Just found this terrific lighting collection by designer Chiara Lampugnani. I'd include this in ANY project I was working on; contemporary or traditional. If you're in Paris for Maison et Objet, check these out for sure!
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I can't look away! If you need any explanation, head over to: http://lachivany.com/site/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnBY-Yfm2Z4
Just heard about this today, The Art Newspaper is launching a webTV channel. Hopefully we'll be seeing more of this on the net, but until then, good luck to Art Newspaper TV
From the press release:
The Art Newspaper is proud to announce the launch of a web TV channel for the art world. It features interviews with key collectors, curators, dealers, artists, and art world luminaries.
The Art Newspaper TV aims to further the success of The Art Newspaper and continue to provide breaking news, art market analysis and insight for the art world, online.
Kim Joon, Bird Land-Armani (detail), 2008
Just got this great summary from Artkrush who will be on the scene again this year bringing you all the goodness to be found. Be sure to keep checking back as the month develops...
This rarely-seen cult classic never recieved a theatrical release! I saw a crappy VHS copy in college and haven't seen it since. Great cameos from The Tubes, The Clash and The Sex Pistols.--and now the awesome Grand Illusion theatre in Seattle is screening it tomorrow night in celebration of its release on DVD.
As soon as I get done typing, I'm clicking over to Amazon to pre-order my copy.
See y'all tomorrow night!
Move over Prina, there is a new kid on the block. Check out these tight cufflinks designed by Watch-cufflinks á la Steampunk; take a defunct designer watch, pull out the guts, slap on a link back and voila! you’ve just upcycled some junk into a fashion accessory guaranteed to start a conversation! Check out the huge selection and get yours here...
So you couldn't make Coachella because you got the flu. You couldn't use your comped tickets to WMC because of a business trip to Birmingham. And you completely flaked on SXSW. Well now is your chance to make up for it: Glow, this weekend on Santa Monica Pier...
Here are some highlights via Thrillist:
Primal Source: Surreal
images projected on this beach-based 40-foot wall of mist'll move based
on the sounds of voices around the installation, allowing you to see
what "Dude, that's totally a 40-foot wall of mist!" looks like.
The Amazing Mental Scope: Get hooked up with an EEG, then climb on the ferris wheel, and your brainwaves will be displayed via flashing lights on a cylindrical LED display. Onlookers will enjoy the soft glow of your Pleasure Center as you enjoy top-of-the-wheel "special alone time".
Poetry Boat: Use
the provided phone to call the three poets on this off-shore boat, and
they'll compose and read back to you on-the-spot custom poetry. Why are
they out on a boat? Because that's where they put people with leprosy.
All
the while, there'll be a kickin' soundtrack from Djs like KCRW's Garth
Trinidad and Postal Service member Jimmy Tamborello, aka Dntel --
himself so accustomed to late-night shenanigans he once took his own E.
Check out all the craziness at GLOW
Jill over at New York Mag sent me this this morning. A great article 'romancing the city'...
"The high-ceilinged, light-filled studios on top of Carnegie Hall have housed artists, musicians, and writers for more than a century; now, the remaining tenants are fighting to stay."
read the rest here
[UPDATE: CNN reports that Ms. Sherman is holding firm! Way to go Editta!]
"They can pay me $10 million. I'm part of history," she said. "You want to tell me they don't have enough rooms? They have a building of rooms. This place is history, and I think Carnegie, the people running it, I don't think they think about that."
Read the rest here
Just read a great review of Eco's "On Ugliness" in the Telegraph. I confess a weakness for Eco's essays and fiction, but Brian Dillon pulls no punches in his attempt to put Eco into historical place. Worth the read, made me want ot read him again:
"By the Romantic period, the grotesque and the sublime were established as aesthetic categories, and the decadents of the late 19th century loved nothing more than a deathly consumptive countenance. In the wake of 20th-century avant-gardes, unadulterated beauty looks saccharine, immature or kitsch. We seduce only with our faults, wrote Baudrillard. Or as Johnny Rotten put it: there's nothing so boring as a pretty face."
read the rest after the jump HERE
"In recent years, Ballard has become a destination Seattle neighborhood for those in the know, thanks to Scandinavian industrial charm, a few new bars, restaurants, a gallery, music stores and boutiques—including the standout men's clothing boutique, Blackbird.
