Friday, October 30, 2009
Flatland Unicycling
In our constant quest find original videos, I introduce to you the very niche sport of unicycling. doing tricks like a flatland BMX-er!! This kid, Daniel Sarsoza has a bright future!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Divorce Cake Art
I didn't even know people had 'divorce' parties, let alone make special cakes to signify the demise of your relationship with your unsignificant other.....(I also love how the cake designers put a lil bit of graff on the sides too!)
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Sweatshoppe Video Painting
In an effort to establish new platforms for public art and performance, the
multimedia duo SWEATSHOPPE has developed a new interactive technology that enables them to explore the relationship between video, mark making and architecture. Dubbed "video painting", this technology allows them to essentially "paint" video onto any surface. Shooting in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, the duo spent weeks documenting their work in urban settings to create "The Landing" the first in a series of episodes that showcases their work as artist, technologist and performers.
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Art Shows Thursday 29th October
Conor Harrington
Featuring Conor Harrington
30th October 2009 - 26th November 2009
Lazarides Gallery hosts 'Headless Heroes' by Conor Harrington. Conor's last solo show in 2008 was a bold and beautiful visual feast and 'Headless Heroes' promises much more.
Continuing his exploration into masculinity and power, Conor's new paintings and drawings combine historical re-enactment, F1 pit-stops, text and glamour models. Conor's aim is to have the visual aesthetic of his paintings reflect the visual culture we live in.
Since he was a teenager painting on the streets of Cork, Conor has always tread a fine line between 'street art' and 'fine art', never aligning himself with a particular movement or aesthetic but instead pushing forward with his own unique representations of the world around him, creating works that are striking yet accessible.
The show is open Monday-Friday 11-7pm and Saturday 12-5pm.
11 Rathbone Place, London W1T 1HR
REMI/ROUGH - LOST COLOURS AND ALIBIS
On Thursday 29th October
From 6 - 9PM
At The Urban Angel Gallery
41/43 Redchurch Street
London, E2 7DJ
What would happen if the infamous Pendle Witches - hung in 1612 for crimes of witchcraft - came back?UK-based illustrator Sarah Coleman (aka Inkymole) teams up with New York photographer
Anthony Saint James, willow artist Tom Hare and writer Ed Garland to present an intriguing and deliciously dark take on the witchhunts of the 1600s.
Unsettling photography, twisted shadowy figures and expressive type-led illustration
combine in response to the wicked and uneasy ‘confessions’ of the modern-day witches.
Thursday October 29th, 6.30pm
Numbers at the venue are limited,
please 'RSVP' to
thewitches@theyallcameback.org
EASTGALLERY
214 Brick Lane,
London E1 6SA
NATURAL SELECTION
31 October - 12 December 2009
Monday - Saturday 9.30am - 5.00pm
Elms Lesters has been invited to curate an exhibition at the acclaimed Atkinson Gallery at Millfield School, Street, Somerset.
'NATURAL SELECTION' will be a non selling exhibition including works by Adam Neate, Jose Parla, Phil Frost, Boris Tellegen (DELTA), Anthony Lister, James Marshall (DALEK), Futura, Mark Dean Veca, Ron English, Stash, WK Interact, Snug and Andrew McAttee.
The exhibition opens on Saturday 31st October, but there will be a private reception between 7 - 9pm on Monday 2nd November.
Exhibition continues until 12th December 2009
Atkinson Gallery
Millfield,
Street,
Somerset
BA16 0YD
For those of you in London and into street art you are sure to have seen Un-plugged's plug socket stickers and paste ups across the city in the most unlikely of locations.
Tomorrow the 27th October sees the opening of a solo exhibition from un-plugged entitled "SHOCKIN' BEHAVIOUR" the loss of power that humanity may one day face.
The exhibition runs from the 27th October until the 8th November.
The Foundry | 86 Great Eastern Street | London | EC2A 3JL
Old Street tube (exit3)
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Assassins Creed - Lineage
Check out the intro video and then click HERE to watch the 14 minute short movie. Its so good! Apparently there will be a Part 2 and I can't wait to see it!
Kris Kuksi Sculpture Update
Entitled, "Anglo-Parisian Barnstormer", this massive, hulking sculpture is Kris Kuksi's newest work for the Musuem of The History Of Science 'Steampunk' Exhibition, in Oxford. Yes, that's right, Steampunk seems to have caught the world by storm and is now being shown at museums! 
(Click on Images to Enlarge)
The first museum exhibition of Steampunk art.
13 October 2009 – 21 February 2010.
[VIA]2 Great Downloadable Art Magazines
Amazing photography compiled from the infinite vault of Flickr....This mag is really well curated and contains so many inspiring images...
