Christopher Darling
Posted by Fabio 4 May 2011
Christopher Darling is an illustrator & writer, born in Chicago, now living in Manhattan. He studied design in Minneapolis & creative writing and fine art in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Currently, he is in the MFA illustration program at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Matthijs van Leeuwen
Posted by Fabio 4 May 2011
Matthijs van Leeuwen is a graphic designer and Art director, recently awarded with three ‘2010 red dot communication awards’, including ‘Best of the best’. He currently lives and work in Newark, USA.
Oscar Fernando Gomez Rodriguez
Posted by Fabio 4 May 2011
Oscar Fernando Gomez Rodriguez (b.1970) is an artist who lives and works in Mexico. He began as a wedding photographer, but supplemented his income by driving a taxi. The window of the taxi became the frame for his work as he travelled across Moneterrey, Mexico documenting life on the street as he knew it. The work is tinged with sadness as it was initially intended to be an album of urban photographs for his daughter who tragically died just after birth.
Boys of Bonneville: Racing on a Ribbon of Salt
Posted by Fabio 4 May 2011
Boys of Bonneville: Racing on a Ribbon of Salt is about an America that has all but disappeared, when lucrative business deals were cemented by a handshake and state of the art automobiles were designed on the backs of envelopes. It tells the story of an unsung hero and self-made man, David Abbott Jenkins, who, with almost superhuman stamina and boyish charm, set out to single-handedly break every existing land speed record on his beloved Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah. read more
Norman Mailer’s Life as Seen Through His Last Home
Posted by Fabio 3 May 2011
Author Norman Mailer expanded his fourth-floor apartment in Brooklyn Heights into a nautical adventureland and filled it with mementos of his life. Now that he and his wife are deceased, his nine children have listed the co-op for sale for $2.5 million. (New York Times)
Danger Beach – Apache
Posted by Fabio 3 May 2011
Music video for the band Danger Beach, taken from Their new album Milky Way, on Dream Damage Records. Directed by Ned Wenlock, and animated by Rodney Selby.
Sweetgrass
Posted by Fabio 3 May 2011
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. read more
Monica Cook
Posted by Fabio 3 May 2011
Monica Cook paints beautiful and disturbing portraits of women. Her figures are brilliantly painted, with breathtaking skill; Cook excels in rendering the subtleties of the flesh and details of light, tone and surface. Painted with an eerie intensity, Cook’s figures compel the viewer to study them, often surreptitiously, as there is a strong sense of invading an extremely private moment. read more