November 2011
15 posts
sound recordings stills
Not sure why. Don’t care. By Pedro Alvarez
Richard Simpkin
An unnasuming man with an obsession to have his photograph taken with celebrities. Over 2,000 so far. He has turned this into a self portrait exhibition called Richard & Famous. Really nice/creepy as fuck.
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Day-After-Day in NOD
By Andy J. Miller… http://innod.tumblr.com/
Gustavo Sousa - Preto
Preto - As series of ink on porcelain works by Gustavo Sousa, opens the 24th of November at the Idea Generation Gallery, London. Really nice, check out his site here.
Wandering Coma
“My photographs are about removal: bringing people to nondescript locations, to places that aren’t recognizable, removing their clothes, capturing them with a very limited style palette. I try to think about how timelessness, isolation, and style interact.” – McGinley.
Ryan McGinleys new show ‘Wandering Coma” opens at the Alison Jacques Gallery. London, 23RD...
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Big B-movie posters
So good. So big. http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/
Jeffrey Vallance, Cultural Ties, 1979
In 1979 American artist Jeffery Vallance sent out letters to a whole bunch of world leaders. With the letter he enclosed one of his neck ties. In the letter he asks the leader to send him back one of their own ties as a sign of friendship and a way of forging closer cultural links between the leader’s country and Vallance’s America. It is basically a tie-swap.
The responses are...
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Ansel Adams
40,000 photographs cropped and individually processed during his lifetime.
Malarky
Malarky. The man bringing his world of colours and fun to the streets of London.
If you find yourself in East London head down Redchurch Street and see it in the real life.
http://malark.blogspot.com/
Wes Lang
Meticulous drawings, by the incredibly talented Wes Lang. Super nice.
Milton Glaser
‘I did the bloody thing in 1975 and I thought it would last a couple of months as a promotion and disappear.’ Milton Glaser, the I <3 NY designer.
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Norman Parkinson
Fashion photography’s first real game changer.
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Bridget Riley
So pleasing on the eye. Love it all. Awesome simple visually complex paintings.
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John Parr Miller
Wonderful little illustrations.
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Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) A truly remarkable man. Watch his talk ‘Parrots the Universe and Everything’ it will change your horizon.