Arranged Watches (12in x 12in [30cm x 30cm]). When I finished yesterday's skull, my friend Mimi encouraged me to take a few collections of objects home to use for future skulls including these watches, so another big thanks to her! I know Charlie will recognize the reference in today's title...
More fantastic stuff from fantastic folks in fantastic places! (received 2/8 - 2/15)
Paul in Sydney, Australia shared these lovely handmade books found on LiveJournal!
Michael from Montreal, Canada found a great compendium of art from a recent skull themed exhibition in NYC, including this fine Andy Warhol piece!
GLove in London made this fun ink stamp image!...
And shared this sticker spotted at the First Avenue & 7th St Entry club in Minneapolis!...
As well as this nice art from Portland, Oregon!
Lana pointed out this tough tattoo on ModBlog!...
And this seriously creepy cake on Mathilda Tomasdottir's blog!
Moose found this lovely illustration by design group b. media!...
as well as this cute pic of a "painted" kitty!...
and this great painting by Jason Limon!
Dave wanted to make sure I was a fan of the German football (soccer to us US folks) club St. Pauli!
Lisa Harkins shared this lovely artist trading card she made! [I'd still like one if you are still willing to send it to me!]
Sara pointed out the fabulous Gold Bar in SOHO, NYC, which is filled with gold skulls created by Kihl Studios! [I would love to have a book release party there!]
R&Y shared the seriously awesome work of Kris Kuksi!
Tatman showed off the awesome pen he used to complete my Crosskull Puzzle!
Stuart showed off his beautiful painting!
Mike Hayes shared this fantastic ceramic slip cast sculptural tile he made!
JoeV saw this funky skull at a medieval festival in Ft. Myers, Florida!
Michael shared this great sketch he did in the catacombs in Paris!
Congratulations to Dan Springer who won this awesome Skull of the Year trophy from the German site Designers Skulls for his terrific Death's Boogie Van image (shown in the background).
Naz in Brooklyn, NY found this cute skull hiding in her rosemary, honey cake (with lemon frosting) at a recent dinner party!
Erik from the group 2008scandinavia showed off this awesome billboard they did for a Norwegian Mac support company!
Damian shared this cool drawing he made!
Shawn shared these photos of the coolest playground ever she stumbled upon in New Zealand!
Maeg suggested a skull of the Crimson Ghost made out of Misfits memorabilia!
My friend Carlos shared this video for the classic Oingo Boingo track "Dead Man's Party"!
Cat from Montreal, Canada showed off her adorable plush key chains, which you can get here!
My friend Igor from Driven By Boredom shared his friend's excellent necklace!
Martin spotted this spiffy clock in Hamburg, Germany!
Carl and his fiancé noticed this sneaky fellow on the hood of their car recently!
Nate shared his fantastic illustration of a Greater Spot-Nosed Monkey skull!
Hebrew Wright designed this keen vinyl for his truck!
Kitty found this fun illustration by Felix Scheinberger on Wiki Commons!
Tina Carson gave her husband one of my cards for Valentine's Day! According to her, "He totally didn't expect the skull on the inside, but laughed his ass off when he opened it."
Mindy shared this awesome cardigan by Ryan Marnell! You can even get the pattern HERE.
R.E. Wolf created these amazing illustrations!
Gary sent his fabulous "Crappy Valentine's Day" card!
My friend Bridget pointed out this lovely handmade sign by John/Funky Folk Art on Flickr!
Phoebe shared a bunch of great pics including ones taken in her art workshop, and of a cake she made!
Chuck spotted this Damien Hirst t-shirt for sale at the Gagosian Gallery in NYC!
My friend Phil made this fantastic bullet skull at his job at Pamplin Historical Park!
Mo shared an awesome illustration that her brother, Scott Guion, created for his band Pitts vs. Preps!
AND
My friend April sent me this incredibly appropriate clipping from a catalog she found!...
AND
Recycling Artist Emily Kircher kindly gave me one of her wonderful ornaments when she sent the buttons for me to use...
Thanks again everyone!
--
To submit your own skull art, visit the submission page HERE.
Arranged Assorted Items (Approx. 3ft x 10ft). Thanks to my friend Mimi for letting me invade her awesome store Exile (where I was once employed) and helping me create this out of a small fraction of the funky and fun stuff contained within.
Here's another view...
And if you don't know what a tchotchke is, you can find out HERE.
Skull-A-Day featured in The New York Times article "Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal" on March 30, 2008. Check out article onilne here!New York Times
300 Arranged U.S. One Dollar Bills ( 29in x 42in [74cm x 107cm]). I can only imagine what the teller at the bank thought when I asked for 300 singles. Only 65 to go!
