Artwork Made From Your Desk Supplies

When I was a kid I would make necklaces from paper clips, paint my nails with whiteout... and make funny creatures with big pink erasers... oh..... and remember playing that kick football game with your friends by folding up a piece of paper? Yep, school supplies at its finest....

As an adult I don't really use my imagination the way I used to... Well here’s a group of artists who put all our paperclip necklaces and origami jabberwockies to shame with stunning works of art made from office supplies.

COFFEE STIR STICKS AND CUP LIDS:

The photo above is entitled “Sticks, Sleeves, Straws, and Lids” an installation from the “Eternal Return” exhibition. The white tube in the foreground of the photo above is made of white plastic coffee cup lids. Pretty cool.

PAPER CLIPS:

Using 4,000 paper clips, Gary Ponzo made a chandelier that casts mathematically awesome shadows. Reproductions of the chandelier sell for $5,400 to $7,200. Or you could buy four cases of paper clips for $25 and lock yourself into a room going slowly insane trying to reproduce this chandelier at home. Hey, it worked for Howard Hughes.

PENCILS:


How amazing are these carved pencils? I'd love to buy one and go back in time and be the most ballin’ kid taking the SATs, Then I'd only score 200 because it wasn’t a #2 pencil. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

PAPER:




STAPLES:




While we were trying to get our staplers to unjam, Baptiste Debombourg was creating unbelievable works of art with staples. The pictures above are of his Air Force One and Air Force Two installations, made out of 35,000 staples in white drywall. He says these took him 75 hours of work to realize. Meanwhile, the rest of us spent those 75 hours looking for time-waster videos on Youtube.

Scott Wade's Art Makes you Want to NOT Wash Your Car

One of the funniest (and most inappropriate) comments I ever saw.... was on the back of an extremely dusty car parked outside of our hotel in Palm Springs a few weekends ago... it said, "I wish My Wife was this dirty".... OMG.

You have to admit, we pay special attention to cars that haven't seen soap and water in some time.. their dirty surface makes you want to write a comment or picture... I compare these surfaces to wet cement or a blank chalkboard; they beg for you to engage...

This is why I wanted to point out an unusual artist -----> Scott Wade. This Texan uses nothing but his fingers and a paint brush to create momentary images on the back of car windows. There is something so beautiful about this. His disposable works can only be absorbed for so long before the car owner has to muster up the strength to finally wash away the incredible pictures he deigned on their automobile.

Lets Celebrate Duct Tape and Its Awesomeness

Right behind beer, duct tape might just be man's greatest invention. For me, I thought its only use was to tape the mailbox back together and close up cardboard boxes for moving... but I was wrong... This sticky material can be used for literally everything!

Lego Time!!!!!

Good Lord do I love LEGOS! Nothing reminds me more of my childhood ..... I spent hours trying to create small buildings and battleships from these plastic cubes...... I wasn't very good, and to be honest, my final products never turned out to resemble the awesome LEGO structure on the box... so of course I'm in awe of these famous artworks that are recreated using this childhood toy as the medium.

These images were cracking me up.... they are so humorous and witty at the same time.

Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” (Marco Pece)


Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Last Supper” (Marco Pece)


Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” (Nathan Sawaya)


Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” (Marco Pece)


Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” (Marco Pece)


M.C. Escher’s “Relativity” (Andrew Lipson)


Auguste Rodin’s “Thinker” (Andrew Lipson)