is it me you’re looking for? answer: yes. why wasn’t sculpture class like this when i was in school? to truly understand the magic of the video for Hello by lionel richie, one must become the video for Hello by lionel richie. hence, the hello experiment. the hello experiment seeks to capture the wonder, imagination, and beauty that is lionel richie’s massive jaw lovingly formed in wet brown clay by sightless, open hearted souls. awesome! it’s either a goofy and fun nostalgic paraody or a tragic spell created by demons to open a hell-mouth that will swallow us all. watch and see (note: please download the song Hello at your leisure so you can sculpt your very own lionel richie). thanks cobras!
download:
Lionel_Richie_Hello.zip (3.9 megabytes)
Archive for the 'art' Category
i’m very happy to see the beautiful paintings and illustrations of the talented bay area artist larissa martin online! please visit larissamartin.com when you get a moment. some really beautiful works in the paintings section (and in the watermedia & drawings sections as well). there is also a shoppe section showcasing her current original works available for purchase. very stylish website layout too.
great photography and interview with artist/photographer daniela edburg on her work titled drop dead gorgeous. death by over-indulgence. wonderful cinematic images of scenes depicting death by cotton candy, death by oreos, death by stinky tupperware, death by plastic wrap, and other great deaths.
posted up on flickr are photos from the 2007 maker faire that took place this weekend. wow - there was soo much to see! i barely scratched the surface of looking at all the cool stuff. luckily, scott beale over at laughing squid took a gigantic amount of photos at the maker faire too (link to laughing squid’s flickr set)! yes, i will definitely go next year and this time participate in the rad-ness!!
the brilliant minds at the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group (HORG!) provide an excellent and free scientific resource for all to learn from: intensive study and classification of bread tie species. yes, bread ties. you’ve used them all your life, but do you really know them? HORG is here to help. HORG’s research covers bread tie taxonomy, life and habits, known species, and some mutations. from the HORG website:
Class Occlupania (Occlu=to close, pan= bread) are placed under the Kingdom Microsynthera, Phylum Plasticae. Occlupanids share phylum Plasticae with “45″ record holders, plastic juice covers, and other often ignored small plastic objects.
my brain is hurting from the influx of knowledge. i like that - thank you HORG! thank you.
there is truth in advertising with a website that says ’stupid name, cool vectors.’ yes. i’m talking about vecteezy - a website of really cool & free vector art & styles. thank you vecteezy!
but wait, there’s also vecteezy’s not too distant cousin, a website named brusheezy. brusheezy features lots of cool (free too!) photoshop brushes. it’s a win win!
just for funsies (meaning: showing off) the enlarged creative craniums at cobra creative created these cool motion graphic spots. short & simple and really well done. one is called dig it! and one is called skull. very nice.
the 2nd annual maker faire is going on this weekend. saturday, may, 19th from 10am to 6pm and sunday, may 20th, from 10am to 5pm. happening at the san mateo fairgounds. here’s a link with directions to the fairgrounds and here’s a pdf link of a map of the makers faire. am i going? hells yeah! lots to see! just check out the schedule! i am definitely going to check out chicken john’s woodgas pickup truck, the arts, the crafts, the mad science & scientists, hacks, mods, robots, solar inventions, tiny houses, and did somebody say sock monkey madness? yes they did. dammit - why aren’t you going?
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wired has a great maker faire 2007 preview gallery to get you in the mood.
great article on sfgate by carol lloyd titled ‘small houses challenge our notions of need as well as minimum-size standards.’ it features a home built by jay shafer that’s only 96 square feet in size. brings up the idea of space and how much space one needs or thinks they need to live. you can see more of jay’s work and houses via his website called tumbleweed tiny house company. very cool!
gallery 1988 in san francsico is having an art show titled the indie: an art show celebrating alternative press artists. the indie art show opens april 21st, 2007 - which is also the same weekend as APE (the alternative press expo) in san francsico - and runs through to may 12th. the indie show features art by derek thompson, jerome ranft, sanjay patel, brandon bird, camilla d’errico, attaboy, and many others. looks to be a great show. here’s a map to gallery 1988. maybe i’ll see you there.
