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Secret of the Ooze

Antarctic Glacier Has Five-story Blood-red Waterfall of Primodial Ooze

Read more at GOOD.

Yee Jan Bao

Yee Jan Bao, oil on canvas, 36x48"

Yee Jan Bao, oil on canvas, 48x72"

Yee Jan Bao, oil on canvas, 48x72"

Antti Laitinen "It's My Island"

Flavorpill writes, "Helsinki-based artist Antti Laitinen offers an absurdist take on the notion of property and nationality with his solo exhibition of video, photography and installation work. The artist painstakingly built his own island in the Gulf of Finland out of 200 hand-filled sandbags..."

Scotland Highlights; Vol. 3

By popular demand - here are a few more photos from the trip:

Painting of the Day

Winslow Homer, The Artist's Studio in an Afternoon Fog, 1894

Painting of the Day: Alex Katz

Alex Katz, West Palm Beach, 1997

photo by flickr user theMUC

Shipwreck Art

For some reason, I get a lot of hits on this blog for a couple of posts about shipwreck paintings. Go figure. So here's where I pander to the masses. I love these recent paintings by Nadia Hebson. There's also a great old engraving I scanned, and loads of shipwreck paintings from the 1800s when ships were plunging like the current Nasdaq standings...

Nadia Hebson, Wreck, Oil on Canvas, 60x50 cm, 2005

Nadia Hebson, Valser, 175x190 cm, Oil on Canvas, 2007Joseph Cornell, "Jack's Dream" ca 1930- from theartofmemory

Old book page scanned from the collection of Nathan Abels

Paul Jean Clays, 1853- photo by flickr member Zeldenrust

Thomas Doughty, Shipwreck, 1834 - photo by flickr member mharrsch

Aivasovsky Ivan Constantinovich, Moonlit Seascape With Shipwreck - from wikicommons

Aivasovsky Ivan Constantinovich, Storm, 1872 - from wikicommons

Kenny Komer, "Shipwreck"
Caspar David Friedrich, Seashore with Shipwreck by Moonlight, 1825-1830 - photo from wikicommons
Caspar David Friedrich, Sea of Ice, 1823-1824 - from wikicommons

photo by flickr member tgtsfkncld

Cai Guo-Qiang, "Reflection" - photo by ThisWeekinNewYork on flickr.

Also - see this post of Joshua Tonies shipwreck paintings.

Matthew Cornell: Variations on a Theme

Matthew Cornell, Sweetwater, Oil on Panel, 7.25x9.25"

Matthew Cornell, Santee, Oil on Panel, 12x18"

Matthew Cornell, Tangier, Oil no Panel, 7x10"

Matthew Cornell, Vermilion, Oil on Panel, 16x20"