"The school uniform, seifuku, in Japan started over a hundred years ago, in the Meiji period. According to the Tombow Uniform Museum, first a more formal kimono, shirt and hakama combination was selected by the Ministry of Education, to “escalate” the profile of students. Later in this era, however, as Japan began to embrace things Western, the hakama set was replaced with a black or navy gakuran jacket and slacks."
from PingMag.
http://www.wakeuplater.com/website-building/evolution-of-websites-10-popular-websites.aspx A bevvy of sites from "then" and "now". Link here
A night-glow BMW advertisement on the front cover of Vice Magazine.
from Photo Shelter– Shoot the blog.
"I found these in a red photo album marked "Darlene" at a swap meet in Huntington Beach, California. I didn't know these photos were in there until I got in the car and really looked at the photos. Then I was like, "Whoa! People doing drugs.""
from foundphotoslj set titled "the Cocaine Photos".
"Well known for his gritty, black-and-white images of cops, hit men, drug addicts and crime scenes, photographer Jonathan Taylor has traveled all over Asia to report on everything from Agent Orange victims in Vietnam to a special police unit in Bangkok that helps pregnant women, stuck in traffic, give birth. But versatility is the 41-year-old Englishman's stock in trade. He also has a talent for shooting color portraits and even wildlife. On two occasions, his features have graced the cover of TIME Magazine. Many of his images have appeared in international publications like London's Sunday Times Magazine, Marie Claire as well as the Guardian Magazine, Stern and the New York Times Magazine. A resident of Bangkok since the early '90s, Taylor's eye-opening work is extremely well regarded. Taylor also works through the London-based agency, Eyevine". –Untamed Travel Magazine. jonathantaylor.net
Ed Fella was doing that hand drawn graphic design / illustration / art long before anybody …
edfella.com
Let this be a warning to all dog owners –especially those with larger breeds – as you will now be fined by the weight of your pets feces if you don't pick it up.
I know this is dated and that this one of those forced, dumb movies which one would expect from Mike Judge, but this particular clip –after the voice over, wait for it– is very well done and epitomizes human evolution. As Harvey Danger sang : Been around the world and found, that only stupid people are breeding … wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
Geeky and Green Adaptive Reuse Design Projects From weburbanist http://weburbanist.com/2008/03/26/20-eye-catching-pieces-of-recycled-urban-furniture-geeky-and-ecological-reuse-of-ordinary-objects/ Do you ever get sick of people telling you to recycle? Well, these furniture designers prove recycling can be a lot more interesting than stuffing cans, bottles and cardboard into the proper containers. A ‘bathtub couch’ and ’shopping cart chair’ may not be your cup of tea but there is something for everyone in this collection. Who knows, you might even be inspired to find new uses for old stuff around the house after seeing some of these bizarre furniture designs
I can only assume that this is the flour used by obese people to find the wet spot while making pornographic films.
Mmm, premixed & presifted. Self Raising is a definite bonus!
If you've been looking to purchase some this was spotted in Safeway.
In May 1961, while he was living in Milan, Piero Manzoni produced ninety cans of Artist's Shit. Each was numbered on the lid 001 to 090. Tate's work is number 004. A label on each can, printed in Italian, English, French and German, identified the contents as '"Artist's Shit", contents 30gr net freshly preserved, produced and tinned in May 1961.' In December 1961 Manzoni wrote in a letter to the artist Ben Vautier: 'I should like all artists to sell their fingerprints, or else stage competitions to see who can draw the longest line or sell their shit in tins. The fingerprint is the only sign of the personality that can be accepted: if collectors want something intimate, really personal to the artist, there's the artist's own shit, that is really his.' tate.org.uk
Saw him on Fourth Avenue in Ray Rickburn's window.
