February 22, 2012

Nicolas Jaar at MoMA PS1

Nico Jaar discussing his five-hour collaborative multimedia performance at MoMA PS1.

February 21, 2012

Daily News in Posters

Johnny Selman designs a poster a day for 365 days in reaction to a headline on the BBC news website.
www.bbcx365.com








February 17, 2012

February 10, 2012

George Grosz book covers

"My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop... A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society."

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View more on 50watts.com

February 5, 2012

Locomotive by Departement

"A fantastical human machine",  Locomotive is a video installation by interdisciplinary agency Departement currently found at the foyer of Place des Arts, Quebec.





(via greenbongo)

February 2, 2012

Schematics: A Love Story by Julian Hibbard

British photographer Julian Hibbert's book exploring love, memory, and time through 43 schematic diagrams drawn from old books and paired with text. The book begins with a T. S. Elliot quote:

"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”























I learnt to tie my shoes
I learnt to ride my bike
I learnt to smoke
I learnt the vulnerability of fully exposing an idea
I learnt to tie my shoes
I learnt to adapt my behavior in the light of others' actions.
I learnt the difficulty of sustaining the hopes of youth.























I remember a French girl with an English name.
'Leave me now, return tonight,' she told me every morning, and I did.






















I remember an English girl with an French name.
We were the circle that no one could break, or so I thought.

January 30, 2012

Site of the Day: The Restart Page

www.therestartpage.com
Experience the restart sequences from a number of operating systems


















January 27, 2012

New interactive Arcade Fire video
















One more interactive video for Arcade Fire:

Remember the older ones:
> Neon Bible from Neon Bible by Vincent Morisset
> We Used to Wait from The Suburbs by Chris Milk

January 24, 2012

In conversation with Vito Acconci



Vito Acconci discusses with Curator Chrissie Iles the self-hypnosis he underwent while creating his work Claim Excerpts (1971). You can watch an excerpt of the work here.

(via whitney.org)

January 17, 2012

Tide's reusable grocery bag
























P&G’s Smart Bag was developed to promote Tide laundry detergent in Dubai, and to also tackle the alarming plastic waste problem in the UAE. The Smart Bag is a reusable shopping bag with a clever design that resembles a ruled notepad on the exterior. It comes with a marker so consumers can write their grocery list directly on the bag. The bag can be washed clean and reused to create a new list of reminders.

(via PSFK)

January 12, 2012

Two Against One

Music video director and photographer Chris Milk's collaboration with animator Anthony Francisco Schepperd on a Danger Mouse and Daniel Luppi track. Chris Milk's work has been featured again up here with the video he directed for Arcade Fire.



January 8, 2012

Viktor Hertz: Honest Logos

More honest logos by Viktor Hertz here.







January 6, 2012

Contacts Vol. 3: Wolfgang Tillmans

Acid House Superstar photographer Wolfgang Tillmans discussing his work. On Rafael De Alday's account on Vimeo you can also find videos for many well known photographers and artists like Thomas Struth, Martin Parr, Bernd & Hilla Becker, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Andreas Gursky, Nan Goldin and John Baldessari.


January 3, 2012

Nine Iron Dwarves

http://nineirondwarves.blogspot.com/

















December 8, 2011

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is a Feature Film Written, Produced, and Directed By Terence Nance. The film will premiere in the New Frontiers section of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.




For more info visit:
oversimplification.mvmt.com
terencenance.com

December 5, 2011

Judaism and Islam in one fashion show?



























The fashion collective threeASFOUR opened its exhibition "inSALAAm inSHALLOm" in Tel Aviv, bringing to fruition a project over two years in the making. threeASFOUR (that is comprised of an Israeli, a Palestinian and a Russian) invited 10 artists to show works that relate to the project’s central notion: that Judaism and Islam can live side by side.

Watch the video of the show: nytimes video
Read more: nytimes style magazine

December 4, 2011

November 22, 2011

Destino by Salvador Dali & Walt Disney



Destino tells the tragic love story of Chronos, the personification of time, who falls in love with a mortal woman as the two float across the surrealist landscapes of Dalí’s paintings. The poetic, wordless animation features a score by Mexican composer Armando Dominguez performed by Dora Luz.

The project remained a secret and didn’t see light of day until a half-century later when, in 1999, Walt Disney’s nephew Roy E. Disney accidentally stumbled upon it while working on Fantasia 2000, eventually resurrecting the dormant gem. In 2003, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

(via brain pickings)

November 5, 2011

V Squared Labs: Amon Tobin ISAM tour visuals

Soundscapes and projection mapping on dj Amon Tobin's current shows by V Squared Labs.
Watch more clips on youtube.com











October 28, 2011

Shurabhi Saraf: Fold (2010) + Peel (2009)

www.surabhisaraf.net


Fold, 2010


Excerpts from video installation at Root Division Gallery, San Francisco


Peel, 2011


Short excerpt

October 20, 2011

Andrew Zuckerman: On Curiosity, Rigor, and Learning As You Go

Photographer Andrew Zuckerman discussing the creative process and
various of his projects including Wisdom.




The trailer for Wisdom:



(via 99%)

October 16, 2011

October 14, 2011

Site of the day: Kern type, a kerning game

So you think you can kern?
Try kerning a few words and see how you compare to other users: www.type.method.ac




October 11, 2011

Charles Eames on Design

A Q&A from 1972, found on the compilation The Films of Charles & Ray Eames and reproduced in House Industries' typography journal, Madame L'Amic of the Musee des Art s Decoratifs in Paris asks Charles Eames 29 questions about design, covering everything from the balance between form and function to the role of computers in creativity to the impact of influences.















































The iconic Powers of Ten (1977) video by Charles & Ray Eames:

October 3, 2011

Alexa Meade

Alexa Meade takes photographs of the people she paints.
www.alexameade.com