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Ramón Figueroa Collection

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:26:43 +0000

“The posters are a great expression of a time when Mexico made an investment in popular culture as a way to promote the values and virtues that would unify society and consolidate the power of the system. I think it is very interesting that some of the poster artists (such as Josep Renau or Ernesto García Cabral) were also muralists. There is research to be done on the Mexican poster as an example of the aesthetic cohesiveness of government sponsored art in Mexico before the sixties.”

—Ramón Figueroa,

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Skinemax

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:26:31 +0000

“Skinemax is Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It’s long form entertainment for short attention spans. An hour long VJ odyssey, it will move your body and warp your mind.

A nostalgic look back at a half remembered childhood growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Skinemax takes a close look at the culture of that era. The images that motivated, delighted, and terrified us on the silver screen, set to propulsive modern music that pines for a simpler time.” - SmashTV.

Jean Charles Pellerin's Paper Theaters Illustrations

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:54:38 +0000

Jean Charles Pellerin’s paper theaters were wildly popular in the nineteenth century. Depicting folk themes, Gothic gardens, domestic drabberies, prison life, and Napoleonic battlefields. Completely mesmeric.

Gutzon Borglum – Mount Rushmore

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:29:53 +0000

Essentially a project to promote tourism to South Dakota, Gutzon Borglum + 400 workers started the colossal sculpture in October 1927, it took them a further 14 years to finish. (Read more about the history of it here)

Daniele Villa

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:14:36 +0000

Super nice collages. http://www.danielevilla.com/

Eric Cahan

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:33:00 +0000

Cabo San Lusas, MexicoSunset 7:09pm

Two Mile Hallow, NYSunset 7:22pm

Bridgehampton, NYSunset 7:48pm

Fort Pond Bay, Montauk, NYSunset 8:10pm

Captured gradients as the sun rises from across America and Mexico. So nice: http://ericcahan.com/portfolio/sky-series/

Keith Warren Greiman

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:26:00 +0000

This man will change your horizons. http://keithgreiman.com

Ana Cabaleiro

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:43:18 +0000

Beautiful. Check out Ana’s portfolio here.

The Stonemasters: Californian Rock Climbers in the Seventies

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:06:00 +0000

Decked out in bandanas, shades and cutoffs, they blew open the conventions of climbing. Dubbing themselves the Stonemasters, these now-legendary adventurers established techniques that allowed for some of the most spectacular climbs in history. They were loud, proud, smoked dope and chalked their lightning-flash insignia across rock faces. The glamour of their lifestyle made a huge impact on 1970s youth culture which would stretch across the world.

Larry Burrows: Vietnam

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:57:00 +0000

In the heat of battle, in the devastated countryside, among troops and civilians equally hurt by the savagery of war, Larry Burrows photographed the conflict in Vietnam from 1962, the earliest days of American involvement, until 1971, when he died in a helicopter shot down on the Vietnam–Laos border. His images, published in Life magazine, brought the war home, scorching the consciousness of the public and inspiring much of the anti-war sentiment that convulsed American society in the 1960s. Destined to be a classic of photojournalism.

Paul X. Johnson

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:08:21 +0000

Panther. Masonic book. Axe… Check out more of Pauls work here. Really lovely.

Wrapped Monuments

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:55:00 +0000

By the infamous Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Monuments (Vittorio Emanuele II, on Piazza del Duomo, and the monument to Leonardo da Vinci, on Piazza della Scala) were wrapped up with polypropylene fabric and red polypropylene rope. Milan, 1970. More here

Thomas Struth - Museums

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:50:21 +0000

Museums by Struth, one of Germanys greats modern photographers. Be sure to check out his other works here.

La Mer de Pianos

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:27:00 +0000

Short film about Marc Manceaux, the owner of the oldest piano shop in Paris. Like this man a lot.

Wolff & Tritschler

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:11:23 +0000

Photos by Paul Wolff and his partner Alfred Tritschler.

Damien Florébert Cuypers

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:08:00 +0000

Jeffrey Deitch

Grayson Perry

Hans Ulrich

Charles Saatchi

“The two-minute sketches started in a bar in Paris,” explains Cuypers. “All we had were crayons and paper so we thought we’d see how quickly we could draw people.”

Memphis Furniture

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:02:00 +0000

Colourful 80’s Furniture design that changed the face of modern design. More via design museum: designmuseum.org/design/memphis

MaricorMaricar

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Otherwise known as Maricor and Maricar Manalo. Amazing stuff, especially love their letter ‘C’.

sound recordings stills

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:20:06 +0000

Not sure why. Don’t care. By Pedro Alvarez

Richard Simpkin

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:19:00 +0000

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.