Everyone with a digital camera has had photos that just had to be deleted. Blurred, boring, out of frame, blinking strangers, the list of reasons is endless. Now, instead of deleting them outright, revive them, by contributing your photos to Deleted Images, a group dedicated to bringing undesired snapshots back to life. What may be junk to you, may be art to others.

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Artist, muralist, wandering vagabond and admitted petty-thief David Choe was recently contracted out to decorate the Facebook offices with his signature brand of ADD-inspired street art and luckily a friend tagged along to document the process. Though I can’t say Choe’s style of art would inspire one trying to work in an office environment, I guess it does give Facebook the chance at a little .com-style eccentricity.

Few photos and link to more after the jump..

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Artist Chris Jordan has recently unveiled his brilliant art series “Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait”, where he takes a look at American culture via consumption statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of some object, such as 15,000,000 sheets of office paper (which is actually 5 minutes of America’s paper usage) and 106,000 aluminum cans (30 seconds of canned drinks consumption). The images are striking, putting statistical data on overconsumption in an easily identifiable and visual context. Jordan’s caveat however, is that viewers attempt to see them in person, where their scale is better experienced than through JPEGs displayed on a screen.

See much more: Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portait gallery

Ahhhh, artists, how I love your crazy ideas. An art group are proposing an extremely odd (and interesting) project / installation which would involve placing a gigantic banana over Texas, floating 30km to 50km above the US state for around 1 month. The banana will be constructed much like a blimp, with a 300 meter long semi-rigid structure made from bamboo, encased with a helium-filled skin of synthetic paper. The project is supposedly in it’s final stage of engineering and a launch time is currently being scheduled for August 2008. Real or not, I’d love to see the reaction to a giant banana floating over the Bush ranch, though I’d assume it would be seen as a giant risk to national security and subsequently shot down.

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A young Japanese anime fan takes on Western animation kings The Simpsons, converting them into a hyper-glowing anime-style community who you know are just waiting to bring out the tentacles, spiked gloves and techno-pop. I love the deviant look of most of the characters, most of whom look ready to shoot you with some sort of experimental apocalyptic near-future heat laser gun.

See more: The Simpsons as Japanese anime characters | Futurama as Japanese anime characters

Described as one of the culminating films in Versais’ carrer, “Operation X-70″ is a fairly dark story, with minimal animation (a departure) and English voice acting featuring none other than Leonard Cohen. The story revolves around an accidental invasion of a dreamy and peaceful country named ‘Nebelux’, whereby a powerful nation developing a new combat gas, X-70, drops bombs full of the substance, which causes victims to become paralyzed and lethargic. “Operations X-70″ was the winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival in 1972, as well as several other festivals during the same year.

Watch “Operation X-70″ by Raoul Servais after the jump..

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It is a pleasure to see how two different artists are able to encompass a very unique style. Seeing the works of Saul Bass compared to the works of Raoul Servais is a joy and I couldn’t honestly pick a favorite. I can only imagine a project where both of these animation visionaries worked together. 1968’s “Sirene” opens with credits reminiscent to the works of Bass (or shall I say, Bass’ work was reminiscent of Servais, I don’t know), with cranes standing like prehistoric dinosaurs over a decrepit port where ships are rusting and bomb shells escape the bleakness of their environment. Speaking of, “Sirene” is actually seen as an early commentary on the manipulation and abuse of the environment throughout the modernized world.

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Born in 1928, Raoul Versais was the undisputed maestro of European animation during the mid-20th century. Focusing on social commentary and striking colors, Versais’ animation work won prizes at most major Euopean international film festivals and contributed to Versais founding the first department of animation on the European continent. Even though Versais focused more on traditional painting and drawing methods, his 13 animated films will continue to be the work he is most notable for.

This first of a long line of posts featuring Raoul Versais’ work features the 1965 short “Chromophobia”, which follows an army of identical, angular characters, entering a struggles against anything bearing color.

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Actress and artist Eve Plumb, whom you may remember as Jan Brady, has been an avid artist for over 20 years now, creating sometimes haunting paintings of everyday use items. Ever the realist, Eve’s artwork can been seen at galleries along the west coast and via her personal site.

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Thankfully it’s cold enough in most parts of Russia for this house to naturally exist, so it seems mr. snowman is doing alright for himself. Some Russian artists and architects recently constructed a model home completely out of ice, including everything from ice-encased appliances to the kitchen sink. I think the oven and washer/dryer carved in ice added a nice touch to the kitchen.

See more: Interior of a snowman’s house