Photographer/artists Georges Rousse and Felice Varini create meticulous 2D works of art that appear as planar shapes floating in 3D space when viewed from precise vantage points.
Georges Rousse:
Felice Varini:
After a successful ‘Be Stupid’ Campaign, Diesel is taking it up a notch with their new campaign ‘Diesel Island’. Get ready for a visual feast as this campaign unfolds. Taking its cue from ‘Lost’, Diesel created its own island where rules are written by skimpy youngsters, taking showers together and running around naked. Its what they call ‘the land of the stupid, home of the brave.’
www.diesel.com/island
Last night my friends invited me to the official release for the documentary of
Bill Cunningham; entitled Bill Cunningham New York. Known as the original New York street-fashion photographer (way before Scott Schuman, Garance Doré or bloggers started making their mark) the 82 year old photographer has been documenting the streets of New York City, every day, for the past 40-50 years. Most known for his two columns in the New York Times “On the Street” and “Evening Hours”, Cunningham has a keen eye for capturing fashion as “he’ll do anything for the shot,” says Kim Hastreiter, co-editor of Paper magazine. Sometimes he is so determine to get the shot he’s after, even if it means running into incoming traffic. Not only does Cunningham capture originality and the energy of the clothes he is also a storyteller, every spread has its own unique voice and I can only imagine that he tries to re-create the same frame he captured onto each spread.
As a patron of fashion, Cunningham is a simplistic guy when it comes to his own style. Owning just a few articles of clothing and a royal blue jacket worn by Parisian workers he maintains a simple lifestyle of solitude. His mode of transportation is an old bicycle, which he says (in the film) is his 29th as his previous bicycle was stolen. Having lived in Carnegie Hall until they kicked all the remaining six guests out, he lived in a small studio surrounded by filing cabinets and negatives of every shot he’s taken, sleeping on a cot in the midst of chaos. The New York Times Carina Chocano describes him as, “an aesthete and an ascetic, a member of the establishment and a bohemian, and among the last of his kind.”
If you’re looking for an inspiring movie with good laughs and a well blended soundtrack, make sure to check out this movie.
Find out where its playing here: http://zeitgeistfilms.com/billcunninghamnewyork/playdates.html
Trailer:
The Armory Show 2011
For all of you who missed this years star art spectacle here is a glimpse from CO-OP’s eyes at the show…
take your time
I love black. I wear it virtually everyday. It is my base, my clean palette to play with, to accessorize. I wrap my body in it, but would I wrap my walls in it? Check out Cindy Gallop’s bachelorette pad. It’s an angsty teenager’s dream.
I just got news that this New York artist has a show at The Whitney coming up shortly in March. I find his narrative text based paintings (based on writings and speeches) really intriguing and his neon reliefs simple and provocative.
This exhibition features roughly one hundred works, including paintings, prints, photography, drawings, and sculptural installations, as well as striking recent neon reliefs, one newly commissioned for the Whitney’s Madison Avenue windows.
From the stop-frame film makers of Creature Comforts and Wallace & Gromit, Aardman creates yet another ground breaking short film. This microscopic masterpiece is all done with a mobile phone – Nokia N8 using its 12MP camera.
If you thought the film was great, just watch the making of it! Talk about painstaking attention to detail, this shows the dedication, passion and talent of this amazing studio.
For more:
http://www.aardman.com/
It took a month of preparation, 4 days and nights shooting, with a crew of over 40, shot live and in stopmotion with 4 different cameras. A film for TBWA Brussels, directed by Olivier Babinet produced by Lovo Films
As I write this post very early on Monday morning it is yet again snowing in Larchmont, NY! Here’s just a few of the many icy artworks from from Harbin.
I am the last person I’d expect to write a post about the Super Bowl, but I wanted to give credit where credit is due. No, not to the Packers [admittedly, I didn't even watch the game], but to the creative genius that populated the airwaves between all of the brute and brawn. At $3M per spot, this years commercial ad space was sold out by October.
Here are a few of my favorites. What were yours?
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This Chrysler commercial featuring Eminem is an evocative shout out to the Motor City. It my pick for most inspiring— a portrait of an industry and a city that knows luxury through decades hard work and struggle. “It’s the hottest fires that makes the hardest steel.”
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I was VERY impressed with the grace and ease at which Motorola took some deep jabs at Apple with this commercial. The Orwellian automaton society, all white, hoodies, walking in formation, each murmuring into their headphone mics. Here motorola challenges us to be different and “create a better world” — walk against the crowd, take out those ear buds and bring some color into the world!
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This Volkswagon commercial wins for just plain cute— a viral success even before it aired on television.
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I think this Doritos commercial is hilarious. It makes me sooooo uncomfortable. Love it!
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The situation we all fear:
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Very funny. Very cute.
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Most bizarre:
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