bd's Roll on Friday: Alan Camp Architects
‘The office fills with wonderful smells that happily distract us’
"Each Wednesday, one person in the practice volunteers to cook, normally for about 20 or 30 people. It started about 18 months ago with just baked potatoes. Our studio is close to Borough food market and we have a fantastic kitchen with a huge oven, so people decided that it would be a great idea to cook for ourselves."
Eternity Modern
Picture this: an Arco Floor Lamp lighting the pages of The Stranger as you recline in your Eames Lounge Chair (With matching Ottoman) as a glass of Chateauneuf-de-Pape tempts you from the Noguchi Coffee Table …
You may not be able to afford the originals but Eternity Modern specialise in quality reproductions of modern classics, including pieces by Corbusier, Eames, Mies van der Rohe and Starck.
So if you want to set yourself down in design pieces you've only ever ogled online visit their new site: eternitymodern.com
Don't forget to tell them Carpal Fonil sent you!
Frieze Art Fair: artistic or autistic?
"While these installations have a humorous side, they came across like a pack of tourist postcards, simply replicating different environments and experiences. Rather than invite you into a world of fantasy and feeling, they distance the viewer from experiencing the actual threat our environment is under. So much so, that after several turns around Frieze I began to feel I was surrounded by autistic objects in an autistic world."The First Post
Tracey Emin fights to save Brick Lane from developers
"Emin says that her problem with the developers is not about regeneration, but about the local residents’ right to daylight. “I am pro-commerce, I welcome regeneration of all areas and I really like new architecture. What I’m against is blocking people’s light in residential areas.”"TimesOnline
One Mile Scroll
"The One Mile Scroll transforms virtual space into an actual, physical distance. Take your computer for a scroll. Participate and add heights of things using the data entry area to the right. Please only add the vertical heights of things as opposed their lengths. Be sure to check your measurements (with Google or similar site). Once submitted entries can only be modified or deleted by the site administrator.
Which is highest when stacked, a million dollar bills or a thousand Robin Day Polypropylene Chairs?
The site was published to coincide with "Extra Medium" at Arcadia University Art Gallery Philadelphia September 2008. It was assembled by Jeffery Vaska who transformed an unrealized project into an ongoing project - thank you for confirming that the Eiffel Tower is exactly 1224576 pixels high."
Does Damien Hirst's auction at Sotheby's mean the end of the gallery?
There's a hell of a lot of money in art - but the artists don't get it," grumbles Damien Hirst, giving himself a thoroughly good scratch through the faded brown T-shirt he has decided to wear to Sotheby's today. "What I find is unfair is the Van Gogh thing. The artist doesn't make any money, but everyone else does." That, at least, was how it used to be before Hirst himself entered the lists. Now the ratios appear to be changing. If things go according to plan - and most of the ridiculous stunts Hirst comes up with work out surprisingly well - then, a fortnight from now, the old way of making pots of money from art will look as out of date as last year's winner of the Turner Prize.
entertainment.timesonline.co.
Louboutin 1
Who else but Christian Louboutin would call a shoe design "Ambrosina?" Well, here it is and this is how delectable it looks. The fine details are: black satin and demi-sheer chiffon platform peep toe pumps with a 125mm / 5 inch stiletto heel, a 20mm / 1 inch platform and his signature lacquered scarlet sole.
Image: courtesy Net-a-Porter
100 Artists
100 artists, including the inimitable Michael Markowsky, will share their creativity and talent by drawing live and in person; audiences have the rare opportunity to watch art come to life and purchase completed drawings for $75 each. Outpost's annual live drawing and fundraising event is on 12 October from 3-7pm at the William D. Davis Memorial Building in Altadena CA 91001. For a complete list of artists and schedule > Outpost for Contemporary Art.
