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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.
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.
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
Photo credit: GlenjamnPhilly representer, Nate Day, comes correct on his new “Everywhere LA is 30 Minutes” mix. Nate Day recently moved to LA and the title is a keen observation of life in a new place. Given this truth, the runtime of this mix is just perfect for the ride. It’s my current soundtrack for dancing in traffic. Get yr swerve on. It’s eclectic. It’s hectic. It’s dope.
Tracklist:
- Hail Social – AM-FM (DJ Siyoung Remix)
- Hot Chip – Ready For The Floor (Soulwax Dub)
- Crookers – Knobbers
- The Klaxons – Atlantis To Interzone (Destroy Disco Remix)
- Fedde Le Grand – Put Your Hands Up For Detroit
- Justice – Phantom Pt. II (Boyz Noise Remix)
- Villains – Rock It
- Treasure Fingers – Cross The Dancefloor
- Steed Lord – Feel The Heat
- Thieves Like Us – Drugs In My Body (Designer Drugs Remix)
- M.I.A. – Boyz (The Twelves Remix)
- Snoop Dogg – Sexual Eruption (Weird Science Remix)
MP3: Nate Day - Everywhere in LA is 30 Minutes Mix [33:43 | 77mb]
Philly kids will know Nate Day from his years sharing the bill with some of Drum & Bass and Bmore/Club’s biggest names. LA heads might know him from his LOOSE party alongside Wendy City. Strangers to DJ Nate Day can see him next Thursday in Los Angeles at Fever, located at Temporary Spaces and headed up by DJ C-Town of the Anthem Magazine posse. G’times.
Visit Nate Day on MySpace.
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
Shepard Fairey, founder of Obey Giant and world-renowned stencil artist, talks to Crave about the inspiration behind his work and his motivation as an artist.
Check out Part 1 of a 4 part video series here.
Amazing stuff!
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
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
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
“Thinking of Rosy” thanks to ArtMoCo
Mitsy Groenendijk’s monkey sculptures reflect a human need to control nature. Human characteristics are sometimes easier to examine if demonstrated on some “other”, and the monkey is the perfect foil for our foibles. It does not take long for the viewer’s eye to adapt to the image of the monkey in place of the women or girls that would have, or should have, been Rosy, Tina and the Kindred Spirits.
Artist: Mitsy Groenendijk
+ mitsygroenendijk.com
Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art
“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 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.
Fresh Stuff From l.e.t. via Wooster
AIA National’s Best of the Best
Honors for Architecture:
Honors for Architecture:
Honors for Interior Architecture:
Honors for Urban Design:
For those of you keeping score from Catalyst State, Note: Brown 1, Phifer 1.
MoMA goes pre-fab:
Pre-fab housing is not for the Trailer Park anymore and 2 years after the Walker did the same: http://design.walkerart.org/prefab/ (The Walker show was excellent).
Walden in 2008?
Finding a retreat in the carpark because you “wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived…”
For the Birds:
An estimated 1 billion birds die annually in the United States as a result of striking buildings, bridges, and other manmade structures.
When you have to go…NYC has you covered.
The new public toilets in NYC, 25 cents and you’re covered but what follows is “possibly the longest and most awkward 20 to 30 seconds of a person’s day. The door slips open like an elevator, but then it stays open, to accommodate those who need extra time getting in. Meanwhile, men and women in suits walk past. It is very difficult to look inconspicuous in a bathroom on a sidewalk in New York with the door open.”
Only a mere $100,000 each and 14 gallons of water per use.
Very interesting work by Jaleh Afshar www.JALEHAFSHAR.com draw.paint.design.shoot.
Artworks by tetheredto:
It is not common when I encounter an artist and think, “Okay, I clearly don’t understand all the good things going on here, but there is more talent in front of me than I have the ability to comprehend.”
(Click on images to view them individually.)
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The Falling Times
LINK quote [Falling Times is an everlasting and growing real-time news translation machine representing permanently appearing and disappearing information about our times and, simultaneously, the fall of our western decadent civilization. Falling Times refers to the heavy InfoPollution we live in. The InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer – the InfoConsumer! The most consumed information is the news today. The news has been turning more and more into an entertainment – the Infotainment. The news producers are the biggest info polluters of our time and thus are the biggest contributors to the infoEcological disaster].
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Shit We’re Diggin: “The Decapatator” In London
From Wired:
“Renegade artist and head-hunter the Decapitator has been bombarding the streets of London with a signature style of graffiti tag - eerily removing the heads from major adverts around town, replacing them with ghastly, gory stumps. (Before and after images of a gruesomely guillotined model in a print ad, right).
Based on the images uploaded to his/her Flickr stream, “The East London Decapitator” as he/she has been dubbed, is largely striking mainstream advertisements, like this (my personal fav) High School Musical 2 poster.”