Thursday, 31 January 2008
Oliver Vernon
Oliver Vernon is a very patient painter and illustrator. His work is very detailed, precise and fluid.
CN tower timelapse
Ok. Another playful site. Move your mouse around the CN tower and watch the sky and the city lights change...
Mark Jenkins
Mark Jenkins makes street installations in major cities (Washignton, London, NY, etc). Some of them make me laugh (especially the first picture)! I can imagine the expression on the face of passersby that don't know what is going on... It must be really funny to just sit and watch!
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Fluxus Central
Fluxus Central is Rubens Lp, an artist from Sao Paolo, Brasil. He draws with a few lines and vivid colors. The results are fabulous! No wonder he has worked on big gigs such as Absolute, Burton, Coke and MTV...
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Bread dough body part sculptures
This baker in Thailand sculpts body parts with bread dough. He is so talented, that at first sight, I thought this was all true! Apparently, he is very famous and gets around 100 visitors every day! Would you eat this bread???
The Scary Body Parts Bakery - video powered by Metacafe
The Scary Body Parts Bakery - video powered by Metacafe
Monday, 28 January 2008
Sunday, 27 January 2008
Marc Paeps
client: RSF / agency: Happiness
headline: the Iranian government wishes
all journalists a happy press freedom day.
client: RSF / agency: Happiness
headline: the north korean wishes
all journalists a happy press freedom day.
client: RSF / agency: Happiness
headline: the russian wishes
all journalists a happy press freedom day.
Marc Paeps is a photographer from Belgium. He works for advertising agencies. His work is always loaded with humour and is very clever.
Friday, 25 January 2008
Jim Denevan
Jim Denevan's art is quite impressive!
Jim Denevan makes freehand drawings in sand. At low tide on wide beaches Jim searches the shore for a wave tossed stick. After finding a good stick and composing himself in the near and far environment Jim draws-- laboring up to 7 hours and walking as many as 30 miles. The resulting sand drawing is made entirely freehand w/ no measuring aids whatsoever. From the ground, these drawn environments are experienced as places. Places to explore and be, and to see relation and distance. For a time these tangible specific places exist in the indeterminate environment of ocean shore. From high above the marks are seen as isolated phenomena, much like clouds, rivers or buildings. Soon after Jim's motions and marks are completed water moves over and through, leaving nothing.
Fernando Botero à l'émission Contact
Hier soir, Stéphan Bureau présentait à l'émission Contact Fernando Botero, cet artiste Colombien de renom international. L'entrevue était passionnante et captivante. Si vous l'avez manqué le site web de Contact affiche un dossier musclé de cette rencontre. Il faut absoluement visionner l'extrait vidéo qui est excellent.
Maurizio Savini's chewing gum sculptures
Maurizio Savini makes his sculptures out of chewing gum!!!
Here is what the Pastificio Cerere Foundation has to say about it :
Chewing-gum, as a matter of fact known in Italian also as “ American gum “, was introduced by American soldiers with the end of World war two together with jeans, nylon, stocking and boggie-woggie. Its association with a state of euphoria of change and carefree youthfulness some how carried on in the following decades. Also for those born in the sixties as Maurizio Savini and I, chewing-gum reaches in the mind ‘s meanders at a tie with childhood and adolescence, and a light pressure of a future still to be built and dreamt and the slaughterhouse of personal and collective memories of the past which is gone, no one knows where when and with whom.
The sensual act of chewing, the voluptuous warmth of rebelling saliva, the artificial and secretly aseptic fragrance which spreads from the mouth as a promise and missed kiss. The synthetic fleshliness of the pink color, the obsessive square shape of the product unwrapped and ready to be shred to pieces by the power of the tongue, all compete in crashing on the senses. Applying all this to the power and energy of the Sculpture and its history causes a short circuit having the capacity of turning the ludic into stately and vice versa. The strict minimalism of parallelepiped is subverted by the uniform coating with many bars of chewing-gum completely cover it, rendering chewable to desire, soft and provoking to forbidden touch, what was abstract and distant.
Peter Callesen
Peter Callesen is an Danish artist who's work is very remarkable. He cuts paper into sculptures with such minute details... I can not imagine how much time he spends on each piece! And his portfolio is actually quite impressive!