Thursday, December 10, 2015

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Miami Art Week

An assortment of tempura fried flowers are beautifully arranged on Plexiglas in "Life Serves Up the Occasional Pink Unicorn" (2013) by New York-based Korean artist Anicka Yi—evoking, to us, the pastime of pressing flowers into scrapbooks. 

Radiance--Miami Art Week

Within a room dedicated entirely to the experience of "Radiance" (2013) by Cathy Cunningham-Little we were taken by the prismatic rays stemming from light placed upon angled glass. The installation, seen at Miami Project, turned simplicity into brilliance. It only takes two elements to dazzle.


Speedy Graphito "NEWWORLDS"


Artist Speedy Graphito recently opened his second solo exhibition, NEWWORLDS, at the Fabien Castanier Gallery. Presented together with SANDOW, a multi-platform media and design firm, the exhibition NEWWORLDS examines the mutation and perception of the image through the influence of technology and its associated information glut. 

Richard Hamilton obituary

In 1956 Richard Hamilton, who has died aged 89, attracted attention with his collaged poster image for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition at the Whitechapel gallery in London. It was quite shocking: a naked woman on a sofa and a bodybuilding he-man holding an oversized lollipop labelled "Pop" in a prominent position, lots of domestic gadgets including a TV, the cover of a comic presented as a framed painting, an all-too-urban scene through the landscape window, the ceiling covered with a space-age photo of Earth.

Josh Walton: Digital Storytelling Through Physical Space

This is an interesting presentation about combining physical spaces and digital assets.



The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas


The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and they provide a behind-the-scenes look into the personalities and inspiration behind The Cosmopolitan.

Icebook

This is amazing, I just can't stop watching it!  The Icebook - the world's first projection mapped pop-up book. An exquisite experience of fragile paper cutouts and video projections that sweep you right into the heart of a fantasy world. It is an intimate and immersive experience of animation, book art and performance.

360° 3D Mapping Projection


Really Nice, but still waiting for the technology to reach the point of being able to projection map to live animate real people in real-time.This is using state of the art 3D mapping, 360 projection and tailored graphics, production studio DrawLight and the renowned artist Rabarama have given a new lease of life to her famous sculpture 'Bozzolo'.

Extreme body modification

 I will never do this, this is crazy !!This is María José Cristerna also known as The Vampire Woman, in a photo just taken at the Venezuela Tattoo International Expo in Caracas, Venezuela. She was considered the woman with the most tattooing and body modifications in the world, but that hasn't stopped her from getting even more.

ALLEN GINSBERG Interview BBC 1994

Allen Ginsberg was a brilliant writer and soul less man all at the same time. While he captivated his readers and audiences with fantastic word craftsmanship,his topics, his attitude, his ideas were the first steps toward the hijacking decency and replacing it with immoral personal satisfaction without regard for anyone other than himself.

Welsh Artist Paints with Jam and Marmite on Toast

Nathan Wyburn, a young Welsh artist from Ebbw Vale, has created a series of celebrity portraits with jam and marmite, on a canvas made of toast.

Portraits Made Using People as Pixels





American artist Craig Alan creates unique portraits of pop-culture icons using people as pixels. Some of his famous pieces include Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy and the Statue of Liberty, but probably the most incredible one is the portrait of Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast At Tiffany’s.

In Your Arms Music Video, Stop Motion Animation

22 months
1,357 hours
30 people
2 ladders
1 still camera
288,000 jelly beans




How Walt Disney Cartoons are made

How animation has gotten so much easier over the years. No more painstaking hours of coloring cels in, now we can do that in just a few minutes, and the colors look much cleaner.



Joséphine Baker: The 1st Black Superstar

RIP Josephine , it makes me sad to see how USA treated people in those days and it continues with hate and disrespect in numbers.

First Device to Create an Image

Because of the expense of building a large room and the hours involved sketching by hand a faint image projected on the wall, the camera obscura was limited to artist who used the device to quickly sketch an image in perfect perportion and then later finish the work as a completed painting. There was still no light sensitive materials that could "capture" the faint image.

GROW VALLEY

Grow Valley is another awesome puzzle game from Eyezmaze, the creator of Grow Island. Aim of this grow game is to figure out how to get the perfect score with the right sequence. 

TETEM gallery

Anne Gentenaar has been doing mapping since her graduation project in 2006 when she found her passion for it. From her work, I see a whole different mapping world. This art work below appeared in the TETEM gallery Enschede.

Light and Paper

 Joanie Lemercier is a French artist who loves to project lights onto his art work. When he was five, he found his passion in art because of his mom. He has a huge passion for geometry, and his favorite shape is the triangle.


#WhatLiftsyou

Kelsey Montague is another painting artist. She started a project called “WhatLiftsyou.”  She has passion in public art, and she believes humans should have hands in creating the art itself. Her work is really thoughtful with bright colors and all kinds of shapes makes the pieces unique.


Global Angel Wings

Colette Miller started the Global Angel Wings project in 2012. She said this project is to remind people that we can be “Angles” of this earth and peace for this world. Now, she has wings all over the world. Her art work comes from her heart, dreams and memories. She believes in putting a lot of love into her work to make it special and strong. This art work is the inspiration for my final project; I believe everyone can be an angel everywhere.