Happy Birthday Diesel
Diesel celebrate their birthday by transforming old school pornography into family friendly viewing ! I doubt this advert 'went down' too well with the censors, but that doesn't stop it from being absolutely hilarious viewing - AWESOME ! diesel.com/xxx *Warning: Although no longer explicit this is modified pornography.
Tabletop Experiments
"Bukowski's L.A." Exhibit
Christine Curry will be showing two paintings in Bukowski's L.A., an exhibit celebrating the new book written about writer Charles Bukowski by a former teacher of mine, Matt Dukes Jordan.
The opening reception for the show is this Saturday, September 27, 8pm to midnight.
The artwork will be on display at Hyaena Gallery only through September 30. After that it will be available for purchase on Hyaena's website.
Hyaena Gallery, 1928 W. Olive Avenue, Burbank, CA 91506
http://hyaenagallery.com/
http://christinecurry.com/
Male
The Man Game
The Art That Lies Beneath
I Have A Dream
Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963, today marks the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, I Have A Dream: a visionary design for civil rights and a continuing inspiration for the creation of freedom and justice. text transcription + 200,000 March for Civil Rights in Orderly Washington Rally; President Sees Gain for Negro E. W. Kensworthy, The New York Times: 29 August 1963
Johnson’s Dream, Obama’s Speech Robert A. Caro, The New York Times: 28 August 2008
Brit Rocker's timely video goes viral over weekend
While videos may be a cousin to independent film and documentaries, they have become steadily more popular in social policy because of their immediacy. This weekend, for example, British rocker Dave Stewart released "American Prayer", a rock video on August 22-23, leading up to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. On Thursday night, August 28th, it will be the 45th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. Stewart pays homage to King's speech and its significance with Obama's acceptance of the nomination that evening. The video has gone wildly viral across America over the weekend.
Laces – Up close and personal
We’ve seen them in our sock drawers in the kitchen and among items in the everything closet. We've noticed them in the basement collecting dust. We know them as “laces”, and we usually take them for granted. Did we ever think that they, too, would be an endangered species that needs our care and attention. Watch this moving documentary on the life of a lace by Sibylle Meder, a German filmmaker. - M.S.
Jeff Otto O'Brien update
It has been a while since I posted here– have been busy the past couple weeks getting ready for two exhibitions.
Cluster F+ck opened for one night on Friday August 15th at Plank Gallery, Vancouver. The show was extremely well-attended– we reckon that around 300 came throughout the night to see the first all-studio show at the gallery. There are 12 or so artists that occupy space in the studios behind and above Plank Gallery. I sold one piece, albeit a smaller print of what I displayed.
"INDEX: Directions in Contemporary Photography" Jeff Otto O'Brien Johanna Reed Esteban Schimpf Amy Wainwright Exhibition Dates: Monday, August 18th through Friday, October 10th. "INDEX" presents the work of four artists for whom a unique engagement with the documentary potential of the photographic medium is a central focus. According to their own curiosities, habits, and surroundings, the artists of "INDEX" collectively affirm that the testimonial promise of photography is not unconditionally guaranteed. Rather, each artist approaches the nature of photographic proof as a malleable condition -a variable constantly affected by the ambivalence, mysticism, and trickery of human curiosity.
bookmarking pictures
vi.sualize.us is sort of like--are you ready?--de.licio.us. Bookmark images you find you want to keep track of, or browse what other people find interesting or worth bookmarking.
If you're into the web 2.0 thing, or whatever you may call it you'll be into this too.
Christine Curry art exhibit
My recent oil paintings will be on display at
Farm Artisan Foods
22 E. State Street
Downtown Redlands, CA
http://christinecurry.com/ http://farmartisanfoods.com/
A reception with gourmet hors d'oeuvres and wine will take place Sunday August 10, 3-5pm.
Making Waves
KASTRUP SEA BATH - DENMARK
Architect: Fredrik Pettersson
White arkitekter AB
Image credits: Ole Haupt
A sculpture to walk on. And dive from. The architect responsible, Fredrik Pettersson, created the platform which stands on discreet legs one metre above the surface of the sea, a hundred metres out from the shore.
