My Dead Pony
Thursday, 31 July 2008
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Jeanie Riddle
Jeanie Riddle is a practicing artist working with ideas from the everyday in a dramatic and bold way. Riddle has a fixation about economy and exhausting potential in simple forms. She has a prolific installation and painting practice, and has shown widely and often across Canada. She currently resides in Montreal, Canada, holds a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University and is Director of Parisian Laundry.
Mona Hatoum
"Mona Hatoum’s poetic and political oeuvre is realised in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper.
Hatoum started her career making visceral performance art in the 1980s that focused with great intensity on the body. Since the beginning of the 1990s, however, her work moved increasingly towards large-scale installations that aimed to engage the viewer in conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion, fear and fascination. In her singular sculptures, Hatoum has transformed familiar, every-day, domestic objects such as chairs, cots and kitchen utensils into things foreign, threatening and dangerous.
Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 and now lives and works in London and Berlin. She has participated in numerous important group exhibitions including The Turner Prize (1995), Venice Biennale (1995 and 2005) and Biennale of Sydney (2006). Solo exhibitions include Centre Pompidou, Paris (1994), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1997), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1998), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (1999), Tate Britain, London (2000), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Magasin 3, Stockholm (2004) and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2005)." (White Cube)
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Monday, 21 July 2008
Rotating Towers
Architect Dr. David Fisher is the creator of the revolutionary Dynamic Tower, the world's first building in motion!
The Dynamic Tower offers infinite design possibilities, as each floor rotates independently at different speeds, resulting in a unique and ever evolving shape that introduces a fourth dimension to architecture, Time.
The Dynamic Tower is environmentally friendly, with the ability to generate electricity for itself as well as other buildings nearby making it the first building designed to be self-powered, it achieves this feat with wind turbines fitted between each rotating floor. An 80-story building will have up to 79 wind turbines, making it a true green power plant.
The Dynamic Tower is also the first skyscraper to be built entirely from prefabricated parts that are custom made in a workshop, resulting of fast construction and of substantial cost savings . this approach known as the Fisher Method, also requires far less workers on construction site while each floor of the building can be completed in only seven days, units can also be customized according to the owners needs and styles.
Via Au Secours j'ai un blog
Saturday, 19 July 2008
Dustin Humphrey
"Over the past five years, Humphrey, 31, has established himself as one of the surf-world's most forward-thinking photographers. Originally from Huntington Beach but now based in Bali, he's constantly evolving his craft, using different light, experimental equipment, unique angles and the world's best surfers as his variables. In addition, Humphrey has set a precedent in modern surf travel and documentation, partnering with Taylor Steele on trips to off-the-radar locations like Egypt and Italy. This combination of creativity and impeccable timing has enabled "D Hump" to become one of the most accomplished photographers of the 21st Century."
Via PhotoShelter
Cecilia Carlsedt
Cecilia Carlsedt is an illustrator. She has a very long list of major clients like Bloomingdales, Swarovski, Absolute Vodka, H&M, NY Times, HMV among others.
Her work is very fashionable.
Friday, 18 July 2008
Can Pekdemir
Can Pekdemir photographs concrete, roof tops, walls and people. His pictures show deserted areas. It emphasizes colors and structures and makes us see beauty in places we wouldn't look to find it.
Marc Gibert
Marc Gibert is an event, documentary and corporative photographer who specializes in architecture. Born in France, he lives in Montreal since 1999.
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Sabhan Adam
Sabhan Adam was born in Syria on the border of Irak and Turkey. He mostly paints dark mean unhappy men. It feels like they came out of the picture and they look at you as if they wanted to steal something from you with their little hands coming out of their head.