Previously noted on Carpal Fonil here. [Monday, February 11, 2008]
reddykilowatt.org
LG Williams was born in Evanston, IL and raised in The Ozarks Mountains in Northeastern Arkansas. He studied art at Illinois State University and then at the Kansas City Art InstituteM.F.A. at University of California, Davis, and Honorary Ph.D. from Institute of Subversive Art and Analysis (ISSA), Cedar Rapids, IA. In school, Williams studied under Dale Eldred, Ken Fergeson, Wally Hedrick, Robert Arneson, and Wayne Thiebaud. where he received his B.A. He received his
He has taught at numerous universities and colleges, for example, the University of California, Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, and the University of Hawaii to name just a few. Currently, Williams lives in Los Angeles and Maui, Hawaii.
Williams' artwork has been exhibited in the Lance Fung Gallery (NY), the Stephen Wirtz Gallery (SF) and California Fine Arts (LA). It is included in many permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and di Rosa Art Preserve. His artwork, reviews and commentary have appeared in the Village Voice, Los Angeles Times, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, and Artforum.
LG Williams: Art Survey 2004 - 2006
lgwilliams.com
vostokone.
"Visitors to Tokyo looking something a little more, shall we say fixed should point their headset in in the direction of Sexon Super Peace a mere 5 minutes grind from Shibuya with a small but Tokyo-tuned line of handmade skull caps, chain protectors and this being Japan, Louis Vuitton handle bars."
〒150-0045 東京都渋谷区神泉町22-5 【MAP】
03-3485-5506（TEL＆FAX） OPEN 12:30 - 20:30 (定休日なし)
from Jan Chipchase Future Perfect.
SEXON SUPER PEACE.
I was placing a hold on this book on the libraries website when I noticed [top right] that the 'Suspend until' date automatically had the the 11th day of September entered. I wonder if it was a coincidence or someone had a sense of somewhat morbid humour?
"PLACE@SPACE presents installations by GRRRR (Ingo Giezendanner), Ryoji Ikeda, Irational.org, limiteazero, Alice Miceli, Haruki Nishijima, Egle Rakauskaite, Reconfigurable House Team and many other artists who look into the spatial impact of technologies and demonstrate how we can use them to reclaim our spatial environment and to make it our own again."
PLACE@SPACE - (re)shaping everyday life
16.03.08 - 25.05.08
Art center Z33
vleugel ´58 - Hasselt Belgium
Place@space.
from We Make Money Not Art.
whoiamandwhatiwant.com
More David Shrigley on YouTube: youtube.com/user/WORRIEDNOODLES
davidshrigley.com
Dad's Dead. Through a series of ghostly reminiscences a young man tries to piece together fragmented moments from the past, memories being triggered by admiration for his best friend Johnno. As the story unfolds, hero worship turns to revulsion, as the web of deception and violence that Johnno creates is revealed, pulling narrator and audience into its destructive wake. Manipulated live-action mutates and combines with ghostly digital animation. bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A8659407
Silence is Golden.
My neighbour’s a right loony. He's always banging our wall down. I'm used to it. I think other people's houses are well weird. There's no knocking - right. bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A16185729
Photo by Bryan Adams
"London Rocker" –and photographer– Bryan Adams was in Vancouver for his Mother's birthday and did "an intimate, invitation-only concert". I missed it.
"Pablo Picasso is the artist who usually commands the largest annual revenue through public sales. However, according to Artprice’s calculations for 2007, he has been dethroned for the first time in nearly 10 years, by pop artist Andy Warhol. Significantly the total revenue generated by the top 10 artists last year rose by an incredible 50% on the previous year, reaching the enormous figure of USD 1.8 billion. The figures for 2007 are as follows:
Andy Warhol – $420m Pablo Picasso – $319m Francis Bacon – $245m Mark Rothko – $207m Claude Monet – $165m Henri Matisse – $114m Jean-Michel Basquiat – $102m Fernand Léger – $92m Marc Chagall – $89m Paul Cézanne – $87m"
from Flash Art.
