Modern fairytales for twenty-somethings

Michele Banks Reader Find

By Michele Banks in Cool Websites on Tuesday 30 October 2012

We all like to imagine we’re the hero of our own legend, right? This fun tumblr updates the old classics – some in as short as a single sentence – with details that make them relevant for today. A taste: ‘The ugly duckling read obscure works of literature in other languages and listened to indie music even the guys in the record store had never heard of. If I’m not going to be prettier than anyone, she thought, I’m at least going to be better than them’.

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Peter Callesen

Kate Barnett Reader Find

By Kate Barnett in New Art on Wednesday 26 March 2008

Usually when I write about an artist it’s easy to pick the image that accompanies it. But the work of Peter Callesen is all so good. It’s simple, well executed art with a concept. His work is inspired by fairytales and romanticism and explores the relationship between two and three dimensionality, as well as between [...]

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