_being a TED Fellow has been without a doubt one of the most important experiences we have ever had here at the Gopher. Applications are now open, so fill the application and lets meet up in Edinburgh in the Spring!
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_it was done over a decade ago, but we’re still completely in love with the Mended Spiderweb project by Nina Katchadourian. “In the forest and around the house where I was living, I searched for broken spiderwebs which I repaired using red sewing thread.” Beautiful.
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_as simple as possible: Larissa Kasper lives in Zurich and studies visual communication. She’s also a good friend of Rosario Floro‘s.
_691
_we’re digging [ no pun intended ] Jae Rhim Lee’s TED Talk on her Infinity Burial Project, an alternative for the postmortem body. In other news, a sky burial sounds beautiful, but the images prove otherwise.
_689
_last week at the TXContemporary we met the lovely folks behind Cosmocosa‘s art space in Buenos Aires.
_687
_busy week for Mario Wagner: yesterday he published a new website and on Monday announced a couple of exhibitions featuring his work.
_684
_today we met some fine folks from Austin Beerworks. Be sure to check out their rad website and overall stunning image, created by Helms Workshop.
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_you know you’re a fffound nerd, when you start talking about images as if they were household names. Sarah Illenberger, you have made us err more than once.
_677
_it has been a while since our last free typography Friday, but we’re back with the amazing Kirimomi Swash, developed in a collaboration by Néojaponisme (Fontspring) and Onitsuka Tiger.
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_”this is my website, there are many like it, but this one is mine” Yes, we really like Curtins Jinkins‘ portfolio (and he’s in Austin!)
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_word of the day at the Gopher HQ: rigmarole! Wonder what is NOT a rigmarole? Michael Bojkowski‘s Lineread magazine!
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_we’re sure you have seen it already, but in case you haven’t: Stephen Tillmans‘ Leuchtpunktordnungen series show cathode-ray-tube televisions being switched off.
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_”the Isolated Building Studies are the visual confluence of my interests in urban dynamism, socioeconomic inequality and photography. By using uniform composition in photographs of buildings with no neighboring structures, I hope to draw attention to new ways of seeing the common impact of divergent investment processes on urban communities” -David Schalliol.
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_there’s not a lot of information on Si-Chan Park out there: he was a student of Peter Bialobrzeski and has worked with the Lothar Albrecht gallery at Domstraße in Frankfurt. That’s pretty much it.
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_the RE-tooling program “considers the most relevant methods for supporting knowledge development” with an emphasis in residencies. Collab programs include CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Akademie Schloss Solitude, FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Gasworks and Botkyrka Konsthall [ via e-flux ].
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_today we bumped into an article titled “Matthias Hoch – To the Beat of the Techno-Systems“, after reading it we wanted more and more of Mr. Hoch.
_665
_together, hard at work: Richard Perez [ a.k.a. Skinny Ships ] made this beautiful artwork for the second installement of Jez Burrows‘ In Radiolab We Trust series.
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_today a post for the Spanish-speaking crowd: Blanca Haddad is not only one of our dearest friends, she’s also the creator of the Caribe Contracorriente poetry series.
_663
_what’s up with Glasgow this week? Sandy Smith lives in NYC now but G-city is all over his portfolio.
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_even if we couldn’t even begin to imagine how Genadii Berёzkin‘s name is pronounced, we like his work.
_661
_we like Freytag‘s photography, but we adore Berg Design‘s brochures. Is this how Glasgow looks like?
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_the new edition of Ácido Surtido [ featuring a Gopher collab ] is out now, the theme is “pair” and is their 22nd issue!
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_”how can we avoid fictionalising this reality?” This and other uncomfortable questions, present in the work of portuguese photographer André Cepeda.
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_last year the Association of Illustrators and Transport for London had a poster competition that was a major success [ just look at the sheer number of entries available on the interwebs ]. One of our favorites entries was by our buddy Thom Lambert in London.
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_illustrator Karan Singh runs the beautiful Pig Bimpin’ blog from his homebase in Melbourne, Australia [ on the image, Matt W. Moore ].
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_today we had a blast watching Shohei Shigematsu‘s architecture talk at TED Global, also in the news today: problems at Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House project [ image vía World Architecture News ].
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_designer Adam Parks [ a.k.a. Gigawatt Design ] have been making Illuminated Mixtapes for four years now, each one with an original illustrated cover.
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_we just found out about Wrap Magazine, a quarterly designed to be used as wrapping paper for gifts! In related news: today is the birthday of our lovely co-editor Michu Benaim!
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_”[ this work ] examines humans’ relationship to land formations of cultural construction, namely that of the ‘border’ and/or ‘wall’[ ... ] the project is a series of public performances, assembled into video works, and a series of landscape paintings – paintings of paintings on walls” On the Rock, In the Land by Danielle Adair.
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_aaand we’re back! After a crazy week working on the release party of our second volume, we’re finally back at the studio. Wednesdays are the new Mondays, and Torbjørn Rødland still looks cool.
