A Momentary Lapse In Concentration

chels:

Fairytale of New York  |  The Pogues

I’ve heard this song pretty much everywhere I’ve been for the last few weeks. And I’ve just found out why: evidently, it’s the most-played Christmas song of the century.

And while it certainly is set at Christmas, it’s basically an angry, drunken fight between two lovers. Exactly the homey, Christmas feel you want, eh?

archiemcphee:

Belgian artist and illustrator Stefaan De Croock, alias Strook, created this beautiful piece of street art, not by painting, drawing, or pasting, but by using a pressure washer to create an image within the existing mossy growth on an exterior wall of the STUK art center in Leuven, Belgium. 

[via NomadaQ]

archiemcphee:

“A latticed warehouse door at Corby House on Curtain Road in London provides the ideal setting for lenticular graffiti, and by far the best use of it (so far) was this rabbit by ROA  [one of the Geyser of Awesome’s favourite street artists]. From one angle, you can see a fairly realistic rendering of a furry rabbit, and from the other you get a black silhouette with the rabbit’s veins and arteries showing in bright red.”

Photo by grievousbodilycharm

[via WebUrbanist]

archiemcphee:

In some silverware drawers the spork is lauded as a multi-tasking hero among utensils or at least considered a kitchen implement peer. But down in the depths of certain dark, squeaky, musty drawers, the spork is reviled as a freak and so-called “regular” utensils queue up to tease and gawk. 

Don’t believe us? Take a look at poor young Sporky the Spork-Faced Sporkboy

(Created by the always entertaining Bent Objects)

archiemcphee:

Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo filled a gap in a row of buildings with 1550 wooden chairs for the 8th International Istanbul Biennale in 2003.

[via Universe in Universe]

archiemcphee:

Swings and Roundabouts by Xue Wang

Read an interview with Xue Wang (and see more of her awesome paintings) over at Peanut Soup Deluxe!

archiemcphee:

Pamela Michelle Johnson creates awesome hyperrealistic paintings of American junk food.

Here you see Handi Snacks and Gummi Bears, both oil on canvas, painted in 2008

[via Neatorama]

(via theclearlydope)

archiemcphee:

“The Gentleman Cyclist” by Jeral Tidwell

Available at Humantree.com as a 12″ x 24″ screenprint in an edition of 100

[via OMG Posters!]

unknownskywalker:

Cut out book art by Brian Dettmer