Have at some inspirational work found via the always awesome Arkitip Intel site. This image is part of a series of 5 graphics now being shown at the cargocollective.com/amkearea
KRINK in action
Very cool video showing KRINK working through his iconic paint drip style. This video comes via hypebeast and I’ve had this tab open in my browser for weeks meaning to finally take a look at it and how KRINK works.
I found the comment section to me interesting to this with someone remarking “anyone can be an artist these days” and a smarter replied comment of “ya, you just have to get out of your computer chair and put your ideas to work” and isn’t that the more important truth? We can all follow our dreams, but you can’t just think about it, you have to get up and get out and do something.
Whiz mobile upload #2.
Posted number 1 to whizhouse, hopefully this mobile post goes to the right blog.
Taken on first gen iPhone this morning, tiltshift, camera bagged then cropped in mobile ps, ran back through camera bag for Polaroid border.
Kick - Ass trailer
I knew nothing about this comic book series before coming across this excellent write up for the trailer over at smokingsection:
Appalled is usually a punk word. Punks get appalled. Old British ladies choke on their crumpets when they’re appalled. Your grandmother was appalled when she accidentally turned on BET’s Uncut. A grown man like myself should never be appalled.
I read Kick-Ass and I was appalled. The eight-issue comic book series written by comic genius Mark Millar (Wanted, Ultimate Fantastic Four) just wrapped up last week and if I had a coinpurse, I’d have clutched it while reading. The last issue alone features a 10-year-old girl doing coke and shooting mafia bosses in the scrotes. Awesome!
If the movie lives up to half the craziness of the comic, you’ll be in for a cringe-inducing but thoroughly enjoyable movie. Judging by Hit Girl’s use of the word “cock,” the movie looks like it plans to be true to the book.
With some top notch names involved, it looks like it could be a fun movie, but David’s write up might have sold me on checking out the comic book as well.
Ксения Симонова - песочная анимация (ФИНАЛ)
Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine’s version of “America’s Got Talent.” She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and “sand painting” skills to interpret Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII. And shes hot.
Peek of my favorite new piece of furniture we’re creating with Amanda Visell.
Paul Bundnitz, president and founder of Kid Robot, has his own tumblr, showing off some cool behind the scenes photos like the one above, and links, photos and video that should provide inspiration and a nice addition to your dashboard.
Hey Paul, next time you’re in New York you up for an interview?
Chalkboard fun, posted via my iphone
Gawker Artists presents NSFW (Not Safe for Work)
I have a feeling Dan will be looking forward to this one. Press release, RSVP info below:
Opening Reception
Thursday, January 28
7-9 pm
210 Elizabeth Street, 4th Floor
RSVP to artists@gawker.com
Gawker Artists presents NSFW (Not Safe For Work), a group show of works by Gawker Artists Steve Ellis, Emiliano Granado, Justine Lai, Heather Morgan and Randy Polumbo, and the latest exhibition in the Art@Gawker series.
Featuring sexually suggestive works typically considered off limits for the workplace, NSFW showcases Gawker Artists’ playful irreverence and ongoing exploration of the boundaries and roles of corporate art programs.
Steve Ellis’ Amanda Lepore Stripping Pen is inspired by Lepore’s own story of transsexual transformation. Ellis’ iconic painting celebrates both a common object and the reinvention of sexual identity. In Ellis’ own words, “This portrait on the surface looks like a curvy porn star, but instead the model is a sculpted sexual being and work of art unto herself.”
Emiliano Granado’s photographs document the raucous atmosphere of spring break, capturing the many desperate ploys for attention and culpability of the crowd in encouraging booze fueled hedonism. Granado’s matter-of-fact perspective highlights the vulgar realities of this modern American phenomenon.
In her ongoing series Join or Die, Justine Lai paints herself having sex with the U.S. Presidents in chronological order. By objectifying these revered faces, Lai’s striking and comical portraits explore the nature of power. Lai examines her own identity through the lens of American history, exploring and asserting herself through imaginary pleasure, dominance, liberty, and control.
Heather Morgan’s lush paintings elicit feelings of confrontation, vulnerability and empathy. Her unconventional female figures challenge common ideals of beauty and sexuality. Drawn in by their defiant gazes, the viewer is invited behind the curtain into the lives of Morgan’s confident, yet dysfunctional subjects.
Randy Polumbo’s provocative sculptures made from replicas of mass market sex toys inspire, in his own words, “questions of beauty, libidinal economies, and propagation … from the contrast between our public faces and private appetites.” Polumbo’s works, which at first glance seem more alien than erotic, require a double take before realizing their actual implications.
Each of the works in NSFW recontextualizes its subject, inspiring new interpretations of their beauty, intention and importance via timeless isolation and mischievous tribute. Simultaneously uncomfortable, shocking, and humorous, the works force the viewer to question their own definitions of sexual objects and acts. As a whole, NSFW questions the meaning, role, and audience of sexually provocative art work, in the context of a corporate setting which commonly avoids works that are not safe.
NSFW is curated by sisters, Genevieve and Liz Dimmitt. For more information please visit www.artists.gawker.com or email artists@gawker.com.
