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Created by Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa, the juice box’s packaging is supposed to be more appealing to the eye by imitating the actual fruit they contain.
TdoubleB note: Yeah…the fur on the kiwi one would be off-putting for me. Still, I like this concept.
Evolution of Heart Shaped Box.
I was at work and couldn’t think of anything to draw, so I played The Usual Suspects and sketched something based on an valentine heart on the bulletin board. Now it’s a painting.
I called it “Valentine Candy” while working on it, but I think “Heart Shaped Box” is funnier if you know the slang.
So, they day I start my Art 365 project, the weather traps me at work in a room saturated with the voices of football analysts praising Michael Vick and a bunch of scary people who, based on living their lives in fear rather than hope, are clearly pro-religion rather than religious. So I entered my internal world of head bees and looked out the window.
Thus piece number 1 of 365, “Freezing Rain”:
Or, “View from Breakroom Window at Day Job While Trapped There During Blizzard”. I bought a stack of blank index cards and a pack of hideous glitter gel pens and ended up with this. The alternative was watching TV. Um, yuck.
The earth mother goddess Gaia bathes in a pool of stars. This piece came straight from a dream I had in early October a night or two before I found out I was pregnant. I have often had dreams where I’m swimming in a pool of stars and looking up at the earth, but this is the first time anyone else showed up. I deliberately chose not to show her face, partly because it shouldn’t matter and partly because I didn’t actually see it. But she was bald and had skin the color of rich, dark earth like a freshly tilled garden, and she was humming to herself in a shifting five note scale pattern that reminded me of change ringing.
“Sweetest Tongue Has Sharpest Tooth”
Little girls, this seems to say, never stop upon your way,
Never trust a stranger-friend; no one knows how it will end.
As you’re pretty so be wise; wolves may lurk in every guise.
Handsome they may be, and kind, gay, and charming, never mind!
Now, as then, ‘tis simple truth, sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth!
Charles Perrault (1697)
Based on the erotic nature of the original stories, a werewolf attempts to seduce a girl who has strayed from the path in the woods. Original painting.
Little did The Penguin know that his scheme to attract the Dynamic Duo was doomed to failure from the very start.
Yeah. Posting the NSFW version on Tumblr to see what happens. I have nearly zero experience with Tumblr, but the TOS just says no obscene videos. Anyway, it’s just like the Statue of David. From behind. After he worked out, shaved his head and got cybernetic implants that let him create fire balls and started posing in an uncomfortable contrapposto S-curve.
Yep. It’s just like that, it is.
