A cool interview with Graffiti Artist HuskMitNavn can be viewed via the following link:
http://creative.arte.tv/en/space/5MINUTES/message/13145/5_MINUTES_WITH__HUSKMITNAVN__Copenhagen_/
WordPress doesn’t seem to be able to translate Arte’s embed video code…
For all those comic book lovers out there I recommend checking out the Ask Chris (no.96) Article on the Comics Alliance website called ‘Why Spider-man is the best Character Ever…’, that looks at the Web-head in/out of story, how he has shaped storytelling and other contrasts/comparisons with other comic book heroes.
Thanks to my bro it was a great read.
In other news we are currently developing our new project, which is an entry for the 2012 Olympic and quite different from our RSA animation. However due to the short amount of time left, we may sit on it and enter our short into festivals, of course depending on the quality of final out come.
Peace
I saw this and felt bad for the poor fellow, I mean he looks scared Sh*tless.
Photo taken in Pret.
Image via camera phone.
An amazing piece of graffiti we encountered around Euston station. Its like the world biggest etching, to me everything feels right about this work.
Artist unknown (maybe the creator goes by the name fix).
Image via camera phone.
This mean illustration was found around Euston Station, not far from the UCL SU.
Artist Unknown
Taken via camera phone
These photos were taken around the Southbank or Southwark or Birmingham, I forgot but anyway it’s always cool to see the workings out of minds.
Taken via camera phone
Artist: Construction worker(s)?
After seeing a short feature of the Yayoi Kusama exhibition on Newsnight, I decided to go and inspect the exhibition with my own eyes at the Tate Modern and without disappointment I greatly enjoyed the exhibition. Even if you are new to Kusama’s works then this show is perfect as it is formatted chronologically to a timeline of the artist’s career also highlighting aspects of her personal life.
Visitors to the exhibition might be surprised on the quantity of Polka dots featured, which I expected to predominate my time at the Tate. However this was not the case and instead I saw a palette of different artistic periods and mediums used in her quest for expression, like the replacement of orthodox materials substituted with house paints mixed in sand in the absents of oil paints.
Curated in a timeline format, the exhibition is starts with bleak cold paintings, produced by living in WWII Japan (room 1) to a more wonderful and colourful Abstract Expressionistic works created during and after local gallery success in Japan (room 2) which I think adds depth to Kusama’s reputation. I think viewers would have to be ignorant to discard these important beginnings so they can rush to works featuring Polka dots, even though they can be seen in her early works, less dominate to her later pieces. Rooms 3 and 4 contain Avant-grade works created on her move to America like her ‘Infinity Net’ paints, which are impressive monochrome Polka dots painted on canvas and sexually grotesque sculptures strong in process and concept, leaving me with the feeling of violation if I lived in that world. According to ‘Kusama’s Polka dot obsession comes to the Tate’ (broadcasted Wednesday 8th of February), the work was created out of a sexual anxiety and hate for sex from a young age, however in creating work like ‘Self-Obliteration’ (room 8) Kusama conquered her fear as it focused on painting on the naked human form also being situated in a room full of naked bodies.
Without revealing all aspects of the show, different features of the show include photographs exploring her double ‘outsider’ status in which she introduces her cultural background around areas of New York and a new LED light display that leaves viewers on a positive high.
The Yayoi Kusama Exhibition at the Tate Modern ends the 5th of June 2012
Found this Gundam sticker on a bridge around Waterloo.
Artist unknown.
Taken via my camera phone.
Just recently I completed a budgeted animation with my brother that we’ve been creating since mid-December also with the help of two other family members. The short is an entry for RSA animate and we decided to create visuals to Rachel Botsman’s ‘Collaborative Consumption’ in the style of pixelation, animating on our hands.
I am pleased to say that we’ve made the shortlist and in early February we will know if we have reached the final top 5. I am also pleased that we have made it this far at least and I would like to say it wasn’t easy creating this kind of animation with our current resources, hardware and software.
There are some good entries and I wish the best to our other competitors.
