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These Predicaments, the latest collection of paintings by David Stoupakis, presents a fairy tale world that is more upside down than ever before. A giant little girl becomes larger than life; a prematurely aged young boy hosts a railroad of memories of events to come; a child is tight up with rope, hair alight, perched precariously on the edge of a tower of books, ready to fall into an abyss. Indeed, these predicaments and dilemmas are more dangerous than merely puzzling. A small piper sees what happens when the piping is too successful; an ice maiden is trapped in her own snow globe; none of the guests look very happy at a macabre last supper.
Artist: David Stoupakis
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DJ DIVERSE = Rocking the dance floor
F.A.D – Fashion Alliance of Des Moines – Website Launch Party
Benefit Raffle will profit the Animal Rescue League of Iowa
many more details still to come….
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…
“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
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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.
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
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.
A Short Video Of Anthony Lister’s Painting Process 
80 million tiny images
Jan 21, 2008 00:21:00 GMT
a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning. each of the tiles in the mosaic is an average of images relating to one of 53,463 nouns. large-scale groupings correspond to broad categories such as plants or people. within the plant cluster, for example, tighter semantic groupings are visible such as flowers or trees.
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].
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.”
Miami Contemporary Artists by Paul Clemence and Julie Davidow, just launched at Art Basel, is a survey of the city’s burgeoning art scene. Over a hundred artists are covered in this look at what makes Miami’s art scene so vibrant all year round. The authors are both Miami artists who have an insider’s view of the Miami-Dade art scene. Over 300 colour photos take the reader into the beginnings of a culture that is hot through to the sizzle today. From artists with a wide-ranging following like Hernan Bas to local favourites like Bhakti Baxter, this book provides a flavourful taste of Miami’s visual art.
Hardcover, 256 pages. Schiffer Publishing, 2007. $39. 16 at Amazon.
Holy Shit…What a night….Wicked set – the whole club was hype = all hands were in the air!!!
It happens to be that I live bout 2 block from sonotheque and I love it. great dj’s – amazing people and a certain friendliness that is inviting and sexy… Don’t miss Flosstradamus on Saturday!
sonotheque.net -1444 W Chicago
FLOSSTRADAMUS @ Sonotheque
Doors open 9pm
$3 PBR’s
$7 cover
FLOSSTRADAMUS:
2 DJs, 3 turntables, and lots of people getting buck on the dancefloor. Forget what you think you know about spinning records. In 2005, DJs no longer need be characterized by n arrow labels like “hip hop,” ghetto tech,” or “house.” Jocks can sweep across all of those genres, mash them up together, and create something wholly new–something that can’t be easily pigeonholed.
Take it from Flosstradamus, the newly formed but already dynamic DJ duo comprised of Josh Young (J2K) and Curt Cameruci (Autobot). Like the emerging generation of post-millennium dancefloor crashers of the same ilk (see: Major Taylor, locally, and Diplo and Low Budget of Hollertronix nationally), Flosstradamus are more interested in getting the crowd moving–and grinding and sweating and bumping and shaking–than impressing any music elitists in the audience. They cut through genres indiscriminately, likely to play during any given half-hour: Le Tigre’s “Deceptacon,” Killer Mike’s “My Chrome” and the Cure’s “Lovesong”–perhaps sequentially, if you’re lucky.
With two men, a three-turntable setup, and an impressive catalogue of sounds (Young and Cameruci use programs called Serato and Final Scratch, respectively, which allows them to transfer all of their vinyl–at least 20 crates’ worth–to MP3s and treat them as records on the turntables).
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