This here is a disclaimer for the change-sensitive.
Cool new idea we’re going for: this Sounds section will now have a series featuring music labels. Yes! We’ve decided to reach out to independent record labels that (a) are doing interesting things, and (b) are awesome. Why? Because with a tiny bit of research we’ve stumbled upon some of the most exciting, innovative creative people congregating around these independents. So, to the point, shall we?
The Peppermill Records is a fun little netlabel based in the mountains [...]
_third day of the week and Nicolas Buffe is the moving closer to us.
_when graphic designer Corey Holms put together food dye, vegetable oil and water he wasn’t particularly thinking on cooking lunch. The result, equally tasty, was an explosion of abstract colorfulness.
_a toy to make your children cry: handcrafted wooden figures of recently extinct animals, by mixed-media designer Josh Finkle.
_Tokujin Yoshioka‘s natural crystal chair emerges from the water using the laws of nature and with ‘beauty that exceeds our imagination,’ sends its message to the future.
_you know those screens that show video art in Harvard Square? well, they’re part of a project by Lumen Eclipse.
_a whole year of posts! Wow! We’re celebrating with Papelote, a Czech papermaking firm looking to reinvent… er… paper.
_damn! we were so sure it was Michael Rolph and it ends up being Josef Schulz; we lost 20$.
_dutch artist Mike Thompson redefines the symbiotic relationship between lamp owners and their artifacts. Owners of Latro are required to treat it like a pet – feeding and caring for the algae in exchange of its light.
_we think that a painting of the series Volo Interno by Marco Neri would go perfectly fine with one by Guy Yanai.
_artist Mia Liu has transformed her daily routine of eating donuts at the Guggenheim Museum café into the topic of her creative work.
_truth be told, we had no idea that Ding Yi is one of China’s leading abstract painters, we just liked his artwork as soon as it we saw it on a book.
_Keetra Dean Dixon (FromKeetra) is the mind -but not the body- behind the Anonymous Hugging Wall, part of her series ‘Methods & Apparati for Social Facilitation and Mood Elevation.’
Dear friends,
As many of you know by now, this Friday at 8:35am the first print edition of the Gopher Illustrated was born! we promise a much lengthier feature in the near future, but for the moment, witness in all its 90′s-style glory this animated gif which documents the first minutes of our very first encounter with our very first issue!
It weighed 0.98 pounds and smelled of pure ink and paper glory! Congratulations to all those mothers and fathers who made this possible! [...]
_we saw this single photograph and decided to post Dusdin Condren‘s link.
_straddling the genius and the bizarre: feather creations by Kate MccGwire. Nature-bending seems to be the thing this week!
Posting about climate change and a green conscience may strike some as preachy, and we at the Gopher have to confess a great deal of pickiness when it comes to reading up on it. Ruining the environment is bad, and being a composting expert will earn you friends in certain circles (be our friend! come oooonnnn). We, too, watched the Al Gore film and felt that gagging sensation through Food Inc, ok?! And as much as we enjoy some people’s hysterics, sandwich boards and [...]
_just scroll down: Ron van der Ende.
_filtering pain out through threads and fabric and what looks like knitted coral reefs
_monday and something to recommend: Museo Slab 500 is an amazing, amazing, amazing typography, we Gophers loooooove Jos Buivenga‘s work.
_the glaringly obvious but no less fantastic idea of the week: typography mustaches.
_Eric Ellis is the mind behind NoonStudio in Chicago, but something tells us he works around the clock.
_we were quite sure that we had posted him before, but apparently not: James Roper everybody offers much more than color and space.
_Julia Guther’s work deserves your close attention
_photography Tuesdays anyone? if you care to, then Flemming Ove Bech.
_an adorable booklet and poster about “How to Apply / A little Grant“ by Alban Schelbert
_hey, if you’re still up for checking the England & Co. gallery from Georgia Russell‘s link, make sure you look at Shane Bradford’s work.
_Alexey Malina’s design work is inspired by dance, music, architechture and everyday life (in Moscow)
Denis Carrier is the mind and hands behind Studiofolk, source of a bevy of wonderful, unfussy and clever illustrations. We imagine him exactly as he describes himself – his work mirroring his persona, and according to him, even his looks. “Denis Carrier, looks like his work : not so big, not very muscular, but really funny and simple.” (the real mystery to us… how does a person look “simple”?) Simple and not-so-big as he may be, Carrier is a busy [...]
_from Seed magazine: exciting new insight into emotion in the brain.
Having made the (admittedly very basic) Internet rounds it’s clear that Pick a Piper is exciting the ears it reaches. Their sound gets described in elaborate, evocative, complex and sometimes downright nonsensical terms like “Ecstatically charged yet almost trance-inducing, PAP are a vodka-redbull with none of the edge, all of the euphoria and zero unpleasant aftertaste” (source). What fascinated us was the absolute ubiquity of the word “tribal” to describe the music. Is it that drums, heavy drums, and superimposed [...]
_dear Lord, is there anything that doesn’t exist in Josh Keyes‘ imagination? a bird-spitting, concrete-breaking shark? for real?
_Jordan Metcalf finds critters everywhere.