Issue 1 of Weapon Of Choice includes interviews with artist’s Epok, Sepr and Nikill as well as an interview from UK Hip Hop legends Task Force!
Read Crack Mag Issue 2 online HERE.
[VIA]Issue 1 of Weapon Of Choice includes interviews with artist’s Epok, Sepr and Nikill as well as an interview from UK Hip Hop legends Task Force!
Download the Hi-res Copy of WeaponOfChoice(17MB) HERE.
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Part Bug, Part Robot
The creation of a cyborg insect army has just taken a step closer to reality. A research team at the University of California Berkeley recently announced that it has successfully implanted electrodes into a beetle allowing scientists to control the insect's movements in flight.
Floating Cities Of The Future
Are these the answer to the threat of rising sea levels?
Rather than building up our city's defences with dams, architect Vincent Callebaut has put forward an alternative future for the victims of climate change.
The floating ecopolis, inspired by Amazonian lilypads, are designed to be completely self-sufficient in both power and water, through solar power, wind turbines and rainfall collection.
By the looks of it, you'll have to move to Monaco to live in them.
Rather than building up our city's defences with dams, architect Vincent Callebaut has put forward an alternative future for the victims of climate change.
The floating ecopolis, inspired by Amazonian lilypads, are designed to be completely self-sufficient in both power and water, through solar power, wind turbines and rainfall collection.
By the looks of it, you'll have to move to Monaco to live in them.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Anti Pop Consortium Competition
ESPVisuals have teamed up with Soundcrash to give away 2 FREE TICKETS to go see APC next week. All you have to do is email us with an answer to the achingly obvious question;"What is the name of APC's newest Album?" Please mail your answer to selphespcrew [at] g mail . com The deadline is Nov 3rd so get crackin'....
Antipop Consortium have come along way since meeting at a poetry slam in the late nineties; selling singles on cassette, working to challenge the evil empire hip hop was becoming under the guiding principle “Disturb the Equilibrium”, and Soundcrash is very proud to announce a rare performance from Hip Hop’s elusive Dark Knights this NOVEMBER 5th, at the SCALA.
Widely regarded as cutting-edge innovators to a broad spectrum of listeners including b-boy purists, experimental electronic fans and indie rockers, Anti-Pop Consortium’s return is major news. The group have been praised for their stream-of consciousness lyrics, their ability to give seemingly unrelated word clusters hidden meaning, and their sonic backdrops that provide the perfect canvas for their lyrics.
“As a reaction to the watered-down R&B regurgitation of mainstream hip-hop, APC are an unparalleled, post-modern music force to be reckoned with in any context.” Rolling Stone
"It doesn't take a genius to see why Thom Yorke likes them so much; like Radiohead, Anti-pop presents a dysfunctional update of their music, replacing the usual sense of community with one alienation.” NME
"APC continues to blow minds and fuck up those neat little categories we music journalists and record stores rely on. Their rhymes are hard, their delivery is tight, and the beats sound like a casio rapmaster and an SP-1200 fucking in the space shuttle. This is some ‘nother other shit.”James Friedman XLR8R
Widely regarded as cutting-edge innovators to a broad spectrum of listeners including b-boy purists, experimental electronic fans and indie rockers, Anti-Pop Consortium’s return is major news. The group have been praised for their stream-of consciousness lyrics, their ability to give seemingly unrelated word clusters hidden meaning, and their sonic backdrops that provide the perfect canvas for their lyrics.
“As a reaction to the watered-down R&B regurgitation of mainstream hip-hop, APC are an unparalleled, post-modern music force to be reckoned with in any context.” Rolling Stone"It doesn't take a genius to see why Thom Yorke likes them so much; like Radiohead, Anti-pop presents a dysfunctional update of their music, replacing the usual sense of community with one alienation.” NME
"APC continues to blow minds and fuck up those neat little categories we music journalists and record stores rely on. Their rhymes are hard, their delivery is tight, and the beats sound like a casio rapmaster and an SP-1200 fucking in the space shuttle. This is some ‘nother other shit.”James Friedman XLR8R
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
ESP Video For IDN 15th Anniversary
ESP were asked to make a very short video segment for design mag, IDN's 15th Anniversary Book. With the brief asking us to explore what design would be like, 15 years from now, we decided to create a fictitious computer game that 'immersed' its players into a virtual environment...it was made on no budget, except to buy beer and green.....
