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52 Microlog entries tagged with ‘art’
The Guardian reviews Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer
Art’s biggest charlatan gets torn apart by The Guardian’s Jonathan Jones. Bravo! Permalink ·
Lovely art prints inspired by board games
Very reasonable prices, too. Permalink ·
Hulk Hogans the wrestler
Includes his catchphrase: ‘just shut up or i will rip your top as well i swear.’ Chris (Simpsons artist) is insanely brilliant and/or brilliantly insane. Permalink ·
Bus-Tops
“Bus-Tops is a collaborative public art installation across 20 London boroughs. There are 30 red and black LED screens dotted around London, on the roofs of bus shelters. Absolutely anyone in the world can create artwork for them, creating a new exhibition space for the public, and Public Art.” This kind of thinking is completely absent from Irish public services. Shame. Permalink ·
Cartographies of Time
“Selections from a captivating history of timelines—from time circles to time dragons, to a history of the world drawn on a single piece of paper.” Permalink ·
Minutemen Swissted poster by Mike Joyce
If anybody wants to buy me this, y’know, I wouldn’t mind. Just sayin’. Permalink ·
The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face
Shame this piece doesn’t reflect on the devolution of icons in the iPhone/iPad age: there’s so little consideration of semantics anymore, how do you know what you’re clicking on or touching? Permalink ·
What’s on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “To-Do” list?
Dude was a multitasker, that’s for sure. Permalink ·
Stereo Stack
A collection of vintage LP stereo banners. Permalink ·
Vincent van Gogh: The Letters
The artist’s collected correspondence, with full text and annotations, and even images of the originals. This is pretty amazing. Permalink ·
Glitchbot’s photostream
Posting a new corrupted image every day. Permalink ·
UpStart: an alternative election poster campaign
“UpStart is a non-profit arts collective which aims to put creativity at the centre of public consciousness during the Irish General Election Campaign in 2011. We plan to do this by reinterpreting the spaces commonly used for displaying election campaign posters in Dublin City.” Best thing to come out of this whole ridiculous situation. The poems are my favourites; better than any bullshit election manifesto. (By the way, if anyone starts a Flickr gallery of these posters, please do let me know.) Permalink | 0 Comments ·
Inventables
Materials for artists, designers and inventors. And they’re surprisingly inexpensive. Permalink ·
WebCollage
Eleven years on the interweb and this totally passed me by till now (possibly NSFW). Permalink ·
Pen and Pixel: A Retrospective
On the infamous rap album cover design house. The scary thing is, they’re actually not that bad till around 1997, when they start getting crazy with the Photoshop. Permalink ·
The Mona Lisa Curse on YouTube
Robert Hughes’ documentary on the corruption of art in the commercialised world (previously broadcast on Channel 4). His disdain for the bullshit of the contemporary art world is refreshing. Permalink ·
Takeshi Kitano: one original gangster
It’s not enough being a good actor, a great director and the Japanese Chris Tarrant; no, the bastard has to be an accomplished artist as well. Permalink ·
Roger Ebert re-enters the ‘games as art’ debate
This isn’t even really a debate: anything can be art in the right context or circumstances. Ebert should know better. Permalink ·
Your pal, John K.
A fan of John Kricfalusi (of Ren & Stimpy fame) wrote to the man himself, and received a more than generous reply. This is for all of us who are too scared to say hi to our heroes (although I’ve shaken the hand of mine, and he complimented my shirt). Permalink ·
MUJI & LEGO
This is lovely. I can haz it now? Permalink ·
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