James Bennett

James Bennett began his professional career shortly after receiving recognition from the Society of Illustrators and RSVP as a scholarship student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His conceptually humorous illustrations have since appeared as covers and interior pieces for The New York Times, the L.A. Times, Forbes, Time, Sports Illustrated, The Weekly Standard, MAD, Business Week, New York, The Smithsonian, Reader’s Digest, Yankee, Golf, and Philadelphia magazines, among others. He has also produced art for RCA Records, American Express, Paramount Pictures, Citibank, Hasbro, and Milton Bradley. Bennett’s picture books for children include “The 1,000 Year Old Man” by Mel Brooks, “Tell Me a Scary Story... But Not Too Scary” by Carl Reiner, and “Halloween” by Jerry Seinfeld. Two of those books held a place as the top five in the New York Times Best Seller list. Bennett’s awards include the prestigious Hamilton King, which acknowledges an illustrator’s outstanding body of work represented by the “Best Illustration of the Year By a Member”, the Stevan Dohanos Award for Best Illustration in the annual “Our Own Show”, and in 2002 was the recipient of a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators in New York. In 2000 he won a Gold Award in the “Creative Show” in San Diego. Bennett has been featured in Step-by-Step Graphics and Communication Arts, and recently in an exhibition at the Travis Gallery in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Currently a member of the Executive Board of Directors at the Society of Illustrators, Bennett is also active in the Illustrators Partnership of America. He taught illustration at the School of Visual Arts for over 6 years, and was an instructor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He has lectured at Syracuse University, Kendall College, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Society of Illustrators, and Rhode Island School of Design.

Hera are some of his illustrations and paintings:

Greg Sand - Remnants

Remnants: David

Remnants: Jimmy

Remnants: Mona

Remnants: Betty

Remnants: Tom

Remnants is a series about recollection and remembrance. Each ‘remnant’ in the series is composed of three found photos–each from a different point in the subject’s life–that have been cut into strips and woven together to form a portrait of a person who has passed away. Remnants uses cloth as a metaphor for memory. As Peter Stallybrass writes in Worn Worlds, “The magic of cloth is that it receives us: receives our smells, our sweat, our shape even.” This is one of the marvels of memory as well: we perceive each moment in our lives; these are eventually woven together to form our memory. Each piece in this series creates a likeness of an individual that–rather than depicting an accurate visual representation of that person at any given time–presents a recollected coalescence of that person’s appearances throughout his or her life. 

Greg Sand is an artist and photographer who explores the issues of existence, time, and death. He works primarily with digital photography to produce work that addresses the nature of photography and its role in defining reality. Sand received his BFA in Photography from Austin Peay State University in 2008. He has won the acclaim of both jurors and audiences, winning numerous awards and honors. In 2009, Sand was selected by critic Catherine Edelman and the Griffin Museum of Photography as one of “the most exciting new artists emerging in the world of photography.” Sand currently produces work in Clarksville, Tennessee, and exhibits across the United States.

John Copeland

LOOKS LIKE UP FROM HERE     40X48 INCHES     ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS     2012

THINGS TO REMEMBER     54X60 INCHES     ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS     2012

THROUGH THE EYES OF A CLOWN     20X24 INCHES     ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS     2012

WHEN I LAY MY BURDEN DOWN     40X48 INCHES     ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS     2012

YOUR TIME IS UP     20X24 INCHES     ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS     2012

John Copeland borned in California in 1976, he lives and work in New York, graduated in 1998 BFA, in California College of Arts and Crafts.

Anthony Petrie

18” x 24” five-color screen print with metallic gold and glow-in-the-dark-inks
on Kraft French paper

18” x 24” five-color screen print with metallic gold and glow-in-the-dark-inks
on Kraft French paper

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM
18” x 24” 5-color screen print with glow-in-the-dark ink
on Cement Green French paper

Anthony Petrie is a RISD alumn working in the product design industry. His portfolio includes work across a broad range of mediums. He likes creating good design for good people, and has an unhealthy obsession with zombies and farting. His favorite things to do are CrossFitting with his beautiful girlfriend, annoying his dog, and drawing nerdy art for the internets. His headquarters are located in the glorious state of Rhode Island. 

Anthony Kurtz photography

Environmental Portraits - Cinematic Art Documentary with Flash and Natural Light.Photographed in Dakar and Dindefelo

Home of the Homeless

Home of the Homeless

The World of Tomorrow

The World of Tomorrow

Anthony Kurtz is an award-winning, Euro-American, commercial, editorial and art photographer based in San Francisco. He specializes in environmental portraiture and strives to create beautiful and unexpected photographs of people and the spaces they occupy.
Combining both natural light and studio strobes, I sculpt light to create a mood, an atmosphere, a photograph that tells a story and, hopefully, sparks curiosity in the viewer. 

You can see more of his work here: anthonykurtz.com

Carne Griffiths

"Rose"

"Guilt"

"Comfort"

"We are mortal"

Carne Griffiths

Working primarily with calligraphy inks, graphite and liquids, such as tea, brandy and vodka Griffiths’ fascination with drawing focuses on the creation and manipulation of the drawn line. Images explore human, geometric and floral forms, in a combination of both literal and abstract translation and in resposne to images and situations encountered in daily life. Images are recorded in a dreamlike sense onto the page where physical boundaries are unimportant. His work creates a journey of escapism which focuses on scenes of awe and wonder, projecting a sense of abandonment and inviting the viewer to share and explore this inner realm.

