Do you find yourself attracted to all sorts of “weird” things? Of course, weird is a relative word. What may be weird to one person may be totally normal to another. That being said, here are some newspaper sculptures that I think have a weirdness to them. It is that kind of weird that you just can’t help but stare a little longer than usual. The kind of weird that suddenly makes you think “genius”! Artist Nick Georgiou is based in Tucson, Arizona and creates some astounding sculptures out of newspaper. When I first saw this photos of the sculptures, I didn’t even realize immediately that they were made out Read more »

Where does scrap metal goes when it dies? Technically, scrap metal is already dead, I think, as it is supposed to be the corpse of previously useful things. Then again, as the old saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. In the case of French artist Edouard Martinet, however, scrap metal is the source of inspiration for art. Let me correct that. Scrap metal is more than inspiration for Martinet. It is the the heart and soul of his work. For Martinet, everything has value. He takes what he finds from flea markets and car boot sales, such as kitchen pans (and pots, I suppose) – the rusty Read more »