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Her work speaks predominately of love, loss, pain and heartbreak in the first person but with a definite wink to humour.

Collin van der Sluijs currently resides in Maastricht, where he works as an illustrator/painter and runs a gallery, ‘Galerie Groen lLicht’ for contemporary art.

Khoda, by Reza Dolatabadi is a five minute short developed from 6,000 paintings. These are shown at a rate of 20 per second and the film took over two years to make. It’s simply beautiful!

Truely inspiring work. Find out more www.rezaart.com

Utterly awesome project from Bang-yao Liu [senior project at Savannah College of Art & Design].
“Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulating the post-it notes to [...]

This is a great animation from a young Tomas Nilsson. It was done as part of a school assignment…? I truly had the wrong educators! Inspired from Röyksopp’s ‘Remind me’ video. [Music: Slagsmålsklubben]
www.tomas-nilsson.se

So I happened to be in Luxembourg the other day… when a friend of mine and I got chatting about trends. I mentioned “sleeve facing” and how unbelievably cool I think it is. My friend’s reaction? “That has been going on for a year and a half”.
Why is it that, we are compelled to think [...]

You wouldn’t want to make a half baked pile of crap now would ya…
David Cerny’s elegy to the European Union ‘States’ celebrating the Czech Republic’s presidency is, while somewhat satirical in nature, certainly half baked in execution… I’m no art critic, but I dare say this wouldn’t look too out of place as a gimmicky [...]

I’m not an advocate of ‘Christ’mas! Yeah I know Bah-humbug to you too! That said though if you’d want to purchase me a small gift I’d gratefully accept this little gem of a calendar!
Mar Hernández, AKA Malota currently resides in Valencia, Spain. She’s an interdisciplinary artists with a distinct portfolio of illustrations and associated items. [...]

It’s a ‘buzz’ word for the moment – ‘social networking’. Millions of us are currently, yes right now, cosied up in front of a computer screen – chatting! Chatting online, through chat rooms, applications, devices, platforms, forums with ‘friends’.