The visitor crosses a long bridge to reach a circular installation that gradually rises up out of the sea. It is topped off with a trampoline at a height of five metres – which the inventor has yet to try… “My idea was to achieve a sculptural, dynamic form that can be seen from the land, from the sea and from the air,” says Pettersson. “The silhouette changes as the spectator moves around it.” The aim was to use the shape to build in functions such as changing, sunbathing and bathing areas in a simple design that compares favourably with the wide expanse of the sea.
The circular construction offers shelter whatever the wind direction, and all the platform’s 870 square metres of wooden deck are at the disposal of the visitors. Azobe timber was chosen due to the material’s durability and strength in salt water. It is not attacked by shipworms and has the same lifetime as steel. The lighting has been added to emphasize the sculptural design. There are both LED spotlights along the bridge out to the ‘shell’, as well as upward-facing floodlights that illuminate the inside of the structure, producing a spectacular and beautiful effect at dusk and in the dark. Even at times when only winter bathers dare to enter the water.
THE END to war
Gretchen Elsner is an innovative entrepreneur in more ways than art and design. She initiates performance art for 2 people (or more) to resolve petty / pernicious disputes and general bull-headedness. “$60 bucks buys you three delicious home made tofu cream pies - two for fighting, one for eating, or three for fighting - towels, water, first aid if necessary, a professional fine arts free-lance photographer to document the fight, and a dog to clean up the mess.
http://www.egretion.com/creampiesrus.php?p=regaliaperformanceexh
Egression
Drummers at the Vancouver Folk Festival faded from hearing as I strolled near the strand into the scent / sight rich bazaar atmosphere: Katmandu-ish dust, incense and coconut lotion mixed with the inimitable ocean air, where mostly ethnic clothes were strewn under tents in dizzily paisley, floral and geometric arrays. Apart, under a tree, one rack of clothing caught my eye. Clothing not merely clothes. Unique revelations that were pleated, draped, wrapped, circuit wired, recycled, hole-y / holy.
Gretchen Elsner is an American conceptual / performance artist and designer. She specializes in the engineering of electronically active components made from conductive textiles to create soft hard ware, or soft-ware. Her work also incorporates illustrations, embroidery, secret pockets, multi-directional reversible clothing, innovative closures and unconventional materials, combined with whimsy and superb craftsmanship.
About EGRET DESIGNS Elsner says, “Our clothing is an intimate language, and the clothing work is meant to engender enjoyment of the perfection of the nakedness of the body inside. We need one another, our bodies and our minds do, but there is also a part of ourselves that needs solitude, and our arts in many cases allow us to interact with our sensual, ephemeral selves so personally as to show us the way into such alone-ness as we cannot find when we are isolated. Through nakedness the perfect human body is visible evidence of the being's potential grandeur, of the Ideal Self, pure spirit clothed like shadows in this realm of the seen and seemingly imperfect.”
Images of Gretchen Elsner's Experimental Prototypes 8 & 9 by ELISA GONZALEZ
The Girl Effect
The Girl Effect is a campaign designed to create awareness and act on social change in developing countries. Best described on their website, the campaign is about girls. And boys. And moms. And dads. And villages. And towns. And countries. It's a concept about building a better future for humanity. To best explain it, just imagine this scenario. Here's the thing: Girls living in poverty are uniquely capable of creating a better future. But when a girl reaches adolescence, she comes to a crossroads. Things can go one of two ways for her and for everyone around her. One: She gets a chance, gets educated, stays healthy and HIV-negative, marries when she chooses, raises a healthy family, and has the opportunity to raise the standard of living for herself, her brothers, her family, her community, and her country. One: None of these things happen. She is illiterate, married off, isolated, pregnant, and vulnerable for HIV. She and her family are stuck in a cycle of poverty. The Girl Effect is not just an idea. It's the most important thing you can do. Do something. Say something. Watch the video...
