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Check out Carrot Clothing….Radical designs, amazing graphic t’s…
Show some love to the new line…www.carrotclothing.net
les mots via sexinart
les mots - yummy grungey fashion goodness. Love it. I had to check it all out. (cheers joao for the link!). via sexinart
Nicholas Jones & Dan Tague via Art MoCo
There is fabulous interview with Australian artist Nicholas Jones over at Design Files, along with numerous photos of his work. Jones makes intricate sculptures out of old books, an elaborate series of cuts and folds.
Dan Tague’s prints of folded cash first look like crumpled up money, but when the viewer takes a moment to read the message created by carefully folding the bill just so, all is revealed. Via Notcot.
HORTON HEARS A WHO: SKETCH 365 SEUSS HOMAGE’s
HORTON HEARS A WHO: SKETCH 365 SEUSS HOMAGE’s These drawings were initially created for my yearlong sketch experiment SKETCH365.com as tributes to the Dr.Seuss legend for my painting (S)TORY TIME. The top sketch seen here is called HORTON, the next sketch on the bottom left is called CAT IN HAT, and the third sketch GEISEL. Click the images above or the names of the sketches to see if the original sketches are still available for purchase. If you buy one of these originals I will include a print of the finished colored piece with it.
To browse all 365 sketches in the sketch gallery (sold and unsold) please visit SKETCH365.com. Sketches are available on a first come first serve basis.
Dr. Seuss, Horton, Cat in the Hat, Sketch365, Sketch365.com, Sketchbook, Horton Hears a Who?, Horton Movie, Sketches for sale, Jim Carey, Steve Carell, Cojo Art Juggernaut, Artsucks.com, Cojo
The response we got after posting the inflatable bear photos last week was amazing. We couldn’t be happier to follow it up with these two wonderful videos, shot and sent to us by the artist, Joshua Allen Harris.
After watching the videos, we love the project even more…
http://www.antoine-helbert.com/
This master painter, sculptor and illustrator from Strasbourg, France has the stylistic graphics that range from fashion, history, and advertising. Each illustrated compartment are very different. His portfolio is outstanding and pushes the envelope for the ability of illustrators to turn out more than just line and marker drawings.
Antoine Helbert’s portraits unleash a dark stare into the surreal surroundings of his models. He paints an ambiance so startling, you can’t help but stare. It should be no surprise that I relay he is also the scenic painter for Strasbourg’s Opera. His technique is oil on canvas for rich colors with eye-popping light sources.
His website contains a gorgeous collection of all his mediums and work. Antoine has created many posters for exhibitions, music festivals, and cultural events. He is a rising French star aiming high on his illustrative canvas of possibilities.
Artist: Megan Baker
Megan Baker has been taking photographs since she took hold of the Polaroid at age four. In addition to concert photography, Baker’s photo focus is on abandoned houses and small towns that have suffered economic distress. Decampment is an incredible series that takes us inside and out along this journey. The light, the colours, the mood – these photos linger. And we almost hate to bring this up, but Megan Baker happens to be sixteen-years-old.
Artist: Megan Baker
+ mbakerphotography.com
Noted fashion and beauty photographer Warwick Saint has a small gallery of nudes in the Personal Work section of his website.
Via: a flower a day
Shit We’re Diggin: The Artwork Of Paul Alexander Thornton via Wooster Collective
You can see more of Paul’s work here.
“Jean-Michel Basquiat” via Art MoCo
Vintage Portraits from the 1980s by Jeannette Montgomery Barron are the topic of an exhibition that opens today at ClampArt in New York. Barron captures some of the most significant artists of the time in moments of great calm that exude an intimacy, made even softer by the use of natural light. These are black and white photographs that the viewer wants to step into, into a place where there may be a chance to see the artist a little less cloaked.
Artist: Jeannette Montgomery Barron
+ clampart.com
IdeaFixa via SexinArt
IdeaFixa is up to issue 10, this issue: fear and loathing - the magazine loads fast and the content is well worth it. Next issue’s theme is “Desire”, looking forward to that one!
Toronto-based painter Margaux Williamson is currently showing at the Marvelli Gallery in New York. The show is called The Girls show Dostoyevsky the new darkness, and Williamson’s viewers are led into a narrative that is soft and dark, with the interpretation of each adjective left open. The darkness is certainly present in the above painting, Girl, but for a painting so black, is it really dark? And the chains that hold the sledding girls in the painting that bears the name of the exhibition - are they hindering or helping, in the marshmallow snow? And OK or Self-portrait as Future Buddha, how can these paintings not endear themselves to us?
