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Before Presidents With Boob Faces, There Were Friends With Boob Faces. The Titillating Work of Emily Deutchman.

above: George Washington With Boob Cheeks

above: James Madison With Boob Eyes

Garnering some recent buzz is an oddly compelling project appearing on Tumblr called "Presidents With Boob Faces." A collection of watercolor paintings featuring... you guessed it, past U.S. Presidents with mammaries on their chin, cheeks and/or heads.

above: John Quincy Adams with Boob Head

above: James Monroe with Double Boob Chin

Enigmatically signed with only E. Deutchman and no 'about me' section, some sleuthing has revealed that the artist behind the project is Emily Renee Deutchman, the daughter of Hollywood producer and movie mogul Ira Deutchman.

above: Thomas Jefferson with Boob Chin

above: John Adams with Boob Jowls

Emily, who is a talented watercolorist and illustrator (see Emily Renee Art) and who studied art at Skidmore College, didn't begin by adding breasts to the faces of our Founding Fathers, but instead, began with some other artworks featuring tits as features.

above: Erik With Boob Cheeks

In her entertaining site Sketches of Things she has the following paintings and illustrations of her brother, friends - even a dog- with "Boob Faces," precursors to the project Presidents With Boob Faces.

above: Shit I Draw For My Brother's Birthday

above: BOOBS

In her own words, the following illustrations are presented as " These drawings are part of a sketchbook project I’m working on titled “My Friends With Boob Faces.”:

Emily Renee Art

ARTINFO has a brief interview with Emily about her bizarre project here

Presidents With Boob Faces

Portuguese Artist Dalila Gonçalves Melds Her Native Country's Tiles With Boulders

In Blankenberge Square, "Kneaded Memory" by Portugese artist Dalila Gonçalves is an outdoor sculpture garden of concrete-cast boulders partially covered with decorative Portugese "azulejos" tiles. The public art installation is running through September 2012 as part of Beaufort04.

Each patterned "stone" has been made so by the artist’s use of hand crafted tiles which typically adorn her home country’s vibrant façades while decorated in the style of Brussels’ Blankenberge region.

The use of tile, concrete and form suggest remains or parcels, and it is through this assemblage that the artist sought to cross local narrative (the tile's patterns are from Blankenberge) and the Portuguese traditional artisanal craft of tile-making.

To develop the outdoor installation, the artist and her team mapped the outer surface of the boulders (which were made from concrete, not naturally occurring)*. A grid was used to mark where each decorative component would be positioned. Then, each piece of vibrant earthenware was fitted onto the convex and concave formation of the rocks, adopting the surface of these objects.

The ceramic tiles were molded to sit perfectly on the irregular and round surfaces of these forms, melding the two and creating an installation which combines ancient Portuguese ceramic work with the notion of the increasing degradation, destruction and exclusion of the decorative element in architectural use.

*Designboom, an excellent site, was mistaken in that these rocks are not 'naturally occurring organic forms', but were created from cast concrete for this project.

Dalila Gonçalves: Kneaded Memory
Beaufort04, Blankenberge,
Belgium on until September 30th, 2012

images courtesy of Dalila Gonçalves, beaufort04, Designboom, and Diario Design

Dalila Gonçalves

750 Pairs Of Socks Make A Portrait Of Chinese Film Director Zhang Yimou.

When Artist/Architect Hong Yi, who goes by the nickname "Red", first moved to Shanghai she was fascinated by how many people still dried their clothes in the traditional manner of hanging them on bamboo poles in alleys, despite being in a sophisticated urban city.

This inspired her to create a portrait of famous Chinese film director Zhang Yimou in a similar manner, using 750 pairs of socks provided by HASSELL (shirts were too big and expensive). She found an interesting way to pin the socks together to hang them from the bamboo, creating diamond-shaped pieces of the "skin". As time passed during the day, the sun would cast shadows emphasizing different angles.

above: Chinese film director Zhang Yimou

She honored the director whose films include Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Curse of the Golden Flower (he was also the art director for the Beijing Olympics) because many of his movies reflect the beauty of the Chinese culture, through the use of bamboo and traditional costumes, making him an appropriate and worthy subject of her project.

The process:

The piece was surprisingly heavy to hang, friends assisted Red,

A time-lapse video of the project directed and shot by Jonathon Lim

Red creates several interesting portraits with unusual media such as coffee stains, books and teabags.

above: Red with her portrait of Jay Chou made of coffee cup stains

above: Red with her portrait of Mark Zuckerman make with booklets

Hong "Red" Yi

Modern Matchbox Coffee Table By Schulte Design Conceals Ethanol Fireplace.

Franz J. Schulte of Germany-based Schulte Design has designed a space saving and smart-looking coffee table available with or without a built-in ethanol fire burning kit.

The Matchbox coffee table makes great use of space with a sliding top cover that opens to reveal a storage space that as an option, can be fitted with their stainless steel ethanol burning fire kit, complete with slide-in glass for additional safety.

If you choose to forego the firekit, the table can come with an insert allowing for more tabletop room or storage space.

The streamlined modern design comes in eight types of wood veneers or a white painted version. The chunky legs are aluminum.

Size: 90 x 60 cm, 100 x 60 open 110 x 70 cm, Height: 30 cm

You can contact Schulte Design to find out where their dealers are or if they can ship to you directly.

The walnut version only, with firekit, is available from Ikarus Design here