The Artist Derick Melander creates large geometric configurations from carefully folded and stacked second-hand clothing. These structures take the form of wedges, columns, walls and enclosures, typically weighing between five hundred pounds and two tons. Smaller pieces directly interact with the surrounding architecture where as his larger works create discrete environments. His rational is that, like architecture, clothing wears, and fades, and decays, representing an intimate record of the human presence. Also like buildings clothing defines the boundary between the individual and the outside world. Check out more at his website!
On September 24th, 2009, Mr. Melander created a monumental sculpture from 3,615lbs of second hand clothing. The resulting piece was a 5 x 7 foot cube made in 4 sections and sat outside the Borough Hall for the 5th Annual Green Brooklyn Green City Fair and Symposium.
Why 3,615 pounds? That's the amount of textile waste created by New Yorkers every 5 minutes. Clothing for the event was loaned by the textile recycling company, Wearable Collections.
Photographer Christoph Martin Schmid's images are humorous and ironic. Where ever there is perfection or ease, there is always a problem with it that is never seen. He captures it perfectly and bluntly.
Video Documentary of the Holiest of holy places... + a stellar insight to the future trend of the current art movement (listen for it). As a whole, the video has some very profound and true moments, yet, is playfully delightful... enjoy...
In Thai, Buamai translates to ‘are you bored?’ The very interesting web page was created by Michael Paul Young with the intention to become a massive image library (in due time) that would eventually kill time when anyone is bored. It is full of images or digital art, wtf pics, artistic photography among plenty of other funny and wacky stuff. For now, the people posting images on Buamai is a closed collective, but it is very likely that they will open the flood gates in the future. And if you have an iphone... "there's an app for that"... So, if you are ever bored, click away!
1)Read a variety of personal advertisements 2)Locate and photograph posters in their homes 3)Become 'de-classified'
Through the anonymity of personal advertisements, an amazing array and spectrum of human emotions, needs and experiences shows up- love, lust, anger, fantasy, and pain are just the first few to come to mind.
de-classified feels that by combining the images with the ads, hopefully the viewer will get a very intriguing view of each subject. in addition, the viewer and community at large is able to anonymously view and comment on each of the pieces hopefully will ad another interesting layer, re-classifying the de-classified process. What do you think about that? Check it out...
Sam Songailo’s paintings are an intricate layering of visual systems, that initially draw you in with a particular intensity of color. His use of bright colors and geometric shapes reminded me instantly of Peter Halley. Both artists share an obsession with surface, texture and color.
Unlike Halley, Songailo's paintings seek to meditate on human experience instead of acting as a critique to it. However, like Halley, the forms and colors used by Songailo impart a specific message of empathy and enthusiasm for the world around him. For the viewer it is possible to experience the enjoyment of process to be pulled into the artist’s world.
Samsung has just released a viral video to promote its new LED TV. But if you’re expecting just another ad, you will be disappointed. The brand came up with an extraordinary idea to make sure that its new product will be talked about: viral sheep advertising. Check it out below...
depthCORE is an international art collective focused on modern and abstract art, incorporating design, photography, animation and audio. They have just released the newest chapter of the collection. The 36th chapter is a freestyle collection of sins, crims and good old fashioned booty entitled 'HEIST'. Check it out...
Greg Williams photographic style merges reportage together with cinematic lighting and composition utilizing film industry lighting as opposed to a strobe. He does everything. news, film stills, fashion, magazine spreads, advertising campaigns. Williams has pioneered a technique he calls "Motos" or moving photos, with the use of the Red digital cinema camera. The still frames from this 4K super hi-definition movie camera are good enough quality to run double page spread in a magazine. Needless to say what he captures is fantastic to look at. Go forth and enjoy.
Wesley Allsbrook was born and raised in the north/central region of North Carolina. After graduating from RISD, she settled into life as a freelance illustrator, producing not just for commission, but for her own pleasure. What drew me to her images was the superb use of color, the delicate lines, and the splendid layering effect similarly to Japanese woodblock prints, which similarly are employed to tell a complex story. their tension and flow, their mix of the familiar and the decidedly strange simultaneous mixed, sometimes create and expression of joy or something darker. These characteristics are evidence supporting a young artist of immense talent and originality. Enjoy.
"Can Bacteria Rescue the Oil Industry?"
"Health Care Benefit Plan"
"Wellness Plans: All is still well with wellness plans"
'Beacon' is a kinetic light installation by Chris O'Shea, which presents an array of emergency beacon lights that interacts with visitors, tracking their movement through the instillation space, creating an immersive and playful experience. The movement of the beacons are orchestrated in real-time by a bespoke control system, which uses tracking information from the cameras to coordinate the interactive and highly responsive behavior of the lights.
(Currently) Berlin-based conceptual illustrator, Christoph Niemann’s recent LEGO post on the New York Times blog is fantastic. Niemann's illustrations have appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine and American Illustration. He has more on his site. Enjoy! And my personal favorite...
Peep these two extremely talented and stylized graffiti artists, Pose and Ewok, of The Seventh Layer just doing that thing they do. The video presents a somewhat more interesting look at presenting graffiti art then your average boring time lapse of some dude spraying a wall. Looks like they succeeded.
Flooded McDonald's is a film work by Superflex in which a convincing life-size replica of the interior of a McDonald's, without any customers or staff present, gradually floods with water. Reviews of this film claim many things. It is a commentary on the relationships between global warming, and, or our role as consumers, and, or our growing social unrest, and, or globalization, and, or capitalist imperialism. This film is too loose and too raw to just place one label to describe the purpose of this art piece, and to possibly use it as a tool for some end. So with this film, although it does manifest many different subjects in the mind of the viewer, It generally points you in the right direction (and not like animal rights or the moon). You could say that they've tried to make it as open to interpretation as possible so people can bring their own views into it. So people... what is your interpretation?
This is a short clip of the actual 20 min run time... enjoy...
Parisian street artist Ludo has been hitting the streets hard. His work with the blade is indeed skilled as seen with his new series of stencils titled "Nature's Revenge". The works depict plants and flowers that have evolved into nature/machine hybrids in order to defend themselves against human aggression and pollution. New on the wall is a fantastic take on Van Gogh's sunflowers.
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