A perspective on films 15 years from now
Tailor made for IdN 15th Anniversary
Directed/Produced/Animated/Edited/Scored: Jonathan Shine
Camera and Assistant Director: Selph
Production Assistant: Irie
3D Animation: Tai Hollingsbee
Motion Graphics and Titles: Dkoda
Voices By: Ashley Schaefer
Friday, October 23, 2009
Veolia 2009 Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
This image of an Iberian wolf landed José Luis Rodríguez the overall prize.
This image captures the "wolf's great agility and strength", says Rodríguez. It also implies a relationship with humans as the wolf jumps effortlessly over the fence into a farmer's enclosure. A custom-built infrared trap was used to snap the wolf as it leapt into the air.
This image captures the "wolf's great agility and strength", says Rodríguez. It also implies a relationship with humans as the wolf jumps effortlessly over the fence into a farmer's enclosure. A custom-built infrared trap was used to snap the wolf as it leapt into the air.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Mona Lisa's Smile A Mystery No More
If you have been puzzled by Mona Lisa's smile – how she's radiant one moment and serious the next instant – then your worries are over. It happens because our eyes are sending mixed signals to the brain about her smile.
Different cells in the retina transmit different categories of information or "channels" to the brain. These channels encode data about an object's size, clarity, brightness and location in the visual field."Sometimes one channel wins over the other, and you see the smile, sometimes others take over and you don't see the smile," says Luis Martinez Otero, a neuroscientist at Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante, Spain, who conducted the study along with Diego Alonso Pablos.
To read the full article CLICK HERE.
A4 Paper Cut Art
Peter Callesen's paper cut art is one of the most amazing things I've seen. The pictures here are only a fraction of what you can see on his website. Check them out!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Blok From DOCS Graffiti
Liking BLOK's style and the photos taken of his work found on the Crooked Shit blog. Check out their crew collab walls on the main site HERE.
Wayne Martin Belger Insane Custom Cameras
Wayne Martin Belger is a dark genius. he is an avid photographer who not only takes eerie pics but actually designs and creates some of the scariest looking photo-taking equipment out there! His camera all have some form of significance, either artistic or spiritual. The following are some of his many cameras and a pic taken with that camera.
4”x5” camera made from Aluminium, Copper, Titanium, Acrylic and HIV positive blood. The blood pumps through the camera then in front of the pinhole and becomes my #25 red filter. Designed to shoot a geographic comparison of people suffering from HIV.
Designed to take photos of soon-to-be mothers who are at least 8 months pregnant, and explore my relationship with my twin brother who died at birth. 4”x5” camera made from Aluminium, Titanium, Acrylic, Formaldehyde and an infant human heart.
Designed to study the beauty of decay. 4”x5” camera made from Aluminium, Titanium, Brass, Silver, Gem Stones and a 150 year old skull of a 13 year old girl. Light and time enters at the third eye, exposing the film in the middle of the skull.
Designed for the study of exodus and for the research of modern incarnations of historical iconic figures.
The latest camera is named Yama, the Tibetan God of Death. In Tibetan Buddhism, Yama will see all of life and Karma is the “judge” that keeps the balance. The skull was blessed by a Tibetan Lama for its current journey to the refugee cities in India.
Yama’s eyes are cast from bronze and silver with a brass pinhole in each. A divider runs down the middle of the skull creating two separate cameras. A finished contact print mounted on copper is inserted in to the back of the camera to view what Yama saw in 3D.
Untouchable
4”x5” camera made from Aluminium, Copper, Titanium, Acrylic and HIV positive blood. The blood pumps through the camera then in front of the pinhole and becomes my #25 red filter. Designed to shoot a geographic comparison of people suffering from HIV.
Heart
Designed to take photos of soon-to-be mothers who are at least 8 months pregnant, and explore my relationship with my twin brother who died at birth. 4”x5” camera made from Aluminium, Titanium, Acrylic, Formaldehyde and an infant human heart.
Third Eye
Designed to study the beauty of decay. 4”x5” camera made from Aluminium, Titanium, Brass, Silver, Gem Stones and a 150 year old skull of a 13 year old girl. Light and time enters at the third eye, exposing the film in the middle of the skull.
Yama
Designed for the study of exodus and for the research of modern incarnations of historical iconic figures.The latest camera is named Yama, the Tibetan God of Death. In Tibetan Buddhism, Yama will see all of life and Karma is the “judge” that keeps the balance. The skull was blessed by a Tibetan Lama for its current journey to the refugee cities in India.
Yama’s eyes are cast from bronze and silver with a brass pinhole in each. A divider runs down the middle of the skull creating two separate cameras. A finished contact print mounted on copper is inserted in to the back of the camera to view what Yama saw in 3D.