Sunday 20 November 2011
Saturday 5 November 2011
Monday 31 October 2011
Chivas Regal Presents...
Two stories about real friendship directed by Academy Award winning short film maker Joachim Back.
Here's to 'Big Bear'
In the first film we find four friends stranded at a train station in the middle of nowhere. With no cell reception, no water, and no sign of life, they are forced to set off across the desert in search of a way home. We join them on their sun-scorched journey, one that leads them to an unexpected encounter with Big Bear.
Here's to 'Twinkle'
In the second film Sammy gets his heart broken leaving Joe, Emilio and Nicholas to pick up the pieces. They know the drill. A day of beach, bowling and basketball to take his mind off his misery. But despite their efforts it finally takes 'Twinkle' to put a smile back on Sammy's face.
Thursday 27 October 2011
Thursday 13 October 2011
Monday 10 October 2011
Thursday 6 October 2011
Saturday 1 October 2011
Friday 23 September 2011
Wednesday 14 September 2011
Monday 25 July 2011
Project Aura
Project Aura is a bicycle lighting system designed to address the safety issue of night-time urban bike commuting. Not only does it work, it looks really rather cool.
Wednesday 6 July 2011
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Sunday 3 July 2011
Playtime with Faile
The latest work from Faile comes in the form of 'Puzzle Boxes'.
Each one is made up of 88 six-sided wooden blocks that can be flipped and moved to create new images. If you haven't got a spare $15,000 you can muck about with one for free here.
Each one is made up of 88 six-sided wooden blocks that can be flipped and moved to create new images. If you haven't got a spare $15,000 you can muck about with one for free here.
Tuesday 28 June 2011
Towel Time
Other Criteria was founded as a publishing company in 2005 by Damien Hirst, Hugh Allan and Frank Dunphy.
Based in Marylebone, London, they work directly with Damien Hirst and a number of established and emerging artists to make limited editions t-shirts, jewellery, photographs, posters, prints, books and beach towels (below).
The only way I'll ever afford a Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Yoshitomo Nama, Peter Doig or Ed Ruscha.
The only way I'll ever afford a Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Yoshitomo Nama, Peter Doig or Ed Ruscha.
Wednesday 8 June 2011
Sunday 5 June 2011
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Four Rooms. Two Idiots.
Tonight saw a couple of muppets turn down £240,000 for a Banksy.
Removed from a wall in Croydon it cost them £30,000 to buy and restore it.
Watch them walk away empty handed on C4's new show 'Four Rooms' here.
Removed from a wall in Croydon it cost them £30,000 to buy and restore it.
Watch them walk away empty handed on C4's new show 'Four Rooms' here.
Monday 30 May 2011
Art meets Film
A new film portrait of Lindsay Lohan by artist Richard Phillips.
A recent exhibition 'Motion Pictures' at MOMA in New York scaled up twelve Screen Tests and projected them on the gallery walls seven feet high by nine feet wide. Warhol shot the portraits at the standard speed for sound film (24 frames per second), but specified that they should be projected at 16 frames per second, the conventional projection speed for silent films in the early period of cinema. Played on a silent loop it gives them an eerie, timeless quality, especially considering most if not all of the subjects are now dead.
Sunday 29 May 2011
Hooper Turner
Stumbled across this American artist last week. Hooper Turner's subject is fashion magazines and shopping catalogues, recreating them on canvas in every detail.
Or in his words...
"I love and hate advertising. Advertising targets suckers, the naïve consumers who are convinced they can purchase the fantasies in the richly printed catalogues or imagine themselves the protagonist of arousing editorial spreads in fashion magazines. The truth is that desire doesn’t function rationally; I can’t sit calmly analyzing the semiotics of commercial imagery, carefully dissecting the palette of references that some photographer and creative director have decided will sell the season’s line."
"Like every other sucker, I get too involved. I have to make paintings of the images that fascinate me and of the many objects I can’t afford. By painting them, spending many hours looking and remaking, I learn the image, explore the details, and hope to see the pictures with new eyes. The paintings become larger than the source and much more materially present. Sometimes I notice the Old Master reference in the pose or the unforeseen crops and strange angles found only in photographs. I wonder why the doorknob for purchase looks so much like a piece of coral instead of like a doorknob. I wish I knew what the woman with her head turned away is contemplating and realize that if someone were voyeuristically watching me, they would see me in the same absorbed reverie."
"I am honest with my paintings and paint what I like. They are not my private vision but rather a collection of our ideals and archetypes. I often include the text, which can create a dissonant note when juxtaposed with the image. Words and pictures coexist in tension, and the strain is intensified in a painting. In the best of my paintings, the stress is enough to force both artist and viewer to confront our desires. Rather than anxiously judge them, we learn more about ourselves."
Tumour Humour
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen star in the cancer comedy 50/50.
Saturday 28 May 2011
Gone shopping...
It was inspired by the tutoring, writing, and publishing organization in America, 826 National. To raise funds, inspire creativity, and advertise their courses their writing centres feature fun themed shop fronts with imaginative products on sale inside.
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