Boss Tweed epitomizes the greed and graft in New York City.
William M. Tweed also created one of the most beautiful buildings in Manhattan, right behind City Hall. After paying-off the construction workers who were his friends, the original New York City Courthouse was built at a cost of ten times the standard market rates for construction in the 1860s. The "Tweed Courthouse" is now used by the Board of Education.
Here is a collection of Dragon bust 3d sketches using Zbrush done by Damir, a Croation 3D artist. 55 designs in less then 28 days using Z-brush, 3ds Max and Photoshop.
PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by Frank Warren, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. [Then they publish a book.]
"To descend those steps is to visit the birthplace of tattooing in Denmark.
“This is where it all started,” said photographer and author Jon Nordstrøm when The Copenhagen Post met him outside of Nyhavn 17, home to Tattoo-Ole, the oldest functioning tattoo shop in the world.
Photographer Jon Nordstrøm covers over 100 years of history in his photo book ‘Danish Tattooing’
Nordstrøm began researching the history of tattooing in Copenhagen a few years ago, collecting enough photographs, anecdotes and historical artefacts to put together the 300-page photo book ‘Dansk Tatovering/Danish Tattooing’, which he released in 2009."
Just received my FREE CAL SCHENKEL ART - and it is most excellent! Resplendent with Victorian type diagram illustrations that are my favorite kind of artwerk that he did for all those great Frank Zappa album covers. Every one is different. The offer is still there on his webpage - get yours 2 DAY.