The Mattress Factory Museum located in Pittsburg is a fun and inspirational web destination. Shows routinely feature fine art with a graphic design sensibility and awareness of information hierarchy. Check out their latest exhibitions here.
If you don’t have eccentric glasses, full tattoo sleeves or a lip piercing, you can now up your creative cred with a hand crafted skull ring. Thanks etsy.com! Ok, seriously, there is some great, custom jewelry on this site and you won’t be sorry you staggered in. (And no, I’m not getting kickbacks, I just like the stuff.)
Creepy. Someone should let Mr. “Whack of the Day” know that monks are not scenery.
The world isn’t terribly generous to creatives. How do we work on our work? What keeps creatives from giving up, deciding that our best work is behind us and “drinking gin at nine in the morning?” Gilbert makes the case that having a genius is a more generous assessment than being a genius. Check it out here.
Moses and the Tablets
Are you biblically illiterate? Do you love legos? Brick Testament is the Bible for you. According to the website, “The Brick Testament is the largest, most comprehensive illustrated Bible in the world with over 3,600 illustrations that retell more than 400 stories from The Bible. Launched first as a website in 2001, then as a published book series in 2003, The Brick Testament project is an ongoing one-man labor of love, constructed and photographed entirely by The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith” It is definately worth checking out, even if you are a raving Atheist.