Xavi García
Posted by Fabio 16 June 2010
Fresh out of Saint Martins with a degree from the Foundation Course is Spanish designer Xavi García. This wonderfully crafted piece of work, Handmade was displayed at the recent Foundation degree show. The project derives from a college brief entitled Handmade. Here is how Xavi García describes his project. read more
OK Go – End Love
Posted by Fabio 16 June 2010
OK Go’s official video for ‘End Love’ off the album Of The Blue Colour of the Sky. Directed by OK Go, Eric Gunther, and Jeff Lieberman. Produced by Shirley Moyers.
Breakbot – Baby I’m Yours
Posted by Fabio 16 June 2010
“Baby I’m Yours” feat Irfane, is the new Breakbot video, released on Ed Banger Records. It is composed of approx 2000 images watercolor painted one after another. It was directed/handmade by Irina Dakeva.
Sofia Coppola – Somewhere
Posted by Fabio 16 June 2010
Writer/director Sofia Coppola reunites with the film company with which she made the Academy Award-winning hit “Lost in Translation.” Her new film is an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles; Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is a bad-boy actor stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Hollywood. With an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning), Johnny is forced to look at the questions we must all confront. read more
Slavs and Tatars
Posted by Fabio 15 June 2010
Slavs and Tatars is a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. The collective’s work spans several media, disciplines, and a broad spectrum of cultural registers (high and low) focusing on an oft-forgotten sphere of influence between Slavs, Caucasians and Central Asians. Their work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. www.slavsandtatars.com
Heart Chamber Orchestra – Pixelache
Posted by Fabio 15 June 2010
The Heart Chamber Orchestra is an audiovisual performance. The orchestra consists of 12 classical musicians and the artist duo Terminalbeach. Using their heartbeats, the musicians control a computer composition and visualization environment. The musical score is generated in real time by the heartbeats of the musicians. They read and play this score from a computer screen placed in front of them.
www.heartchamberorchestra.org
Michael Krueger
Posted by Fabio 15 June 2010
Michael Krueger is a father, an artist and a teacher. He was born on January 5, 1967 in Kenosha Wisconsin. His family moved to South Dakota in 1970 and he spent his childhood years in Sioux Falls. These formative years in the West cultivated a fondness and curiosity for the history of Westward Expansion and the epic struggles that were cast on the Great Plains. read more
WEATHERVANE
Posted by Fabio 14 June 2010
Rather dark and sombre charcoal animation by Chilean director Joaquín Cociña. Apparently the drawings didn’t survive the animation process, what a shame.