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_”…when he painted The Kiss Klimt was 45 and still lived at home with his mother and two unmarried sisters – but behind the respectable facade he was a man with a ferocious sexual appetite.” Another take on Der Kuss: The Bite, by Simon Noynay.
_646
_if planning to delve into the Texas art scene, look no further than Might Be Good [ pictured: the non-Texan Setareh Shahbazi ].
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_we don’t know what to like most: Ben Pieratt‘s logos or the amazing projects that carry them: The Lunch League, The Ministry of Imagery, ReadyMech. Yep.
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_applications for the TED Fellows Program are open again! Deadline is July 25th, so check out the application process as soon as possible.
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_you, Suzy Poling, caught our attention as soon as you said these words: “photographs of mental asylums and shipwrecks”.
_642
_and since we’re talking about Barça: our buddies at No-Domain rock the motion / print / audio triumvirate.
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_after a little over a year without activity, the Rojo® Artspace Barcelona is back! They’re presenting Valero Doval‘s Hidden Compositions series and we couldn’t be more thrilled!
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_last week we went to the amazing exhibition of Claire Falkenberg at Champion Gallery, kudos on the great work!
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_his personal site reads “this site will return in a new mutant form at an unspecified date”, in other words: Wyeth Hansen is part of Labour NYC now.
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_for those of you who enjoy a Dwell-like life [ and also speak German ]: the Ripollés-Manrique house, by architect Teo Hidalgo Nácher [ via Studio 5555 ].
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_it reads: “Torbjørn Rødland is to photography what the Pet Shop Boys are to pop music: a master of the delicately orchestrated clichée overload”
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_Layflat folks send word: they’re releasing two amazing artist book editions [Dune and Visible Library]. You can preorder them now!
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_one of the most amazing features we’ve ever seen in a portfolio website: Paul Sahre‘s “regrets” include missplaced inch marks, un-printable silkscreen posters and even a diaphragm inserter on a photo shoot.
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_looking for something beautiful to hang in our office walls: Kellie Talbot‘s typographic paintings definitely make the cut.
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_if you feel like you must download something today, download McNair Evans‘ photography portfolio zine [ here! ].
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_it reads: “Colma is the only city in the United States where the dead outnumber the living. Cemeteries make up 73% of the city’s land.” – images by Mark Mahaney.
Gopher Magazine + Teleportal Readings + Total Unicorn
Do watch in fullscreen mode! / Para ser visto a pantalla completa!
More info / Más info:
Teleportal Readings
Total Unicorn
Leo Felipe Campos
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_today we published a brief recap of some of the stuff we’re working on, do check it at the TED Fellows blog!
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_”my first foley kit” and “how to run an airport” are among some of the works art-directed by Lukas Muellner.
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_it reads: “George Boorujy attended the University of Miami in order to pursue a career as a marine biologist. Appropriately, in 1996 he received a BFA degree in painting.”
Behind the Cover: An Interview with Monocle Magazine’s Tyler Brûlé
Early last year, as we strolled the streets of London, we decided to take the opportunity to sit down with a series of editors that are, in our young Gopher-peepers, some of our most admired peers. From these meetings a series of interviews, videos, print projects and – why hide it? – a bit of a taste for scotch resulted. Not all of these face-to-face encounters will end up here or in the pages of the print edition, but if there is [...]
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_”Adrienne Miller is a Nashville-based artist whose work deals with themes of secrets, memory, and shared personal experience.” says here.
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_a public service announcement for our dear readers in Brooklyn: world-famous Two Arms Inc. is a neighbor of yours.
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_we’re doing two collaborative projects at the Fusebox Festival 2011, one of them is with La Sombra Restaurant and you can try it already! [ more info on the other one next week ]
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_our beloved Senior Designer Alexander Wright was featured in Design Work Life! also, he overhauled his website so do check it out!
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_first we learned that Louise Fili, Steven Heller and Lita Talarico are organizing a workshop in typography and design history in Rome and Venice, then we found out that, at $6,700, it doesn’t come cheap.
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_remember that soccer team we mentioned about a month ago? We’ll it also has painter Christa Palazzolo as one of their teammates!
Ultra Secret Sneak Peek: The Gopher – Volume 2
Hello! As some of you might know already, some months ago the Gopher team moved it’s headquarters to sunny Austin, TX. Here we found a new home, a profusion of amazing friendships and a place to continue this project for the promotion of talents in the arts. The Gopher’s projects also reach beyond this editorial endeavor. In the upcoming months we’ll be releasing a series of projects in partnership with some awesome institutions – but we’ll keep that for another post.
Right now we want [...]
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_a must-read rejection letter: from editor Brian Doyle [ University of Portland Magazine ] via Tracy Mueller.
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_it’s March, you’re in Honolulu and you bump into “Comforter” by Geoffrey Chadsey: do you keep drinking?
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_cant. stop. listening: police scanner and hypnotic drone music mashed up = you’re listening to Los Angeles.
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_today we remembered the work of photographer Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, thanks to E-Flux for refreshing our memories!
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_if being in NYC in the Spring is not enough reason to hop on a JFK-bound plane, then the Armory Show might help you decide.
