Click HERE to turn your computer into a Pong. Use the arrow keys up and down, you’ll get it after a few. Also the left Pong bumper kind of stole this color scheme.
PBS has the Art:21 series available streaming online. Each of the 16 available episodes loosely focuses on a different theme such as humor, paradox, romance, and time with a few awkward celebrity intros scattered throughout that are easily fast-forwarded.
This show is really amazing. I watched a few episodes last week and was left with my mind wandering through the weekend. Cowboy plants fence post, old southern lawyer installs white paintings, and I swear one of the artists says “Game recognize game.” This a broad description of course. Louise Bourgeois is fantastic as always and I’m glad they don’t focus on her severed penis sculptures for to long.
“Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century” is the only series on television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, and it uses the medium of television to provide an experience of the visual arts that goes far beyond a gallery visit. Fascinating and intimate footage allows the viewer to observe the artists at work, watch their process as they transform inspiration into art, and hear their thoughts as they grapple with the physical and visual challenges of achieving their artistic visions.”
Watch.
New Rail Alphabet
“Rail Alphabet is a typeface designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for British Railways. First used by them in signing tests at London’s Liverpool Street Station, it was then adopted by the Design Research Unit (DRU) as part of their comprehensive 1965 rebranding of the company.
In 2009, a newly-digitised version of the typeface was publicly released. Created by Henrik Kubel of A2/SW/HK in close collaboration with Margaret Calvert, New Rail Alphabet features six weights: off white, white, light, medium, bold and black, with non-aligning numerals, corresponding italics and a set of Eastern European characters.”
(Wiki)
And like anything new, its for sale. I mean really not much of a big difference but I guess the subtleties make the difference in alignment.
NEKST December 4th, 2009
I forgot how dope Nekst is! That is all.
If you read my post about this past week being free at MOCA and The Geffen then you know how excited I was to see Chris Burden’s, The Big Wheel. Well the God’s were on my side when I notice a crowd around this woman struggling to start an old blue Triumph that powers….THE BIG WHEEL. It is a display of power and fluidity that most be felt in person. You become the moth to the flame forgetting all about the power it wields. Until the security guard reminds you that it’s a bad idea to be two feet from a 3 tons of kinetic energy.
I was told that twice a day someone starts the motorcycle up, I was around 3:30, F.Y.I.
More of my favorites when you read more…
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Aaron Koblin probably has one of the coolest jobs ever (if you’re a nerd like me). He works at Google Creative Lab, where it looks like all they do all day is think about wild art projects using all the data that Google has at its fingertips. He’s presented at TED, SIGGRAPH, Coachella, has done a Radiohead video, and his work is permanently on display at the MoMA. Some of his most interesting work can be seen in the video above, or on his website.
Ted talk with Robert Lang about *recent* mathematical advancements in the art of Origami and its applications for various things including space exploration and heart surgery. Click this link or the picture to learn something this Thanksgiving.
After you’ve watched the talk, you can download his program Treemaker and virtually create plans for your own designs. Send pics or it didn’t happen.
Treemaker website
It’s getting cold out and it’s about time to pull out the camo and tims. Have you ever thought, “I wonder who came up with the idea of the camouflage thats printed all over my Wu-Wear hoody?”
Tate ETC has the answer.
In 1896 the American artist Abbott H Thayer (1849-1921) published an article entitled “The Law Which Underlies Protective Coloration”, in which he explored how animals protected themselves by the use of graduated colours and tones on their feathers, scales or fur, allowing them to be camouflaged by their surroundings. Using a language that mixed art and optics, he said “the spectator seems to see right through the space really occupied by an opaque animal”. While Thayer was not the first to observe how animals used this defensive colouration, he believed nature was acting as an artist, using colour and light for optical effect, and thought that this study “belongs to the realm of pictorial art and can be only interpreted by painters”.
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I drove past The Prism Gallery, designed by Patterns, last night and took a mighty double take, folding bands of alluminium disappearing into sidewalk/awning louring you into a pristine double-height gallery full of stimuli.
The opening on is a Friday, in the heart of the Sunset Strip somewhere between The Standard and The Roxy… maybe check it out on an off day. Gonna be a headache getting over there, ya dig.
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