While today's artists are working with all sorts of mediums like plaster or charcoal or dirty diapers or whatever, nothing speaks to the soul quite like the classic MS Paint. Here it is in its time-lapsed glory.
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This dad is the definition of toxic. He reaches out to the babysitter that he has yet to pay, after they watched over his four kids, and asks for a free painting. Upon rejection for the free item, he proceeds to refuse to pay the babysitter for their services. Completely absurd. The bad vibe is all with this guy.
The Getty Museum challenged the people of twitter to recreate famous art pieces with things lying around their house. Of course, people were bored and creative enough to do it. For a weirder time people were asked to do art, here's the time people were asked to draw a duck, and they responded.
Alright, this is downright, straight up, all around impressive. And the final result was good enough that you could tell the trees were pretty happy. Tumblr users are a creative bunch, doing stuff like writing an alien invasion story where the aliens are fought off by wildlife or expounding on wacky historical facts. Seriously, following along with MS Paint is brilliant and highly commendable.
Via Super Have Fun
The way it all comes together is just a feast for all the senses. Except maybe taste I guess. But still, the way this syncs up so good is just darn satisfying.
Writing your nickname on a train car is one thing but turning an electrical box into a self portrait is some cool and unexpected artwork. Here are interesting uses of urban environments that were transformed through clever and interesting painting. For more of these, check out these pieces of cool graffiti that reinvented urban environments.
It started with a post about all the strange and dumb ways people create facebook events to make fun of a peculiar art installation in Chicago casually referred to as "The Bean." It ended with a tale of millionaires, artist drama, backstabbing, and the fight over the least reflective substance in the world.
Whoever appraised it as print should be fired for either lying or being terrible at their job.
Writer @KeatonPatti has given birth to these bizarre and hilarious re-captions of items found on Antiques Roadshow. He's also the mind behind numerous fake Bot-written scripts like this hilarious Olive Garden Commercial. Anyway, here are some bonkers-ass antiques.
Via msbreeezyyy
There's speculation on the internet that these legs have been oiled up to create this super shiny look for the picture. But... maybe not? There's some debate about that. Consider this:
via @jamesrbuk, @pezsez, @annekamccarthy
Now look again. Paint? or Oil?