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_relief sculptures made using found photographs of the same place taken at different times: Abigail Reynolds.
_today we were completely stunned by the work that Heatherwick Studio presented at TED, the seed cathedral is amazing!
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_you Nicholas Feltron, should have some coffee with some Gopher Magazine editors that follow your blog. Soon.
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_coming back to America: “[ the term ] Ghost Riding involves walking or dancing alongside a car while a vehicle is still moving” – videoart by Timo Bredenberg.
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_the GridLondon’s “Takeaway Box” is one of the most amazing brochures we’ve sen in a while, do look!
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_the series “Corporate Franchise Architecture and the National Landscape” is something you should definitely see if you’re interested in contemporary USA.
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_our friend Estelle Hanania has a new book! This time it is about her Dondoro series and it’s published by the folks of Kaugummi.
_572
_probably you’ve seen this around, but in case you haven’t: the Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names by Pop Chart Lab.
_568
_finally we know who made the video that we saw at the Parc de Collserola in Barcelona! Javier Jaen!
_567
_do you know who moved into Alvin Lustig‘s studio in NYC after he passed away? Josef Müller-Brockmann!
_565
_music Monday indeed! listening once and again to Diamond Rings, specially this and this [ via Jess Sauer! ].
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_the Gopher and its co-editor Lope Gutiérrez-Ruiz are featured in Wired Magazine!!! Awesome Thursday and kudos to Lope! Larger images here and here!
_563
_what an amazing set of images: “El Pardo” by Carlos Sanva [ more to come in the next edition of the Gopher! ].
_560
_how is it possible that we’ve never recommended Ghostly International‘s amazing podcast, the Ghostlycast?
_558
_the folks at House Industries have just put up a trailer for their upcoming documentary! Coud this be the next “Helvetica“? [ Hum! ]
_557
_the categories in Gina Tuzzi‘s portfolio website: drawings, paintings, projections, sculptures, beards.
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_things we do repeatedly: as soon as we enter a portfolio website we go to the “personal work” tab; today Johan Theeuwes.
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_and with the Monday, a couple of tunes under three minutes and over 45 years old: Chuck Willis [ 1956 ] and William Bell [ 1964 ].
_slowly waking up and thinking about the legend of Ts’ang-chieh (仓颉) who created the Chinese script inspired by the movement of celestial bodies and living creatures.
_548
_besides being an amazing designer, Timba Smits is also an editor: he publishes the Wooden Toy Quarterly and is the brains behind the Lyrics and Type series.
_545
_we absolutely adore this clip of Marty Robbins singing Devil Woman [ and loathe this one by Bruce Willis singing the same song - sorry Bruce! ].
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_the London-based Sara de Bondt is much more than a graphic designer, sometimes she also co-curates exhibitions.
_535
_hum, second time in less than a month that we follow a link straight to Adam Ellison‘s website. Is this some kind of plan that you are up to Mr. Ellison?
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_”in early 1971 Sun Ra was artist-in-residence at University of California, Berkeley, teaching a course called “The Black Man In the Cosmos”… one half-hour of each class was devoted to a lecture, the other half-hour to an Arkestra performance or Sun Ra keyboard solo”.
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_hey and since we’re talking about internet, if you have a friend in a country with internet censorship, send them the Alkasir browser [ made by our buddy Walid al-Saqaf! ] so he can circumvent censors.
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_one of the best projects we’ve seen in years: some friends are buying a satellite from a bankrupt company and using it to send free internet to the countries that need it the most.
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_the latest issue of Kaleidoscope just landed in our mailbox [ thanks Lili! ], we still can’t believe that this magazine is free.
_512
_this is “a video report on data visualization as a storytelling medium“, produced during a 2009-10 Knight Fellowship.
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_reading our interview with Hanif Kureishi for the next edition of the magazine and remembering the Paisley design motif.
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_expect some spectacular images of Haikyo in the next edition of the Gopher, here’s one photographer that dwells in such a field: Abandoned Kansai.
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_it reads: Wevolve is a New York-based, future-oriented think-do tank that lives, breathes, studies, and drives the vanguard of socio-cultural change.
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_not exactly a young boy, but we just felt like showing this image anyway. We’re talking about Robert Melee.
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_the week starts and we found out that I Love Dust is the studio responsible for those amazing covers for The Ride Journal.
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_only twelve days left if you are from South America / Asia / Europe and want to enter the Cut & Paste competition.
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_it reads: “I always feel that the margins tell you more than the center of the page ever could” – Fluent~Collaborative.
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_two days in Austin and we have already seen the book “I was told there’d be cake” by Sloane Crosley three times.
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_and now we’re in Austin! if you’re in the city and want to meet up for coffee / drink / burrito, just drop us a line!
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_two days ago we mentioned Grant Willing, ends up he had an exhibition at the very interesting Preteen Gallery.
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_would somebody tell us how can we get in contact with Marta Marcé?
_would somebody tell us how can we get in contact with Marta Marcé?
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_the world-famous toroctopus was created by Javier Jaén Benavides.
