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Posts Tagged artists

Animals abstracted to fine lines

Iconic illustrations created by Tyler Lang at Always with Honor as part of a series called Glory of Vermont.  Lovely, emblematic, and like how they are captured in motion.

(via FFFFOUND! and my sister’s Google Reader shared feed)


Posters by artist Mat Daly

After reading a sneak peak into the home of talented artists Sue and Mat Daly over at Design*Sponge, I became infatuated with their framed Renegade Craft Fair Poster of a patchwork owl. When I followed the link over to Mat Daly’s site, I discovered a treasure trove of fantastically designed posters and prints.  While I [...]


Cut Copy Dance

The Cut Copy Dance, a signed print you can order - by Justin David Cox.


Ryan McKinley photographs (NSFW)

Ryan McKinley’s photographs are beautiful vignettes, moments of fragmentary human experience.  The nudity is fascinating since it signifies not necessarily sexuality but rather vulnerability, movement, visibility, fragility, freedom. See his site for more of his photographs, they are striking in a larger series.


tweenbots, kacie kinzer (video)

I have been completely infatuated with this art project by Kacie Kinzer.
She created small types of robot she calls Tweenbots. On her site with a fabulous essay explaining her project, she explains:
Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, [...]


Richard Renaldi - “Touching Strangers”

I absolutely love this project - photography is fast becoming a favourite medium of mine. In this series, Richard Renaldi asks strangers to pose with each other, touching, in a photograph.  It reminds me of a discussion I had in a class last term about the Free Hugs public performance work.  While talking about its [...]


Perspectives: the ums and ahs of life’s big questions

(NOTE: Best played with headphones)

By BaseMOTION, the Perspectives Project uses traditionally conducted interviews and reprocesses them into a thought provoking film series.  Describing the project, they write:
While interviews traditionally present what people say, in Perspectives the interviewees don’t actually say anything. With the spoken portion of the footage edited out, Perspectives leaves only body language, [...]


delightful diversions: Nicholas’ Hughes photography of surfaces

I am currently swimming in the strong current of my latest research papers.  One of them is on photographic representations of the city, specifically photography which attempts to capture the elusive “non-places” of Marc Augé (and potentially also the “junkspace” of Rem Koolhaas) such as airports, atm machines, highways, etc.  I won’t get into it [...]


New media artist Arend deGruyter-Helfer and his deconstructed TextEdit windows

I know, I know, I haven’t been writing much in the way of real news or personal updates (and where has all of the vegan food porn gone? don’t talk to me about that, my poor lens *sob*), but bear with me - I am in the middle of intense research and paper writing that [...]


Sam Messenger: Works on Paper

I think these works by Sam Messenger are beautiful, and I long to see them in person.  Just amazing what he can do with such simple media. (check out his official site for larger images)

Untitled (detail), 2007, pen & white ink & watercolour on paper, 30 x 22 inches

Salt Water, 2007, pen & white ink [...]


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