October 26, 2006 | New Art | by Zolton |
Best known for his colourful Element skateboard decks, Don Pendleton is an artist whose work is so distinct and creative it kinda makes you want to curl up into a ball and pretend you never saw it. Before making the transition to the ‘other side’ of the deck, he was a quality skater in his own right, as he told the Crownfarmer website: ‘I was sponsored by Steadham when I was in high school. And I went on to have some pretty respectable sponsors. My last board sponsor was Acme, and a lot of rad ams came off of that team. I never got any editorial coverage but I had a small but fun run at it back in the day’. [see also Zsolt Gyarmati]
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October 26, 2006 | New Fashion | by Andy |
Hand-crafted in New Zealand, WAS Bags are made from ‘recycled billboards that would ordinarily be destined for the dump‘. The materials are individually selected from chosen billboards before being cut, washed, pressed and sewn to create durable and hard wearing bags, each one unique in its own little way. [see also Jeremyville Sketchels]
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October 25, 2006 | New Illustration | by Zolton |
Having worked out of Antwerp, Belgium for some time now, Swedish illustrator Jenny Mortsell has just moved back to Stockholm where her trademark pencil portraits are in demand for use in ads and magazine editorial. She received an MA in Graphic Design & Illustration from Konstfack University in 2004. [see also Momoko Hatano]
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October 25, 2006 | New Fashion | by Andy |
Depending on the mood of the girl on the check-in counter, by flashing a Tinymeat passport holder you could: a) score an upgrade and fly upstairs in style, b) secure a date, c) cop some extra attention from security, or d) achieve nothing but the feeling of being cooler than the rest of the crowd. If b) is your prefered outcome, go with the ‘Bears are Smelly’ design. If you dig attention and suspicious glances the ‘Thrifty Cuts’ design might lead to option c). Either way you’ll guarantee an interesting experience. [see also Dynomighty Design]
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October 24, 2006 | New Products | by Zolton |
The new Michael Lau NY Fat figures come in a 14-inch high metal ‘Crylon Tin’ and were recently launched at his gallery in Hong Kong. They are ‘clad in a maharishi or mhi camouflage print jacket, all of which are direct copies of existing 1:1 scale jackets’. [see also Dalek; Tristan Eaton]
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October 24, 2006 | New Photography | by Zolton |
I love the work of Swedish photographer Max Berggren. It seems very raw and honest; as if there are few windows beneath what’s captured in the frame. [see also Peter Franc]
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October 24, 2006 | New Photography | by Zolton |
Hailing from Toulouse, France, Alain Astruc shoots only film, ‘negative and instant, in medium and large format. My style has grown out of the desire to escape the kind of intellectualism I had to deal with when I studied literature’. [see also Libby Clark]
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October 24, 2006 | New Illustration | by Zolton |
Melbourne-based designer, Simone Jessup, specialises in creating illustrations for the fashion industry. She graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and spent some time working out of Spain before returning to Australia. [see also Deanne Cheuk]
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October 23, 2006 | New Fashion | by Andy |
Innovating ‘a new way to look at time’, Matthew Waldman founded Nooka watches after a long fascination with how few options there were for time display. Contrary to more traditional displays, ‘the visual mass increases as time passes, giving weight to an ephemeral and abstract concept’. Nooka timepieces are available with leather and metal mesh bands and the inspiring displays are housed in stainless steel casings. [see also Bleu Limited]
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October 21, 2006 | New Products | by Zolton |
These bears remind me of my childhood. They take me back to a sweet place where trading cards were currency and sherbert was the best damn thing since sliced bread (white, with hundreds and thousands on top). Ok, time for a nap. [see also Beck Wheeler]
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October 21, 2006 | New Art | by Zolton |
New York artist Reed Anderson studied printmaking and art at the San Francisco Art Institute before staging solo exhibitions at a number of prominent American venues including The Clementine Gallery and Brooklyn’s Pierogi Gallery. [see also Leandro Sanchez]
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October 20, 2006 | New Illustration | by Zolton |
So I have this recurring dream. Well, not really a dream as such. More a footnote on the thesis on life; a ‘mental meandering’ where my mind flows to a secret place which only I and Paul McCartney can access. Read more
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October 20, 2006 | New Products | by Zolton |
Issue three of my favourite Aussie zine - Hungry - is out and is packed with all sorts of illustrative goodness based around the theme of Space, which is kinda ambitious given that there’s so damn much of it out there. There’s only 300 copies available, so you better get in quick. Special features this issue include ‘a hot sticker sheet, to cut and stick where ya want, and a ‘poster to put on your bedroom ceiling and dream of the stars’. Nice. They’re having a launch party at Little Rebel in Fitzroy, Melbourne on Friday October 27. [see also Hungry Zine two]
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October 20, 2006 | New Art | by Zolton |
Young Sydney artist, Fleur Childs, was ’staying at Arugam Bay, a remote beach community on the east coast of Sri Lanka, when the Indian Ocean tsunami struck. With the works that make up Boxing Day, Childs relives and reimagines her experience of riding the wave that killed over 200,000 people‘. Childs is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts. Her exhibition, Boxing Day, is on at Sydney’s Blank Space Gallery between October 26 and November 1. [see also Lyndel Yeo]
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October 19, 2006 | New Products | by Zolton |
Spanish designer Marta Sanchez Oms studied at jewellery at the Massona School before specialising in gemology at the University of Barcelona. For the past five years she has created her own intricate pieces from her workshop in Barcelona.
