News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere: April 22, 2010

TeenAngster

Story by TeenAngster

Published on Apr 22, 2010 in Read

Photo by RogueRetro

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“Jake’s hair smelled like iced tea with honey in it, after all the ice has melted.” — Kelly Link

This week’s edition of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere has battles played out against the night sky, braided headdresses, cakes with bite, pop culture cats and subtext mixed with social commentary.

Read on!

 

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Studio Marisol’s decadent braided head pieces fill me with swoon. Oh, if I only could have existed at a time when elaborate powdered wigs were de rigeur. [Via All the Mountains]

 

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There’s a reason that we project human attributes such as “anger,” “wrath,” and “fury” to nature’s mysterious phenomena. These photos aren’t of the Hindenburg explosion or an atomic bomb, but the epic Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökullf that is currently spewing lightening, ash and chemical reactions into the stratosphere. The Earth can be terrifying in its intensity, but it’s still pretty awe-inspiring. [Via Marieaunet]

 

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As a cat-obsessed lady, I’m always looking for feline memes to “enh!” over. Gatopoder marries my love of all things kitty with vintage photos, random pop culture trivia (who knew the O’Reilly blogging manual had cats so prominently featured?) and general cuteness. I’m sold. [Via AM on the Present Tense]

 

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Gird your loins, for these pastries are deadly. Scott Hove’s “Cakeland” series has, as the artist states, “all of the appeal of the best cake you have ever tasted, but can never be eaten… Cakeland requires that it be equipped with its own defense, because the reality of beauty and perfection is that people want to possess it.” With desserts this tempting (and foreboding), how can you not want to quickly cannibalize their surfaces and taste the flavors within? Sadly, these ferocious frosted objects are not actually edible. [Via Beautiful Decay]

 

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Talk about subtext! Artist Mary Sibande explores the intersections of race, gender, power and sexuality in her native South Africa with her many-layered sculptures. She actually “cast her own body in fibreglass and silicone to create ‘Sophie,’ the woman shown above. She then painted her a ‘flat black,’ so that she stands out like a dark and static shadow… Sophie’s eyes are always closed as if in a ‘constant ecstasy of fantasy’ and it’s in her mind that her dress becomes a thing of voluminous Victorian splendour. ‘If she opened her eyes, it would be back to work – cleaning this, dusting that. Her dress would become an ordinary maid’s uniform,’ said Mary.” [Via mdashing]

Wanna give me some more artsy, style or design blogs to peruse? Leave them in the comments! And check out past installments of News From the Craft + Style Blogosphere!

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