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Anna Kipervaser is a Chicago based artist.

Following her recent trip to the middle east she created smart and beautiful bird portraits.

This is her Negev Chaffinch

link to Red Cake gallery which sells her work (via MoCo Loco)

Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 and now lives and works in London and Berlin.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, her work moved increasingly towards large-scale installations. In her singular sculptures, Hatoum has transformed familiar, every-day, domestic objects into things foreign, threatening and dangerous.

via Le Zebre Bleu

Artist Jennifer Marsh covered an old gas station in 5,000 square feet of fabric.

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Belgian artist Wim Delvoye

Via Wooster Collective

Oliver Bishop Young says dumpsters have a lot of potential to change how we interact with waste. He says salvaging material from dumpsters is already an unofficial art.

earlier this month he presented in London two projects dealing with dumpsters.

in the first one he proposed people exchange information about the content of their dumpsters so others could salvage items they need from them.

in the second project he converted empty dumpsters into public spaces such as skate parks, swimming pools and gardens.

via de zeen

this reminds me of a story I read as a child about an aligator who is mean to his friends and they all desert him and he goes off to live in the garbage disposal room. he converted it to a lovely home. i think it was by richard scarry, but i’m probably wrong, because i can’t find any refference to it.

Hiroshi san Kariya is a london based illustrator born in japan.

via it’s nice that

Mouse Reading Newspaper, originally uploaded by peacay.

bespectacled mouse illustration by Beatrix Potter (1890).
apparently she loved drawing mice reading newspapers.
via Bibliodyssey

27 year old Israeli graphic design student, Maayan Froind, submited as a final project in Shenkar school a survival guide for the war.

Here is “how to stay fit when you’re in captivity”:

link to project via yediot tel-aviv

look! Robert Bradford made a terrier out of clothes pegs.

He makes sculptures out of used toys and he’s even made a 6 meter high big ben out of coca cola cans.