Artist: Margaux Williamson
+ marvelligallery.com
The Girls show Dostoyevsky the new darkness
OK or Self-portrait as Future Buddha
Anthony Lister Opening
The work above will be included in Anthony’s upcoming ‘Super Villains’ show at NEW IMAGE opening April 26th
Seen On The Streets Of Korea - via Wooster
via Wooster
Photo above by CRS8
Street Anatomy, a blog on medicine, art, and design. Terrific gallery of anatomically themed street art. check it out here.
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Flosstradamus is at Sonotheque on Saturday night…Make sure to get there early if you want to get in…Always good vibes @ Sonotheque…
Chicago, IL
Lee Ann just sent over a couple new pieces….I really love her work. The first one is called Eternal Embrace and it instantly moved me.
Isn’t that what most of us are looking for anyways? Someone to lay with forever?
Lee Ann Conlan
Really like this photographer, Rebecca Beard - Photography
LINK quote [I create or I manipulation with photos of girls with snakes and other animals. It is different, it leaves the usual fashion of monotony, is a type of art, it mixes of bizare, Sensuality, fetish, magic, cult or old Sect].
(via Fetish Design)
Kelly Tunstall’s paintings and illustrations of tall thin young women are almost like fashion design sketches. Tunstall’s heroines (based on friends, family, stylish women she sees walking down the street) are all beautiful, sexy and ladylike, to better show off their glamour dresses, ballet wear or lingerie. Yet some do sport quirks as well, maybe two heads here or a pair of antlers or bunny ears there, just to keep things interesting.
Artist: Kelly Tunstall
+ kellytunstall.com
Here’s some Banksy works that will be up for auction at Sotheby’s in London on the 28th of February.
Banksy - UNTITLED (HAPPY COPPERS)
Auction Estimate - 30,000—40,000 GBP
Banksy - UNTITLED
Auction Estimate - 15,000—20,000 GBP
Banksy - MONA LISA
Auction Estimate - 30,000—40,000 GBP
Banksy - POLICE
Auction Estimate - 30,000—40,000 GBP
Make it Right
The work of architects in the Make It Right 9 housing project in New Orlean’s lower 9th ward.
Wannabe architect Brad Pitt has assembeled this amazing team including a few of my design heroes.
Welcome to Cloud City
Studio Lindfor’s vision of what would happen if NYC were hit by a category 3 hurricane.
A lesson in when to stop…
Dear Leger Wanaselja Architecture, you had it at the middle photo, then you lost it. My word of wisdom for your office, Edit.
Frank Gehry gave us great wisdom when he said, often buildings look better under construction.
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/02/08/prefab-friday-container-house-by-leger-wanaselja-architecture/
Harvesting energy from a revolving door.
Harvesting energy from a revolving door.
The water cube, National Swimming Center in Bejing
Betting the farm worked in Queens
The annual transformation of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s courtyard, departs from previous installations, creating a rural oasis and urban farm, complete with a harvesting plan.
Mid-century modernist architecture as seen by Lucy Williams results in mixed media works of art that combine a crafting style with a sleek topic. Williams creates low-relief forms of homes, commercial establishments and public buildings with materials such as Perspex, fabric, thread, pillow stuffing and card. The Study, above, is based on a case study house in L.A. by Craig Ellwood, whereas Hans Blumenthal is the picture of a Bauhaus home nestled among the trees. The Lighting Showroom takes its inspiration from a lighting store in Milan.
Artist: Lucy Williams
+ timothytaylorgallery.com
“Slowly he started to question”via Art MoCo
Peter Sís grew up in Communist Prague, drawing on the sly and reading forbidden books. His work as an animator allowed him to travel and eventually seek asylum in the U.S. When Sís moved to New York in 1984, he started his career as the author/illustrator of children’s books. His illustrations are rich, layered tapestries of incredibly fine pen and pencil work, detailing works of his creation that stem from his experiences and observations. Freedom of Expression is Peter Sís’s first New York exhibition and is a good sampling of work that reinforces the importance of freedom and a reminder to viewers to avoid taking it for granted.
Artist: Peter Sís
+ maryryangallery.com
Hazel Dooney is one of Australia’s most famous erotic painters and Self Vs. Self is her very smart, often insightful blog.