March 24 & 25, 2008 at 8 pm
SCREENING (free admission / limited seating)
Deluge Contemporary Art
636 Yates Street
Victoria Canada
The Cool School
or how LA learned to love modern art
a film by Morgan Neville / 86 minutes / USA / 2007
For a decade—1956 to 1966—the Ferus Gallery was the catalyst of a nascent modern art scene, grooming idealistic beatniks into competitive, often-brilliant artists. It also helped to solidify the careers of many of New York's shining stars including: Lichtenstein, Warhol and Johns. What was lost and gained is a complex web of egos, passions, money and art. pbs.org/independentlens
"The world that I grew up in will be, from today, a poorer place. It is with great sadness I have to write that Philip - a monumental, irrepressible force in photography and in life - and a courageous fighter against the cancer that finally defeated him - passed away early this morning.
Philip's passing is an enormous loss to us all at Magnum, and I am sure to everyone who knew him. It was a privilege to have brushed, even lightly, against his charm, his brilliance and his passion for photojournalism. Those who only know him through his work will have missed his skills as an orator, raconteur, wit and polemicist. He remained the lovely man that he was - graceful and welcoming - especially to young people trying to make a start in photography. He had much to pass on, not just about the importance of "real" photography, but about the art and craft of picture-making."
from Magnum Photos. Colin Pantall's Blog.I purchased this for 25¢.
Has a nice gold foil application on the pseudo blue canvas. Coincidentally it also covers Unbreakable. [Carpal Fonil, February 8 2008]
If anyone is interested in this let me know as I don't tend to collect these sort of things.
"I Want You To Want Me chronicles the world’s long-term relationship with romance, across all ages, genders, and sexualities, gathering new data from a variety of online dating sites every few hours. The system searches these sites for certain phrases, which it then collects and stores in a database. These phrases, taken out of context, provide partial glimpses into people’s private lives. Simultaneously, the system forms an evolving zeitgeist of dating, tracking the most popular first dates, turn-ons, desires, self-descriptions and interests. The data is presented as an interactive installation, displayed on a 56” high-resolution touch screen, hung vertically on a wall in a dark room. On screen is an interactive sky, whose weather (sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, etc.) can be controlled by the viewer. Through the sky float hundreds of blue (male) and pink (female) balloons, each representing a single dating profile. The brighter balloons are younger people; the darker balloons older. Trapped inside each balloon is one of over 500 video silhouettes, showing a solitary person, engaged in any number of activities (yoga, jumping jacks, nose-picking, air guitar, etc.). The viewer can touch any balloon to select it, causing its photo to dangle from a string and its sentence to appear in a thought bubble overhead. Touching any balloon a second time pops it. The balloons move through the sky along different paths and at different speeds, bumping up against each other, sometimes traveling together for a time, but only ever getting so close, as each silhouette is ultimately confined to its own balloon. The piece has five formal movements: Who I Am, What I Want, Snippets, Matchmaker, and Breakdowns. I Want You To Want Me aims to be a mirror, in which people see reflections of themselves as they glimpse the lives of others. It was commissioned by New York’s Museum of Modern Art for their Design and the Elastic Mind show. The piece was installed at MoMA on February 14, 2008, Valentine’s Day. - Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar February, 2008"
from I Want You To Want Me / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar.
It was featured by The Guardian, WIRED, Le Monde, Corriere, kottke, Boingboing, Techcrunch, Mashable, Valleywag and literally thousands of blogs. We are happy to announce that the coolest gift for geeks, the A0 poster of the 2008 Web Trend Map (841mm x 1189mm / 33.25in x 46.75in), is now up for grabs:
And the online version here.
In The Second Plane, Martin Amis defends the authority of writers about Islamist terrorism, but offers plenty of ammunition for his detractors, says Tim Adams books.guardian.co.uk
This is my response to the Metropolitan Police Service's 2008 Counter-Terrorism advertising campaign as noted previously on Carpal Fonil. If anyone would like PDFs of these please contact me through vostokone.
See War against oddness, Wednesday March 5, 2008.
