Braincase XXXIII

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!

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To submit your own skull art, visit the submission page HERE.

301. Tchotchke Skull

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 Press: The New York Times

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
March 30, 2008

300. Three Hundred Dollar Skull

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

299. Jumbo Glitter Skull

Arranged Glitter (28in x 10in [71cm x 25cm]).

298. Lincoln's Skull

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?

297. (Hot, Hot, Hotter Than) Hot Sauce Skull

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?

296. Connect The Skull (La, La, La, La, La)

Connect The Dots Illustration. Download a PDF to do this one yourself HERE. (Or if you're impatient, you can see the resulting image here.) Extra points for knowing what the "La"s in the title refer to. Thanks to my friend Nathan for suggesting I do this one tonight!

295. Shark Tooth Skull (This Time...It's Personal!)

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).

294. Airsickness Skull

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!

293. NYC Fluff Skull

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...

292. Found Skull #5: Subway Glob

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...

291. Paint Can Skull

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.

290. Obsessive Compulsive Skull

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!

289. Cold Cream Skull A.K.A. Cold Skream

Finger Painted Cold Cream (9.5in x 12in [24 x 30.5cm]). The image is actually disappearing as the cold cream dries.

288. Button Skull

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.

287. Chain Link Skull

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...

Braincase XXXII

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!

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To submit your own skull art, visit the submission page HERE.

286. Piñata Skull

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!

285. Oil Paint Skull

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.

284. Floating Fabric Skull

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.

283. Swab The Skull!

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!

282. Pinstripe Skull

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...

281. Kneaded Eraskull

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.