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by David J. Nightingale

by David J. Nightingale

by Travis Ruse

By David J. Nightingale

by: David J. Nightingale

What better way to compliment a diamond covered Mercedes SL than with a crystal covered model. Part erotic performance art, part marketing scheme, eBay super-seller Marion von Kuczkowski has developed a rather unique campaign — cover a model with one million Svarowski crystals and then sell them off for one euro each, slowly exposing the body of the crystal encased model, Chantal.

One million Swarovski crystals were needed in all to cover our breath-taking model with these sparkling little stones, thus creating an erotic overall-artwork.

With each purchased stone you uncover the artwork a little bit more and you help to overcome frontiers and make the earth sparkle! No matter whether Berlin, Tokyo, New York, Cape Town or Sydney - each purchaser will be sent his stone!

von Kuczkowski plans on auctioning off the last few crystals to the highest bidder for charity, with the winner of the final crystal to receive their prize hand delivered by Chantal herself.

Visit: Million Crystal Body

by Nick Campbell

Museums are ushering in a new age of technology, slowly replacing those old audio tours with much more flexible, portable, and, more importantly, accessible podcasts.

In the spring of 2005, when a professor and a group of students at Marymount Manhattan College made waves by creating their own, unauthorized MP3 audio tour for the Museum of Modern Art, few art institutions were even exploring the idea of podcasting as an alternative to official audio tours, created by companies like Acoustiguide and Antenna Audio.

But in the short time since then, museum podcasts — both do-it-yourself versions and those created by museums themselves — have taken off, changing the look and feel of audio tours at places ranging from the venerable, like the Met and the Victoria and Albert, to the virtually unknown, like the Studebaker National Museum in South Bend, Ind., and the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia near San Francisco.

The podcasts are making countless hours of recorded information — like curators’ comments, interviews with artists and scholars, and even interviews with the subjects of some artwork — widely available to people who have never visited, and may never visit, the museums that are making the recordings. If, for example, you do not manage to make it to the Met to see Kara Walker’s show “After the Deluge,” you can still hear her talk about it while sitting on the subway or walking down the street.

How the iPod changed the music world art world world … let us count the ways.

[via NY Times]

Austrian Expressionist painter Egon Schiele is best known for his haunting paintings of solitary figures. His models often looked bored, uncomfortable, somewhat hollow-eyed and tended to be bony thin. I think if he were around today, he would chose Nicole Richie as one of his subjects. Medium: Charcoal, pastel and acrylic on paper stained with chai tea.

by Gallery of the Absurd

by Nick Campbell