Animal cruelty or art? This is repulsive, I'm no fan of tattoo's on humans let alone children and animals. They are slaughtered and then used to made leather items. Would you order a handbag like this?

Wim Delvoye, otherwise known as the ‘artist with the pigs,’ has attracted even more attention at this week’s opening of Frieze Art Fair in London. Not only does he love to tattoo himself, he also loves tattooing pigs. He has them stuffed and exhibited, too.

With tattoos that depict everything from guns, skulls, hearts, roses and Harley logos, these pigs and their skins have been under the needle for hours to be adorned like proper sailors. Some of them even look more tattooed than your average Hell’s Angels biker. 

 

It never occurred to me that I can make reuse socks until I saw this ingenuous way of  REUSING SOCKS to sew a monkey. Get ready for a goofy, sock monkey that could soon become a child favourite for years.

(via wikiHow)

Do you have other ideas on reusing socks? Find other Reuse ideas here.

 

 

This one goes out to all of you bibliophiles out there. Everyone can make a journal, but their book journals were by far the coolest I have seen.

Each journal is a one-of-a-kind creation made from an old vintage discarded book. It is gutted out and transformed into a unique journal which contains the essence of the old book by incorporating art, pictures, library cards, etc. into its pages. Some even had inscriptions from the past owners.

This just might be the perfect  gift of the season.

Via: bookjournals

If Scottish artist Georgia Russell needed another career she could choose to be a surgeon, for her work shows her great skill with sharp scalpels turning books, pictures, music sheets, maps and even currency into elaborate sculptures.

Her shredded art is typically placed in acrylic cases, but the most spectacular “specimens” are in bell jars. A couple of her designs look like lung specimens in a way.The fine strips she cuts out of the books and other paper objects are all artfully arranged and sometimes it is not obvious they were once books.
Source: englandgallery   Via: weburbanist