Lullatone is probably the most preciously adorable art/music/Cauc-asian couple to have graced the Flickr & WWW world. Their music videos will make you want to smother yourself in fluffy clouds and be rocked into eternal slumber. No but honestly…they’re great.
December 11th, 2009
For all apparel and great-deal lovers in Costa Mesa, the Beautiful/Decay team will be participating in “The Swap” sample sale tomorrow, from 10am- 3pm. Just one measly buckaroo buys you entrance into this one of a kind shopping event, featuring sales, unreleased samples, rare merch and more from dozens of huge brands at unbeatable prices. Please be sure to come out, say hello to the B/D team- and get some of your holiday shopping done! (Because I haven’t even started yet….)
December 11th, 2009
Macroy Smith is a 23 year old graduate from Brighton University specializing in design, illustration and screen print (and maybe the use of blue and pink inks in his color palette?). He founded People of Print, a free online library of contemporary printmakers.
December 11th, 2009
"Force", 33" x 35"
Justine Ashbee’s work is an amorphous trip into the non-linear realm of the imagination. Her work is executed purely by hand, using paint pens. She begins with a curve, from which lines and forms begin to spontaneously morph, and grow. Each piece gives voice to an experience, spoken in a visual language of elegance and beauty.
December 11th, 2009
I found the work of Maria Lamar during my weekly look through of the B/D Flickr Pool. I love how Maria’s drawings are delicate, vague, figurative and abstract all at the same time! Make sure to join the B/D Flickr Pool. You never know who we’re going to post next!
December 10th, 2009
Robbie Augspurger’s halo-framed, serious soft lit yearbook style photos of meta-mockingly universal avant-garde hipsters kind of look like every kid I went to art school with. Alone, meditative, satirically pleased in their undulous Alanis Morisette-induced irony, they hold symbols of their trade. Cheap beer, American Apparel headbands, bushy beards, outmoded key-tars, bad/good sunglasses (including post-op laser eye surgery senior citizen style & your weird Uncle’s shades) and Bill Cosby sweaters. You know the type. I can’t explain why simple headshots of people who look like extras in a Miranda July/Michael Cera movie, done in tasteful/tasteless late 80′s/early 90′s Kodachrome, are so endlessly amusing. But they are. Robie also does wedding portraiture. Fitting though, right?
December 10th, 2009
Beautifully shot videos in conjunction somehow for YEASAYER’s new Ambling Alp single. You use your mouse to pan around this camera that in the first video is propped up by all the members in unison in some sort of boxed with mirrors all around. The second video is more voyeuristic. You can move the camera around however you like- you don’t always have to be looking at what they want you to see (the band running around in a desert) so it has this first person exploration/Myst/Second Life feeling. Sort of reminds me of this Flash video Black Mother Super Rainbow did.
December 10th, 2009
Jimmie Durham’s latest exhibition, “Obsidian,” explores the poetics of the black volcanic glass material, once favored by Mesoamerican cultures in shamanic rites and the creation of mirrors. Above is “The Doorman,” fashioned after Texcatlipoca, meaning “smoking mirror,” an Aztec deity represented by his characteristic black obsidian mirror. And creating the world. I love these contemporary-ancient new magic sculptures. If you’re in Mexico, Durham’s show is up until February 6th at Kurimanzutto.
