Incredible Dust Paintings
Los Angeles-based artist Allison Cortson collects dust from the homes of her subjects and incorporates the particles into the background of their portraits. Over a period of months, she collects dust from vacuum cleaners bags of her subjects and then painstakingly create the detail in the images by spraying glue onto the canvas and sprinkling it with the dust. Allison Cortson said dust is the perfect material because it is actually created by the people in the paintings. "I was sitting on the couch watching dust particles float around in the light coming through the window and the idea came to me. Read more after the break..........
Halloween Cake
While we put most of our Halloween energy into thinking up weird food costumes, we’ve noticed in the past couple of years that our friends around the blogosphere and flickr-verse have been getting crazy creative with the cakes for this particular holiday season. Since you know we can’t bake to save our lives, let’s take a look at a few of the freakiest, loveliest cakes we’ve spied around the web. see more cakes after the break......