Goodbye Until August
May 22nd, 2010
I will be out for the summer but good things will come once back. Redesign and restructure in the works!
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May 22nd, 2010
I will be out for the summer but good things will come once back. Redesign and restructure in the works!
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April 27th, 2010
There will not be any new posts made for about a week as I get ready for an exhibit in May. Check it out here.
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April 23rd, 2010
well written and hilarious
via vice and tiny vices
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April 20th, 2010
Probably my favorite bike after anything Bertelli Bici makes. Get one around $1,200 at Pashley Cycles. Oh! and it comes with a Brooks B17 Titanium saddle.
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April 20th, 2010
“The video exhibit “Ouroboros” at ISE Cultural Foundation explores the creation and history of the universe, using the iconic image of a snake eating itself as center to the work. The piece consists of six projections in 3-D, using geometric shapes and imagery to transform the space.
This compellingly unique mix of science and art fits the talents of Ourobos’ creators exactly. Renaissance man Ali Hossaini, and video artists/programmers Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy of Sweatshoppe, collaborated on the piece. Ourobos combined Hossaini’s “investigations into the psychology of vision” and Sweatshoppe’s software and tech know-how.”
via cool hunting
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April 11th, 2010
New post on one of my favorite blogs, The Selvedge Yard on Cannes in the 60’s and the 70’s.
“Movie stars sure ain’t what they used to be. Who are the new Redfords, Newmans and Brandos of this generation, anyway? Right. Is it just me, or is celebrity status a cheap date nowadays that any hack with marginal talent and a flash of skin can get into bed? Blame the media, society, culture, you name it. Blame us after all, at the end of the day– we’re essentially feeding all of the above. Yes, it’s a disposable, razor-thin world we’re living in– where all too often, quantity wins over quality, and fast & crass trumps character & class. Well get me the hell out of here, thank you very much.”
The post is over at Selvedge Yard
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April 2nd, 2010
mix by fosse
01 – Iz & Diz – Mouth [Brad Peep's Remix for Friends]
02 – KiNK – Psyche Funk [Marcus Aurelius Remix]
03 – John Roberts – Mirror
04 – Burial & Four Tet – Moth
05 – Lawrence – Miles
06 – Cooly G – Love (Dub)
07 – A Made Up Sound – Rework
08 – Martyn – All I Have Is Memories
09 – TRG – Broken Heart [Martyn's DCM Remix]
10 – Burial – Unite
11 – Appleblim & Geiom – Shreds
12 – Digital Mystikz – Misty Winter
13 – Mount Kimbie – 50 Mile View
14 – Flying Lotus – Robo Tussin [ft. Lil Wayne]
15 – FaltyDL – Meta-Cognist
mediafire.com/?mldixifi5hv
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April 1st, 2010
It consists of four units, each capable of displaying all 26 letters of the alphabet with an arrangement of fluorescent lights. The piece displays an algorithmically generated word sequence, derived from a word association database developed by the University of South Florida between 1976 and 1998. The algorithms take into account word meaning, rhyme, letter sequencing, and association.
Rob Seward via today and tomorrow
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March 31st, 2010
Michael Tyburski via Cool Hunting
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March 31st, 2010
Nikki Graziano via today and tomorrow
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March 30th, 2010
Stumbled upon a few Washed Out rap remixes. The one by Lushlife is especially great.
Birdman x Washed Out – Feel It On The South Side (The Hood Internet)
Check it out here.
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March 29th, 2010
From New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh out this Tuesday.
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March 23rd, 2010
One of my favorite cars. Saw it today over at designyoutrust.
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March 19th, 2010
“Empire is a video about people having fun riding track bikes and fixed gears in the city. Be sure to visit our site at empirebegins.com regularly.”
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March 15th, 2010
Been playing this a little too much. Really good.
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March 10th, 2010
Your Napoleon by Jordan Wolfson.