_449
_we saw only one photograph and decided to post it: Trevor Burks [ but he's actually an illustrator! ].
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_hello NYC ! we just arrived in the city [ after a looooong delay in Miami ] and would love to see you all newyorkerites! so feel free to drop us a line if you’re in NYC and want to meet some Gopher-type people!
_444
_and since we’re a talking about Gallery Hanahou why not mention that they had an exhibition by Berlin-based experimental platform Bilderklub?
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_just a couple of days ago Stina Persson opened her exhbition Perfectly Flawed at Gallery Hanahou @ NYC.
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_our in-house-trickster Marc Caellas mentions the Disseny Hub Barcelona in the first edition of the Gopher, Kobi Benezeri designed its logo.
_431
_as a follow-up of the previous post about the times of yore: electrofist circa 1957, vía Mister Asta.
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_a couple of years ago we went to this event called the Intuit Show @ Chicago, there we heard J. J. Cromer‘s name for the first time; now we pass that name to you.
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_the amazing folks at 2×4 created the image for the Harvard Museums that we like so much, but also the one for the Brooklyn Museum which we don’t fancy that much.
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_when someone says the word “Redman” we really don’t want to think about Wu Tang Clan: Craig Redman.
Alejandro Paul writes the world over
If there is one typographer you should keep an eye on, that is without a doubt Alejandro Paul. A quick look at his twitter just tells us everything: “Facebook says Thank You to 500 million users with a Sudtipos typeface“, “Elizabeth Arden and Burgues Script“, “Nabisco + Amorinda font” and the list keeps going. From small projects to government-size corporations, everybody is in love with Paul’s work and is not hard to understand why. From simple sans-serifs to [...]
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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_a toy to make your children cry: handcrafted wooden figures of recently extinct animals, by mixed-media designer Josh Finkle.
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_you know those screens that show video art in Harvard Square? well, they’re part of a project by Lumen Eclipse.
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_we think that a painting of the series Volo Interno by Marco Neri would go perfectly fine with one by Guy Yanai.
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_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.
The first 14 minutes and 23 seconds of the Gopher Illustrated !
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! [...]
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_monday and something to recommend: Museo Slab 500 is an amazing, amazing, amazing typography, we Gophers loooooove Jos Buivenga‘s work.
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_we were quite sure that we had posted him before, but apparently not: James Roper everybody offers much more than color and space.
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_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.
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_dear Lord, is there anything that doesn’t exist in Josh Keyes‘ imagination? a bird-spitting, concrete-breaking shark? for real?
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_remember Michael Rolph from about a week ago? well, if you liked him, check out the better-known Rasmus Norlander.
Carol Salmanson’s light and refraction
Some of the Gopher staffers grew up surrounded by Op and Kinetic art: stripes of fluorescent color, geometric forms of dubious contours and beams of tinted light were part of our childhoods in the Caribbean. Given our record, it is not surprise that we find a home-y feeling in Carol Salmanson‘s work, a kind of warm sensation provoked not only by the glow and hue* of the LED lights that she uses in her work, but also by that familiar feeling of [...]
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_another case of the navel-gazing Fridays: we saw the ad for the Art Students League of New York and we couldn’t stop ourselves from clicking. The logo is beautimous.
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_we were thinking about the phrase “panties in a knot” and this drawing by David Coquelin a.k.a Easy Hey suddenly appeared.
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_Breda’s Graphic Design festival starts in a week, if you’re in the Netherlands don’t forget to enroll / drop by!
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_two days ago we forgot to mention how much have we enjoyed the short story The Halloween They All Dressed As Darth Vader by John Minichillo @ Nashville Review. We love it!
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_man, we’re loving the Nashville Review these days, we like it so much we got a bad case of the magazine-envy.
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_the newest edition of La Más Bella is on sale now! it features collaborations of hundreds of artists including one by the Gopher. Kudos Pepe & Diego!
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_the guys from idealworld.org should be very proud of the web domain they landed. Now, what in the hell is the website about?
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_believe us, we had a hard time choosing which of OVNI’s images we were going to put up here [ and yes, we're going through a phase of graffiti-from-barça ]
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_about a week ago we featured Icelandic illustration, today we bring you Icelandic painting via Eggert Petursson, who like many other Icelandic fellas, is obsessed with local fauna.
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“LCPL. Blake H. Howey, 20, was killed by an IED on February 18, 2007, in Falluja, Iraq. He was from Glendora, California.” This is his room.
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_founded in 1983 as a community photography initiative, Belfast Exposed Photography now functions as a gallery for contemporary photography with emphasis on commissioning and publication of new work [ says the website's home ]
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_”visual artist Andrea Maack graduated from The Icelandic Academy of the Arts in 2005. She currently lives and works in Reykjavik” says her website.
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_and while looking for more information on Shauna Born we found Lauren Hall‘s art. Internet have we said we love you lately? well, weloveyou.
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_doesn’t look like Shauna Born is into updating her website, but it doesn’t matter to us, what we like is the portraits she makes.
