne: You must be a real joy to hang out with. Are you available the 22nd? My son’s having a birthday party and I’d simply hate for him to have any fun. Maybe you could come by and just judge people for a little while? Think about it.
I wonder if anne needs some kind of special table or platform to see these images from up on her high horse.
Man, art fans are assholes.
The funny thing is that this is the concept of punishment. “When I tell all my other douchebaggy art school drycunt friends about this, I shant be using your website as a link, even though I would have no idea about them otherwise. I mean, yes, he deserves credit for finding and sharing this information, but that’s completely erased by the means by which he chose to share it. Therefore, I’m totally justified in stealing credit because I’m stealing it from a person I think to be sophomoric and therefore beneath having earned it. My drycunt friends should learn about this amazing artwork on my terms and nobody else’s, because that’s what art is about.”
Fucking. Spare. Me.
Your sophomoric commentary is unnecessary, distracting, and off-putting. (‘Ephemicropolis’ does not mean ‘whale’s vagina’.)
Two things.
1. Robo isn’t a Sophomore. He’s a pharmacist.
2. If these artists are anything like most other artists, they really don’t give a flying fuck what kind of press they get, just so long as their “art” isn’t hanging in the bathrooms of Olive Gardens.
Err, yeah. What Donk said!
Drycunts. I gotta remember that.
There are sophomoric jokes on a sophomoric humor website? Outrageous! Someone alert a mustachioed man wearing a monocle this instant!
*Adjusts monocle*
Actually, “whale’s vagina” in Greek is “Φάλαινα του κόλπου” while “arid vagina” is simply “αηηε”.
*Twirls mustache while humming Yackety Sax*
So we can’t even trust the author of this site for proper Greek translations? Well, I never.
A moustache-having, Yakety-Sax-humming Greek-speaker?
Oh, Ragnarok, you are a man after my own heart.
(I may have to check your translations with my aging Yiayia, however.)
Just wanted to say thanks… to all of you guys! I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time! Anyway… you rock!
Hey Robo! You made the big time! Welcome to the consciousness of America’s Belly Button!
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This is Lincoln’s paper’s website so if any of these vulgar comments can cause a blue hair or two around here to stroke out, I’ll buy you a puppy.
Being pretentious on the internet is like refusing to go on the rides at Disney Land. It doesn’t make you look cool; it just makes you look like a cranky buzzkill.
Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride gave me herpes.
I’m rather proud to say that I have some art that can be found in an Olive Garden restroom. It’s a Limerick about a rather well endowed man from an island off the coast of Massachusetts which I carved into the stall door with the rapier I keep concealed within my walking stick. It’s not something I’m normally prone to do but I was inspired by a photograph of a magnificently talented walrus I’d recently seen…
That’s not herpes, Donk. It’s genital warts.
I humped Anne and only put a dime in her voluntary donations box. I had $3.35 on me when I met her. Had some tacos on the way home.
Who the fuck cares about a bunch of stacked up staples? My two year old nephew makes better sculptures out of his legos.
Hey, maybe if someone pulled the stick out of Anne’s ass (and I venture that it is long and rigid enough to be poking out of her mouth as well) she could make some really cool art with it
Well, I don’t care what the naysaysrs say (or should that be “what the naysayers naysay”?) – I think the post-it light art is amazing.
Actually, poor Anne is just afraid that her friends might realize that she’s a lesbian because she clicked on the cleavage picture link to read this.
/watches anne peel out in her subaru wagon with the Hillary! bumper sticker
lol thank god anne wrote that stupid comment. Yall are helarious. lol
i love mark khaisman. he is the most talented artist of this century.
I can’t believe you’d insult lesbians like that. O_O
Yakety Sax! Now THAT is art!