Ninja May 18th, 2009
I gasped and uttered, “oh baby,” when I found this: hi-res scans of Albrecht Dürer’s De Symmetria and Underweysung der Messung! Here, Dürer covers proportions, geometry, and even type design. Oh baby, indeed!!
Ninja January 15th, 2009
Daniel Hyun Lim is an amazing fine artist and Illustration professor at the Otis College of Art & Design. He calls his growing universe of characters Fawn Fruits, named after his favorite animal and Japanese street fashion.
Daniel’s 1000 drawings project stems from his love of drawing (in particular, portraits of ethereal, doe-eyed girls) and wanting to share them with others. You can view his 1000 drawings here and if you’re so tempted, you can own one for $100.
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+ Visit Daniel Hyun Lim’s blog
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+ If interested in having your very own Fawn Fruits drawing, email Mr. Lim at fawnfruits@gmail.com. He’s very nice, and he accepts PayPal.
Penguin December 20th, 2008
We live in public trailer from RADAR on Vimeo.
In the late 90’s, Josh Harris was an internet pioneer. He founded Jupiter Communications and then Pseudo.com which provided streaming television before Youtube.
The documentary is about one of Josh Harris’s projects: We Live in Public.
The above video takes a while before it gets interesting, but once it does, it is amazingly captivating. And as any good trailer should do, it’s made me want to see the film. It’s beautiful in a repulsive sort of way.
The film is scheduled to premiere at Sundance.
-Penguin
Related postsPenguin November 25th, 2008
Ninja and I will be going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to get intimate with some of Michelangelo’s original drawings.
We’ll have about an hour and a half to examine some of his work that isn’t shown to the public. Hopefully, we’ll be able to take some pics (sans flash natch).
So if you’ll be near the area, DM me on twitter.
-Penguin
Related postsPenguin September 11th, 2008
This is an amazing body of work, visualizing statistics. I especially appreciate the meta-ness of making a larger image based on the smaller ones, such as the Barbie Dolls below.
Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books.
Cans Seurat
Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.
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Penguin September 2nd, 2008
It takes roughly 40 typewriters and 1,000 hours for Mayer to assemble a full-scale figurine like this reclining female form.
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Mayer, who describes his work as a cross between Leonardo da Vinci’s mechanical drawings and the gritty futures imagined by sci-fi maestros William Gibson and Philip K. Dick, assembles his artwork without welding, soldering or gluing.- Wired
Over the weekend, Ninja mentioned she had a penchant for old school typewriters. I’ve used typewriters, and I’ll take a pc any day. But there is something kind of really awesome about refashioning these old relics and making something fantastic with them.
More after the jump.
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Penguin June 29th, 2008
Dali is at the MoMA.
The show tracks the traffic of images, themes and ideas between Dalí’s films, both realized and not, and his more static efforts, including paintings, drawings, letters, illustrated notes, scenarios and other ephemera.
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Dalí grasped that film’s capacities — for depicting irrationality in action; for dissolving, continually mutating images; and for an intensely real unreality — were all ready-made for his sensibility and his desire to reach a mass audience.
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“Destino,” the sprightly animated short of love and loss that Dalí worked on energetically for Walt Disney in 1946 [runs continuously].- NYTimes
The show runs through Sept 15 at the MoMA.
-Penguin
Related postsPenguin June 27th, 2008
There’s a new show opening today at the Guggenheim. Louise Bourgeois.
Bourgeois is best known for her sculptures, which range in scale from the intimate to the monumental, and across a diverse array of mediums including wood, bronze, latex, marble, and fabric. Moving freely between abstraction and figuration, she has developed a richly symbolic visual idiom that encompasses totemic forms, ambiguously gendered anatomical fragments, and towering spiders, as well as the assemblages of found objects that are encased in her environmental-scale installations.
For her art is not a job; it is a life. It is what you do when you get up in the morning, and what you continue to do all day, through headaches and phone calls, breakups and breakdowns, silences and celebrations. It is what you keep doing after dark, and when you can’t sleep at night.
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She has said that she works in response to emotions: fury at the past and fear of the present among them.
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Your daily life is propelled by fear? Draw fear. You can. Impossible to sleep at night? Make night your studio, the cloth you embroider with needs and dreams. The past is an obsession you can neither embrace nor release? Make an image of obsession, any image will do.- NYTimes
This is pretty much how I approach the stories that I write. Sometimes consciously, sometimes subconsciously. But I deal with my internal struggles and issues through my characters. I put them in the same situations, force them to deal with the harsh realities that I face. In a way, when they overcome it, I overcome it too. Of course, there are issues that are huge and require several stories to overcome, but it is extremely cathartic for me.
Luckily or unluckily, I don’t have the sort of issues that Bourgeois struggles with.
The show runs through Sept 28 at the Guggenheim Museum.
-Penguin
Related postsPenguin June 26th, 2008
MoMA’s celebrating with Zeitgeist: The Films of Our Time, running from June 27 through July 23.
To celebrate [Russo and Gerstman's] ongoing success, MoMA presents a selection of works by critical figures in the company’s history and catalog—from artists they embraced at early stages of their film careers, including Bruce Weber, Todd Haynes, Deepa Mehta, François Ozon, Olivier Assayas, and Guy Maddin, to established masters like Agnes Varda, Yvonne Rainer, Derek Jarman, and Jacques Demy. This monthlong series includes several introductions and post-screening Q&A sessions with some of the filmmakers, along with appearances by Gerstman and Russo.
-Penguin
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