Secret Still

I don’t normally talk about other people’s reports, but Juxtapoz, right this very minute, has some fantastic coverage of the Street Market created by Espo, Reas, and Barry Mcgee at MOCA’s “Art in the Streets” exhibit (which is dope, and you should see it if you can). I remember seeing photos of the original installation 10+ years ago and having my mind blown, but the new version is something beyond that entirely. The level of detail is amazing, as well as the sheer volume of amazing work that had to be produced in order to create this gigantic installation. I won’t say a lot more, because it will be redundant when you read the Jux article. In fact, I’m done talking, just go.

Juxtapoz: Street Market at MOCA’s “Art in the Streets”

These artworks are like trying to eat a Slayer album and then wash it down with broken glass while high-fiving every monster from every nightmare you had as a kid. And if that sentence doesn’t work for you then just try the words “awesome” or “gnarly”. Either way you’ll understand what I mean. Buy me one of these paintings and I will get your face tattooed somewhere on my body. Seriously.

Skinner

I came across the work of Kirsten Hassenfeld last year sometime, but it didn’t hit me right. I don’t know what’s changed about me since then, but I can’t get enough of it now. Working mostly with paper and other light media in a very pale palette, Kirsten creates installations of ethereal geometry relying on small points of light, and a sense of space. These are the kinds of installations that lute music was made for. Hassenfeld lights a lot of her pieces from within which adds to their complexity by removing a lot of the shadows, making it hard to discern all the details. She increases complexity by increasing visual simplicity. There’s more going on here than I could hope to explain in a short post.

Kirsten Hassenfeld

Erik Otto

The fine folks of Graffiti Reasearch Lab have come up with yet another brilliant way to make the cityscape come alive. They’ve got a mobile projector/laser system that responds to a laser pointer, but the great part is that you can be pretty far away from whatever it is your projecting onto. And the source code is open-source! These dudes should be my friends.

Find out what the hell I’m talking about here.

A quick video link for all of you. Edo Paulus created some very simple machines with solar cells attached so that the machines operate faster or slower depending on how much sunlight they’re getting. He put them out in a field and let them go to work. What is it they do, exactly? See for yourself.