With a good selection of the labels we know and love, some of the more obscure and lesser-known brands, like the Italian shoemaker Marsèll, put the two-year old store a cut above the rest. They even have a great men's jewelry collection that introduced me to the hard-to-find brand Alksndlia, a company that creates vintage rings and necklaces with old-world appeal. New in this fall are items from Raf Simons, Wings + Horns, Partik Ervell and Robert Geller. Next spring will include pieces from Tim Hamilton, Henrik Vibskov, Harmon and Wrath Arcane..."
via Cool Hunting
Blackbird
5410 22nd Avenue NW
Seattle, WA 98107 map
tel. +1 206 547 2524
...For those of you who don't already know, the Bridge Motel has been a Seattle icon of sorts for the last 50 years; needles in the sheets and no questions asked. A year ago DK Pan took over as manager with an eye to holding this event just before the motel was to be razed [I thought that was Pan in the picture on the left, holding the red umbrella on the roof of the motel, but it was probably either Sheri Brown or Diana Garcia-Snyder performing "Praying Walk", I think...]. The only stipulation for artists was to avoid the subject of drugs, prostitution, or other obvious cheap motel clichés.
We showed up around 7:30 and jumped right in, though we didn't have the courage to open the door to 'The Van'--Mike Min's contribution to the festivities--at least not at first.
The event drew around 1200 people (according to the people who should know), though the small footprint of the motel and parking lot made it seem like twice that number. We found a place in the line and settled in.
Standing in the phenomenally long line, I thought I heard the sound of howling, and as the crowd parted, there it was, a perfectly preserved, young coyote--stuffed, mind you--sitting in a Red Flyer wagon, flanked by the curious and the confused...
read the rest HERE
Los Angeles—Artful Dwellings: Sukkot at the Skirball—an exhibition of three large-scale installations by contemporary artists Sam Erenberg, Therman Statom and Marlene Zimmerman—is now on view at the Skirball Cultural Center through November 11, 2007. These specially commissioned works, all belonging to the Skirball’s permanent collection, represent the artists’ interpretations of a sukkah. Evoking the fragile shelters built by the Israelites in biblical times after their liberation from Egypt, a sukkah is the temporary structure traditionally used during the annual Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which celebrates the fall harvest.
Inspired by the artists’ personal experiences and reflecting their individual aesthetic sensibilities, the three sukkot in the exhibition are compelling works of art familiar in form but unique in interpretation. They provide an occasion for visitors from diverse communities and cultures to reflect upon the themes of shelter, hospitality and thanksgiving.
Sam Erenberg, tabernacle
Mahogany, alder bench and pedestal of birch and pine
MUSEUM PURCHASE WITH FUNDS PROVIDED BY AUDREY AND ARTHUR GREENBURG IN MEMORY OF THEIR SON, DANIEL GREENBERG
tabernacle, a work by painter, photographer and book artist Sam Erenberg, was commissioned by the Skirball in 1985 and demonstrates Erenberg’s contemporary vision of a sukkah. On the exterior walls of the sukkah, Erenberg painted a mural cycle that is meant to be read from right to left like the Hebrew language. The abstract landscape images on the walls deal with creation and fertility, invoking universal themes and recalling the origin of Sukkot as a harvest festival.. Each wall has a triangular cut-out representing a portion of a disassembled six-pointed star. Inside the sukkah is a peaceful area for quiet meditation.
This installation by Erenberg reflects his exploration of light and space, prominent concerns of many Southern California artists. His life’s work is characterized by aspects of Minimalism, an art movement focusing on pure color and shape. Erenberg’s wide-ranging interests—historical, philosophical, religious and literary—have also helped to shape his art.
Therman Statom, To Dwell in a Glass House
Glass, metal and fiberglass, with acrylic and oil
GIFT OF ALPERT & ALPERT IRON & METAL, INC.