UPDATE: 10 of these bills were entered into the Where's George website and sent to my friend Phil. You can track them using their serial numbers: A71952100D, F79130190D, E93308768A, E65039934H, E06270752I, A61182676D, A26198175B, L84053716M, E21114490A, E22823252A
Arranged Lincoln Logs (12in x 7in x 6in [30.5cm x 18cm x 15cm]). This was one of my favorite childhood toys, and my mom actually saved my set in the garage since I was a kid. Do kids still play with them? Do folks outside of the US know what these are?
Hot Sauce Illustration (5.5in x 11in [14cm x 28cm]). Thanks to my friend Betsy/Betty for suggesting this material! I'm guessing Tatman will know the reference in the title, anyone else?
Arranged Shark Teeth (10in x 13in [25cm x 33cm]). A big thanks to John Latell for mailing me his collection of teeth to play with!
If you have a collection of objects that you think could make a nice skull (and are willing to mail them to me) please send me an e-mail (address is to the right).
Crumpled and Torn Inverted Airsickness Bag (7.5in x 7.5in [19cm x 19cm]). I made this on my flight home from NYC tonight. Luckily I didn't need to actually use it!
Sculpted Found Pillow Stuffing. I ran into a giant pillow fight in Union Square today (really!) there was fluff floating in the air and piles of it on the ground. I left this one for others to discover. Here's a glimpse of the pillow fighting action...
I spotted this particularly skull-y blob of paint and gum on the platform of the West 4th St. subway station in NYC today. Here's sort of how I see it in my head, in ballpoint ink on cardboard...
Marker on Paint Can. Thanks to my friend Darren for letting me play in the back hallway of the performance space in NYC where he works. I left this for the paint crew and others to discover.
Ink on Paper (7.5in x 10.5in [19cm x 27cm]). This is one continuous line (see if you can spot the beginning and ending points). I've been doodling like this since I was in high school, but I've never tried to actually make any specific images with it before .
P.S. I'm heading out of town tonight through Sunday night. As usual, I will do my best to post the skulls I make while I'm away on the day they're done. But, rest assured, even if they don't get posted until after I've returned, I'm still making them every day!
Finger Painted Cold Cream (9.5in x 12in [24 x 30.5cm]). The image is actually disappearing as the cold cream dries.
Arranged Buttons (15in x 22in [38cm x 56cm]). Supersized thanks to "Recycling Artist" Emily Kircher,who not only suggested this one on the Skull-A-Day Facebook forum, but kindly mailed the buttons to me as well! She's will of course be getting some Skull-A-Day treats in appreciation of her help.
Fabric Woven Through Chain Link Fence (approx 4ft x 4ft [1.2m x 1.2m]). This is a side street off a major thoroughfare so only dozen cars or so passed by while this was being made, and no one stopped or asked what was going on. A massive thanks to my friend Betsy for suggesting this one and helping with its creation (including getting permission from the police to make this, since it is at the site of a future precinct)! Here's a detail view...
Tons o' submissions from tons o' people (received 2/1 - 2/7)
Cassaro shared Rip Slyme's awesome video "Speed King"! [Thanks for the correction Amber!]
Lana pointed out this rad skull-like leaf!
Deborah sent this fun unintentionally skull-y sketch as well as this skull she made out of ginger roots!
Moose found this wacky propeller beanie!
Alan saw these beautiful dolls in a store window in San Francisco!
WerwolfBlutfuss shared this nifty illustration he did in MS Paint, as well as this cool shot of his desk!
Vince Falconi stepped outside his house one morning and spotted this creepy plastic bag!
Nena Nguyen from Canada made this sweet skull bandanna!
Adam & Jen McClanahan got appropriately decked out for a Halloween shindig!
Alex from Brooklyn, NY spotted something mighty skull-like on the bottom of his phone!
(83) found this cool album cover/logo for the Japanese all-girl ska group Oreskaband!
Suzanne from Orting, Washington saw this spiffy Grow Skull in a toy store in Sumner, WA!
Mogy (peeking in on the right of the image) from Brisbane, Australia shared more of his great airbrush work! This piece, inspired by the art for Evil Dead 2, is called "Lady Luck"
Brainbug shared this spooky screenshot from the 1974 film, The House on Skull Mountain!
Brad from Ohio reminded us of the "ultimate skull machine"!
Patricia sent this lovely photo she took along with this quote...
"We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble."
- Kahlil Gibran
Eliot Phillips from hackaday.com showed off the logo for his blog which features a different hardware hack every day!
Zaz from Paris, France knitted this lovely sweater in bonbon pink!
Willie was inspired by Skull-A-Day to creaet his own daily blog: Year of Beer!
Christiane suggested some great ideas for future skulls including topiary, twisted balloons, finding a constellation in the stars, a group of people lying down in 2D or 3D-skull-form, mowing a lawn into a skull shape or making a skull crop circle, ice skating around a skull shape, a skull igloo, and a skull spider web!
