Dec 2, 2012

American Girls by Ilona Szwarc








"American Girls" is a series of portraits of girls in United States who own American Girl dolls. When I first came to US the phenomenon of the American Girl doll immediately caught my attention. Photo- graphically it was a beautiful image – girls with their sculptural representations, their twins, their avatars. I realized that their design embodies contemporary cultural values. They were conceived to be anti-Barbie toys modelled after a body of a nine year old.

Ilona Szwarc



Best Art Vinyl Award 2012

Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral
Design by Alison Fielding

Young Magic - Melt
Design by Leif Podhajsky

White Lung - Sorry
Design by Justin Gradin

I just submit my vote here for Best Art Vinyl Award 2012. 
My top three best record sleeves of 202 :)
The winners will be announced on the 10th of January 2013.

Oct 12, 2012

Bottle Cap House



Photos: © REUTERS / Ilya Naymushin
Olga Kostina, lives in a small Russian village called “Karmarchaga”. She decorates her wooden home with 30.000 plastic bottle caps, doing an colourfully artistic patterns. A giant mosaic piece. 
:)

Oct 7, 2012

Hyper - Matrix

2012 Yeosu EXPO HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP - Hyper-Matrix from Yang sookyun on Vimeo.

it's huge! not mapping, it's real!
watch the making of!

Making of the Hyper-Matrix from Yang sookyun on Vimeo.

Hyper-Matrix created by [media artist group : J o n p a s a n g], based in Seoul, Korea,
led by Jin-Yo Mok in collaboration with Earl Park, Sookyun Yang, Sangwook Yu, Jinwook Yeo.

Venusia

Venusia from Johnston Sheard / Sandi Sirocco on Vimeo.


Animation and Direction by Aline Bouvy & John Gillis bouvygillis.net/
Original score by Johnston Sheard / Sandi Sirocco

Poetic Cosmos of the Breath, Tomas Saraceno, 2007







Photography by David Cottridge


Tomas Saraceno is an argentinean artist and architect. 
Poetic Cosmos of the Breath, an experimental solar dome with connection/reflection between the sun-light and the synthetic material. It was launched at dawn on 22 September 2007 at Gunpowder Park, Essex, UK.
Commissioned by The Arts Catalyst

Oct 6, 2012

Tame Impala - Elephant



listen here! Tame Impala, Lonerism
First single off Tame Impala's forthcoming new LP on the block 'Lonerism'. 
Best psychedelic rock band!




Hilary Hahn and Hauschka "Draw a Map"

Hilary Hahn and Hauschka "Draw a Map" from Najork on Vimeo.



Music by Hilary Hahn and Hauschka hahnandhauschka.com
video by: Eric Epstein
featuring: Jordan Bruner (also a director/animator jordanbruner.net)with: Nadia Husain, Kevin Lawler, Edward Tasick, Ayli Velorok, Desmond Williams, Nancy Diana Wongassociate producer: Desmond Williams'the box' made by: Andi Burnett andiburnett.comco-editor: Robert Lopuski forgottensundays.com
© Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
we like it!

Grizzly Bear "Yet Again"



The new video for Yet Again taken from Grizzly Bear's album Shields, out now. 

Executive produced by The Creators Project in partnership with Warp Records, the video was directed by Emily Kai Bock and shot in Toronto.

http://grizzly-bear.net/

WALL - "Magazine"



Lovely first video,"Magazine". WALL is a London-based producer, writer, vocalist and the debut act from newly born label, BCS Records.  

Sep 30, 2012

CHRISTIAN MARCLAY






cool music collages!
more about him at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Marclay

Sep 1, 2012

Zumtobel annual report by Anish Kapoor








First volume contains the highs, the lows, the challenges overcome, ...
and in the second: "[Kapoor] has used this medium to illustrate the power of colour and its effects on the observer." Zumtobel CEO Harald Sommerer

Kapoor's original video piece: http://www.anishkapoor.com/602/Wounds-and-Absent-Objects.html 

The entire report: http://www.zumtobelgroup.com/geschaeftsbericht/2012/kunstbuch/

Art direction: Anish Kapoor and Brighten the Corners. Graphic design and layout: Billy Kiosoglou and Frank Philippin (BTC). Printing: EBS, Verona.

Aug 28, 2012

Levi's® #GoForth 2012




"This is a pair of Levi’s" 
"You’re gonna be great, you’re gonna be great." 
"You're a queen, you're a king, you're the solo act in a sold-out show at a six-storey stadium, and you're proud, you're a hero! You got a hero's grip. Swingin' by a single stitch. You follow your heart, follow the leader, you're the leader."
Directed by Lance Acord, the cinematographer on Marie Antoinette, Lost in Translation and Being John Malkovich. Conceived by ad agency Wieden + Kennedy.
Great! Halo!

Aug 13, 2012

MICHIKO KON





“Sustancias inorgánicas se tornan organismos vivos, la disolución se convierte en integración y la muerte se consigue hacer camino entre la vida. Es una habitación de fronteras extrañas”

Aug 12, 2012

STILLED FILMS

The Wizard of Oz experiment from Dennis Neuschaefer-Rube on Vimeo.

between the Still and Moving Image by Dennis Neuschaefer-Rube

:: The Wizard of Oz experiment – 2 minute preview ::

The Videoinstallation “The Wizard of Oz experiment” shows the movie „The Wizard of Oz“ 5829 times side by side. The movies are arranged in rows from left to right and time shifted by exactly one second each. The video starts at the top left, with the first second of the film and finishes bottom right with the last second of the film. 


;)

SIGUR ROS – VARUO

Sigur Rós: Varúð from Sigur Rós Valtari Mystery Films on Vimeo.
by Valtari mystery film experiment

This piece is my poem to new york city. I wanted to bring a childhood innocence to the streets, through a character whose own light and wonder effects the world around her. I’m always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms._Ryan McGinley (director)

BUENO, BUENO

Ellie Goulding


:: Ellie Goulding :: Anything Could Happen (Instagram Fan Lyric Video) ::

More than 1200 images were submitted by Ellie’s fans! ;)


Aug 5, 2012

Gustavo Sousa










Gustavo Sousa has created a series of Olympic infographics, comparing statistics across the five continents. GRE AT

More at: http://oceaniaeuropeamericasafricaasia.tumblr.com/