62-year-old bikini design ages beautifully
Ursula Andress in Dr. No Sixty-two years ago, on
By 1962 the
Throughout the 1960s millions of adolescent males would be exposed to Ursula Andress in the pages of Playboy, thereby imprinting her as a bikini original.
The Bikini Atoll will be radioactive another few hundred years, about as long as Hugh Hefner and the bikini will be around.
Where are you dancing today?
Matt Harding had a nervous tic that worked its way into an infectious jig, causing him to travel around the world putting smiles on the faces of people who joined him in his dance. He has literally danced his way into the hearts of four million YouTube watchers around the globe. Now he has another four billion people to go.
Starting with the universe
Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
IDEA = Escape
The Fire is Alight
Agency: Jung Von Matt / Elbe Client: Konzerthaus Dortmund Director: Niko Tziopanos via Sehsucht for English translation: Sechsucht > News > June
Waldemeyer 2
Joyrider is a revolutionary accessory that transforms a bicycle into a moving light show using just one LED. The design evokes new rave couture, with its iconic smiley face and the strobe effect, bringing kitsch glamour to the cycling experience. The two sterling silver, Swarovski studded components are attached to the spokes of the wheel, emitting a fixed image of a smiley face using a single LED light. This effect is achieved through inbuilt microchips that are able to calculate the speed of the wheel in such a way that the smiley face remains stationary while the wheel spins. The photographed bicycle is custom designed by Waldemeyer.
Waldemeyer 1
La guerra es nuestra
Laurie Anderson live in Vancouver!
Laurie Anderson's HOMELAND is a series of songs and stories that create a poetic and political portrait of contemporary American culture. Conceived as one long piece of music, the stories and songs that make up HOMELAND are marked by a political urgency. They address the current climate of fear, obsession with information and security. The music, built on a foundation of groove electronics and featuring many new melodic forms with which Laurie has been experimenting, is truly revelatory. They are also - as with all of her work - personal and utterly unique.
"Laurie Anderson is a singer-songwriter of crushing poignancy - a minimalist painter of melancholy moods who addresses universal themes in the vernacular of the commonplace. - "Rolling Stonehttp://www.laurieanderson.com
Lost Art of Conversation
LOST ART OF CONVERSATION Performed by Laurie Anderson and Band with special guest Lou Reed at Joe’s Pub, NYC on 18 March 2007. The song is part of her current tour, Homeland.
Condensed Matter
Amarie Bergman CONDENSED MATTER #1 newspaper, cotton 5.25cm diameter 2008
The first experiment by Amarie Bergman combining Condensed Matter with String Theory was completed on 24 June 2008. Components include a page of stock listings from The Vancouver Sun, dated 22 June 2008, and a single cotton string. No gravity was involved.
The Perfect Lie
Amarie Bergman THE PERFECT LIE #4 digital image 2007
Amarie Bergman, a conceptual artist and designer, professes little interest in the game of golf, yet she has some profound insights about it. On our walks past a nearby course, she usually listens to me rave on about the game then goes off to work in her studio, producing a graphic design that expresses golf in its most minimal form. One of the things we’ve talked about is the placement of a shot so near to the hole that it creates a sense of anticipation. Perhaps the golfer has chipped to the green and the ball rolls to the cup and stops just short. The golfer nudges the ball in for a birdie, par or bogey -- each level creating a different level of anxiety, frustration, excitement and euphoria. “I can see a golfer pausing for a second or two reflecting on their playing prowess,” says Amarie. “He visualizes the ball disappearing and probably the acclaim from his fellow players. Indeed, the sheer perfection of the ball’s poise is revelling Zen." She quotes a passage by Gaston Bachelard from The Poetics of Space: “… images of full roundness help us to collect ourselves.” This describes, she says, a moment in metaphor when a white sphere, like a golf ball, is associated with a brilliant idea anointed with a pristine quality. Somehow the seeming inevitability about the ball’s placement and the hole is worthy of a moment of reflection. Why? “Because alongside the idea is the black, seemingly flat, pure void of unfilled potential. And, Amarie adds via Philippe Diolét, “By changing space, by leaving the space of one’s usual sensibilities, one enters into communication with a space that is psychically innovating.”