Sara did a great job using my Stylized Stencil Skull as a pattern to hand print this bag with a dye she made from grape juice! Directions for making the dye can be found on her blog!
Anthonyturducken shared his pix of these amazing costumes worn by the Skeleton Krewe during Mardi Gras in New Orleans!
Thanks again everyone!
--
To submit your own skull art, visit the submission page HERE.
Hand Cut Tissue Paper Over Papier-Mâché (8in x 12in x 9in [20cm x 30cm x 23cm]). It took just around 8 hours to make this one, so I don't think I'll be letting any kids smash it open for a while. Muchos thanks to my friend Tere for teaching me her mother's technique for piñata making and helping with this one!
Oil Paint on Panel, Wet (6in x 6in [15.24cm x 15.24cm]). I haven't done an oil painting since I was a kid. I can see why so many people like to do a painting a day, it was incredibly satisfying! I think I may have to do more before the year is up.
Draped Glue Infused Fabric (2ft [61cm] tall). Thanks to my friend Shelia for all her help on this! This is definitely one that's more powerful in person. It's hard to tell here that there's actually nothing underneath. When I make another one it will be with a much more sheer fabric.
2,099 Arranged Cotton Swabs (26in x 21in [66cm x 53cm]). I had an uncontrollable urge to use one of the swabs in my ears while I was making this, thus the odd number. Thanks to my friend Mimi for suggesting this material!
Digital Illustration. Inspired by classic automotive art of pinstriping. I don't have a very steady hand and I've never tried this technique before, so I'll leave a real version of this to the experts...
Sculpted Kneaded Eraser (1.75in x 1.25in x 1.75in [4.4cm x 3.2cm x 4.4cm]). If you're not familiar with kneaded erasers go here.
Bunches of submissions from bunches of folks (received 1/21 - 1/31)
Javier Munian from Salamanca, Spain was inspired by my United Skull of America to make this spiffy world skull!
Ian shared this great piece by Scuzzo!
Peter pointed out these cool skull speakers!
Vincent Bresson from Paris found this nifty t-shirt at Celio.
Dark Vision Studio in Detroit, Michigan shared their awesome work! All images were created inside their studio using "strategic video projection" with no digital manipulation. To see these images, which contain artistic nudity (and are thus NSFW) go HERE and HERE and HERE.
Moose found this rad hoodie...
...as well as these creepy squirting candies!
Dimitar sent this photo of these keen embellished pants!
Lana let us know about the fantastic Capucin Crypt in Rome!
...as well as Dan Hillier's Trinity Skull!
Sam Chan from LLazy Bonez Design showed off this beautiful silver skull ring he made, named appropriately "Comedy and Tragedy"!
Ghost Bucc shared this eerie image of a skull simulacra. (Source sadly unknown.)
David sent a link to a cool skull swizzle stick at Barney's but it's gone now. [FYI: This is why I ask that you attach an image when you send submissions!]
Mark from Portage, Michigan did a fabulous job making a skorange at the request of his 5 year old son!
Rebecca pointed out this awesome nursery which was inspired by a piece of Etsuko Furuya fabric!
Norbert Jung from Germany showed off his awesome pencil drawing, based on Albrecht Durer's woodcuts!
Daffdaff was the first person to point out the mysterious "doughy substance" that was found clogging the sewer pipe in front of Sam's Pizza, under Main Street in the city of Lewiston, Maine as shown on SunJournal.com! (Thanks also to Frank, Geof P., and Arwen for letting me know about it as well!)
Rogerio Caetano spotted these beautiful paper mache skulls from Venice Beach, Los Angeles on BoingBoing! (Thanks also to Arbyn for letting me know about this as well!)
Mim found this fun art at the Body and Soul Tattoo shop in Los Angeles, California!
Maria S. made this super cool version of the Misfits' Crimson Ghost. In her words, "I was having a lazy Sunday. Not just A lazy Sunday, but rather, the MOTHER of ALL lazy Sundays. I was feeling a little down and missing my partner Matt who lives in a different city - Montreal, to be precise - a little more than usual. So to perk up my spirits, I decided to get creative and produce a little gift for him. I selected a dish from the cupboard, broke out the ketchup and mustard and "drew" the Crimson Ghost, because Matt is a hardcore fan of the Misfits. Thus, I sent him this picture in the hope to make him smile, as much as making this "skull" made me smile."
Paul van Buuren shared this video of his "house skull, Johannes"!
Roger shot this wicked custom motorcycle at the Star (Yamaha) display!
Anji took this nifty pic of a giant sloth skeleton at the Natural History Museum in New York City...
...and shared a few more of her great illustrations!
Mica spotted this nice graffiti in New York City!
Arbyn pointed out the skull of Chief Mkwawa on Wikipedia.
