Monday, 30 June 2008
Smog (Rock Bottom Riser)
Brendan Cook and Paul McNeil from pictureDRIFT's collaborate on a gorgeous watercolor clip for Smog.
Bubble-producing bike
This is a bubble-producing bike - Power to the Pedal.
Similar to the tuft of a dandelion as the wind carries the seedling, Society Creative IIc. proposes a way of dispersing seedlings with bubbles and bicycling. Seeds are co-mingled with a bubble mixture and upon pedaling to your destination , you release the floating seeds which land in cracks and crevices throughout the city streets.
Over time, the seeds grow into flowers and plants to create a green “fringe” to our sidewalks and streets.
Via Nuacco
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Jérôme Lagarrigue
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful paintings from Jérôme Lagarrigue, a French artist who now works in NY. In 2005, he was the Recipient of the Villa Medicis grant and residency program in Rome Italy.
Jennifer Lefort
Jennifer Lefort received a BFA (with Distinction) from Concordia University and an MFA at York University in Toronto. She is a recipient of the prestigious Plaskett Foundation Award, an advancement/travel grant she used to further her research in Berlin, Germany. Her paintings are found in numerous collections including, The Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Giverny Capital, Hydro-Quebec and Abbott Laboratories. She currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
Jennifer brings a life experience to her practice that reads of patience, independence and a tremendous value of respect for individuality. She lives in Toronto where her husband is an Officer with the Toronto Police Service - it is no coincidence that Jennifer’s gestures and manic mark making relate to the everyday she lives- where life and death are crucially evident and sometimes fleeting. Her paintings portray some of this in what is understood as fast but still all at once- high drama- albeit a colorful, plastic and whimsical depiction but drama none the less.
Friday, 27 June 2008
Sam Taylor-Wood
Sam Taylor-Wood was born in London in 1967 and has had numerous group and solo exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (1997) and The Turner Prize (1998)
(Self Portrait)
(Self Portrait)
Sam Taylor-Wood makes photographs and films that examine, through highly charged scenarios, our shared social and psyschological conditions.
See her work at the White Cube.
(Self Portrait)
(Self Portrait)Sam Taylor-Wood makes photographs and films that examine, through highly charged scenarios, our shared social and psyschological conditions.
See her work at the White Cube.
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Saatchi Online TV
Wow!!! A new addition to the Saatchi Online Gallery is online TV. It features videos of art openings around the world, interviews with artists in their studios, videos about artists, clips from artists' videos and films of art performances. You can also upload your own videos onto Saatchi Online TV and publish your own reviews of movies.
Great, great site and worth a look!
Monday, 23 June 2008
BMW Welt
It looks like a Contemporary Art Museum but it is actually a BMW dealer down in Munich. The BMW Welt (which means World) attracts 850 000 visitors each year.
It holds a show-room, a techno-room, a souvenir shop, a kids playground, 2 bars and 2 restaurants.
First Person Impressions National Competition
First Person Arts is having a National Competition for Memoir and Documentary Writers, Videographers and Photographers.
This is what the flyer says :
« Each day countless stories unfold. Take a real life experience of your own and tell it in a way that only you can. Craft your story with words, photos or video. Make the ordinary magical, or the exotic familiar. Shock us, amaze us or make us pause to reflect. The only rule is that it’s real. »
If you are interested, visit the contest's site here!
Good luck!
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Jason Tozer
Jason Tozer photographed soap bubbles for Creative Review and the results are beautiful. The CR blog published a behind the scenes article about this photoshoot.
Via Designboom
Friday, 20 June 2008
Adam Normandin
Adam Normandin's work is exhibited across the United States and is held in many prominent collections. Adam Normandin lives and works in Los Angeles.
Sako Kojima
Sako Kojima is an artist who uses all kinds of mediums to express herself. Lately, she lived in a glass house, where she mimicked an hamster for 6 days. She says : « This performance is so hard because Sako was moving all day long as a hamster. quickly running, biting wood, paper and scratch wall. »
This is what she says about her work : « I use a variety of medium including sculpture, performance, photography and drawing to explore the people of modern society.At present I'm interested in the psychology of diseased human psychology for the civilized world, because it' s the almost same as my pain.Human is thinking animal therefore, we tire, sad, go mad. I 'm thinking, I want to become just a small animal, because they don' t meditate, they aren' t thinking deep.It' s the reason, I' m doing animal performance.But all of my works are rather optimistic than gloomy .At first sight, the works appear unique and cute but after time the works show a sense of irony pain and sadness of individual human experience. »
Watch her performance here. It's actually pretty funny...