“One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don’t know what’s going to happen next. Do you?”
—Bix Beiderbecke
“One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don’t know what’s going to happen next. Do you?”
—Bix Beiderbecke
To produce the dense, hypersaturated art pieces seen in their new exhibition, two artists googled the web, scoured fan forums and browsed Flickr accounts to round up 5,000 images for a single collage. The duo, who work under the moniker Simmons & Burke, then assembled their visual plunder into the eye-popping print, pictured above. “We like the idea of making a Frankensteinian world that is both overwhelming and quieting,” Case Simmons and Andrew Burke told Wired.com in an e-mail interview. For their new exhibition If Not Winter, which goes on display Thursday at Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, the pair appropriated about 15,000 images from a vast trove of sources. “We use all sorts of sites and forums to discover images and samples on the internet,” they said. Read More http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/09/massive-collages/#ixzz10js7N2Kc
Artist Grabs 5,000 Web Images for One Massive Collage
Water Sculpture from Shinichi Maruyama on Vimeo.
From NPR.
Atlanta-based photographer Rob Brinson has had this loft studio in the King Plow Art Center, a former plow factory from the 1800s, for 23 years now. Today it’s the full-time studio space he always dreamed of when he first became a photographer. He and his wife, Jill Sharp Brinson, stylist, designer and creative director for Ballard Designs, lived there full-time for six years but now use the living spaces as a getaway and a crash-pad for friends and relatives. I’ve always dreamed of living in a loft, and this sneak peek only encourages the dream! Check out the full-sized images here.
Read more at Design*Sponge http://www.designspongeonline.com/page/3#ixzz1CLODs0lK
I am alternating between laughing and crying.
(via dmgreen)
The mastermind behind Obey has gone to work on the Keith Harring wall on the corner of Houston and Bowery in Manhattan. First of all, I love his style. It’s infectious and it does what art is supposed to do - it makes me FEEL something. It makes me want to go create something, make something happen. Turns out, I already do. You can hear it here. Project free speech over great distances.
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Just say it to yourself outloud. Hobo. With. A. Shotgun. Go ahead. You know you want to.
The art for the Amazing Crowns’ 7-inch single for Chop Shop b/w Amateur Night released by Sub Pop in 1999.
Designer: Jeff Kleinsmith
The art for The Buzzcocks’ Orgasm Addict released by United Artist in 1977.
Photographer: K. Cummins
Here’s the art for Cheap Trick’s Baby Talk b/w Brontosaurus released by Sub Pop in 1997.
Designer: No information available
Supertramp’s Cannonball off the A&M label in 1985.
Designer: Norman Moore
The outrageous art for Curtis Mayfield and Fishbone’s He’s a Flyguy released by Arista in 1988.
Photographer: No info available.
The legendarily controversial (for obvious reasons) art from The Misfits’ Bullet released by Plan-9 in 1978.
Designer unknown
