Listen up! as The Rope’s crooningly claim to be a bullet and bequeath you to be their gun.

Half artist, half mad scientist Chris Ritson talks about his Coral Sculpture Proposal, what inspired it, and his thoughts on the nature of art and the future of science.

“My creativity and artistic tools not only depict the beauty of mother earth’s purity and self-recovery, but also considers the enlightened acknowledgment granted by creation; it is about the insights and desires I have about life.”

Mucca Pazza’s band members include four trumpets, four woodwinds, five bones, one sousaphone, nine percussionists, three cheerleaders, two accordions, one violin, one mandolin, and one guitar

Ashleigh Fedo, 25, didn’t just pick up a hobby when she began painting in early 2007. She established an independent, private art studio.

Bernardo knew that they were destined to stay together when the sliding words came to him the afternoon they made love for the first time. He said, “Hold me tight, woman,” burying his face in her breasts. “I feel like I’m falling.”

Illustrator, graphic designer, and visual confectioner Nikki Farquharson, 23, serves us some serious eye candy with her on-going Mixed Media Girls project.

When Reza Dolatabadi decided that he would create a film that is also a painting when it is paused, a lot of people told him it could not be done. Two years and six thousand paintings later Reza’s film exists in “Khoda.”

“It’s sort of sounding like a choir, a harp, some metal chains and a piano all put through a car crusher, then hit with wooden planks really hard.”

“Set in a state of peril, my ideas and objects, those primarily being worn and on the fringe of discard or possible reuse, teeter between life and death, old and new, left and right mind, light and darkness, in between states of corrugated impermanence. Futures are never known, only completed by the viewer.”