Etch-a-Sketch art
Wow. Portraiture on the Etch-a-Sketch by Gila Rayberg for Julia Kay’s Portrait Party at Flickr.
Tim Hunt’s Pacific Tattoo
A short film about tattoo artist Tim Hunt in Paekakariki, Aotearoa / New Zealand — his art and philosophy.
No Layout
No Layout is a fully readable library for independent publishers, focusing on art books and fashion magazines. It is meant as a support for printed publications, allowing users to flip through full content on any screen without downloads or apps. More than 100 publishers and new entries added every week.
Calamari stirrup bootstrapping methodology
the internet’s bathroom wall
Superfreedraw is the largest bathroom wall ever. Just go there and leave a doodle wherever you like. No censorship, no registration. Pure user generated nonsense.
Der amerikanische Freund | Wim Wenders (1977)
Dennis Hopper (as Tom Ripley) and Nicholas Ray (as Derwatt) in Wim Wenders’s Der amerikanische Freund (1977).
In 1977 Ray, who directed Hopper in Rebel Without a Cause, was diagnosed with the lung cancer that killed him two years later.
Max Ernst
I unfortunately don’t have time to take any art courses in college now, so my friends and I have imposed weekly “mandatory art time.” This is a charcoal drawing of mine based on a wonderful Max Ernst piece.
Graphic Artists Edited by Recession, Nepotism
“CEOs and managers used to doodle concepts on napkins and Post-it notes and send them to the art department for refinement,” said panic-decision expert Norm Delahaye. “Nowadays, the original thumbnail sketches are simply scanned and published — with no apologies and no regrets.”
“An art degree and five dollars will buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks,” Mr. Delahaye continued, “which is where a lot of displaced visual stylists are going to end up working.”
Zero Dollar Bill
Artist Brian Romero invested many hours to create the monetary vehicle we’ll all need if things keep up at this rate: the zero dollar bill.
Embiggened version here, and it’s very worthwhile. Check out the detail, typography and signatures.
(via Neatorama)
Do we see real art on the internet?
Question: is internet phenomenon art really art? Is what we see circulated around the internet indicative of what’s really going on in the art world? Do real artists roll their eyes at what’s getting diggs and del.icio.us hits? Do the two ever meet? Do you have examples? Is this both?
Erwin Wurm’s Inspection
Waterpod Beta
I saw this project yesterday at the LMCC Workspace Open Studios. The Waterpod beta is a project by Mary Mattingly.
The Waterpod is a floating sculptural Living Structure designed as a new habitat for the global warming epoch. It will launch in New York in May, 2009, from the Newtown Creek between Brooklyn and Queens, navigate down the East River, explore the waters of New York Harbor, and stopping at each of the five boroughs it will dock at several Manhattan piers on the Hudson River.
I kind of want to take a ride on the waterpod beta.
release
Christoph Girardet. A description better than any I could have written.
Y’all? Vacation is good.
Today, (and maybe tomorrow again) The Cinema Effect at the Hirshhorn. As it defies description, I’ll attempt none. If you have the chance I know you’d enjoy it.
Elephant Self-Realization
I think Deron once said the only requirement for content here was stuff that made your head explode. Watching this made my head explode.
PrintBall printer
PrintBall is a large format printer that uses paintballs as ink and a robotic paintball gun as the printhead. Currently in Dulbin shooting at the plate glass windows in the front of the gallery.
Andy Warhol
Tonight, At the Pit…
From a collection of ‘Gig Posters.’
via Coudal
Circular Life
I just love art that makes the mundane vivid, fresh, and urgent. Their Circular Life does just that. It is better experienced than explained but imagine pictures from the same frame taken over a twenty four hour period with its local sounds looped over the pictures.
Go watch.
Bit.fall: Observations on culture, personhood, and the internet
Julius Popp set up waterfall art in my hometown, St. Louis, to provoke thought about the culture and value.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AICq53U3dl8[/youtube]
(via Coudal)
stork | transitive verb | to alter radically that which is imperfect so as to ruin it irredeemably
When Melanie was a little girl, she bought a coloring book expressly because of the picture of a stork that it contained. When she saw the drawing of the stork, Melanie thought to herself that it would look very beautiful if it were glossy and black, and so she bought the book and went home to color the stork with wax crayons. Well, you know what generally happens when you press very very hard on a wax crayon to produce a glossy effect (especially if you are very excited and eager to see a shiny black stork). But as she worked and worked on the picture, the stork came to look less and less like her imagined ideal and more like a mess till finally she grew so angry that she took her black crayon and drew a big black ‘X’ across the entire page. From that day forth Melanie (and I) came to speak of ‘storking’ something when our ambitions exceeded our capacity and we got so furious that we felt driven to mutilate our work beyond redemption.
Cross-posted at remembery and memorycemetery.
John Hendrix
I am not sure if I posted anything of John’s work before, but I just ran into him at my favorite cafe and was reminded how much I love his work. He is such a nice guy and it is my sincerest hope that he does not play texas hold’em as well as he sketches.
See also his blog.