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There’s something captivating about the vibrant tones and sense of blissful optimism in the work of Sydney-based illustrator, Sarah Carter-Jenkins. It’s like a window into another age, with indulgent floral hairpieces, wrapped around the heads of sharply defined girls. Read more
Give me a minor key song anytime. Yup, I’ll take the heartfelt purity of an introspective trawl over any warm and fuzzy major key shimmy. I once asked UK band The Editors why there aren’t more cheerful songs in the world: ‘Three words’, vocalist Tom Smith replied. ‘Shiny Happy People’. He smirked. I grimaced. Enough said.
Listen to Casiotone for the Painfully Alone’s, Don’t They Have Payphones Wherever You Were Last Night.
California-based artist Andrew Brandou draws from the children’s books, as well as the tripped-out, cult obsessed, disillusioned zeitgeist of the 70s when his early consciousness took shape. The storybook-ish quality of his works creates a sort of narrative of the tectonic shifts that have taken place in the psyche of an entire generation — anthropomorphic animals frolic in subtly Japanese-lacquer-inspired landscapes as gas-mask-wearing cops creep, grinning skulls loom, elevated freeways overwhelm the rising sun, and bloody murder scenes remain hidden just beyond the view of the paintings’ innocent subjects. Read more
We love the look of new, free Montreal-based street magazine, SNAP!, an arts and lifestyle publication which focuses on all that exciting work that is conceived, created and marketed in Montreal by artists, creative minds and young entrepreneurs. Read more
Peter Nalitch is Russia’s answer to Manu Chao. His video for the song Guitar is a Borat-like jab at low-budget, post-Soviet awkwardness — absurd English lyrics, Eurotrash earnestness, bad wipes, and cheap subtitles. But its tongue-in-cheekness is quite apparent, and the song is disarmingly catchy and romantic.
Thanks to the Julia Roberts movie of 1988, Mystic, Connecticut is home to what is perhaps the most famous Pizza joint in America. Read more
The eagerly anticipated collaboration between Spanish footwear label Camper and Bernhard Willhelm debuted on the catwalk for the designer’s Spring 09 collection. Camper Together fuses the references and inspirations from Willhelm latest collection with Campers’ quality production techniques. Most popular is sure to be Willhelms’ take on the gladiator, with sandals constructed of ribbons and piping.
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I’m a sucker for just about anything to do with printmaking. UK illustrator Jonny Hannah makes a very strong case. Busy, colorful, spontaneous and brimming with inspiration, THIS is the stuff amazing is made of. Read more
Frank Kozik’s Emperor of the Golden Throne
Limited to a set of just sixty-six pieces, each Frank Kozik Hand Painted Emperor Of The Golden Throne El Panda vinyl toy is signed by Kozik and comes bagged with a hand-numbered header card.
While I am as impressed as anyone with an artist’s ability to render accurate and lifelike human figures, I’m more often compelled aesthetically by looser and more stylized images such as Camilla Engman’s. The wide-set eyes, bulbous bodies, and skewed proportions of the people and animals in Engman’s paintings lend them a certain expressiveness and melancholy. Read more
We asked Arizona-based artist Joe Sorren what we would have been if he hadn’t been handed the most ridiculously generous serving of artistic talent: ‘Art historian and conservationalist. Or a botanist. Or I’d work with horses. It would be interesting to be behind the scenes in politics, at least for a while. Or maybe a studio musician, or invent games, or a … I would rather paint’. Ah, we agree.
When I did the Master Cleanse diet a few years ago — the one where you consume nothing but lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper for ten days — I sat at work looking at pictures of food as if they were porn. Scanwiches would have gotten me hot and bothered like nothing else.
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Using both highly rendered images and softer graphic design elements, Nate Frizzell weaves stories into his paintings that we all can see ourselves being a part of. Giclee print on Sommerset velvet archival paper 12”x20” in a limited edition of 25.
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