Originally from Liverpool, Griffiths graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Maidstone in 1995. After completing a one-year KIAD fellowship and moving to London he served an apprenticeship at the longest-established gold wire embroidery firm in the world. Here he worked as a gold wire embroidery designer for twelve years, eventually becoming the creative director. Carne produced intricate designs for the military and the film, theatre, fashion and advertising industries. His designs were used for the uniforms in the films Valkyrie, The Last King of Scotland, and in particular his ‘Red Death Coat’ was used in The Phantom of the Opera. Carne’s elaborate floral designs for Asprey were included in their first ever catwalk collection and his work was featured on the embroidered cover of the 80th Royal Variety Performance programme in 2008.

Since establishing his own studio in 2010, Carne has exhibited in the UK at the London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy, the London Art Fair in both 2011 and 2012, and overseas at Urban in Ibiza in 2011 and Arts After Dark, New Orleans in 2010. Carne also collaborated with the British photographer Rankin for a feature in the 2nd edition of Hunger Magazine early in 2012.

Caleb Charland

Study for Sun with Face Mirror, 2009

Shooting a Panorama in a Snow Storm, 2010

Moon with Face Mirror, 2009

Sun with Face Mirror, 2009

My hand (Caleb Charland) with Glow in -the Dark Paint, 2010

(All images are created in-camera, on a flatbed scanner, or in the darkroom. No content is created or added digitally)

"For me, wonder is a state of mind somewhere between knowledge and uncertainty. It is the basis of my practice and results in images that are simultaneously familiar yet strange. Each piece begins as a question of visual possibilities and develops in tandem with the natural laws of the world."  

-Caleb Charland 

Caleb Charland graduated in 2004 in B.F.A. Photography with Departmental Honors Massachusetts College of Art

Boston, MA; in 2009 in Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME and finally in 2010 in M.F.A Photography School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Trustees Fellowship.

He has collections in Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Progressive Collection, Portland Art Museum, Comcast, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Various Private Collections. 

Stella Im Hultber

Stella Im Hultber - Because

 


Stella Im Hultberg is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, NYC.
Born in South Korea, raised in Seoul, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and later in California, she studied Industrial Design and worked as a product designer before serendipitously falling into the art world in late 2005.

I just love her illustrations. Hope you like it!!

Rain Forests and Belly Bottons

Belly button bacteria samples: Bacillus subtilis (left) and Staphylococcus epidermidis.

Yes it's crazy, what does the navels are related to the rain forests?!

The answer to this question is here.

Rob Dun is a biologist and writer in the Department of Biology at North Carolina State University, he and his team started the Belly Button Biodiversity project in 2011, in an attempt to make the public more interested in science by showing them their skins own thriving ecosystems. "And belly bottoms are just ridiculous enough to appeal to almost everyone", Dun added.

Below you can read the article written by Shannon Fischer for National Geographic News.

Welcome to the Jungle

From 60 belly buttons, the team found 2,368 bacterial species, 1,458 of which may be new to science.

Some belly buttons harbored as few as 29 species and some as many at 107, although most had around 67. Ninety-two percent of the bacteria types showed up on fewer than 10 percent of subjects—in fact, most of the time, they appeared in only a single subject.

One science writer, for instance, apparently harbored a bacterium that had previously been found only Japanese soil-where he has never been.

Another, more fragrant individual, who hadn't washed in several years, hosted two species of so-called extremophile bacteria that typically thrive in ice caps and thermal vents.

(Also see "Armpits Are 'Rain Forests' for Bacteria, Skin Map Shows.")

Despite the diversity, themes emerged.

Even though not a single strain showed up in each subject, eight species were present on more than 70 percent of the subjects. And whenever these species appeared, they did so in huge numbers.

"That makes the belly button a lot like rain forests," Dunn said. In any given forest, he explained, the spectrum of flora might vary, but an ecologist can count on a certain few dominant tree types.

"The idea that some aspects of our bodies are like a rain forest—to me it's quite beautiful," he added. "And it makes sense to me as an ecologist. I understand what steps to take next; I can see how that works."

(Related: "Men's Offices Have More Bacteria, Study Finds.")

Method to the Madness?

But predicting which species might like to call the human body home is only the first step. To make the knowledge useful, scientists need to know why these bacteria show up.

"We're all like the guys before Darwin who went out and brought this stuff on the ship and said, Check out this bird that's totally weird—this has got to be important!

"They were still so far from understanding the big picture," Dunn said. "That's where we are."

(Related: "Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found in Four-Million-Year-Old Cave.")

Hoping to answer those broader questions, Dunn's team is already working on several hundred more navels—soon to be 600. They'll use those new samples to start testing the correlation of the navel dwellers with everything from subjects' places of birth to the makeups of their immune systems.

In the meantime, the lab has kicked off pilot studies for their next citizen-science spectacular: Armpit-pa-looza.

The new Belly Button Biodiversity project study was published November 7 by the journal PLOS ONE. Note: The subject of this story, Rob Dunn, is occasionally hired to write freelance articles for National Geographic magazine, which is affiliated with National Geographic News.