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March 5th, 2010
I really want these. Made of ceramic and cork which are mostly acoustically dead, I’m pretty sure the sound is super clear. The worst part is it’s expensive but not completely out of range for a pair of speakers. $500. In stock and ready to ship at joeyroth.com
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March 1st, 2010
I became a huge fan of William Lamson after I saw the “Emerge” video about a year back. This is still from 2008 but I just saw it on Boing Boing so I figured I’d post it.
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February 28th, 2010
Installation / Sculpture from Michael Johansson.
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February 22nd, 2010
From architect Marcio Kogan, in collaboration with a few others talented artists, comes this amazing design, a project called Gama Issa House and located in São Paulo, Brasil. Here is an excerpt of Marcio’s journal, of how the idea for creating this home took off in the first place: ” I think of a single enormous volume wrapping everything: a white box. In São Paulo, we don’t need to be concerned about environmental coherence; it is total chaos, the most absolute chaos. In this city, the world’s ugliest, which overflows energy, vibrant like no other, loved and hated, anything that is projected will be totally integrated into the city. Ah, yes, don’t let me forget an enormous wall protecting the house, covered in natural wood (maybe from the last tree of the Amazon), and which, certainly, will be completely covered by graffiti, giving the final touch in perfect harmony with the environment.”
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February 16th, 2010
Just an overall amazing looking tube amplifier. Currently not for sale. Designed by Koichi Futatsumata.
via ISO50
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February 16th, 2010
“Automatic subdivision based on details in the underlying image. Areas with more detail get divided in smaller pieces.”
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February 16th, 2010
A film by Banksy. “The worlds first street art disaster movie”
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February 16th, 2010
Hey Everyone,
Over the next few days I will be working on reviving this blog and expanding it into even more categories. Thanks and check back soon!
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July 30th, 2009
I’ve been hearing about this artist reading various blogs, the most notable source being her BLOW JOB performances which I wasn’t too into. I did get a chance to look at her other work today and I’m liking most of it.
Headfuck (be sure to read about this on her site):
Wait:
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July 30th, 2009
“New York artist Ross Racine creates aerial views of fictional suburbs, examining the relation between design and actual lived experience. No photographs or scanned images are used in the pieces above. Each was drawn freehand directly on the computer and then printed on an inkjet printer.”
(Via badbanana, the new shelton wet/dry, swissmiss.)
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July 22nd, 2009
‘Brazilian design graduate Jorge Lopes Dos Santos has developed a way of making physical models of foetuses using data from ultrasound, CT and MRI scans.’
(Via Dezeen.)
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July 10th, 2009
Boston.com’s The Big Picture has put up photos from the Venice Biennale. I really personally loved Bruce Nauman’s work but I’m biased since Pinchneck & Walking in an exaggerated manner around the perimeter of a square has always been some of my favorite pieces of early video art.
July 8th, 2009
Stunning photographs from Margaret Durow.
(Via Changethethought™.)
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July 4th, 2009
Chronotopic Anamorphosis from Marginalia Project on Vimeo.
“This video ‘Chronotopic Anamorphosis’ is quite simple but the effect is just amazing. It’s part of André Mintz his Marginalia Project. He wrote this piece of software with Processing, which can slice up a video feed horizontally in real-time and display those pieces with a one frame delay. It’s based on Zbigniew Rybczynski’s ‘The Fourth Dimension’.”
(Via today and tomorrow.)
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June 27th, 2009
Untitled by Michael Jackson and Macaulay C. Culkin 1991 .
(Via VVORK.)
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June 25th, 2009
Blind Dragster by Espen Dietrichson.
(Via today and tomorrow.)
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June 25th, 2009
Great illustratrions from Julia Guther who also did the new Au Revoir Simone cover.
(Via Changethethought™.)
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June 24th, 2009
2008 intervention by Pieter Vermeersch.
(Via VVORK)
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June 24th, 2009
Photos by Yoann Lemoine. Paris/NY.
(Via BOOOOOOOM!.)
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June 20th, 2009
Francisco Infante-Arana & Gorunova.