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_our dear friend Elizabeth Nuñez did an amazing piece for CNN about the Trail of Dreams, be sure to check it out !
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_a hate briefly that starts with a confession: we google’d “art + prick” and the first link was this one, which incidentally is something we hate.
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_ an “Iranian Underground Art Studio, Arabic and Persian Graffiti style, stencils, paintings, posters” awaits here.
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_we’re pretty sure you already know Christopher Payne‘s photography –being such a savvy art-dweller of a gopher yourself- but we just can’t resist posting about it. Go. Now.
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_don’t even ask us why, today seems a perfect day to listen to Debussy’s “La Cathédrale Engloutie” some nineteen-ten stuff for all.
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_is it us or is everybody designing logos with lions or dragons these days? our dear ol’ Gopher looks so harmless!
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_this is called China Blue Art.
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_after looking at all the images on Nick Harrison‘s website you’ll find this message: “thank you for scrolling all the way down here”, nice!
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_the submissions for the 2010 edition of Curvy Book & Exhibition are now open. Curvy presents a selection of female graphic artists and illustrators from around the world.
Aquiles Hadjis a visual hunka-love
Just like that. Aquiles-Hadjis-is-the-shit. This is an unashamed, blatant post of love and imagery about our most recent entry in that narrow category called art we can’t live without. And, to make it even more tempting for our dear readers, a fact of disturbing awesomeness: here’s the only place in the whole wide internets where you can find some of the work that Aquiles is doing currently at Tokyo. Because not only is he an astonishing painter, he’s also the kind of [...]
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_it keeps happening: we choose a photo and after choosing it we find a thousand we like even more. Exhibit number n, the work of Luke Gregory.
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_yes, Marcel Dzama did the illustrations for Guero, but his artwork spans way beyond record covers. Did you know that he often employs root beer base?
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_every now and then we spend hours looking at pretty pretty fonts online. Today [ yes it was one of those days ] we liked Badona by the people of Gravitart. ALSO: did you know about the iKern service?
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_for those of you into music monday’s and stuff, here’s our contribution: Boompa, canadians and into watercolor websites.
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_and on a lighter mood: you can download Abstruse Goose‘s book here.>
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_paranoia thursdays: did we post something about Michael Northrup‘s amazing photographs? did we? looks like we haven’t… but we’re not so sure.
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_friday and some geek fun: Anatoly Zenkov‘s Mouse Path application traces your movements around your computer and by doing so, it shows how complex our day-to-day activity can be; do download ! pc and mac version available!
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_you should check Alexander Apostol’s Residente Pulido series. You should. I mean, it’s Wednesday.
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_on top of this words a detail from the Visual Communication of Ecological Literacy by the folks of Eco-Labs.
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_the weekend is always a good time for freebies, this saturday: Quicksand, a free sans serif typeface by Andrew Paglinawan [ via Typophile ], enjoy!
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_words by Seek and Peak: “I’m Brandon Schaefer, a 25 year old graphic designer. I make things, and am available for freelance and commissions. Please, no crimefighting requests”.
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_something in the way between UFO’s and Szymon Roginski.
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_we’ve never featured a booking agency, but we just felt for the name of this one: Approaching Serpents, hey the even book Eliot Lipp!
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_this is Good William and the Eye of the Dead by Andy Kehoe [ makes us think in some bearded Bowie lurking in a wood ] [ can Bowie grow a beard? ].
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_today we’ve got a bad case of the nerds: we’re effing loving the obssesive Photographic Periodic Table of Elements.
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_looking trough the window, enjoying vodka with some friends and wondering how Sauerbruch Hutton‘s building of the Hamburg’s Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt is going? this is the last thing we heard about it.
_today, a detail from the painting Blood Oranges and Apple Cores by Max Key.
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_present and correct we like.
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_how is it possible that we spent the whole 2009 without making a single post about Pietari Posti‘s work?
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_we thought that Barry Anderson was a sculptor but he’s actually a photographer.
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_where is Gastón Caba? in Asia or in South America?
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_what type are you? video test made by the people of Pentagram, apparently we are Universal [ via Gopher friend Siera ].
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_cutest.ameisenbär.ever! by Stephan Lomp.
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_that thing about following blogs in languages we don’t understand, this week: Janine Viveka does photographs and general linkage.
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_we begin the year with a nod to our beloved [ and snowy ] London: the creative agency Airside is one of our favorites out there.
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_this nice Line_A font (and a couple of other fonts) are available for free at Rodrigo Fuenzalida‘s website! Also: Today is Gopher Editor Lope’s Birthday. Be sure to drop him some birthday love.
2009: Noah and The Cramps
Ok people listen up: is December 29h, midnight’s approaching and we haven’t decided yet which song will end up being our last post of 2009. You know how it is: you plan to work all night but then wine uncorks itself, fake moustaches appear [ and piñata hats ] and eventually zig-zag is the new A-to-B; so, in honor of this pleasant dilemma of too much music to share, and too many guests to entertain, the according tic-tac-toe solution: a tie. [...]
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_speaking of residencies, have you heard about Tokyo Wonder Site before?
