Archive for November, 2007
super lame.
when i think of the olympics i think of athletic people and cultural mingling. not cutsie, silly, little make believe creatures. the mascots for the 2010 vancouver games were publicized this week and i personally think they are not quite suited for the occassion. inspired by first-nations lore and drawn in anime style, they are: [...]
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Tags: 2010, complete crap, folk lore, mascots, olympics
the tried and true.
As part of the course I’m taking -the course which requires this blog- we have to write about an artist occupied in the digital interactive arts and their work. Who better than David Rokeby, based in my homeland of smoggy goodness, also known as Toronto.
Rokeby has been in the art of interactive media since [...]
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Tags: new media art, review
misunderstood misfits.
megan whitmarsh is likely enamoured with all things yeti and embroidered. who can blame her? yetis are highly misunderstood and embroidery is just oh so pleasant to touch. mix in a dash of robots, lasers, masked men, and tiny mountains, you’ve got yourself a party.
http://www.tinyindustries.com/
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Tags: art, dance party, embroidery, sewing, yetis
light up my life.
jonas samson’s has created a high-tech light-emitting wallpaper that uses a two-dimensional flat surface as the light source instead of a 3D object. as long as the wallpaper is turned ‘off’, it’s indistinguishable as a source of light. instead, it is just what it appears to be: wallpaper. kind of crazy, highly amazing.
http://www.jonassamson.com/
let’s [...]
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Tags: design, electric, life, possibility of burning down houses, wallpaper
starck raving mad.
phillippe starck is an amazingly talented french designer. his lighting concepts and design are particularly fetching.
starck takes time to change our pasta, our ash-trays, lamps, toothbrushes, door handles, cutlery, candlesticks, kettles, knives, vases, clocks, scooters, motorcycles, desks, beds, taps, baths, toilets, hotels … in short, our whole life. he’s kind of amazing and i wish [...]
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Tags: design, glorious, lighting, nifty glory, phillippe starck
a small anecdote.
bryan schutmaat is a young photographer from texas. his work emits a sense of past times. times of glory, times of pain, times of euphoria, times of others that seem like they could have been your own. odd. i like it.
http://www.bryanschutmaat.com/index.html
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Tags: clouds, life, memories, photography, short shorts
tagged and complete.
done and done, here is the final vinyl installation.
the dunce can officially stay in the eciad cafeteria, suitable enough.
Filed under: art projects | 3 Comments
Tags: baseman, dog, dunce, installation, vinyl
lucrative delight.
the business of death. kind of amazing. especially the music. too good to pass on.
i’ll take one kitty coffin please, perhaps the 250 pencil option.
http://www.goodmagazine.com/
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Tags: animation, coffins, death, fun times, goodness, grass, pencils, pure sweetness.
type me fantastic.
craig ward likes to play with type. i’m just going to assume he found his inspiration at the bottom of his bathtub, at some shows, and while falling down the stairs.
http://www.wordsarepictures.co.uk/
Filed under: design, typography | 5 Comments
Tags: dirty monkeys, hair, typography