Some really amazing work using mirrors.
(Via BOOOOOOOM!.)
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June 19th, 2009
“What is a browser? was the question we asked over 50 passersby of different ages and backgrounds in the Times Square in New York.”
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(Via swissmiss.)
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June 7th, 2009
“Samson is a museum installation by Chris Burden. It is made of a 100-ton jack, a gear box and a turnstile. Each time when a visitor enters the gallery space and passes through the turnstile, the jack connected to the gear box expand a little and pushes against the walls. So when a certain amount of people visit the exhibition, it is possible that the walls could collapse.”
(Via today and tomorrow and things magazine)
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June 7th, 2009
»Delta performance JFK to LGA..$493.47 flight no.174 from NY to NY«, 2009 by Cornrow Rider.
Good work, better name.
(Via VVORK.)
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June 7th, 2009
Looks promising. Have to pick it up sometime!
(Via manystuff.org.)
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May 22nd, 2009
Up & Down:
by Daniel Eatock.
(Via today and tomorrow.)
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May 15th, 2009
Great illustration and screen prints from
Jess Douglas
(Via Dirty Mouse.)
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May 9th, 2009
My favorite font used to be Avant Garde Gothic but this font might just take the cake. Looks great!
(Via visuelle.co.uk.)
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May 8th, 2009
“‘Syn Chron’ is an installation designed by Carsten Nikolai back in 2004. He wanted to create an integral sculpture of light, sound and architecture. The crystal-shaped object has a translucent skin on which lasers beam animations insync to the sounds. You can also go inside the object to get the whole light, sound and space experience. Indeed it’s that big.
Gestalten.TV has a video where Carsten Nikolai talks about his work, more precisely about grids and his book Grid Index. You can watch it here.”
(Via today and tomorrow.)
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May 6th, 2009
Stumbled on this great article at TATE ETC on Oskar Fischinger while browsing but does it float. I am really admiring his work.
May 4th, 2009
TITLE / Cocoon Exhibition Print
EDITION / 100
SIZE / A2 (420 × 594mm)
MEDIUM / Archival ink on 100 gsm
PRICE / £25
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All prints are signed and numbered
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PRE-ORDER HERE
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All pre-orders taken will be mailed out the week beginning the 18th of May 2009
Ships worldwide
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Visit Cocoon blog here / hellovon.com/exhibitions/cocoon.html
All work copyright HelloVon 2006-2009 / www.hellovon.com
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(Via Changethethought™.)
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May 1st, 2009
Valentina De’ Mathà has some very impressive paintings, photographs and drawings
found at acidolatte
(Via today and tomorrow.)
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April 30th, 2009
Sketches by Véronique Meignaud aka Marmotte. Paris.
(Via BOOOOOOOM!)
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April 29th, 2009
‘The Underworld’, 2004 by Mark Wallinger. Installation for 21 monitors. 21 individually looped dvds.
(Via VVORK.)
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April 29th, 2009
Amazing home from envelopeA+D, which is an architecture and design firm based in Oakland, California.
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(Via desiretoinspire.net.)
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April 29th, 2009
Michael Bierut talks type for TheAtlantic.com.
(Via Swiss Legacy.)
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April 28th, 2009
‘A moon of saturn resting on a doric foundation’ by Robert Andrade and Daniel G. Baird.
(Via today and tomorrow.)
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April 28th, 2009
“Roger Hiorns makes works of art whose particular aesthetic lies somewhere between the representational and non-representational, and so disrupts our expectations of the boundaries between them. His sculptures have a seemingly straightforward, functional material presence, but this is always combined with an element which provides a sense of the imaginary, the poetic or the esoteric. The tension between these two aspects is a vital part of Hiorns’ work.”
(Via today and tomorrow.)
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April 25th, 2009
Spike Press is doing some great work!
(Via Changethethought™.)
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April 22nd, 2009
Futura Con•struc•tions by SF based designer Richard Perez
Promotional Card Set, 3 x 10 in
Objective:
Create a promotional card set highlighting the history and unique qualities of the geometric sans serif, Futura, designed by Paul Renner.