Randy Rogers designed this excellent iPhone wallpaper! [Be sure to click the image to get a full-sized version]
.D3vin-G. made this lovely image in Photoshop!
designstation sent this keen hand drawn pattern!
Nate showed off his amazing ink illustration based on the human skull he got for Christmas...
...as well as some other of his wonderful works!
Icon O'classt shared the fantastic work of Derek Hess!
Ken Cox, of Newark, Delaware made this incredible bicycle headbadge! In his words, "The vinyl logo that adorned my black Misfit Psycles single speed mountain bike just didn't cut it, so I recreated their flaming skull logo using cuttlebone cast pewter. By carving out the shell of a cuttlefish (commonly available for pet birds to peck on), you create a mold to pour molten pewter into. The 'grain' is the natural pattern of the cuttlebone." Photos of the mold and more of the headbadge are HERE.
b13 shared this nice graphic from Alexisonfire's new CD Crisis!
Skye sent a fascinating image of an ultrasound she had before Halloween!
Oddly enough my good friend Ashley also sent a skully ultrasound (mere hours after I got Skye's!)
AND
Teratohmy let me know about the song "Memento Mori" by the group Matmos. The track, which appears on the 2001 album "A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure" is composed entirely from samples of sounds made with human skull, goat spine and connective tissue, and artificial teeth! A huge thanks to Drew Daniels of the group who gave kind permission to post a snippet of the 15 minute song here (this is the first few minutes of the song, be sure to listen all the way through, and of course please consider buying their albums if you enjoy!):
Right-Click or Option Click to download:
"Memento Mori [EDIT]" mp3
Chalk Powder on Dirt (15ft x 6ft [4.6m x 1.8m]). A big thanks to my friend Bebhinn, who gave me access to this strip of land near her house and helped with the making of this! Here's a detail view...
Arranged Cut Flowers (7ft x 8.5ft [2.13m x 2.6m]). A jumbo thanks to my friend Shelia who got me these discarded flowers from a friend at a local wholesale florist. This was shot at the end of her street and I stood on the top of her panel truck to get this image. Here's a shot from the ground...
For a sense of scale here's Shelia measuring it for me...
And here are a couple of the neighborhood kids helping to dismantle the skull, by making arrangements for their grandmother...
Arranged Forks, Knives, and Spoons (20in x 29in [51cm x 74cm]). Thanks to Philip for giving me the forks and spoons and thanks to the thrift store for having cheap knives!
Arranged "Circus Peanut" Candies (18in x 26in [46cm x 66cm]). The recent series of brilliant Circus Peanut themed posts by Terry at Bent Objects inspired today's skull. Here's a detail shot if you're not familiar with this banana flavored confection:
Arranged Lite-Brite Pegs (10in x 5 in [25.5cm x 13cm]). This is actually my sister's Lite-Brite set from the 70's that my parents still had in their house. I ran out of pegs while making this and had to buy some extras, turns out the new ones are slightly different colors and also larger, so I had to sand down the last 100+ pegs with the Dremel tool to get them to fit the peg board! Of course I couldn't resist looking up the commercial that I remember so well from childhood...
Arranged Aluminum Pieces (15in x 19in [38cm x 48cm]). These are the scrap pieces of metal that were produced in the process of making the Vase Skull. And yes I cut myself making this, but only once!
Cut Copper and Glass (7in x 8in [18cm x 20cm]). My friend Carrie kindly invited me to work in her studio tonight and gave me access to her fused glass materials. This piece will be fired later this week, and I'll post a picture when it's done.
UPDATE: You can find the after picture HERE
Thanks to the awesome programming work of Mark Conahan (once again!) the Skullphabet #2 that I designed has been turned into a functional font! Download your FREE copy below (option-click for Mac* or right-click for PC and select Download or Save As):
Skullphabet #2 TrueType (Zip compressed)
Skullphabet #2 OpenType (Zip compressed)
NOTE: This font looks best in a light color on a dark background.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
*If you're having problems with Safari try using Firefox, it's free!
**And you can still download Skullphabet #1 HERE.
Lathe Turned Aluminum (3in x 4in x 3in [7.6cm x 10cm x 7.6cm]). A huge thanks goes to Philip who was invaluable in the fabrication of this item and spent 10 hours of his day helping me. If you don't see the skulls go HERE for a hint. And here's another view as well (look on the right side)...
If you still don't see skulls, you can get a bigger hint HERE.
Carved Swiss Cheese (4in x 4.5in x 5in [10cm x 11.5cm x 13cm]). I was incredibly lucky with this one since I had only one block of cheese and no idea where the holes would be inside when I started carving. Incredibly they turned up in one of the eyes and behind the nose! Here's another view:
I made this extra egg last night while trying out various techniques. Since I am scrupulously honest about making a skull every day I can't use this as today's skull, so consider it a gift...
Posts
All Comments
