Nick Deacon
The schizophrenic pen and ink work of Nick Deacon makes me want to eat candy. That’s pretty much all I can say about that.
{ Monthly Archives }
March 2007
Dalek and Mars-1
Jonathan Levine Gallery is once again hosting the best show in town. This time they’ve got a joint show featuring the work of Dalek and Mars-1. I’ve seen a few pieces of Dalek’s design work recently and I was worried that maybe it had gone a little too minimal for my taste, but judging from the paintings in this show it’s the exact opposite and I fucking love it. Mars-1 continues his streak with another banger set of futuristic alien landscapes. Why do I live so far away from art this good?
Morning Breath
Morning Breath, Inc. is a design firm out of Brooklyn who seem to be able to encompass any artistic style. I’m always impressed when a couple of designers manage to get together and create work as diverse as several hundred artists while at the same time maintaining a unity in the expression of the work. It looks different but it feels the same. Not easy to pull off.
Morning Breath, Inc.
Sorry for the Interruption
I’m stuck at a lesser workstation in the building so today’s post won’t be fancy, just a set of links. I’ve got to go deal with a an ebay auction where I won a bike for $40 and the dude is trying to charge me $160 shipping. Not so fast, Assbag. You’re dealing with the non-retarded here. But nice try.
Tommii Lim makes good art.
53 o’s make weird videos. Check out Body Magic. Jill, Ashley, I think you’ve found your Nirvana.
RGB Studio is keepin it raw.
Owl Movement has some new shirts to cop.
And The Onion now comes in Video format.
Cathrine Kullberg
Cathrine Kullberg is a Norwegian designer who just launched her own line of lamps. And they are fantastic. They’re warm and modern which is not an easy combination to pull off, and at the same time they are simple enough to be rustic. For her first product I think she definitely has a winner.
This American Life
Some of you might know that the popular NPR series This American Life is now a television show on Showtime. If you know that then I hope that you watch it, because it’s brilliant and interesting and very much like hanging out with that cool scientist, the one that rides a motorcycle to the atom smashing facility. I just watched a great short that they had on their show animated by Chris Ware.
Irregular Flow
This video is breathtakingly cool.
Emma Ferguson
In her own words: make one off illustrations using traditional embroidery techniques. My work looks into the nature of craft and usually depicts computer games, vibrators or modern technology.
And that’s just exactly what Emma Ferguson does though it has a bit more tongue-in-cheek to it. See it to believe it.
Buck - Tower of Grantville
The design firm Buck has long been cranking out impressive work. Their LA office just took it to the next level with their new animated short film entitled The Tower of Grantville it’s well rendered and maintains a good atmosphere. Just creepy enough to live alone, just weird enough to like it that way. That describes the short.
Wee Planets
The thing that I love about Flickr is that it pushes people to outdo each other while at the same time providing them with ways to share ideas and tips. A good example is Wee Planets. 360 degree panoramas of various landscapes are taken and wrapped around their poles to create what seem like small planets. My description will fail to show how cool an beautiful this really is. It makes the landscape itself seem to be an island, a crystallized moment in space. Fucking rad.