Kumi Yamashita

This Japanese artist works with the shadows cast by small, nondescript objects positioned in a particular, but ambiguous, manner.

"I like looking at the light in the afternoon and watching shadows move. It reminds me that everything is always changing. I like thing that do not have concrete form, like clouds, water, shadows, and the kindness of people." -- Kumi Yamashita

Along with these shadow works, she created in 1993 close-up portraits using a pixel effect. She created these images with rubbings of the subject's credit cards.

J.T. Yost: Peculiar Pet Portraits

Brooklyn-based J.T. Yost has a unique, cartoonish painterly style that is best captured in his Peculiar Pet Portraits. He started in Georgia but eventually made his way to NYC. These paintings are watercolor, but he also works in oil and silkscreen.

He also has created a children's character, Edward the Friendly Beast, who stars in a short series about a young boy with a hearing impediment.

Another favorite is one of his logos/advertisements: Direct from Hollywood Cemetery. It is reminiscent of Tim Burton's eerie stripes and characters.

Joshua Allen Harris

Joshua Allen Harris saw potential in the NYC subway-induced gust of wind that skirt-wearers and newspaper-readers see as mere annoyance. (Has everyone met Mr. W?) Buzz on the internet suggests that he uses only trash bags and tape to create his street monsters. He's made his way through a number of blogs, including Kanye's. Who knew?

I couldn't upload the video of his work, but here's the YouTube Link.

And you spent all those years recycling them

Junior Fritz Jacquet creates art out of toilet paper rolls. As an artist he is infatuated with paper as a medium. You can find his website here. It's in French, but at least you can see his paper sculptures.

Book Autopsies

Brian Dettmer creates art in books by cutting away layers of pages to reveal an image inside or to create an image out of text. Dettmer's early work focused on coded languages, like Braille or Morse. He has since focused on a Victorian interpretation of the relationship between his three dimensional art and surgery. Surgery during the Victorian era was crude at best (see Victorian-age surgery tools for proof). Many if not all of the books he works with contain plate illustrations, typically in black and white. The use of plate illustrations creates an old-time sense, an unexpected discovery. Dettmer does not move any existing illustrations; his work involves solely cutting away of pages. He first introduced his book autopsies in 2000, and has quickly earned popularity on the web.

Picasso Light Art

Who knew Picasso experimented making images with photographs and light?

Find them here

http://graffart.eu/blog/2009/06/picasso-light-graffiti/

Dr. Seuss

I like nonsense,
it wakes up the brain cells.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,
It’s a way of looking at life
through the wrong end of a telescope.
Which is what I do,
And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
Dr. Seuss