-- MichaelS
Museu Farol de St. Marta
Krijn de Koning
the Cheaper Show
The Cheaper Show returns once again.
On June 21st, 2008, the eighth installment of The Cheaper Show series will take place in the Gastown district of Vancouver, BC.
The concept of The Cheaper Show is very simple: 150 multi-disciplined international artists presenting 300 pieces of art, each priced at $200 for one night only.
Here is the list of artists for The Cheaper Show No.8:
Abbas Akhavan. Adam Blasberg. Adam Dodd. Adam Fryatt. Aigin Larki. Alana Paterson. Aleah Dunfield. Andre Pinces. Andrea Tucker. Andrew Pommier. Andrew Tong. Andy Chung. Andy Dixon. Angela Fama. Arleigh Wood. Attila Richard Lukacs. Ayma Letang. Basco Five. Ben Frey. Ben Tour. Biliana Velkova. Bob Kronbauer. Bob Scott. Breadman. Brenndan Laird. Brian Garson. Britta Fluevog. Byron Barrett. Chad Krowchuk. Chad Woodley. Char Hoyt. Charlotte Falk. Chelsea Pas. Chris Allen. Chris Vena. Christian Nicolay. Christopher Fadden. Clinton McDougall. Curtis Santiago. Daniel J. Biddle. Danny Vermette. Dasha Novak. Dave Barnes. Dave Spicer. David Lang. Davida Kidd. Derek von Essen. Douglas Haddow. Dr. Steven Hope. Ed Spence. Ehren Salazar. Eric Cairns. Erica Larson. Evaan Kheraj. Fiona Garden. Geoff McCann. Graeme. Heather Passmore. Heidi Gerhardt. Heidi Greenwood. Heidi Iro. Helen Yagi. Ian Buchko. Ignacio Coral. Jack Dylan. Jared Penner. Jeff Boyes. Jeff Lee. Jeff Otto O'Brien. Jeff Petry. Jeremy Crowle. Jesse Savath. Jessica Eaton. Jody Rogac. Joseph Holmes-Peters. Joel Fraser. Joel James Loewen. Johnny Taylor. Jonathan Syme. Jordan Todd. Kathy Lo. Katsumi Kimoto. Ken Diamond. Kevin House. Kris Krug. Kyle Good. Lee Hutzulak. Leigh Righton. Les Ramsey. Lesley Anderson. Lincoln Clarkes. Lindsay's Diet. Lisa Birke. Lissa Veinot. Marianne Chenard. Mark "Atomos" Pilon. Mark Anderson. Mark DeLong. Mary Porter. Matt Leaf. Matthew Morgan. Meghan Paterson. Michelle Ford. Milan Basic. Mikala Grante. Mo Salemy. Murray Siple. Nancy Berglund. Nokin. Office Supplies Incorporated. Pamela Rounis. Paul Nickless. Peter Taylor. Project Rainbow. Randy Grskovic. Rebecca Chaperon. Renee Renee. Rick Marr. Rob Harrison. Robert Mearns. Ronan Boyle. Roselina Hung. Samera Gibson. Sara Bøgh Jansen. Sarah Murray. Sascha Yamashita. Sean Coggins. Sean Maxey. Sean Orr. Shawn O'Keefe. Sol Sallee. Stephan Thompson. Syx Langeman. Taralee Guild. The Dark. The Rainbow Collective. The Wax Museum. The Woodpile Collective. Thomas Anfield. Thomas Berlin. Tim Barnard. Tiziana La Melia. TJ Schneider. Todd M Duym. Tony Dubroy. Wayne Webb. Weakhand. Wendy Dyk. Zoe M Peled. Zoe Pawlak.
