Awesome Anamorphic Work

Anamorphic art, pretty awesome stuff.  A few years ago I started seeing it pop up everywhere.  They even had a tv show following street/chalk artist Julian Beever who uses this style.

There are artists all over the world now taking this technique and flipping it on its head...

Just came upon the piece below which is just AWESOME...yes AWESOME...Mexican Studio Golpeavisa, with its great use of space and props to create the portrait of Chef Rene Redzepi for Clase Premiere Magazine.  Take a second and actually look at the piece below to get a good idea of the detail used to create the portrait.  Really cool and a great way to force us to look at things just a little differently.

more pics and a video in the link below

via the French Blog, "Au Secours Jai Un Blog (Help I Have a Blog)"

3 Videos of MUSIC!!! BOOOOOOOM

Check out 3 music videos.  booooooom was on fire these past few days with some great music videos.  Check out the 3 below that were posted.  A new music video for Passion Pit and Beirut, and then a great video of Michael Kiwanuka singing his song Lasan with just an acoustic guitar.  Great way to start a new week..YEA MUSIC!

Passion Pit "Take a Walk"

Beirut "The Rip Tide"

Michael Kiwanuka "Lasan"

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2 East Coast Light Exhibits I Wish I Could SEE

Saw these two exhibits happening on the East coast, both look epic.  Check out a peak and the links to see...but basically if you are in NYC or near Philadelphia, you should check these OUT!!!!

The 1st is an installation by Yayoi Kusama at the Whitney Museum in New York City.  They transformed a room with mirrors and lights to create a surreal infinite space of light.  Pictures look unreal.  You may know Kusama for her polka-dot work, she's quite famous.  Look her up

via NY Times Article; A Infinity of Lights

The 2nd is an installation by Bruce Munro at the Longwood Gardens near Philadelphia.  Its a large scale outdoor/indoor light exhibit.  Knowing Munro's art and seeing pictures of this show just make me wish I was in the area to experience it.  Looks really impressive, and a great way to experience art.

via Laughing Squid

Jenny Chen makes awesome things!

Awesome Pop Up Book concepts by artist Mengyu/Jenny Chen, a Portland based artist doing some preliminary work for a comic book.  Simple yet super effective...Love the paper airplane...See the link below these pics for a few more examples or check out her site for more cool stuff.  

  

via This is Colossal

Inspirational Artist, Vincent Giard

Not too often these days that I come upon a blog/website that I could happily spend hours on. Well today I found one...Well actually one of the blogs I read (Drawn.ca) found it and described it perfectly ("Vincent Giard is amazing"), and now I pass it along to you.  French Canadian artist Vincent Giard does work that seems surreal, emotional, and quirky, all in a less than perfect style. I don't speak french, and it doesn't matter, as its the images he includes that tell such a rich story.  Seriously spend 15 minutes and scroll thru some of the pages...they are awesome

 GO HERE NOW --> http://aencre.org/blog/

Beasties Live Mix

Great Live Mix by Artist/Blogger Jeff Hamada of booooooom.com

Rhyming and Stealing – GLASTONBURY 94
Egg Man – LORELEY GERMANY 98
Fluteloop – SYDNEY AUS 99
Shake Your Rump – READING 98
Slow and Low – ROSKILDE 98
High Plains Drifter – LORELEY GERMANY 98
Get It Together – BRASS MONKS SAN FRAN 96
Alright, Hear This – GLASTONBURY 94
So Watcha Want – READING 98
Skills To Pay The Bills – WEMBLEY LONDON 99
It’s The New Style – LORELEY GERMANY 98
Time To Get Ill – READING 98
Intergalactic – SYDNEY AUS 99
Three MC’s and One DJ – LORELEY GERMANY 98
Somethings Got to Give – SYDNEY AUS 99
Sabotage – GLASTONBURY 94

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Science!

Great photos and video of some recent science/space based stuff.  1st we had a SuperMoon last friday and there are some amazing shots out there, but one of my favorites might be by Dutch Astronaut André Kuipers from SPACE.  It looks like a jelly fish in water, but rather its the Moon visually hitting Earths upper atmosphere and thus looking squished.  Check it out below and the link to see a TON more cool shots of the supermoon.

More Cool SuperMoon Photos

and then I found this cool video of American Astronaut Don Pettit playing with water on some computer speakers...in SPACE....Cool video about the lack of gravity and how water reacts to the sound vibrations...Checks it

Yep I like science too:)

Maurice Sendak and Inspirational Passings

With MCA/Adam Yauch passing last week, and now Maurice Sendak today, I am truly saddened to see the truth of life and death brought so much to the forefront.  I was a huge fan of both.  Beastie Boys was the soundtrack to a part of my childhood and Where the Wild Things will always be a book I look to for  joy and inspiration.  I am sad to see such great American artists pass.  

