Digital Dada Library
Posted by Fabio 15 January 2010
The Digital Dada Library provides links to scanned images of original Dada-era publication in the International Dada Archive. These books, pamphlets, and periodicals are housed in the Special Collections Department of The University of Iowa Libraries. Well worth a look.
HEDI SLIMANE
Posted by Fabio 15 January 2010
Ballet and bass drum – its Friday. Fashion icon Hedi Slimane has recently directed this potent short film in collaboration with VMAN. Its stars the only 16 year old Danish ballet dancer Oscar Nilsson from the Royal Danish Ballet Theatre and a drummer with a bear head.
Maarit Hohteri
Posted by Fabio 14 January 2010
Maarit Hohteri is a Finnish photographer based in Helsinki. She takes honest and heartfelt pictures of people close to her, and try to record the feelings and perceptions that her friends have about life.
Hvass&Hannibal: Losing The Plot
Posted by Fabio 14 January 2010
Inspired by the collation and sorting of random data sources, Danish design polymaths Nan Na Hvass and Sofie Hannibal are reinterpreting information and expressing it by way of wooden sculptures, hand-benched silkscreen prints and offset posters. The result is a crafted appearance of layers and textures that belie the hard-edged nature of the raw data.
15 January — 27 February / Kemistry Gallery
Sean Pecknold
Posted by Fabio 14 January 2010
Director Sean Pecknold has just finished this lovely animation for BBC Knowledge.
Julius Klinkhardt
Posted by Fabio 13 January 2010
Julius Klinkhardt established in 1834 a bookstore in Leipzig, over the years he expanded his business to include book production, a printing office, a type foundry and a book bindery. These lovely prints are fine examples of what they were able to produce on their letterpress machines. read more
Jason Bruges
Posted by Fabio 13 January 2010
Star designer Jason Bruges takes part in the recently opened exhibition at the V&A entitled DECODE with his contribution Mirror, Mirror. White dot matrix digital panels are arranged in the pond, awakening as visitors come into view. Cameras mounted within the LED dot matrices capture activity in the garden and simultaneously reflect this back to the viewer; the animated images are then mirrored once again in the surface of the water, creating multiple reflections. www.jasonbruges.com
Shana Moulton
Posted by Fabio 13 January 2010
New York based video and performance artist Shana Moultons performing at the Bellwether Gallery.