Description:
Each card of the Futura Con•struc•tions set focuses on a geometric break down of a letter. On the reverse of cards information is included on the development, characteristics and history of the typeface.
The concept of disassembling and reconstructing the letterforms was inspired by the two schools of design which influenced Renner in the creation of Futura, the Bauhaus and Russian Constructivist.
(Via Swiss Legacy.)
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April 21st, 2009
Illustrations by Brock Davis.
(Via BOOOOOOOM!.)
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April 21st, 2009
»Burning Cube«, 2005 by Jeppe Hein.
(Via VVORK.)
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April 19th, 2009
Very interesting photography from Paul Salveston. I really do like!
(Via Hello You!.)
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April 19th, 2009
Living In Poverty Area Entrance
Global Village By Andrea Robbins and Max Becher
(Via Hello You!.)
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April 19th, 2009
Project
Blamma Blamma
Design
Christopher Hewitt
(Via visuelle.co.uk.)
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April 18th, 2009
Nice and simple poster from Double Standards for a photography exhibit.
(Via AisleOne.)
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April 17th, 2009
Emblematic of modernity, the grid gives form to everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to Mondrian paintings and bits of computer code. And yet, as Hannah Higgins makes clear in this wide-ranging and revelatory book, the grid has a history that long predates modernity; it is the most prominent visual structure in Western culture. In The Grid Book, Higgins examines the history of ten grids that changed the world: the brick, the tablet, the gridiron city plan, the map, musical notation, the ledger, the screen, moveable type, the manufactured box, and the net. Charting the evolution of each grid, from the Paleolithic brick of ancient Mesopotamia through the virtual connections of the Internet, Higgins demonstrates that once a grid is invented, it may bend, crumble, or shatter, but its organizing principle never disappears.
The appearance of each grid was a watershed event. Brick, tablet, and city gridiron made possible sturdy housing, the standardization of language, and urban development. Maps, musical notation, financial ledgers, and moveable type promoted the organization of space, music, and time, international trade, and mass literacy. The screen of perspective painting heralded the science of the modern period, classical mechanics, and the screen arts, while the standardization of space made possible by the manufactured box suggested the purified box forms of industrial architecture and visual art. The net, the most ancient grid, made its first appearance in Stone Age Finland; today, the loose but clearly articulated networks of the World Wide Web suggest that we are witnessing the emergence of a grid of unprecedented proportions—one so powerful that it is reshaping the world, as grids do, in its image.
About the Author
Hannah B Higgins is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Fluxus Experience.
Released: March 2009
Published by The MIT Press
7 x 9, 312 pp., 62 illus.
$24.95/£16.95
(Via Swiss Legacy.)
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April 17th, 2009
American Artifact chronicles the rise of American rock poster art since its birth in the ’60s.
Director Merle Becker crosses the country interviewing rock poster artists from the different eras to discover that America is currently in the midst of a 21st century ‘rock poster art movement’, where thousands of artists around the country are doing silk screened rock poster art inspired by their local scene, the music of our time, and the spirit of our era.
The film features interviews with renown artists including Stanley Mouse, Victor Moscoso, Frank Kozik, Art Chantry, EMEK, Tara McPherson, Derek Hess, COOP, Jay Ryan, and more, as well as fans, collectors, and musicians.
Scheduled release for the film is June 20th, 2009.
(Via Swiss Legacy.)
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April 17th, 2009
“Write any message you’d like within the 2 rows of 8 grooved squares – the raised sections will guide your marker on the right track. LCD Card.
(Via swissmiss.)
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April 17th, 2009
Great print work from with especially good typography from Jonathan Quainton of Sawdust
(Via AisleOne.)
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April 17th, 2009
Dust by Anne de Vries.
A photograph mounted into the interior of the Foam Museum, beholding a piece of dust that once appeared in the exact location of the photograph .
(Via today and tomorrow.)
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