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For ten days in May of 2009, the street artist RIPO used news headlines as inspiration for a painting that he then covered with another painting of the following day’s news–a commentary on the over-saturation of media and fleeting nature of news–before peeling back a strip for each day to created a spectacularly striped, multicolor [...]

For today’s first of two editions of our weekly moving image showcase Thursday’s 3 Cool Videos, we look at three recent stop-motion shorts that use other art forms (photography, painting, installation) to take the medium in exciting new directions. After all, filmmakers with the time, patience and attention to detail can turn just about anything [...]

Sundays are something of a slow day around the Listicles office, which is why we’ve begun taking the opportunity found in that lull to present some of the interesting but irrelevant to everything listicles we’ve had waiting in our archives for a little while.
This week we seek to provide satisfaction for both literal and aesthetic [...]