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_the fellas from hangar.org in Barcelona just released an online magazine featuring their resident artists.
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_for those of you looking for an agent, 2agenten is s nice German agency. They even represent our beloved Mario Wagner [ check out their store! ].
Jimmy Turrell Cuts and Paints
For the Gopher follower [ we love you! ] this won’t come as a surprise: we effing love collage. Tonya Harding + Tokyo + Macrame we like. Velázquez + The Maharishi + Oscar D’Leon we like even more. So, as the year comes to an end, read a short interview with one of our favorite cutandpasters – and a hell of a good artist with paint and brush – Jimmy Turrell
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_tuesday, drooling, Jason Karolak.
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_the posters that Paul Rogers has been doing for the Los Angeles Metro are so nice that they keep getting stolen out of the train cars. Also, check out his “name that movie” series.
_176
_”your mind, a wild monkey” the website of Ommwriter told us. Oh yeah? well, your mind a bunch of 00101010110111′s, you, dumb website.
_174
_Pat Pat Robat: thousands upon thousands of little colorful triangles together.
_172
_the answer to a question we had for months [ and keeping the Dutch theme in this little blackboard ]: the wonderfull Jazz-a-Palooza Festival @ Utrecht artwork is put together by the people at Autobahn studio.
_168
_for some weird reason we keep callin Karen Mrisk by the name “Fernando”.
_166
_it’s tuesday and we’re listening to Jenny Lewis with the Watson twins, and by “we” we mean Lope, ‘cuz Michu doesn’t like Jenny Lewis even a little bit.
_162
_woke up and felt like practicing Portuguese: María Valentina.
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_Carolina Raquel Antich is an Argentinean currently based in Venice, she won the Italian Youth Art Prize in 2005, and exhibited at the 51st Venice Biennale. In recent years she has held solo shows in New York, London, Rome, and Art-U-Room @ Tokyo.
Wondering about Pulp and Ré
Simple fact: every time that we Gophers are not capable of finding something on the Inter-webs the same intense feeling pervades us. We feel like huge, clumsy sea-boats, incapable of capturing the hands of small, marooned people. Or small marooned librarians with PhDs in magazine-making. Or small marooned pastry chefs when we just had three cups of coffee. [...]
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_hey! Print Magazine is following us on Twitter, we just found out today, we looove Print Magazine and especially their index of competitions.
_154
_as soon as you enter the website you read: we have decided not to die. Bold statements in the Arakawa + Gins website.
_152
_we had no idea that the people of Lineto were behind the amazing typo, graphic identity and signage of the Köln-Bonn airport in Germany that we visited in April, thanks to Billy Ben for the link!
_150
_Tohyto is a good old friend, and his work gets more amazing each day. You should check out the Wall of Light visuals he made @ York with the people of Wassergate, go! go!
Swiss Design beyond Müller-Brockmann: Billy Ben
Born in Fribourg and designer from the cradle, Bénédict M. Rohrer [ a.k.a. Billy Ben ] is much more than your average line-drawing, typeface-choosing feller. To this team of Gophers, he’s a character that pops up regularly when we are on the lookout for music: Records, flyers, concert posters, dj booths and booklets recurrently carry his name on their backs, tempting us -free wheelin’ e-mailers- to contact him. This temptation proved too strong and we just went for it with B. It took twelve [...]
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_we want to have a freebies section soon, just like the people of the Subtype Foundry or Font Shop or even Toyota.
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_wood that melts in your mouth, not your hands: Marteen Baas.
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_not everyday you bump into a “wearable textile sculpture”, so kudos to Nadine Byrne for surprising us, even deep into the XXI century.
Toro Y Moi / Omnipresent
Toro y Moi – Causers of This [ Carpark, 2009 ]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
It’s time for our wildly speculative affirmation of the week: we’re pretty sure that you, fellow Gopher visitor, have already heard about Toro y Moi. We just can’t help but be sure about it since the internets seem to be brimming with all kinds of Toro y Moi presence these days. You go window-shopping to blogland and bump into his musings about tour life [ [...]
_140
_last night we were remembering a Pipilotti Rist exhibition while stuck in traffic.
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_this is a painting by Jean-Marc Bustamante. [ via Xavier Hufkens ].
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_”and from that moment every time I hear the words funiculi funicula I remember Asako Narahashi“ said Mike over some wine this week.
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_we can’t believe we have forgotten to feature our friends of La Más Bella experimental magazine until today. Sorry Diego & Pepe !
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_finally we know who took this photo: Irina Rozovsky as a part of her series “One to Nothing“.
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_”Ji Lee is a polymath of all sorts of creative pursuits” says a 99 Percent interview, check her work at pleaseenjoy [ be sure to check the New Museum campaign ].
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_with Sunday, some retro-motion: a dollar dreadful.
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_week’s ending and Victor Cobo blatantly asks: do you remember when you loved me?
