Posts in category: Art
Art 03/27/2008
More Venice Graffiti
I’m not really into the graffiti thing, but someone has been doing this around my house, and I think it’s actually pretty cool. They just completely cover something in one florescent color. First they did the pay phone and a fire hydrant bright pink, and last night they did this blue LOST ANGELES TIMES piece.
I like it.
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Art 03/25/2008
Dollar Bill Origami
Check out these great origami pieces this guy makes out of a dollar bill. Pretty amazing.
Click-thru for a few more images or check out a lot more on deviantart.com
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Art 03/12/2008
Thomas Allen's Pulp Fiction
Minnesota based photographer Thomas Allen’s Pulp Fiction.
Allen’s photographs are inspired by his childhood experiences with pop-up books and View-Masters. He begins his process by cutting figures and images out of illustrated pages of old books and vintage fiction novels. Allen then cleverly rearranges and juxtaposes the forms to create three-dimensional scenes. Next, he carefully lights his subjects and photographs the scenes.
When separated from their original stories, the figures take on fresh roles in entirely new situations. Yet they retain their intended purpose of storytelling. Characters and objects originally created as two-dimensional illustrations are raised from their pages and given new life in three-dimensional space. The figures return back to two-dimensional objects, this time in the form of a photograph.
As a director would stage actors, Allen stages his cut-outs in ways that create humor, tension, mystery, and drama. A boxer fights his own shadow in Spar, and in Bookend a gunfighter stands over his recently fallen opponent. Although the characters are freed from the closed pages of books, the books themselves still remain present in each photograph. A ship sails across the curved pages of a dictionary-sized book in Swell. In Cover, a gunman finds safety behind the spine of a book. And in Recover, a worn paperback acts as a life raft to three weathered shipwreck survivors.
The work combines the humor of children’s pop-up books, the nostalgia of dime novels, and the drama of the stage. Allen’s inventive and evocative photographs capture characters and events in mid-action. And the viewer is left to wonder what will happen next.
Click-thru for a few more photos, or check out a lot more (18) of them here
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Art 03/12/2008
Alastair Heseltine is Good With Wood
Canadian sculptor Alastair Heseltine has a HORRIBLE website, but his wood sculpture is pretty amazing. I love this image of the stacked fire wood.
Click-thru for a few more photos of his pieces so you don’t need to try to navigate through the photos on his website.
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Art 03/06/2008
Sleeveface
DAMNIT do I wish I thought of this!
click thru for a few more, or check out the link.
sleeveface on flickr / sleeveface.com
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Art 03/05/2008
Joni Sternback's Incredible Photos
Check out this beautiful new series of tintype photos by New York based photographer Joni Sternbach. I think they’re really beautiful.
Click thru for a few more photos, or check out Joni’s site to see the whole series.
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Art 03/03/2008
Desktop Surfer - 3lbs. of Steel
The Desk Top Surfer’s wave is caste in an Oregon foundry with 3 pounds of special 17-4, brushed stainless steel. Each wave is signed and numbered by the artist and the wave measures 4 inches tall with the base measuring 5 inches by 5 inches. This size makes the Desk Top Surfer a perfect piece of functional art for your office, home or school.
The Surfer is hand caste out of solid pewter with a small powerful Neodymium magnet attached to the bottom of the surfboard that allows it to stick to the wave. Any position is possible – upside down in the barrel…NO PROBLEM!
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Art 03/03/2008
His Name is Earl
I checked out the WESC art show at Bergamont Station the other night, and all I got was this blurry picture of Earl. There was a great turnout, the place was packed to the brim with really cool hipster/skater/actors drinking free Grolsch. It was a little too crowded to be comfortable to me because I’m anti-social. There were so many cool people it actually made it hard to see the artwork, which seemed decent, but not mind-blowing.
But I did pick up a cool promo book that they made for the show, so click-thru to see some pics of the artwork:
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Art 03/01/2008
WESC/STEREO Art Show in Santa Monica
An art exhibit featuring multiple activists from the WE Superlative Conspiracy is having an opening reception party this weekend in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station in conjunction with Nylon Magazine. Some of the artist exhibited will include Chris Pastras from Stereo, Clint Peterson, Jason Lee as well as guest artist Sage Vaughn. This event will be taking place TODAY (March 1), from 6:30 pm to 8:30.
If you can make this event, it would be a great opportunity to see some of the most influential people in skateboarding, as well as experience an event put on by one of the most progressive lifestyle brands in WESC. Not to mention Bergamot station is a really nice location.
Plus, this would be your chance to meet Earl in the flesh.
[ via:“lat34(x)”:http://www.lat34.com ]
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Art 02/24/2008
Ryan Mcginley is a Good Photographer
All images © ryan mcginley.
Click for a few more photos, or check out his website:
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