Glue must be sculptor Andrew Sutherland’s best friend. Objects falling victim to its liquid strength are made from paper: New York Times’ made to look like a from cradle to grave stump of wood, cardboard cut out to create strange optical illusions, newspapers combined with thread and zippers for a lightweight sleeping bag.
Brooklyn artist James Blagden isn’t worried about offending you with racial stereotypes. Or rather the aim is to offend to get the point across. Fusing together a myriad of influences and topics found in African American popular culture, the artist pokes fun at the ideas and images we accept on a regular broadcasted basis. Whatever the common conception, the nerdiness of Asians in mainstream cinema, African Americans and basketball, gold teeth and bling, he’s done it all. Check out an interview Format Mag did on James.
When looking at the work of Alex Passapera, the first words that come to mind is chaos. He offers an intense and playful ride using skillful illustrative visuals and chaotic narration to portray the intangible something, “mainly instinct”, which becomes a common theme throughout his work.
Magical creatures awake from the sounds and dance & sing along in Black Noise‘s “Jackin My Fresh” video.Animation by Kenny Frankland for
Taisuke Koyama describes his works as “organic abstract photography”. He shoots surfaces and various states of degradation of artifacts in a city and thinks about those changes in state as the city’s metabolism- it’s an organism that’s changing every moment. It’s such a simple and beautiful idea.
As usual there is no info for this new video for Fujiya & Miyagi on the vimeo page but it’s still awesome. I looked long and hard for who did the animation but…no dice…. GET IT? NO DICE??? Hahahaha! Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week ladies and gentleman.
Brian Dettmer takes the idea that the cassette tape is dead a little too far. However, the likes of his works are grotesque and beautiful in that they are so mesmerizing to stare at.
Vancouver resident Dina Goldstein’s ”Fallen Princess” series makes us both laugh, cringe and wonder if Disney princesses were thrown into today, what their lives would be like (minus that Enchanted movie…).
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