This is just amazing! A husband and wife (and a whole lot of others) took over Type bookstore in Toronto after dark. What do your books do when you leave them at night?

Chilean artist Fabian Gaete Maureira bangs out the landscapes with a few flicks of his wrist, and finishes up the painting with a few more.  Fast artist is fast.

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The Cure’s selection is “Friday I’m in Love,” and Dana’s created this artwork for the project. Submissions are due by Tuesday (January 10th), followed by public voting January 11-17 and the selection of 45 winners, whose designs will be printed and sold and who will get signed copies of their designs, on February 7th; five “people’s choice” winners from the popular vote will also get the signed copies and display on a website.

Wanna support Dana? The voting starts on the 11th, and you can click here to do that. And if you want to get involved in the designs for the other artists, you’ll find all the links here.

One thing Nerdist is concerned with is, of course, the process by which creative people create. In that vein, if you grew up with Where the Wild Things Are and/or In the Night Kitchen, you’ll want to hear Maurice Sendak discuss his career and work in a brief interview as part of the Tate Shots series. He’s delightfully blunt about things like why there’s no Wild Things 2, or the influence of William Blake (“I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about, but I love him”), and he talks about trying to reflect how children see things that others can’t see.

The Tate has a YouTube channel that has discussions with several artists, including a talk with Ray Harryhausen about his collection of John Martin engravings. It’s all worth watching if you’re seriously into modern art.

HT: The Mary Sue, io9

The entire list of included characters is at Luis’ deviantART page, as is a download version, 6601 x 2462 px; download that version and see if you can find them all. That would be one hell of a variant on “Where’s Waldo.” While you’re over there, check out his other work, including a tribute to The Legend of Zelda, Rammstein as Mii avatars, and various Nintendo character sketches.

HT: Kotaku

We like cool animation, don’t we? This one from Austria, Stuck in a Groove, directed by Clemens Kogler and featured by Future Shorts, is a demo for analog animation using turntables, and it’s mesmerizing. They say it was done live using two turntables, cameras, a video mixer, and prints on cardboard. The pop culture references come fast and furious, including nods to Nirvana, Madonna, Joy Division, the Sex Pistols, Bjork, and many, many others. Impressive.

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Seven months, 1,000 hours, and 6 x 11 feet of canvas used in the best way mankind knows how: This epic Thundercats oil painting by Robert Burden, titled Soldiers of Thundura, had me picking my jaw up off the floor. Check out Robert’s site for some of his past work, and your inner 80′s child won’t be disappointed.  Thundercats HOOOO!

Sorry, I had to.

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The show is debuting 30 paintings and 10 drawings, and you can buy prints. It opens tonight, Friday (11/18) with a reception 7-10 pm Pacific and runs through December 17th at iam8bit, 2147 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles. The reception is free but you need to RSVP on Facebook by clicking here. Get all the information you need by clicking here.

And now, for the art of chemistry: Graphic designer and illustrator Simon C. Page has created a series of posters that celebrate some of chemistry’s most important figures and their contributions, and they are just amazing. Each poster is a graphic representation of a particular discovery or achievement and the chemists behind them, from Einstein’s confirmation of the atomic theory of matter to Mendeleev’s creation of the periodic table of elements. Here’s a poster of graphene:

And our friend, the atom, and Ernest Rutherford’s work:

One more, on Avogadro and ions:

There are a lot more.  And, yes, you can buy these. They run $20 to $80 depending on size. Go here and see ‘em all.

For the second time, Dana’s gotten artists to reimagine the covers of their favorite albums in their own style. It’s called the “Thirty Three and a Third (point two) Art Show,” and it’s pretty awesome: 33 artists (and Dana’s daughter Emmalene, 5 years old and the “a third” in the title) have done their own versions of album covers, and you can see the results at cargocollective.com/thirtythreepointthree.

Among the covers remixed and rethought: Dr. Dre’s The Chronic becomes an old school Doritos bag (the munchies, geddit?), The Pixies’ Doolittle retains its haloed-monkey/numbers concept but in a 1950s style, Dana himself ditches the lip-close-up of The Cure’s Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me for a graphically arresting design highlighted by Robert Smith’s hair, and more, all in 12″x12″ form.

If you like what you see, the pieces might just be available for purchase. Contact Dana at subpop2000@hotmail.com for more information.