If you like Damien Hirst, but can’t quite afford to part with a hundred million, maybe just kick down 75K or so and pick up one of 50 skulls painted using his scientifically-proven spin painting technique…this amazing technique can also be applied to denim. Just messing with you, Damien, cheer up, I think the skulls look nice.
Categories: Art
Tagged: Art, Damien Hirst, Diamond Skull, Rainbow Skulls, Slam X Hype
If you happen to be in NYC from now until January 11th, are interested in Japanese Art, and like Bamboo, well then just stop by the Japan Society’s New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters exhibit. Bamboo is extraordinary in its versatility, beauty and sustainability - we should use more of it. Anyways, it makes for great art, too, and the pieces below (Harmony II & III, by Morigami Jin) reminded of the Henry Moore on the campus at Purchase where I went to school. I liked that sculpture a lot…until I found out there was another one up in Canada somewhere. Then I just felt betrayed and lost.
(Thanks, Inhabitat)
Categories: Art · Event
Tagged: Art, Sustainabilty, Japan Society, New Bamboo, Bamboo, Henry Moore, Purchase, Inhabitat, Morigami Jin, Canada stole my dream of unique art
English Illustrator Jon Burgerman designed this ridiculously cool wallpaper, which you should buy and cover you walls with so people will actually come over your place and hang out. Because it gets lonely, right? I feel you. Pretties:
(Props, 2Modern)
Categories: Art
Tagged: Art, 2Modern, 2Modern Design Talk, Jon Burgerman, Design, Wallpaper
I was talking with Pops and Danno the other day about artists. and I mentioned Picasso. Of course, my brother and father are a lot smarter than me and discussed the business savvy Picasso combined with his genius at art. I’m sure my comments hung around, “I really like Picasso, his stuff is pretty.” However simple, I do find his work pretty, as well as brutally visceral; shattered portraits and landscapes. Guernica is one of my favorite artworks of all time, and if you care to, you can head to the wiki for some intro info. Artist Lena Gieseke created a 3D model of that work, and you should definitely check it out. Fairly amazing, imho.
Categories: Art
Tagged: Art, Pablo Picasso, Guernica, Lena Gieseke, 3D Art
Nice installation from Antoinette J. Citizen, entitled Landscape.
Landscape, Antoinette J. Citizen
Categories: Art · Games
Tagged: Antionette J. Citizen, Art, High Snobiety, Installation Art, Landscape
Husband and wife team (ah, how cute, I want that some day) Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz made some off-beat snow globes with dark-ish sculptures within (Exactly the kind of weird things that would come from a collaboration with any woman who would marry me). Any-howzers, the couple are publishing a book with Aperture in the fall, with text from Jon Lethem. So get ‘em.
(From Ye)
Categories: Art · Humor
Tagged: Aperture, Art, Jon Lethem, Kanye's Blog, Paloma Munoz, Sculpture, Snow Globes, Walter Martin, Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz
Here is some more graphic design based work for this fine, muggy Tuesday evening. Pete Harrison is based in the UK and whips up some marvelous shit to get your mouth watering, y’know. Though, there is certainly a darkness to this the work. So if you want pretty and happy, maybe not so much…
(Thanks Kanye)
Categories: Art · Photography
Tagged: Art, Design, Kanye West Blog, Pete Harrison, Photography
Photoshop art can be great, so-so, or just horrible. So says I. These manipulated images from Ricardo Salamanca are crazy, as are the rest on his terrific site, Salamagica. Go get yourself disturbed.
(Thanks, ideafixa)
Categories: Art · Photography
Tagged: Art, IdeaFixa, Photographic Manipulation, Photoshop Art, Ricardo Salamanca, Salamagica
Flooded London was created by the incredible media production group Squint/Opera and visualizes the English city several decades in the future when sea levels have risen substantially. The series is set years after initial chaos took place, and has a fairly Utopian perspective. Good luck on that, but pretty nonetheless; I like the style of the pieces. The absence of Kevin Coster-esque mermen is enough for me. The images are at Medcalf Gallery in Clerkenwell, London for the London Festival of Architecture.
(Dezeen)
Categories: Architecture · Art · Event
Tagged: Architecture, Art, Clerkenwall, Design, Flooded London, London Festival of Architecture, Medcalf Gallery, Squint/Opera
Categories: Art · Personal
Tagged: Art, Edward Said, Late Style, Mark Rothko