For his sukkah, Therman Statom, one of America’s most significant experimental glass artists, used plate glass to which he attached shards, blown glass forms and found objects. Not being of the Jewish faith, Statom came to this project in 1997 without knowledge of what the holiday of Sukkot or its symbolic structure meant. In learning about the holiday, he found that families often design the decorations for their own sukkot using fruits and vegetables of the harvest season or plaques depicting symbolically invited biblical ancestors. Taking inspiration from this, Statom’s installation reflects the bounty of the autumn harvest.
Statom has said that glass, for him, is like a canvas. As demonstrated in his sukkah, he paints some portions of his “glass canvases.” The paint often appears suspended in space, creating a gleaming inner realm for the viewer. Though his is a very non-traditional interpretation, the creation of a sukkah was a natural progression for Statom, since he had often used the basic forms of houses in his work.
Marlene Zimmerman, Joyful Visions: An American Sukkah
Acrylic on pine with 1997 cuttings of 100-year-old grape vines from Rancho Cucamonga
MUSEUM COMMISSION WITH FUNDS PROVIDED BY THE CARYLON FOUNDATION IN MEMORY OF CARYLON HEMMELSTEIN (1925–1996)
When requested by the Skirball in 1997 to create a sukkah with an Americana theme, Marlene Zimmerman began the project by putting out a call in newspapers across the country and on the Internet for individuals and institutions to send her photographs of their own sukkot. Responses were abundant and the photographs became sources of inspiration for the artist. The interior back wall is filled with more than 70 individual scenes of Sukkot celebrations sited in their relative locations across the United States. Among the numerous images are the sukkah of Or Hatzafon (Light of the North) in Fairbanks, Alaska, a congregation which calls itself the “Frozen Chosen” and a sukkah in St. Paul, Minnesota based on an ancient Mongolian structure, the yurt. Painted with lively color, which characterizes Zimmerman’s folk-art style, she has presented in this work the diversity of American life.
Zimmerman’s art evokes the simple, direct, self-taught tradition of 19th-century folk art. Yet she is very much a 20th-century artist who experiments with color and composition and uses photography as source material for her work. Her creative approach is to combine historical research and collected images and patterns with her own artistic style.
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90049 (Exit Skirball Center Drive off the 405)
(310) 440-4500, fax (310) 440-4595
Contact: Stacy Lieberman (310) 440-4578, or Mia Carino (310) 440-4544
Email, communications@skirball.org
Web site, http://www.skirball.org
Please direct e-mail inquiries about the exhibition to the Center's address (above); DO NOT use “Reply” button, it will send to ArtScene.
To view formatted version of this announcement online:
http://artscenecal.com/Announcements/0907/Skirball0907.html
Below is "a music video from 1981 by Oliver Mandić, a big-time 1980s eastern European pop star, transvestite, drug experimenter, orientalist (natch), perfectionist and all-around controversial guy." --benperry.net
I think it is absolutley amazing and must be watched by everyone under the age of 20:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFGObRscWas
A big 'thank you' to benperry.net for this one
Another highlight from our wanderings in the info-graphic world this week; an info-graphic music video featuring Sarah McLachlan's "World on Fire". Fabulous use of graphics and stock ftg. Yes, we are not alone.
from infoaesthetics: at the cost of $15 for this whole video, I guess the infographics were designed for free.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzoNInZ2ClQ
see also global rich list & miniature earth & worldmapper & govcom & gapminder.
[link: worldonfire.ca (high-rez, original video)]
If this stuff works, it will save me thousands on meds and therapy. I can't wait to give it a try...
Smiley Eau de Parfum:
French fragrance and body care line Smiley claims to contain antidepressant ingredients, possibly making it the world’s first form of topical Zoloft. Unlike regular prescription drugs, the range of Smiley products are universal and are not meant to be used in moderation. These formulations, which are for both men and women, claim to contain happiness-inducing bionutrients derived from cocoa extract that stimulate the psyche. And regardless of its mood-enhancing properties, we like it for its sweet scent reminiscent of baked goods.
www.happytherapy.com/
via Trend Central
(incli)NATION is: Daniel Flahiff, editor :: Dorothy D., Akira Rabelais, and Bryan Schultz...
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