Check out Mr. Guy’s work
Purchase here: www.artforurbanspaces.com
Biography: Mr Guy from the North East UK. Street art, graphics, illustartion, books magazine covers, skateboards and clothing (own brand).
Clients: Unabomber Skateboards, Native Skatestore, Gumball 3000, Herbal Skateboards, Fourstore, Advanced Minority.
Exibitions: Boards ‘n’ beats (Utah) Propaganda 2.0/3.0 (USA) MrGuy & Magic vs Electrick Sheep (Newcastle) Street Camp (L’autre Galerie, Canada) Opus Underground/Rebelo show (Newcastle) PPI BEAR SHOW (Asia). Munny Show (Bristol) Advanced Minority store opening (Milan)
Daniel Everett
by Lost At E Minor via Coolhunting
We love the photographic work of Chicago-based Daniel Everett. His work captures desolate environments but with a sense of hope and optimism. His work-in-progress series, “Departure,” deals with the “dislocation and alienation of modern utilitarian landscape. Sort of a study of these ubiquitous transitory spaces (or non-spaces) and our relationship to them.”
This entry was originally posted on 05 February 2008
“Injected”thanks again Art Moco
Not hard to recognize Tim Biskup’s background in animation that shines through loud and clear in his painting. His skills as a draftsman and technical painter have stood Biskup in good stead as he applies his technique to fine art and vinyl figures and t-shirts. Biskup defines his work, which has become darker over the years, as “baroque modernism”. This evolution is certainly evident when one compares Injected (2007) to a piece such as Ghonner Group (2003), but this is not to say it is easy to choose one over the other.Artist: Tim Biskup
+ timbiskup.com
“Untitled Museum” thanks Art MoCo
Canadian-born and Barcelona-based, Michael Swaney creates surrealistic collages that are delicate works with much fine detail. Swaney’s scenes combine architectural forms as backdrops for figures that play out a narrative left to the viewer to decipher. There is recurring museum motif; the idea of artefacts is fairly strong in Swaney’s work and the mixture of elements in every composition is not dissimilar to an exhibition of the various components within every story.
Artist: Mike Swaney
+ michaelswaney.com
A lot of Ingmar Alge’s paintings are reflections of architecture that brings to mind a suburbia of “somewhere else”. There is a carefully constructed flatness to the work, as though the artist has built up layers to create a façade that hides the truth. The viewer is given a take-it-or-leave-it sort of choice, and to get through to the horizon, must first get lost in the lonely landscape provided. How refreshed will that swimming pool be? How cosy is that home? What sort of conversation takes place on the two chairs?
Artist: Ingmar Alge
+ kuckei-kuckei.de
“Portable Cellular Phone Booth”
Nick Rodrigues is a Boston-based performance sculptor whose unusual work is themed on human interaction. Rodrigues incorporates these pieces into public settings and captures public reaction on video. The Porta Party is a booth the size of a standard telephone booth or portable toilet, but when placed on a street corner with party sounds emanating, it gets more attention than the standard services would. The diePod is a statement on how anyone born now will have some sort of electronic device on them until their death, and the Portable Cellular Phone Booth speaks of avoiding real time interactions. Shown here are stills from the videos on Rodrigues’ website.Artist: Nick Rodrigues
+ nickrodrigues.com
A brief survey of interactive Facades:
Some of these seem to be compensating for that missing element of design, the lights distract you from lack of ambition and execution.
Exceptions: Herzog & DeMeuron’s Allianz Arena, Peter Cook.
Krzysztof Wodiczko, had no problem finding his voice on a well executed facade: http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/wodiczko/index.html
Roadtrip to KC?
Anyone? Anyone?
Why Architects back up their files…
Tokyo Jewel Box
Ando finds a skin. Typically his work is un-adorned concrete, beautifully executed.
Ando finds a skin. Typically his work is un-adorned concrete, beautifully executed.
Architecture of Abandonment
Architects Duel
I see a new DSM event….
Been there, Done that:
A Short Video Of Anthony Lister’s Painting Process 
Peekasso
Strong, edgey, humorous… great work by Peekasso
Jan 20
change
hangoversunday
Jan 18
We had a meeting about you!
sorry :P)
Jan 16
macworld
life is good
Jan 14
office
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who
don’t have it.
Jan 12
30 is the new 18
u got mail
Jan 11
I’m not mad at you .. just, disappointed.