Here is a quick self portrait I did of myself thinking this morning about the passing of Sendak

Both will be sorely missed for their passion and honesty

Jo Peel Wall Art Animation

copyright J. Peel

Watch the animation below; Street Art on a Wall in Shoreditch, London.  Jo Peel creates a great little story, spending some three weeks to complete the work.  As mentioned in the attached article/link where I found it, Blu did something similar, but this work by Peel definitely has its own life and feel.  Enjoy...I did

via Voodoodi London/Flickr

Original Post via Booooooom

Jo Peel Personal Site

(CHECK IT OUT, some awesome stuff on here as well)

Underwater Beauty

Photographer and Marine Biologiost Alexander Semenov shoots amazing and colorful shots of underwater sealife.  See a few below & DEF check out his website more.

A. Semenov Website

 

 

 

 

Kadavre Exquis, Illustrator and Animator

François Grumelin-Sohn, or Kadavre Exquis as he goes by in the arts world, is a French animator and illustrator living and working in the Netherlands.  Really rich landscapes and backgrounds coupled with surreal stories.  He just released Childhood of a Circle, a short animation, but also check out a music video he animated for Vassili, and go to his site for more cool stuff.

Childhood of a Circle, 2012

Vassili, 2011

Kadavre Equis Website

Hunter S Thompson& Kafka Inspired Advert WATCH

Wowser is all I can say.  Check out this advertisement by Buck Studios for New Zealand company, Good Books.  Not sure Hunter S Thompson would have endorsed it, maybe, but the animation is amazing...WATCH IT FULL SCREEN:)  

via Huff Post

Cool Stop Motion Short of artist Thijme Termaat

I Paint, a stop motion short created by Thijme Termaat of him painting.  Great use of different closeups and wider shots to give it a truly magical and cinematic feel.  Cool paintings as well.

Enjoy

via Huffington Post

Wayne White, Beauty is Embarrassing

Yes, yes and triple YES!  I grew up on his artwork, am still astounded by his talent, and I can't wait to see this.  The infamous Wayne White.  He designed and created all the sets/artwork for Pee Wee's Playhouse, and he helped create a number of famous music videos, including Peter Gabriels "Big Time," and The Smashing Pumpkins "Tonight, Tonight" based on the works of George Milies.  In addition he makes amazing paintings, he plays music, he is truly an artist unwilling to be cornered.  The documentary premieres at SXSW this year, and I can only hope it will show nation wide after that.

BEAUTY IS EMBARRISNG

film website and info

http://beautyisembarrassing.com/

Crealev, bringing floatation into everyday life...kinda

Sweet company producing displays and a few products using magnets to create the illusion of floating. Super cool, would love to have something like this, but the lights they produce sell for almost $1500....so for now...I will enjoy...from afar.  Check out the links below for more info, and the Crealev page where they show a few of their products and usage.

via Hungeree

& Crealev Home Page

Wednesday Morning Animated Music GOODNESS

So I came upon Amanda Palmer last year, because she released a CD of Radiohead covers performed on her "magic" ukulele, and it was...pretty magical:).  And so I was stoked to find this new video she produced for another artist, Evelyn Evelyn.  Great morning music.  Cool effect with the window drawing.  And then while searching thru other videos on Amanda Palmers Vimeo page, I came upon an animated video for the radiohead song "No Surprises"...And then I went back to Booooooom, where I found the 1st video and J Hamada (who runs Booooooom) had posted another great music animated video.  Pirates Life by We Cut Corners.  Hand drawn with markers, frame by frame...awesome...and its about PIRATES!...so all in all in was a good morning...Enjoy all 3...good music and good animation....goood times

Evelyn Evelyn, Have you Seen My Sister Lately

Amanda Palmer, "No Surprises" (original by Radiohead)

We Cut Corners. "Pirates Life"


via Booooooom
and via Boooooom again

Maurice Sendak to release new book and memoir!

Author Maurice Sendak, famous for Where the Wild Things Are just released a new book.  Read more about the new story and Sendak below

via CBC News, Canada

Pop Artist pioneer, Richard Hamilton died today at the age of 89.  I remember briefly studying his collage work in college.  He also designed the Beatles cover and Poster for The White Album in 1968.  Although not one of biggest international names in art, his influence will continue to live on... see one of his most famous works below and click the link to read more about him.

Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, 1956

via BBC News

Sweet Short Video

been too long

awesome visual short by Kim Pimmel

Kim Pimmel explains "I combined everyday soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid to create an eerie tale, using macro lenses and time lapse techniques. Black ferrofluid and dye race through bubble structures, drawn through by the invisible forces of capillary action and magnetism. "

via NotCot

Awesome Documentary about Spoken Word

Just watched this amazing short documtary on Spoken Word, Spitting Ink .  Its a great portrait of  8 artists giving their insight and belief about many subjects including but not limited to spoken word.  And the best part for me was seeing the small part with Rammellzee, who was an insane talent.  If you are in LA you can see a whole room of his graffiti/art work at the Art in the Streets MOCA show.  I barely knew much of that work so it was so great to hear him rhyme and speak in this documentary.  

ENJOY and happy FRIDAY!

via Design You Trust