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Hold Fast.

I've been busy beyond belief, seriously. Amongst a million other things, i'm working on a new version of the site. Not just visually, but content wise. This will see fruition sooner then later...

Colette Calascione

Colette Calascione

Bathtub IV

Bathtub IV is a short film by Sydney based photographer Keith Loutit as part of a series of works documenting a year in the life of ‘Little Sydney’. The people in this look like toys due to time-lapsing, tilt-shifting and probably a whole assortment of other techniques. It looks awesome. You can see more of his work on his vimeo site.

Robbie Powell

Robbie Powell

Die Vier Hoeke | Mikhael Subotzky

Photographer Mikhael Subotzky has a new body of work entitled "Die Vier Hoeke". The series of photos documents the lives in side the walls of South Africa's prisons. The effects of apartheid and colonialism have severely crippled the natives in the region and just as in many cultures, the end result can be seen in it's prisons. The prisons in SOuthAfrica are severely overcrowded and understaffed, leading to unfathomable living conditions. The 2 part piece can be seen on Subtzky's website here.

Mikhael Subotzky

NAM

NAM is a 10 man collective of Artist based in Tokyo, Japan. You can view their website here. Please navigate in full screen. Its one of the better sites on the internet.

Gucci "Flora" | Chris Cunningham

Famed director Chris Cunningham and Gucci have teamed up to produce this latest advertisement for their new "Flora" fragrance. The commercial is pretty perfect as is much of Cunningham's work. He is responsible for my favorite music of all time as well as some other videos which are close seconds. Hopefully this ad will be the first of many new works from Cunningham who hasn't been too active over the past years.

Faceless LED Watch bu Hironao Tsuboi

Hironao Tsuboi’s Faceless LED Watch. the spaces in between watch links make up the watches face. You can purchase this item for alimited time here.

Martin Wilson | Obsessive Photography, and The DFC

Martin Wilson's photography captures words and letters from urban typography (street signs, billboards, road markings, etc) frame by frame on 35mm film strips to spell out mesages and expressions. The above is entitles "Look Both Ways" and the below entitled "Oranges and Lemons"




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Kelsey Brookes Interview and Studio Visit | Sezio

Over the past few years, Kelsey Brookes has worked to a place where his art is known in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and beyond, but his lack of major attention in his hometown of San Diego doesn’t seem to bother him at all. For Kelsey, San Diego holds the elements of home and it is obvious that his pursuit of success in art has little to do with recognition or significance, but rather stems from a desire to enjoy life fully and spend his time in meaningful ways. His painting is full of passion, but it doesn’t overshadow his passions for surfing, adventuring, and sharing time with friends, whether new or old. To see that balance is a reminder that good art is an expression of deep and interesting experiences, and the evidence of time well-spent drips out beautifully on Kelsey’s canvases.

[Sezio]

New Math

The New Math website is pretty clever to say the least. If you're anything like me you're going to spend way too much timebrowsing this site. I 'd have to say all the quations are 99.9999999999% true... at least in my life. Link below

New Math by Craig Damrauer

Kawano Takeshi

Here is a the work of Japanese artist Kawano Takeshi for Fabrica's Global Warming campaign. Pretty powerful visual. You can see more of his work on his blog here.

Kawano Takeshi

The Solar Collector

The "Solar Collector", is a collection of twelve illuminated shafts along a roadside hilltop. Using the internet, members of the Solar Collector web community can express themselves by creating web based light-wave patterns and at night the Solar Collector comes to life and actually acts out the patterns. It's a pretty interesting thing. You can view the site Solar Collector here.



[The Solar Collector]
[Gorbert Design In.c]

Kehinde Wiley | The World Stage, Brazil - Roberts & Tilton Gallery

Kehinde Wiley has probably been my favorite painter of the moment. Kehinde Wiley's subject matter consists of inserting modern young African American men into the role of historic Western European works of art. His last 2 "World Stage" shows have really changed my view of fine art and probably changed the minds of many. Yesterday I was fortunate enough to see his latest exhibition "The World Stage, Brazil". This show focused on the third segment of his “World Stage” project where Wiley immerses himself in the culture of a country by taking residence there and “street-casting” it’s inhabitants. As he's done in his prior World Stage shows (China and Lagos), Wiley walked the streets of Rio de Janero and asked young people in their everyday clothes to assume poses found in paintings and sculptures found throughout the city. He then painted them with a Western style portraiture technique against a backdrop of indigenous textiles and flowers. Aside from being aesthetically and conceptually amazing, Wiley's work serves a mechanism to dethrone the monarchs and statesmen of worlds past and uplifts everyday man. His paintings are larger to life figuritively and at times actually larger than life. If you happen to been near Los Angeles from now till May 30th, you should make an effort to see this exhibiton.

Kehinde Wiley “World Stage: Brazil” Exhibition
April 4 – May 30, 2009
Opening Reception Saturday, April 4th, 6 – 8pm
ROBERTS & TILTON
5801 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, California 90232
p: 323.549.0223





[Roberts & Tilton]

Odani Motohiko

Born 1972 in Kyoto. BFA in sculpture and MFA from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Best known for his visions of the future premised on "mutation" and "transformation" of the body in sculpture, film and photography.

[Art-it]

Sophie Curtis