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Special Problems is a multi-disciplinary creative studio composed of Campbell Hooper, Darron Lilley and Joel Kefali. Their work fuses hand drawn, painted, video, animation and illustration--often recontextualized in new and surprising ways. They recently interviewed with Beautiful/Decay to discuss their design collective, their approach, and thought processes behind their videos.

To read the full review, go to Anthology
posted on 12/30/08 by Sasha Lee

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Klas Ernflo

Cute black and white drawings by Klas Ernflo.

posted on 12/30/08 by sasha

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Nicholas Bohac

Nicholas Bohac creates psychedelic collage landscapes that fuse fantasy with images of urban and bucolic spaces. These landscapes reveal both the natural environment as well as man made structures within those spaces. Bohac is concerned with our current ecological climate and while the role of urban spaces is not overtly problematic, the works represent the struggle of control between man and nature.
posted on 12/23/08 by Erin Mizrahi

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Purposefully Obnoxious Song, Amazing Video

natalie portman's shaved head - sophisticated side ponytail from thatgo on Vimeo.

Apparently there is a band with the hipsterrifically ironic obtuse name Natalie Portman's Shaved Head. The song itself is oozing shmarmy faux-sass one liners that are teen bubblegum brat purposefully obnoxious, for lack of a better term. The whole electro vibe is all trapper keeper lightening bolts. Wait for the part in the video towards the end that's a glittering explosion of whales, its awesome!
posted on 12/18/08 by Sasha

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Konst & Teknik/ Trace a Face with Jonathan Puckey

"13 fellow artist and designers—1:2:3, Europa, Fageta, Florian Ludwig, Harm van den Dorpel, Kristina Brusa, Laurenz Brunner, Martijn Hendriks, Martin Ström, NODE Berlin Oslo, Ola Persson, Stefan Narancic and Åbäke—were asked to trace a face using the Delaunay Raster, a custom-written image vectorization tool for Adobe Illustrator. The tool was made by Jonathan Puckey using the scripting plugin Scriptographer and can simply be described as digital pen, drawing triangular objects that are coloured by an underlying image. The tool combines the intuitive and motion based character of a brush or a pencil with the distortive and manipulating characteristics of a filter.
The submitted portraits all share the same aesthetic but differ in approach and concept. To name a few: London-based design studio Åbäke contributes with the face of the very first person to undergo a partial face transplant, Mia Frostner of Europa traces a self-portrait of the orphism artist Sonia Delaunay and Swedish programmer Martin Ström removes the manual aspects of the tool itself, to generate a remake of a pop-icon."

via konst-teknik.se
posted on 01/02/09 by beryl

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Roberto Bernardi... Death To Photography

Roberto Bernardi has dedicated his career to creating hyper-realistic paintings.
posted on 01/02/09 by beryl

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Command+Z

Command + Z from Kris Wong on Vimeo.

What a perfect name for a design super-hero. The making of videos and fight-scene choreography are so entertaining, due to leopard pants wearing said hero. Tarantino and Rodriguez should take these dudes on for the next low-budget flick.

Found at cmdz.tv/
posted on 01/02/09 by beryl

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David Ellis

"David Ellis is an artist born into a family immersed in music. In his youth Ellis had little patience with piano lessons or reading sheet music. Instead he absorbed everything on The Super Mix, a Saturday night radio program broadcast from the nearby Fort Bragg military base. Each week a new cassette tape of emerging New York hip-hop found its way into the life of a child growing up in a log house in North Carolina. By the time Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 released The Message, Ellis was writing rhymes and banging out beats with his friends on the desks at school. Things have since become much louder.

Ellis' work continues to interpret music and sound. His paintings are often recorded in a form of digital time-lapse animation Ellis calls motion painting. Like jazz, these works provide Ellis with an opportunity to combine ideas with collaborators or work solo within a form that promotes improvisation and spontaneity. For a recent commission the artist painted a truck from sunup to sundown over five consecutive days. Ellis often stages events when exhibiting his motion paintings, inviting musicians, performers, and sound artists to interpret the work live. His motion painting, Paint on Trucks in a World in Need of Love was recently exhibited at MoMA.

Ellis' paintings are frequently improvised. He works directly on the walls of spaces that remain open to the public during installation and shares the making of the work with viewers. The experience is much like a band playing in front of a passing audience.

Ellis further explores sound with kinetic installations that produce analogue sequences in rhythm."
via artist's website

P.S. the motion paintings are really fun to watch as well.
posted on 01/02/09 by beryl

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Antti Uotila

Ahh, Scandinavia. Bow down to the golden kings of design! Simple, quirky, funny work by Antti Uotila.
posted on 12/30/08 by sasha

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We Are In The Age of Wizards

One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.

The fact that the minds eye can watch in rapid succession a forest turn from barren winterland to the growth of spring clearly means we have become Gods of The Earth. Anyways, happy New Year's Eve! Watch the year pass in ways only Sorcerers have known.
posted on 12/31/08 by Sasha

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