amazing sculptures done by artist jennifer maestre. she creates beautiful organic shapes, patterns, and designs using beads, nails, and small colored pencils. thanks derek for the link!
from 2006 and still very cool. a great animated piece directed and animated by jossie malis at zumbakamera called bendito machine. very well done. dark & a little twisted too. watch it. you will like it.
wow. the 2007 san francsico pillow fight held on february 14th was a total feather inhaling blast! for those of you too busy to have fun (meaning: why you gotta go and miss the pillow fight?) the giantmonster staff went to great efforts to over-document the event. please take a look at our flickr set titled pillow fight san francsico 2007 containing no less than 304 photos (yikes). even eeyore got in on the pillow fighting action. so much fun! and there’s video too (posted below). other sites for great pillow-fight recaps: laughing squid, somegirlwitha, the pillow fight club sf flickr pool, & meshmagazine to name a few.
and, oh yes, the pillow fightin’ videos …
San Francisco Pillow Fight 2007 - video 1 (00:51)
San Francisco Pillow Fight 2007 - video 2 (01:10)
San Francisco Pillow Fight 2007 - video 3 (00:25)
San Francisco Pillow Fight 2007 - video 4 (00:34 - posted above)
San Francisco Pillow Fight 2007 - video 5 (00:30)
San Francisco Pillow Fight 2007 - video 6 (00:31)
my friend fon over at foncocreative just posted pictures from yoda: a restrospective art show held way back in the day (1995 to be more accurate) at skellington productions. with some left over silicone on the james and the giant peach set and a yoda puppet nearby, the mighty yoda mold was created. born from that mold were dozens of plaster yodas that eventually transformed into elvis yoda, dr. zaius yoda, styrofoam yoda, piss yoda, and many others. thanks for posting the pics fon!
the brilliant minds at graffiti research lab (GRL) have come up with another cool way to tag. going beyond their very simple & cool LED throwies (which have gone beyond simple), GRL has made what looks like a laser-tagging/writing system using high end projectors. the system projects laser light onto the sides of buildings in a repeated pattern which spells out words. in the picture, the phrase ‘free berd’ is a word play on the lynyrd skynyrd song and also applies to ‘free berdovsky’, an appeal for the arrest of the 27 year old artist behind the aqua team hunger force LED signs that gave boston reason to descend into madness.
note: about the GRL laser tagging system, it looks like the projectors GRL uses are the very pro yet pricey panasonic PT-D5600’s (please feel free to correct me on that - i recognized the projectors immediately from the pic). these projectors come in at around $6,500+ each. outfitted with a lens, that’s an additional $2,000+ per projector. that would make the complete 2 projector laser tagging system cost around $15,000+ each. the economics of graffiti are definitely changing. AV nerds are taking over! had to happen. link via boingboing.
wow. amazing. incredible. i am clearly not using my brain enough or i have devoted too much of it to remembering movie lines from star wars (actually, both are true). stephen wiltshire is an amazing individual and accomplished artist. he is also autistic and in the world of savants, he known as the human camera. his first words, spoken at the age of 5, were ‘pencil and paper.’ watch this clip of stephen wiltshire drawing the city of Rome, Italy from memory. just from memory and after only having seen Rome from a 45 minute helicopter ride. drawn in 3 days as a panorama on over 5 yards of paper. accurate down to the windows. fascinating. what a gift! here’s an additional clip of stephen wiltshire drawing the city of tokyo just from memory (clip of drawing rome embedded below).
as valentines day approaches, you may be inclined to send someone a law and order valentine (here too). in that case, you’d be checking out some of the art of brandon bird. great paintings and illustrations with a lot of humor and style. me likey. where else is your mind going to catch a glimpse of abe lincoln (umm, whhat?) in a cage match, james woods’s last supper, video games with harrison ford, or bea arthur fighting velociraptors? thanks brandon!
how do you deal with a truly bullshit media circus? the same media that gives a cake walk to our political leaders on pretty much everything but gets irate when their own dumb dialouge and faux discussion format is spun back at them? simple: talk about hair. just hair. and take talking about hair seriously. very seriously. then watch the press get mad. brilliant. i love these guys! also, does this look like a bomb to you? then how about this? ‘dude, there’s a light-up LED thingy with a bit-map character flipping me off on the overpass … must be a terrorist bomb plot.’ are we that far gone? then we have become too paranoid. or is only the city of boston (or boston’s mayor) that lame? good photo gallery of the event. and a great video of the making of the LED signs on youtube too. the hair-raising press conference is below.