The Sound of Lucrecia / Congost
The Sound of Lucrecia
Ara from the album Congost [ Pruna Recordings, 2009 ]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
A couple of years ago some of us Gophers felt for the voice of Lucrecia Pérez. Lucrecia is a Colombian-born but Barcelona based singer, one of those musicians for whom many a critic have ventured to qualify with clichéd words like “siren” or “mermaid”, attributing her haunting sounds to the pull of mythology and not just the earthly result of Lucrecia’s [...]
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_A Little Encouragement by Leah Tinari.
El Diente de Oro
In this enormous world few galleries-cum-shops are loved by the Gopher team as much as El Diente de Oro. The “Diente” is a beautimous project located in Buenos Aires and founded by our longtime friend PIAN, along with musician Coni Cibilis. It is a shop, a gallery, an engine for all sorts of cultural activities and for many a traveller, a place to feel comfortable: it has one chair, one small sofa, one door and one bathroom [ though the bathroom [...]
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_installation by Ulla von Brandenburg [ and drawing, painting, film, video and performance too ].
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_her exhibition at ZingerPresents might be about to end, but we’re sure that Marijn van Kreij is up to something already.
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_Karin Brunnermeier was born in Buchloe [ Germany ], but guess what? she now lives in Berlin.
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_our moratorium on Anita Brunnauer‘s website ended today.
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_amazingly, the sculptures that Jessica Fortner builds are even more complex than her illustration work.
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_if you went to NYC recently and attended some undergound-ish concert, chances are that NYC Taper recorded it [ in the image, a set by Blood Warriors ].
_096
_on top of these words is “Parallel Universe” by Diana Copperwhite [ or is it "Copper White" ? ].
_094
_the folks at NowNow [ Melbourne ] continue their series on studio visits, this time checking Dylan Martorell‘s place.
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_oh come on! How are supposed to become anything BUT an artist if your name is Stephanie Wunderlich ?
Deastro / Tone Adventure #3
Tone Adventure #3 from the album Moondagger by Deastro [ Ghostly International, 2009 ] [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Monday afternoon means a new track on the the Gopher website. Meanwhile we’re still into our old favorites and have kept abusing the music we listen to week in, week out, until the calendar marks the end of time. This means, to this particular gopher, some Clash, some Ramones, Ms. Marshall, Mr. Cash and some Mr. Jackson [...]
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_we found Jayne Helliwell thanks to the people of Gentle Friendly.
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_ just thinking that it would be so amusing to find a website that draws inspiration / makes fun of the head of Monocle Magazine, and bam! Being Tyler Brûlé.
_084
_today the Gopher is divided, [ divided ! ] in civil strife: those who like the work of Norwegian artist Kristian Hammerstad and those who… well.
Gentle Friendly / drone the pop way
Gentle Friendly begins as an environmental experiment in instrumental hodgepodge. After a friend rescues a drum-kit and some coffee from “a skip” David and Daniel [ and their drum-kit, their coffee, their friend and two old keyboards ] get together and start making enough noise to make the neighbors complain. Though their baptismal attic is no longer a viable venue, the London duo still makes noise-pop that is everything but neat. Sounds accumulate, loop and come back to bite you in the ass, [...]
_080
_google a phrase you hear on the street and in most cases some artsy art appears! . This week: “were never married” heard on the subway / photographs by Jackson Eaton.
_078
_so, the website says: Recovering Lazyholic: Photography & Stuff by Erin Hanson.
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_Grady O’Connor inspired by the novel White Noise.
_072
_what’s the idea behind the Complete Publications in PDF Format collection ? some of the books don’t even make sense at all.
Mark Weaver we love you very much
A couple of weeks ago we started our annual “things we’re suckers for” list with an [ adorable ] website that looked like an old computer desktop. Today we bring you the second installment of the series: things we’re suckers for 002: collages that incorporate 50′s imagery. The faded colors, mechanical composition, basic geometric shapes and beautiful typefaces keep driving us into drooling countries, and damn, Marker Weaver is a hell of a good cropper and paster fella.[...]
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_special promo Thursdays ! this week: Ryan de la Hoz.
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_Tuesday morning, beginning of September, and some Eduardo Recife.
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_if you ever drop by Cheltenham don’t forget to visit the Meantime Project + Space. On top of this words some work by Freya Gabie [ no link for her because we just can't find anything on the interwebs ].
Interview / warm weather, Campari and Guy Yanai
As August comes to an end, we bring you an artist from beyond the turning leaves of Europe and America. Guy Yanai is a Middle eastern painter, the founder of the well-known project Gallery 33. Our sources reveal that Guy is also a better-than-average tennis player and Campari lover. For you, gentle readers, Guy and a couple of hours of Friday left, enjoy both. Read though.
[ click on the title for full interview ]
Rita Indiana y Los Misterios /
El Blu del Ping Pong by Rita Indiana y Los Misterios
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Wednesday. Fourth day of the week. Last night we went dancing merengue. Like with flashing lights and stuff. Rum. No headache thanks. In honor of such rhythms we bring you [ dear audience ] a little jewel from Dominican Republic: Rita Indiana y Los Misterios, a merengue-fóquer ensemble that bla, bla, bla.
