_our dear friend Valentina Alvarado does all kinds of things with paint and photos.
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_our second Russian photographer this week. Frank Herfort brings us refreshing images on these sunny summer days
Natural altruism: how night-noises induce rumination
Gopher Staffer and licenced biologist Angie Nicolás has some sleep issues. From her wonderful, sleep deprived but still scientific mind, we were able to convince her to write about a topic that had been personally bothering her: birds that go chirp in the night. While Ms. Nicolás might annihilate us for writing an intro to her piece (we’re sneaky like that!) we feel proper introduction is warranted, because we too are plagued with that admirable bug, curiosity. [...]
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_meat media were used on Rutger de Vries’s Part of me series (vegetarians abstain)
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_Jess Atkinson’s series NO! is “is a plasticine illustration about a little creature who discovered he can only communicate his thoughts with others by telepathically having his limbs severed to spell it out”
Making Rob Gordon proud in the blog era.
Proyecto Playlist is the brainchild of Ma. Elizabeth (Marie) Hernández and the Maracaibo lovechild of High Fidelity character Rob Gordon (neé Fleming). The blog, born out of a hybrid need to share – Marie is the youngest of six children – and to self-express, has attracted the attention of many Venezuelans looking for curated tunes from local taste-makers. And so what was once a monthly post by Marie was transformed into a hub for local taste-makers [...]
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_ok, ok, we got a little distracted from usual monday’s rush by looking at Olya Ivanova‘s photographs. Now, back to work!
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_ armed with ink and paper, Hannah Stouffer faces “”the inevitable oppositions between love, lust and gore, decadence, wrath and fate”
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_Katharina Grosse knows of course no roofs, no walls, no surfaces limiting her mountains of powder and spreaded colors
Zoom in. Focus. Click.
It was a rainy summer afternoon when I discovered her in the attic above my mother’s bedroom, hidden beneath a thick layer of dust and surrounded by a fortress of boxes and spider webs. She was an old Minolta, and with her I started practicing the very basic skills that I could teach myself from the library’s old-fashioned manuals or by imitating the photographers with big cameras on the main boulevard. Before long I found myself snapping all sorts of things around me: the zigzagging [...]
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_we can’t help but smiling while looking at Santiago Uceda‘s fabulous drawings
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_Justin Gray Morgan brings us buddhist skateboards (we’d volunteer to try one!) and wondering digital gorillas
Of Cannibals and Color: Louie Cordero
While the expression “art that haunts you” is applicable to plenty of artists, we must admit that when the imagery of the artist is built on skulls, decaying corpses and the re-visiting of deities, well, the results tend to get much more ghoulish. Louie Cordero [ Manila, 1978 ] is a painter, sculptor and illustrator [and not a musician, though there is a Puerto Rican musician with the same name - we're verry sorry Louie!] who reinterprets contemporary pop [...]
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_if the concept of ‘fingering a wall’ sounds weird to you, let your mind be further blown by Judith Ann Braun‘s graphite-charged work.
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_Caracha! Luke Gilford’s projects aim to answer really trascendental questions
Tasty, tasty Trastienda
We continue our series on netlabels with one we’ve followed for a while. trastienda.org was founded in Salamanca (Spain) during the summer of 2005, an odd frog type of netlabel and among the very few putting out material other than electronic music. The world and its wonders (or whatever made its founders move around) made it international. They write “Nowadays our headquarters are split between Taipei (Taiwan), Madrid and Barcelona (Spain).” Still, the multi-genre label is going strong with a continuous [...]
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_Betsy Walton‘s imaginative creations entertain our sleep-deprived eyes this morning and make us long for drea…m…y… dre…am…s…
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_our love for diving and the underwater world makes us go crazy over Guillaume Néry and Julie Gautier’s Base Jump video.
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_old newspapers come back to life in the streets of NYC as they take part in Nick Georgiou‘s humanoid slash animalesque set of sculptures.
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_ we always knew common objects were up to something, so thank you David Trautrimas for proving us right
Romeo Alaeff shows us his tapeworm
Brooklyn-born global dweller Romeo Alaeff is an artist. Any sort of definition beyond that may be fuzzy or inaccurate, and his work itself blurs the boundaries between icon and art, funny and serious, traditional and experimental, and public and private. His explorations have taken some wild turns: Alaeff studied biomedical engineering before graduating as a photographer, going to graduate school for Fine Arts, detouring somewhere along the line to work as an animation editor and writer for children’s shows like [...]
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_ live in Chicago? Hurry to The Family Room Gallery and check out their expo “There, Now it Will Last Forever.” It closes Friday.
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_yes, yes. Admittedly, it was hard picking only one of Anne Faye Gillespie’s drawings for this note. Why don’t you give it a try and find your own?
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_spanish freelance illustrator Joseba Elorza (MiraRuido) has some wicked digital collages featuring characters of the 50s and 60s. (Also: Happy Birthday to Gopher editor Michu!!!)
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_what a good day to check out Jimmy Baker’s hyperrealistic work.
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_with an arachnid-esque technique, Chiharu Shiota’s massive installations seem to capture objects like dresses and pianos in space and time.
Nick van Woert drips into our cave imagination
I always suspected that bats and rats and strange cave-dwelling animals have their very own theme parks among all the rock and humidity and general yuckiness of those holes in the ground. Obviously, I mean, how could all those little larvae looking creatures grow to be so scary without a little bit of formative fun, a cavernous-christmas if you will. On second thought, maybe I’m thinking about that recurring dream that made my parents drag me to the school counselor for about a year. [...]
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_Venezuelan photographer Antonio Briceño found the missing pieces of a green and complicated puzzle in Rwanda
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_tackling the issue of fragile urban expansion, Thai Chinese artist Nippan Oranniwesna builds entire cities out of just… baby powder.