some very intense, imaginative, disturbing, beautiful, and provocative photos can be seen in a project titled starlight meadows by jason king. briliant imagery and composition the images. starlight meadows was “designed as a story and a puzzle both for me and for anyone that interacts with it” (quoting jason king). the design of the site is really well done too. i also like the closing statement on the website: “Sometimes I wonder if I created the characters or if the characters were already here and I just gave them masks.” thanks tony for the link. via daily monkey and via neatorama.
so there’s a party in your mouth … and everybody’s communist. rad graphic and t-shirt spotted on laughing squid. for sale at threadless t-shirts (selling like hot cakes). design by tom burns (now with poster for sale too!) too good!
i have to give a big hat tip and a deep waist bow of respect to my good friend jason sadler on his build of the ultimate star wars halloween costume. not a tie fighter pilot mind you, no. this is the actual tie fighter itself! made from trashcan lids, pvc tubing, foam core, four baby food containers, and a whole lot of love. go jason! crush the rebellion!
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i’ve been really digging the fantastic art and illustration of r.black. really great graphics, presentation, colors, line quality, and style. lots of dna lounge posters. i love the layout of all of his stuff. they just look so good. browse through his poster/flyer art gallery (and gallery 2 & gallery 3) as there’s so much to see. sexy, pin-up, comic book style illustrations that remind me of old pulp magazines and novels. thank you, r. black!
the third installment of melvin beederman, superhero book series is coming out october 31st. titled the grateful fred, this book has melvin struggling to find out who’s trying to destroy his favorite rock-and-roll band. the book is by greg trine and rhde montijo. my friend rhode, how does he do it? he creates and creates and creates. he just doesn’t stop. he’s like the terminator: a perfect killing machine, except he’s creating. it never ends! i fear all of rhode’s art & creating is cutting into his very important battlestar galactica watching time. there may need to be an intervention.
posted my pics up on flickr in a set titled sas christian @ shooting gallery. images of all the lovely, sexy, haunting, disturbing, & amazing paintings done by sas christian for her show titled ‘looking in’ currently showing at the shooting gallery in san francsico. if you like her work, be sure to pick up a copy of sas christian’s new book titled ‘looking in’ put out by 9mm books.
i’ve posted all my photos of all the artwork from the great show mescalito currently at white walls gallery. the flickr set is titled [art] mescalito @ white walls. many many thanks to andres of white walls and justin of the shooting gallery for letting me take pics of all the work! some great art to be seen by damon soule, mars-one, and oliver vernon. take a look, and be sure to go by white walls in SF and see the art in person.
fractals fractals fractals! it’s friday and it’s all fun and fractals. so get your full frontal fill of fine fractal forms for friday from the fantastic fractal files of philo at faemalia.net. extensive fractal galleries await! these are easily the most beautiful fractal formations and images i’ve seen posted online. like this one. and this one. oh, and this one too. great gallery upon gallery. nice little find - thanks philo!
great art show coming to white walls gallery in SF this saturday. the show is titled mescalito and it’s featuring the work of three enlightened and powerful artists: mars-one, oliver vernon, and damon soule. giantmonster favorites, all in one show! opening reception october 14th from 7pm - 11pm. show runs through to november 4th. you should go, but only if you want to see beautiful, fanastic, and amazing artwork. here’s a map to the white walls gallery. see you there!
so, what happens when you let all your albums sit around for a really long time, unplayed & unloved? the album cover artwork goes on a rampage and attacks other album artwork in your collection. it’s true! watch the super rad battle of the adbands. created by uglypictures and animated by man VS magnet. excellent! link via motiongrapher website and found with a hefty tip from brad (thanks again brad!)
one of the many reasons to visit boingboing every day is for little gems like this:
this made it around the bloggy-sphere a while back. but i liked it so much i thought i’d post it anyway. the highly talented artists down at weta have put out some amazing antique ray gun models that look superb. if that’s not enough, there’s always something good to click & see on the weta updates page as well.