This is a video of a married couple showing the results of attempting to paint each other’s portrait. The woman did a fair enough job of capturing her husband’s likeness, but his looks like somebody tried painting a yeti they saw while tripping on mushrooms. I imagine if I’d attempted
These are a couple videos of a raven named Odin (of course) at the Tropical Butterfly House in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, producing abstract paintings, using her beak to pick up and use a brush. Admittedly, I wouldn’t mind having an Odin original hanging in my home. “That was painted
Because innovation is everywhere, this is a video of artist Bond Truluv using a spray paint can he modded to spray five parallel lines simultaneously. The resulting piece he creates is neat looking, although I can’t say with confidence I’d want it on the side of my home. Want to
This is a video of builder John Malecki upcycling an old ping pong table with a custom swinging pendulum paint job, which he then tops with a coat of clear epoxy. The finished product is stunning, and I would happily backspin some balls across that thing. Or play beer pong.
This is a video of realtor Sam Cooper (who’s allegedly “sold thousands of homes” in his lifetime, presumably in 50 and 100 packs) giving a brief tour of a home’s entryway and the grand handpainted mural present there, informing the viewer he’s hired a contractor to paint over the whole
This is ‘Dreaming’, a stop motion video created by artist DariusTwin (previously: this amazing video) using a series of long-exposure light painting photographs with no editing afterwards. Just watching it I felt like I was dreaming! A pleasant dream too, not my usual nightmare of getting chased and all my
This is ‘Bob Ross and his crazy AI painting’, a video created by Miha Mastnak with the help of artificial intelligence that imagines a series of canvases on Bob’s easel that gradually follow a river upstream. The future: it’s terrifying. I mean the past is pretty terrifying too, and the
New York City 1, a 1942 piece by famed abstract artist Piet Mondrian, was unknowingly hung upside down (left) at its initial public display in 1945 (Mondrian died in 1944), and has been rehung the same way ever since. Well that’s embarrassing. Get it together, art nerds, those art history