Category Archives: Art

941 Geary Presents: Justified Scriptures New Paintings by Niels Shoe Meulman

New show at San Francisco’s Shooting Gallery (941 Geary) with Neils Shoe Muelman. Big fan of his work, and we wrote about his “Caligrafitti” book a ways back.The show opens March 24th and runs through April 21st. You can find more info and photos about the show the gallery’s site. A number of the pieces [...]

RETNA Mural @ 2nd Ave. and Bowery

Old news by now, but I decided to take the train down to 2nd Avenue & Bowery to take a few of my own shots of the new(ish) RETNA mural on the Deitch Wall. You can still see some of the old Faile mural on the side of the wall.

Hennesy Youngman Crits Performance Art and Hosts a Group Art Show

Hennesy Youngman has been a busy man. In between getting written up by Gawker and the New York Times, he’s uploaded two new videos. The first a critique on performance art, the second an open call to contribute to his group show in Chelsea, New York called “It’s a Small, Small World.” I think I [...]

New Faile “Temple” Studio Book Launches Today

Look gorgeous. Documents the creation of the Faile Temple in Lisbon, Portugal. Purchase the book here, $95.00. This book presents FAILE’s most complex and ambitious project to date—a large-scale, temporary installation of a temple created for Portugal Arte 10. The vanguard American urban artists masterfully translate familiar elements and themes from the contemporary prints, graphic [...]

Blue Velvet by Cris Cleen

Beautiful!!! More of Cris’ amazing work on his site.

One Year in 120 Seconds

Stunning stop motion of one year in Oslo, Norway in 120 seconds. The filmmaker Eric Solheim shares how he made it here. Amazing he did this without using any sort of tripods or rigs. via Day at a Glance.

A Gem from the 1980s: Dragon’s Lair / Walkthrough Video

Dragon’s Lair was a video arcade game from 1983 by Cinematronics which featured beautiful graphics by ex-Disney animator Don Bluth. Seeing this machine as a child was pretty much the most amazing, magical experience – the holy grail of the arcade. I wanted this machine in my house so, so badly and used to have [...]

Haunting Anti-War Bone Art

Beautiful execution of a series of photographs / logotypes entitled “Stop the Violence” created with human bones. Via FFFFound. When Francois Robert unexpectedly acquired a human skeleton in the 1990s, he knew he had to do something wonderful with it. Several years later when the economy collapsed and he found himself with time on his [...]

Prints for Sale by Cris Cleen

Some really juicy prints available for $80 from artist Cris Cleen. Get them here. Love the “Talk to Me” design, I think this is a really fantastic piece.

Icy Fresh New Prints and Lithos at First and Fifteenth

Never can get enough of Stephen Powers and his wit / aesthetic style. There’s something so satisfying about having any one of his pieces hanging on a wall at home – from the colors and simplicity of design to the sarcasm. The pieces we have collected over the years truly bring a smile to my [...]

The Days in the Life of Mark Gonzales Post

Love this legendary skateboarder – his skate style, art, attitude. There are several day in the life films done on him which are all pretty amusing to watch if you want to chuckle. “I met him on the street and he liked my dog.”: “Mark on Allen” – filmed by Spike Jonze features kick flipping [...]

Plastic Bag Tree Installation by Miha Artnak

Saw this today on Unurth. It’s by a Slovenian artist named Miha Artnak. Really loved the simplicity, color and beauty of this idea.

Art Thoughtz: Damien Hirst

New thoughts from Hennessy Youngman on Damien Hirst’s “medium.” This episode is epic. Makes me laugh so hard.

Cris Cleen Tattoos Margaret Cho

Cris Cleen, ultra-talented artist and tattooer recently did some beautiful erotic-themed ink on comedian Margaret Cho. Cho writes an absolutely lovely description of Cris’ work and her desire to get tattooed by him. I was super stoked she mentions the short documentary I shot on Cris, and thought this was so cool that it resonated [...]

Paper Computing and MIT’s High-Low Tech Group

Randomly saw this video on Liveleak of MIT’s High-Low tech group’s project on a “kit for sketching electronics”, in which a designer is able to stick some crazy looking electronic components to a piece of paper and then draw with a pen to create a circuit. It’s really interesting at the end where an interface [...]

Places Visited #1: Salvation Mountain and My Photos of It

On our Christmas vacation we were very stoked to make it down to Niland, California to visit this colorful mountain installation called “Salvation Mountain” I previously blogged about back in August. It was about an hour and a half drive from Palm Springs, and a little difficult to find (we asked the locals), but it [...]

KIDULT “ILLEGAL WORLD” part II

Just in time for the Christmas Kidult is here to drop Illegal World Part II. Love this whole thing – cinemeatography, 80s murder music, message. Truth is the only reality.

HOUSE INDUSTRIES FOR MAISON HERMÈS

Alphabetic Equestrian Maison Hermès 5-4-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku Tokyo, Japan 104-0061 On display until January 17, 2012 Sired from custom cut solid Wisconsin cedar and equitationally interlocking House Industries letterforms, our hand-drawn Hermès horse gracefully canters through a harlequin carousel of letter-borne livery with exceptional alphabetic dressage. Stoutly-sculptured cedar characters draped with signature Hermès stablemates carry [...]

Alexander Calder’s Circus – 1927

It was in Paris in 1927 that he created the miniature circus celebrated in this film. The Parisian avant-garde would gather in Calder’s studio to see the circus in operation. This film exudes the great personal charm of Calder himself, moving and working the tiny players like a ringmaster, while his wife winds up the [...]

Brothers of the Weird Show with Todd James

Love Todd James’ work in this show. The show also features artists Devin Flynn, Ian Flynn, and Billy Grant. The show runs through January 22nd in the Canadian gallery. This is a show amongst friends, some who are actual brothers, all of whom are actually weird. The artists in this show are brothers in art, [...]