This colorful mt-masking tape installation by Koji Iyama looks absolutely delightful.
Rain Room coming to NYC
I am incredibly excited that Wayne McGregor’s Rain Room is coming to NYC.
(via Jer)
Lunch Bag Gone Art Work
David Laferriere has been drawing illustrations on his kid’s sandwich bags since 2008. While he won’t win the go-green award, he sure deserves the creative dad of the year award. Made me smile! Make sure to see the entire Flickr set.
(thanks Keef)
Space
Ever think about space? Space is the Place.
Marina Abramovic and Ulay
I was moved to tears last night while watching this moment between the artist Marina Abramovic and her former love Ulay. Apparently they started an intense love story in the 70s and when they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again.
During her 2010 MoMA retrospective Ulay arrived without her knowing and this is what happened. Really moving.
(via Zen Garage)
Please pay…
Please Pay fine art lithograph, by Brian Garner. The image came from a stamp he found at a thrift shop in College Park, Maryland.
(I really want that stamp. You can buy it here.)
Hotello
Hotello is a portable space, containing all the necessary elements for a minimal room: a desk, a lamp, a stool, a shelf, a locker. Hotello consists of a metal structure that supports double curtains (translucent and sound absorbant) as well as all the furniture needed to work and rest. Designed by Roberto De Luca and Antonio Scarponi.
Oddly charming.
Wearing Vegetation
This is fascinating in a refreshingly absurd way: Old People Wearing Vegetation.
Created by Riittai Konen and Karoline Hjorth.
(via bb)
This / That
In a sea of possibility it can be hard to choose. Just remember, there’s no wrong answer: You Can Get with This, Or You Can Get with That.
Paper Jam Press posters are hand-pulled through a Vandercook letterpress, set with turn-of-the-century gothic wood type. Each poster comes out just a little bit different, and Arianna Orland likes it that way. We do too.
(You can also get some of her posters as Tattly)
Double Vision by Julia Robbs
In an email earlier today, our Tattly photographer Julia Robbs, told me about her brand spanking new site. (Which has a Tattly section! Yay!) The site is beautiful and shows what an incredible talent she is. But what got me most excited is the fact that she now offers the Double Vision photograph as a print. I think I might be developing a pigeon obsession.
‘A million times’
This A million Times installation is stunning. It connects the digital, alphanumerical and geometric type font possibilities of the typical analog clock.
(Thank you Bastian)
Color Me …
The idea behind the Color Me ____ art exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art by Andrew Neyer and Andy J. Miller made me smile. Would love to use one of those giant markers and color on a wall.
Cyrtoidea
“Cyrtoidea“, from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur “Art Forms of Nature, 1904. Beautiful, no?
Heart Potato Print
Jason Polan made heart potato prints.
He bought a potato and cut a notch on the top of it. Each cross section of the potato was then in the shape of a heart. For each artwork, he would cut a sliver of the potato away, added paint and made a print. The first ones were small hearts. The hearts got bigger until the thickest middle part of the potato and then again got smaller until there was nothing left of the potato.
Each print is unique as he made only one print per cut. The edition size was to be however many the potato would make. This potato made 32. He numbered the prints in order of printing so the first few (1 thru 3) and the last few (30 thru 32) were smaller hearts than the middle ones (15 thru 17). They were printed on Fabriano 4.5″x6.7″ (115x170mm) paper and are all signed and dated (all on the back).
(enter smile here) Makes me love him and his work even more.
Karel Martens
Beautiful letterpress prints by Karel Martens. Would love to have one or two of these in my studio!
(via BDIF)
Sum Times
The project Sum Times by artist Aakash Nihalani points out simple math problems in urban environments. Made me smile.
(via Design Milk)
About
Mr. Will Vincent has the best about page. (Scroll down.)
Out of Place
Hamburg-based artist Robert Rickhoff invades public space with humor through a series of digitally manipulated photographs in his Bachelor project entitled ‘Out of Place’.
Tarah
I am all for furniture that surprises and could very well be considered art. Like this piece called Tarah, by Bina Baitel.
The Artist is Present
For the exhibition Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, The Museum of Modern Art’s first performance retrospective, Abramović performed in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium every day the Museum was open between March 14 and May 31, 2010. Visitors were encouraged to sit silently across from the artist for a duration of their choosing, becoming participants in the artwork. The Artist Is Present is Abramovic’s longest performance to date.
