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Previously featured by Chemo way back in 2010, Shimizu has been sharpening her blades indeed.  Blog.
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(Photo by: Dara Scully, EK Flickr Pool Submission) Welcome, ladies n’ gentlemen, lads n’ lasses… gems n’ germs. The EMPTY KINGDOM Top 100 Artist of 2011 is here!
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“My name is Sachin Teng. I’m an artist living and working in New York City… Though I’m an illustrator I think more like a designer. Art is a means of visual communication, a kind of aesthetic discourse. They can tell you whatever they want, to buy a new flavor of gum, to go to war, go to a concert,...
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Colin Chillag  is pretty cool, yep.
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Mu Pan, I would love to buy you a beer.   Your work is like the sweet smell of honey dew in the morning on a blood-soaked mountain.  If you were a carrot, I’d never eat you. Watercolors below. More later.
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2010 Top 100 artist Monica Cook paints so awesome but she does everything else awesome as well.  Here are some of her works on paper, which seem to show much more of the satire in her work.
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Kenichi Hoshine.  How are you?  Nice work.  Blog him.
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Popjugend is the bombness!  We were able to interview Vincent Karelsz to hear about it!  Read his interview:
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Thom Puckey is a sculptor.  You might have seen his work.  Or you might have not been so lucky.  Which is incredibly unlucky.  If you are the latter I suggest you don’t go near any intersections today because you’re likely to get hit by a bus with the kind of luck you have.  But...
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UK based artists, Irina & Silviu was previously featured last month by Konahrtist. The paper collagen duo gave an in-depth interview based around the philosophies, inspirations and background based around their work.
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Empty Kingdom featured South Korea artist, Minjae Lee earlier last year. This time we got a exclusive interview with him talking about his background around his work. Previously featured by Millions.
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(photo credit: Marc West) Hello beautiful people! Last year our impromptu Top 100 mega-post spread like wildfire on the internet, causing both acclamation and controversy (although none of the artists we selected seemed to argue with us)  …so you better believe we’re gearing up for another mega-post featuring our top one hundred favorite artists...
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Simón Prades is an artist based out of Trier, Germany. Prades primarily uses analog techniques in his work, using the old technique of etching, combining it with pencil and ink work before adding final touches to each piece digitally on the computer.
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“Find what you love.” -Steve Jobs
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JR flyposts large b/w photographic images in public locations in a manner which is similar to the built environment by the graffiti artist. He states that the street is “the largest art gallery in the world.” originally starting out on the streets of Paris. He’s been literally all over the map, also featured him...
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Stefan Da Costa Gomez combines the traditional medium of painting with 3D technology and must be viewed with 3D glasses to enjoy.  Since I don’t have any, (and they wouldn’t fit my bunny head anyways) -I just banged my head against my cage until the paintings started to work without glasses.  This method of...
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Hailing from Thailand, Tarin Yuangtrakul is working it.
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This is what you would have seen in the late 70s, early 80s. Marilyn Monroe, Superman, Adolf Hitler, John Wayne and Jesus Christ informing the Japanese on proper etiquette and manners. This explains everything.
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