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Jen Stark
Posted by Fabio 14 May 2011
Jen Stark’s kaleidoscopic artwork brings to mind fractals, rainbows, geodes and topographic maps. Using her vivid imagination and an X-acto knife, she is a modern day magician who transforms humble materials like construction paper and glue into fantastic, intricate sculptures that mesmerize the eye.
www.jenstark.com
Eliot Lee Hazel
Posted by Fabio 13 May 2011
Gritty and cinematic images by California based photographer Eliot Lee Hazel. read more
Badpakje 46 – Short Film Competition Cannes 2011
Posted by Fabio 13 May 2011
Chantal, a chubby girl of twelve, is having a hard time finding her way through life. She doesn’t have a lot of friends, and at home she can only turn to her stepfather for support as she doesn’t get along with her mother or stepbrother. Only in the local pool, where she is training intensively for an upcoming swimming competition, does she truly feel at home. Directed by Wannes Destoop.
www.badpakje46.be
Steve Galloway
Posted by Fabio 13 May 2011
Set somewhere on the outskirts of our recognizable galaxy, the universe of painter Steve Galloway is scattered over numberless chunks of swampland where grotesque events transpire in bizarre, bucolic tropics that William Henry Hudson might have imagined in a paranoid, material dream.
Mark Cohen
Posted by Fabio 13 May 2011
The majority of the work for which Photographer Mark Cohen is known is shot in the neighbourhoods of Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, a city in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania, United States. Characteristically he shoots his subjects close in, often using a wide-angle lens and flash, frequently cropping the subjects’ heads from the frame, concentrating on small details and moments. read more
Phillip Warnell
Posted by Fabio 13 May 2011
Phillip Warnell is an artist and filmmaker based in London. Over almost two decades he has used the body as a site of exploration producing a series of works positioned between film, performance, the visual, and the sonic. Warnell has collaborated widely with a range of contributors: both individuals and organisations, shaping works intuitively, traversing disciplines and exploring the circumstances of co-production.
www.phillipwarnell.com
Atoi – Yearning
Posted by Fabio 12 May 2011
Yearning is the new music video by Björk’s favorite band Atoi, taken from their album Waves of Past Relations, out on Fake Diamond Records. Directed by Fenar Ahmad.
Alvin Lustig
Posted by Fabio 12 May 2011
Alvin Lustig’s contributions to the design of books and book jackets, magazines, interiors, and textiles as well as his teachings would have made him a credible candidate for the AIGA Lifetime Achievement award when he was alive. By the time he died at the age of forty in 1955, he had already introduced principles of Modern art to graphic design read more
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Sainte Maria is an illustrator based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her illustrations strip things down from exuberance and reflect fashion in all its beauty.