Sunday Safari - War Zone

 Michael Glenwood

 Braldt Bralds, Gold'n Plump

 Alex Gross, Shokei

 Doug Johnson, Screaming for Vengeance album cover

 Beat Takeshi Kitano, Imperial Army Elephant via Creative Review

 Banksy

 Brad Holland

 John Heartfield, War and cadavers, the last hope of the rich, 1932

thanks to Gunther Stephan of Weimar Art and Modernity

 Heather Watts, The Rat King

 Waldemar Swierzy, Dog of War

illustration from the book Tales for Little Rebels

Marco Cazzato, cover illustration for La rivolta del caporale Asch

 Damian Loeb, Race Right By, thanks to Dark Silence In Suburbia

La Boca

Between Nature & Geometry

illustration for Diner journal

Martina in front of her mural at Creature Festival 2009

Martina Merlini aka P0na is a young and gifted Italian artist-illustrator from Bologna.

I really enjoy her very personal style, elegant sense of color and strong graphic compositions. 

And also her love of Constructivism! Of course I am not the only one, and Martina's  artworks, 

often featuring a combination of enigmatic animal forms and abstract geometric elements,

 have started to increasingly appear in various blogs, exhibitons, record covers, 

magazines and walls around the country.

illustration for Qbick free press magazine

Bull God 

poster and cover illustration for Edgar Ep

illustration for Link magazine 9

cover from My Awesome Mixtape's Day after day Lp

Crow

Pelican

Scafandro #2 and Scafandro

My own loop limited edition screenprint

illustration for MIAMI mag

illustration from the Vodoo series

 Catch more of Martina's creatures at her blog and flickr... 

And don't miss her interview on fashion blah blah.

Getting dizzy in the grass with Laura Veirs

All the past week I have been bathing in the sounds dripping sun and honey of Laura Veirs' July Flame. What a tender and uplifting soundtrack for these first days of sunny warmth here in Florence! Make sure to visit her blog and download the two free tracks from her web boutique Raven Marching Band Records, where you can also of course buy the album.

Too bad that her Will-o'-the-Wisp Tour doesn't include any Italian dates... but maybe you can go and send in a report!

The video above by Alden Healy from San Francisco won the "I Can See Your Tracks" music video contest, while the "July Flame" official video below was uploaded on YouTube as I was writing this post (see? another coincidence...)