I am in favor of Kraken Jamming

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Want an awesome painting like this? It's a two step process:

Step 1: Find generic '80s oil painting at thrift store

Step 2: Paint a badass Kraken in it

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The above painting is *much* improved.
http://twitter.com/peterbebergal Peter Bebergal

Finally something that makes sense today.
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

What’s Kraken?
arik sokol

Artist John Lytle Wilson has been doing these for years – he calls them “corrected paintings” and you can see them here: http://johnlytlewilson.com/correctedpaintings
- http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis
  
  I call the originals “krackalacking.”
http://www.zazzle.com/InfinitudeTortoises* An Infinitude of Tortoises

Release the daffodil!
- http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan
  
  Petunias – hold … hold ….
pjcamp

I think these should be in every Motel 6 in the land.
Blue Ninja

If you’re interested in this type of thing check out Alternate Histories:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/alternatehistories

I’m partial to “The Signing of the Declaration of Independence”:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/70799005/the-signing-of-the-declaration-of

But he’s got tons of tentacle-bound items.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Katrina-van-Malksvig/100000571611598 Katrina van Malksvig

awesome! a while ago I stayed in an (otherwise unremarkable) hotel in Reading, UK and they had a similar thing going, except the generic paintings (mostly ships/coastal landscapes) were augmented with a variety of UFO’s
http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan

Is this what they call a krashup?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ON37BGRH3HB7XU7TFAINESIA6E Aaron Thomas Sherwin

The reminds me of the comic “Motel Art Improvement Service” by Jason Little. Unfortunately the excerpt that’s available online now doesn’t have any images of the improved art. My favorite was a pink whale sensually rubbing against a square-rigged sailing ship.