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A Ray Array: 16 video shorts by Sara Rara
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The other night, I got a chance to see Sarah Rara’s A Ray Array, an hour long collection of 16 video shorts included in the Dlectricity festival in Detroit, Michigan. As I sat still and watched, my mind was lulled into a trance-like state; lured in by the humming, ambient sounds and the calming, ethereal visuals in her videos.
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Untitled (New York): a silent slomo video by Ivan Argote
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My first discovery of Ivan Argote’s work was actually more of a double take. A video snippet surfaced of a young man in a museum walking up to two framed Mondrians and brazenly spray-painting a long, black squiggle across both, in broad (museum hours) daylight. Or, at least, that’s what supposedly happened. Much of his [...]
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New art by Detroit-based George Rahme
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Fellow Detroit-based artist, George Rahme, is on a rampage. Or perhaps I should coin the term, Rahme-page. This past weekend I attended the opening for his new series, Fire Over Water at Public Pool in Hamtramck, Michigan. The excruciatingly tedious detail and complex use of layering in his collage work is simply unmatched. Multiply that by the overall scale of each piece (some measuring 8×8 feet), and it’s immediately apparent that he’s charging right into the upper echelons of world-renowned artists. Out of the way, Rahme is coming through!
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New Zoos of Berlin album coming soon
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The word on the street is that this enigmatic foursome from Detroit, Michigan, is putting the finishing touches on their long-awaited second full-length album. Their quality-over-quantity approach has produced a meticulously-crafted catalogue which is compact, yet sonically rich with soaring electronic rock that will leave you jonesing for more. That said, hurry the hell up [...]
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New art by Trevor Naud
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When he’s not formulating or recording music for Zoos of Berlin, co-frontman Trevor Naud seems to keep pretty busy as a visual artist (and a darned talented one at that). I love the grainy, a la Xerox-tech quality to some of his work. Peruse his photostream and definitely make sure to check out his Album Covers as well as the new Mapmakers series.
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New art by Winston Chmielinski
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Winston Chmielinski has the innate ability to balance his faintly morose subjects with an extensive palette of cheerful and rosy colors. I’m particularly fascinated with his “portraits” and the way he can masterfully render only an eye or an ear and yet leave the rest as foggy patches of flowery hues that sometimes run down the canvas. How did he know my mind would fill in the rest?
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Viktor Timofeev’s gravity-defying architecture
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Viktor Timofeev is currently one of the most prolific young artists I’m aware of. Since discovering his work several years ago, I’ve kept a close eye on the countless dynamic and intriguing works pumped out from his conveyor-belt-style work ethic. From deconstructed-Q*bert-landscapes to type-gone-wild to gravity-defying-architecture-in-bondage, this guy can’t seem to hit the brakes. Nor should he.
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Baseball card art by Christopher Gideon
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In my ongoing series, entitled Eurythmy of the Game, choice elements from dozens of vintage baseball cards from my own childhood collection are meticulously culled and reconfigured. The resulting geometric arrangements speak a certain language which playfully undermines the masculinity of pro sports, more specifically, major league baseball.
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Pyramids: new music video by Frank Ocean (NSFW)
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For the past several weeks, I’ve been listening to Frank Ocean’s new album, Orange Channel, on repeat. As far as I can tell, his latest video for Pyramids is the closest you’ll ever get to being on mushrooms, without actually being on mushrooms. Not that I know what it’s like, of course.
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