Nick Baumann

Keys N Krates - Treat Me Right (by Ohji), via the Washington Monthly (!)

Awesome icons of the Female Saints of Television, by Spencer Salberg. Prints are available here.

(via khaleesi)

Art restoration FAIL.

Life imitates art* at the Royal Wedding.

via Twitter.

*Worth noting that someone switched a bunch of the colors. So I guess it’s art-imitates-life-imitating-art. But still.

Someone really needs to make a science fiction movie that features these Tito-era sculptures from Yugoslavia.

(Crack Two via Annie Lowrey.)

Maurice Sendak’s “The Hobbit,” in pen and ink, 1967, via the LA Times’ Hero Complex blog. (Credit: Maurice Sendak/Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University.)

(Source: latimesherocomplex.files.wordpress.com)

“Kids are interesting and they constantly surprise me. Half of the time I want to cry and/or melt simultaneously because they’re so fucking adorable. The other half of the time I want to pull my hair out because they’re being little assholes. The third half of the time (yes, there are three halves) I am completely speechless for they have blown my mind.

Half three happened today. As I was frantically trying to help two-dozen kids with their homework, I stumbled upon this artwork. It was lying, abandoned, on the ‘art table.’ I immediately stopped what I was doing, held it up, and asked: ‘Who created this masterpiece?!’ I then walked over to the little girl who claimed to be the artist, told her it was awesome, and gave her a high-five.

Kids feel so intensely, and they have no qualms about expressing those feelings right then and there (see: tantrums). In that way, I am beginning to learn that children’s art is perhaps the most authentic art: it’s in the moment, uninhibited, and free of cynicism. It places no value on the art or history that preceded its very creation. Take the above work: it made me both sublimely happy and sublimely sad. What more could you ask of any work of art?”

— Sarah Baumann (Read Her!)