May 2012
4 posts
BANKSY’S NEW PAINTINGS
The ever elusive Banksy has updated his website with some striking new art. His latest book, “Banksy: You Are an Acceptable Level of Threat,” will be released later this summer and is already available for pre-order.
April 2012
2 posts
“The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who...”
– William Lyon Phelps
March 2012
51 posts
Tyree Callahan - Chromatic Typewriter, 2011 - A 1937 Underwood standard typewriter modified to produce colors instead of letters
Lana Del Rel x Notorious B.I.G
Nike Savvas, Atomic: Full of Love, Full of Wonder, 2005
Self-portraits by Chinese camouflage maestro Liu Biolin, currently exhibiting his works at Eli Klein Fine Art in New York.
Something Real by Romain Laurent
suspended in time;
This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids
This December, in a surprisingly simple yet ridiculously amazing installation for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, artist Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas. Over...
String Theory - Gabriel Dawe
WatchGorges Melies film “A Trip to the Moon” from 1902
“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”
– Haruki Murakami
Yoko Ono, Invitation to Participate in a Water Event, 1971
all photographs by Rhi Ellis
Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
Floral Ice Cubes by Martha Stewart Living
To suspend flowers in the cubes, work in layers: Fill an ice tray, one that makes large cubes so the ice will last longer) a quarter of the way with water, add flowers facing down, and freeze. Add more water to fill halfway, and freeze. Fill to the top, and freeze again. - For ice that’s especially clear, use distilled water that has been boiled and...
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
– Tom Waits
the skinny version of my cruise, creme cycles.
Painter Michelle Morin:
I’m no expert when it comes to art criticism but I know that when I stumble across beautiful and inspiring art my duty is to share it with people around me. This time I found one of Massachusetts’ best hidden talents: painter Michelle Morin.
Timothy Karpinski
New Jersey native Timothy Karpinski kept his child’s heart. Nostalgic and colorful, Karpinski’s art will bring you back to your long forgotten childhood memories of adventurous summers and serene rainy days. Karpinski can be found in Portland where he runs Together Gallery, builds forts, sails boats, dam streams and, of course, makes art.
Sand Paintings
With a rake as his only tool, San Francisco based artist Andreas Amador creates large scale sand paintings primarily on beaches along the California coast. Andreas usually waits for a full moon to make sure the ocean’s tides are low enough for him to complete his designs before they’re permanently washed away.
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by Denise Nestor, trees for the woods
‘It’s the light that reflects the color and it’s the color that reflects our mood - and it’s our mood that gives us energy, and it’s the energy that makes us a smile.’
What else is better than waking up each morning to make a healthy and colorful breakfast?
French food designer Emilie Grott has thought of all the tastes in the realization of these Pantone...
“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”
– Samuel Beckett
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Herbarium, circa 1839-1846. 1 volume (66 pages) in green cloth case; 37 cm. MS Am 1118.11, Houghton Library © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Igor Eskinja, Special Effects for Common People, 2009-2011
“I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...”
– Leonard Cohen
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“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who...”
– Lemony Snicket
Beccy Ridsdel
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
– Simone Weil
“I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too...”
– Ferdinand von Schrubentaufft
THE HALF-GRAFFITI ROOM
Street Artist, Tilt finished his design of a room in the Au Vieux Panier hotel located in Marseille, France. The ”Panic Room”, is divided down the middle leaving one side covered entirely in graffiti and the other half stark white.
The hotel is made up of five rooms annually re-designed and re-conceptualized by commissioned artists and designers (for those who can’t make it to France,...