Category: Art & Design
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SpearTalks: Alyson Fox
Alyson Fox likes doing things. In her case, ‘things’ mean drawing, taking pictures, designing clothes, making shop windows pretty – and probably one or two more ‘things’ since we last talked. Check it out here.
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Matt Borruso's Vibrating Ugly Children – WFMU's Beware of the Blog
Matt Borruso creates stunningly demented portraits of ugly children. The garish candy colors vibrate, making these unfortunate kids equally nauseating and mouth watering. Check it out here.
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A la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers – Boing Boing
My friend, Hillary Carlip, likes to collect other people’s discarded shopping lists. She likes them so much she created an art project based on the lists Check it out here.
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New Mike Davis oil painting show in San Francisco – Boing Boing
Painter Mike Davis has a new show of work opening at San Francisco’s White Walls Gallery tomorrow. Check it out here.
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Wooster Collective: Wooster Special Edition: "Binary Bug" Print and Book From Space Invader
Following sold out projects with Faile, Shepard Fairey, and Bast, we’re thrilled to launch today the latest in our series of “Wooster Special Editions.” Our fourth artist in the series is…. Space Invader. Check it out here.
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Behance Inspiration: Japanese Moleskine – Josh Spear
The Saint Petersburg, Russia design team Indeepop demonstrates their expertise in character design with their Japanese Moleskine Project. The team presents a unique set of characters, meticulously depicted from cover to cover in a traditional Moleskine notebook. Check it out here.
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+KN | Kitsune Noir » The Desktop Wallpaper Project
Here’s the plan: I’ll be releasing one desktop wallpaper every Wednesday morning (California time) until I run out of wallpapers. They’ll be free to download, and come in a multitude of monitor sizes, as well as iPhone and PSP versions just for the fun of it. As of writing this, there are 60 artists involved…
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scott campbell: Great Showdowns.
hey, diary and others. i did these nine paintings for the Crazy 4 Cult show at Gallery 1988 in LA tomorrow night. They depict nine great movie showdowns. you might remember these great moments in movie history. Check it out here.
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Right Some Good: Nathan Ota
I really, really like Nathan Ota’s paintings. His work contains characters such as eyeless birds, cyclops robots, and tree stump men Check it out here.
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Tag Sale – New York Times
In his 1999 book “The Art of Getting Over,” Stephen Powers (also known as Espo) profiled and catalogued the work of several dozen fellow graffiti artists. Among them was KR, known for drippy silver tags around San Francisco and also for the unusual material he made them with. “Krink,” Powers explained, “is a homemade silver…
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The Pyrotechnic Imagination – New York Times
Photo by Simon Norfolk Cai Guo-Qiang says his favorite artistic moment is the pregnant pause between the lighting of the fuse and the detonation of the gunpowder. “There is a pressure in it to be preserved, and then it explodes,” he says. “This moment belongs just to the artist and the work.” On a breezy…
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Daniel Clowes' "Mister Wonderful" free PDF download – Boing Boing
: The New York Times has the full run of Daniel Clowes’ (Ghost World, David Boring) “Mister Wonderful” online for free in PDF format Check it out here.
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Swindle 15 – Obey Giant
: The times they are a-changing. So, we at SWINDLE want to evolve, too. Issue 15 marks the unveiling of our newly redesigned layout. We’ve made the text more engaging, we’ve standardized the fonts, and added two regular columns: James Gaddy’s Classic Graphics delves into the history of iconic logos, and Henry Rollins gives us…
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Murakami takes graffitied Murakami billboard – Boing Boing
: In December, graffiti writers AUGER and REVOK modified a billboard advertising the wonderful Takashi Murakami exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Two days later, the billboard was removed. The LA Weekly now reports that Murakami himself saw online photos of the graffitied billboard and thought it to be “so wonderful, he…
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Wooster Collective: The Israeli Border Police in Weimar – An Explanation
: I wanted to bring The Israeli border police in Weimar, the standard armored jeep that the border police uses to patrol will escort me in my daily life in town. I examine what such an action brings, how the presence of a militarized police force from Israel in a small quiet East German place…
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Right Some Good: Ryan Heshka
: Ryan Heshka has a show in LA at Secret Headquarters bookshop. Here is a link to the show! Check it out here.
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TED | TEDBlog: We're made for zooming
The Internet, it seems, doesn’t take advantage of how humans best process information. Evolution granted Homo Sapiens a high degree of visual acuity … Scrolling and linking are inferior modes of taking in information. “Humans are incredibly good at spatial navigation and incredibly bad at navigating through a list of generic icons or generic text.”…