Posts tagged art
Smells Like Pre-Teen Spirit?
While cleaning out my suburban closet back home in Virginia, I stumbled across some old cassettes that I had dubbed in the early 1990s. I think the artwork on this particular bootleg of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” is probably the least punk thing ever to have been influenced by Cobain.
A batboy for the New York Yankees goes on a wild goose chase for a left-handed bat-stretcher
One of the greatest stories ever told.
“If you want to understand this country and its people and what it means to be optimistic and complex and tragic and wrong and courageous, you need to go to his home in Virginia. Monticello.”
Maira Kalman, you’re pretty fantastic.
Time Wastes Too Fast - And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog - NYTimes.com
Signs Of The Times
Queens, NY-based designer Cardon Webb roamed around his neighborhood finding ugly handmade signs. Instead of just tossing them out to protect our type sensibilities, he redesigned them into fabulous eye-catching posters.
I think I need this dude to make awesome fliers for the assorted electronics I am trying to sell on Craigslist. I simply don’t have the free time these days to make another parody rap video with my microwave singing “this is why i’m hot”.
Adidas collabo with FreeDarko!
After Dwight Howard broke the shot clock last night (an obvious metaphor highlighting his ability to mess with the spacetime continuum and tip the Planck scale) you owe it to yourself to watch this (and the Derrick Rose one too).
durham, north carolina guide
I need to get back to Durham soon. This will serve as a reminder.
It is my hope that Durham continues in its trend of growing density and urban revitalization while maintaining its appealing grittiness, its tough-kid nature, its supportive vibe.
Hangin’ Pictures On My Wall
I stumbled upon a Chicago design firm’s website recently. Coudal Partners describe themselves as an “ongoing experiment in web publishing, design and commerce.
Right now, they’re doing something called “Swap Meat.” They receive lots of unsolicited creative stuff in the mail and usually return the favor by sending out some of their own goods.
Well, I loved one of the prints they received recently because it reminded me of my camera collection. I emailed the artist and it turns out a lot of people loved his print so he screened a limited set of 100 of them. They’re on sale now through the Swap Meat website along with some other great pieces.
Bubble Giraffe
There’s an artist in DC who makes tape sculptures and puts them in random spots about town. Whenever I stumble across one, it always makes gives me a different perspective of a path I’ve walked a hundred times before.
- Check out some more of Mark Jenkins’ stuff
- Here’s stuff tagged “Mark Jenkins” on Flickr
Bubble Giraffe
Originally uploaded by themarkpike.
Moving Canvas
Guerilla art. I like it a lot. No, I’m not talking about Koko doing finger paintings, though that is admittedly pretty sweet too. I’m talking about artists reclaiming public space and making it interesting.
There was BORF here in DC tagging buildings for a while, till he got busted. We can have a discussion about the morality of graffiti some other time. I rather enjoyed the scavenger hunt, looking for what he tagged. Like Highlights magazine for adults.
Then there’s the bubble people guy (Mark Jenkins) here in DC. I saw one once, and felt like I’d spotted Waldo.
Well, now I’m really looking forward to seeing the following project happen on a Metro car near me. These dudes are attaching projection screens to the sides of subway cars and making movies play on the subterranean walls. Granted, it freaks me out a bit that there’s strangers hooking up briefcases to the sides of trains with suction-cups, but this is really an amazing conceptual piece. They’ve turned the commute in to cinema. Bravo.