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_we had no idea that Sanna Annuka was half Finnish and half English, although we did figure out that the Kalevala had some sort of influence in her work.
_060
_wonder if our dear friend Mario Wagner knows about Mark Wagner and his currency collages.
_058
_not only do we enjoy how Steve Raura’s website behaves [ all smooth movements and stuff ], but we certainly like his illustration work as well.
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_Mark Silipo from Magic Sweater has a zine well worth a check if you’re into illustration: Teen Vomit [ and yes, we're not that much into the mag name ].
Interview / 18 questions for Mike Cina
- What lessons have you learned from working in design and within the art scene of Minneapolis?
1. I don’t really see myself as a designer.
2. People here really stick to themselves. It is a very Dutch/German town.
3. Minneapolis invented the modern form of advertising.
4. Minneapolis designers are obsessed with the “kitch retro” visual work. I still don’t know why.
[ click on the title for full interview ]
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_ok, ok, we swear is the last time we feature somebody from the Stephen Wirtz Gallery, but truth is that we saw the work of Alec Soth also at the CCCB [ Barcelona ] website. Some saliency syndrome happening around here, sorry folks.
_052
_since we’re still checking the Stephen Wirtz Gallery from two posts ago, we’ll like to feature some Deborah Oropallo today; also, her book Pomp was just released so you might want to check that too.
_050
_in Raymond Saunder‘s work graffiti meets botanical meets chalk meets blackboard meets stencil, more images at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery.
“Le Grand Content”: A Clemens Kogler oldie
An old favorite of the Gopher, the Le Grand Content video is something we have bumped into in many different times and places. A document on the omnipresent PowerPoint culture, it reminds us that advertising agencies, sales teams and strategy fellas are always out there, lurking behind sharp corners, trying to categorize us. A good way to introduce video at the Eye Candy section [ since we have featured street art and photography already ] it still [...]
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_we just have the feeling that this is going to be a really short post: drawing by Tilman Faelker.
_047
_in the style of American paper-boys, rolled art pieces are distributed by bicycles in the streets to random passers-by, says the website of Papergirl, an art project that takes place once a year in Berlin since 2006.
_046
_just wondering how many anarchist / zine / activist shops like Irregular Rhythm Asylum are up and running in Tokyo.
_044
_does anybody know what happened to the Canadian magazine Pyramid Power ? is it still around?
_039
_if you drop by Morld‘s website don’t forget to check the Human’s Favorite Color [ 人間の好みの色 ] project.
_038
_we know this should be in the Sound part of the website, but what the hell, we’re really enjoying Minger Records music these days.
_036
_according to her website: Johanna Dery not only illustrates but also makes short films, drawings, prints, little books, and occasionally music & papier-mache creatures; multi-tasking, Rhode Island-style.
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_Rip: a Remix Manifesto is a documentary about copyright and the current generation done by Canadian activist Brett Gaylor. Another example of his position about copyright is the project Open Source Cinema.
Op3rador means “Op3rator”
Op3rador
Epa Chapela
from the album Operador Vive [ Pilla Records, 2008 ]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
For those who still believe in geographic determinism, we bring you Op3rador; a fella hiding [...]
_030
_nothing visual today, just Daniel W. Drazer‘s column at Foreign Policy and Tyler Brûlé‘s one at the Financial Times. Airport reading you may say.
_028
_yesterday’s Jared was 21 years old and from Boone, USA. Today some Pekka Niittyvirta, 35, and from Helsinki. That thing about taking photos of people from behind them.
_027
_if the title is to be taken literally, the guy bending in the photo is a priest. More info at Jared Boger‘s website [ can you believe that Boger is just 21 years old ? ].
_024
_the new week gets us thinking about color and gradient. Fitting our mood - Jordi Ferreiro [ Barça ].
_021
_thursday night and some Jake Longstreth before going home.
_020
_the Design Has No Name studio is from Argentina but their clients are spread all around the world.
_019
_we’re still wondering if the some of the portraits and landscapes by Lane Coder are shot in Polaroid.
_018
_and now that we’re talking about blogs: Boicozine was a project from Press Publish that we still miss, their new blog -just called Press Publish- is excelent, but has quite a different interface and feeling [ in the image some work by Beci Orpin featured on the PP blog ].
_017
_we found out about Oum Koulsoum via the Awesome Tapes From Africa blog.
_016
_John Delk does installations like the one above, but he’s also into video and photographs.
_015
_things we’re suckers for 001: websites that look like old computer desktops.
_014
_we had no idea that Adam Scott [ the painter not the golf player ] had showcased his work at Kavi Gupta Gallery.
_013
_so what is Michael Hall up to?
_012
_handmade in french is fait à la main, for more info, ask Jean Jullien.
_007
_apparently, Ryan McGinley knows where the summer goes.
_006
_two words: Pinoy Biswalstyle.
_004
_Roger Kelly is from london and you can find his work at the Halles Gallery.
_003
_last time we checked Richard Hogg he was not into making movies. Now he is. And yes, we still prefer his illustration work.
