trippy.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Greta Alfaro
Greta Alfaro's Ictu Oculi is just amazing. Her play on chaos and vulnerability is so visually striking. I also love her "In Praise of the Beast"- there is such a humor within nature at times.
Amy Stevens
"The Confections series began as a response to turning 30. It was a celebration of birthdays, color, pattern and obsessive absurdity. My original idea was to bake 30 birthday cakes for myself and photograph them. I didn’t quite make it to 30 cakes in time for my thesis show, but I sure got a lot of ideas from those first cakes. I ordered a kit from Martha Stewart.com and watched an instructional video on decorating cakes. When I quickly discovered my cakes were never going to look like the ones in the video and the pamphlet, I decided they were better off in their exuberantly imperfect states. With over 70 cakes constructions to date, I’m often asked, “Why still with the cakes?” Cakes are the centerpieces of celebrations and symbolic trophies evoking nostalgia and awe. Historically, cake has played a significant role in womens’ lives. Women have used cake as both an outlet of creativity and a symbol of female power politics. In my constructions of these photographs, I am commentating on not only cake itself as a rich cultural symbol, but of the domestic fantasy world of contemporary home decorating and cooking magazines and television shows. It’s a fantasy world where entertaining, cooking and decorating unite. It’s a place where one needs to have a beautiful home, decorated seasonally, in order to entertain friends with gourmet meals and elaborately concocted desserts.” – Amy Stevens
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Paa Joe
This aeroplane coffin, made in 1951, was the first such coffin in Ghana. Made by brothers Kane and Adjetei Kwei, the coffin was their final gift to their 90-year-old grandmother who had never been in a plane but told them she often day-dreamed of flying.
The tradition for fish coffins is believed to have originated in the village Teshi, where fishermen were buried in two canoes bound together in the shape of a fish.
I was so happy to find information on Paa Joe today. When I was in 2nd grade I remember reading an article about him in Nation Geographic for kids. He's an artist/craftsman from Ghana that makes these amazing coffins to reflect the what the owners profession was during their life (prostitute to fisherman). It was such a beautiful amazing imaginative craft that I began to daydream about all the things I wanted to be burried in. And maybe that's a bit morbid ...but it was a light hearted funny idea at the time.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
MOVE LEARN EAT - Rick Mereki
44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles
3 pleasures of life.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
David Barth
David Barth is an extremely talented 12 year old boy with autism. He has been published in a book titled Drawing Autism which included David's drawing called "Birds" which included 397 different species. super cool stuff.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Matt Lifson
Matt Lifson's explosive surreal paintings are pretty amazing. It's even more amazing that he's only 26. He currently resides in LA where he is getting his masters at Otis.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
CANADA
BATTLES - Ice Cream from CANADA on Vimeo.
Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light from bat on Vimeo.
You might recognize the style from El Guincho's Bombay video, all of which were directed and produced by CANADA, a super creative Spanish company. They do everything from advertising to music videos. I love the flashes of quick stunning imagery- very provocative but in just the right way.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger is an artist with an obvious graphic design background. Her trademark black and white images with confrontational red and white text speaks to power and control. Her work has been displayed publicly in a typical advertising setting so it has that same attraction and play with its luring promise of fulfillment but it allows us to discover its deception.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Jenny Holzer
Robert Montgomery
"Robert Montgomery works in the situationist tradition and continues to relentlessly hijack advertising spaces across the globe in order to provide a reflective space in which a public so used to being psychologically bludgeoned into a consumerist daze can find some respite from the relentless static of the modern world." Dazed.
It's interesting to be bombarded with such emotionally charged melancholic poetry in a public space.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Agustina Woodgate
"Places and Objects are alive, we make them alive, they tell our stories and tales. Sewing poems in clothes in a way is giving the garments a voice. We are in relation -- with others, with things, with the world. This being-in-relation, is a way of perceiving, a mode of moving, a narrative of global truths designed by cultural fictions. Sewing poems in clothes is a way of bringing poetry to everyday life just by displacing it, by removing it from a paper to integrate it and fuse it with our lives. Sometimes little details are stronger when they are separated from where they are expected to be."
I have done a post about Agustina Woodgate's stuffed animal rugs in April but there is something much more successful about her poetry bombing. love it. I love when art can be found in unsuspecting places in public.
I have done a post about Agustina Woodgate's stuffed animal rugs in April but there is something much more successful about her poetry bombing. love it. I love when art can be found in unsuspecting places in public.
Matthew Reamer
Matthew Reamer has photographed the movement of Scraper bikes in Oakland. This trend should not be taken lightly, it has helped many to express themselves and keep young people out of trouble. To learn more about this social movement and positive trend check out their blog as well as the video below. Pretty amazing!
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