ALL ART SELLS FOR $200
ADMISSION IS FREE
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Saturday, June 21, 2008
7pm–Midnight
142 Waterstreet (old Storyeum building)
Vancouver BC
Stardust
Breathless
BILIANA VELKOVA
Jeffrey Boone Gallery
Vancouver
29 May – 22 June 2008
The launch of Breathless, a perfume that exists in brand only, extends the artist’s research into consumerist notions of identity and the accompanying obsession with labels. In Velkova’s practice, marketing strategies and art-making practices coalesce to illuminate the phenomenon of co-branding celebrity identity and luxury consumer products. Launching a non-existent product with an unknown persona, devoid of famous trademarks, she poses questions of the artist as brand so as to blur the lines of art, commodity, and social identity. Employing marketing strategies reminiscent of ad campaigns that use popular icons to create brand, the exhibition consists of packaging, a promotional video and the use of the gallery space as consumerist venue to attract attention and material curiosity. In the absence of an actual product, only a celebrity mirage will exist.
- Jeffrey Boone
Symphony in Red
Konzerthaus Dortmund, Dortmund Philharmonic Concert Hall, promoted its 2006/07 season with Symphony in Red, a study in typography in swirling movements of red liquid: Musik Im Blut (Music In The Blood). Symphony in Red was developed at Jung von Matt, Hamburg, by executive creative director Wolf Heumann; creative directors/art directors Sascha Hanke, Timm Hanebeck; copywriters Michael Okun, Moritz Grub; agency producers Alexander Schillinsky, Hermann Krug. Filming and animation were directed by Niko Tziopanos via Sehsucht GmbH with cinematographers Bea Wellenbrock, Alex Heyer, Valentin Heun; producers Andreas Coutsoumbelis, Martin Woelke; animators Alex Heyer, Martin Hess. Music was provided by composer and pianist Fazil Say. Symphony in Red has won silver (for animation) and gold (for graphic design) at the International ANDY Awards, 2008.
Drinking at openings
The owner of a high-end East Hampton gallery went from hosting a famed photographer's opening to being dragged from it kicking and screaming during a surprise crackdown on liquor-laced art shows on the East End. "The police out here have nothing to do, so they come bother our galleries," Ruth Kalb, 67, fumed yesterday, a day after cops busted her soiree and dragged her out in front of 300 stunned guests, saying she didn't have permits to serve alcohol or hold a gathering. "They came in here with all their muscles. They needed someone to fight," said the eccentric art purveyor, known by her gallery's name, Vered. Kalb said she told the cops: "I've been serving liquor at my openings before you were born. So don't tell me to stop now." Kalb was slapped with the summons at around 9 p.m. Saturday after chasing away the first two cops on the scene.from Edward Winkleman's blog.
unusual business cards
These probably cost more than $20 for 500. Re-encoded has a whole slew of unusual "outside-the-box" concepts.
NY Photo Festival: the Future of Contemporary Photography
May 14—18 37 Main Street Brooklyn, New York New York Photo FestivalpowerHouse Books and VII Photo Agency have joined forces to launch the new, annual New York Photo Festival, the first international-level festival of photography to be based in the U.S. The inaugural New York Photo Festival (May 14–May 18, 2008) promises to deliver a dynamic, high-quality event in what is arguably the photographic capital of the world. The festival will celebrate both contemporary photography and the creative, inspirational talents of the people who produce this work. Curators include Magnum photographer Martin Parr, The New York Times Magazine picture editor Kathy Ryan, Lesley A. Martin of the Aperture Foundation, and Tim Barber of tinyvices.com.
Spencer is in Thailand.
Dress code in downtown clubs.
