Bill Talsma’s most recent artwork comments on rewards we receive for insignificant or trivial things that we do.  These pieces question what is truly remarkable or worthy of an award.

I recently setup a new Today in Art Flickr group and have been overwhelmed with the quality and variety of the participation. The purpose of this group is to find new artists on Flickr to feature on todayinart.com. So, I wanted to create this post to thank those who are participating already and encourage new folks to join.

I am late to the party on this one, but Shuffle by Bombay Bicycle Club is fantastic.  Shuffle is a pre-release track from the album, A Different Kind of Fix.

Drawing influence from American masters like Albert Pinkham Ryder, Randall Stoltzfus painstakingly paints works which focus on light and an optical effect that he calls a good accident.  

Trey Ratliff continues to transform extraordinary photographs into scenes of unimaginable beauty with HDR (high dynamic range) photography.

This weeks music is from Friendly Fires live recording of Live Those Days Tonight at The Lightbox, London.  

As strange as it may sound, Jens Hesse mixes the traditional  world of oil painting with digital noise, or distortions.

Never Knew Love is a track from the latest They Might Be Giants album, Join Us.

Wil Murray’s mixed media artwork blurs the lines between disciplines as well as genres. These pieces have an identify complex that I love.