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Big shout out to Jason Freeny at Moist Production, who's created some great images and hand customised vinyl toys showing the anatomy of various well knowns. From Mr Potato Head and a Lego man, through to Kidrobot's Dunny, and others like Qee, Domo and more. You can buy some of his stuff on his site and, if you're quick, a hand customised Nemo is up for grabs on Ebay until 21st September...
Wonderfully crafted and intricate sculptures, for want of a better word, are the product of Mike Rea. I love this piece, titled "A prosthetic Suit For Stephen Hawkin w/ Japanese Steel" from 2007, which is massive and actually accommodates a real size human. His website is a bit small and faffy, but well worth a look around. I'm totally in awe of his work.
Known the world over for his skills as a tattoo artist, Scott Campbell is showing artwork in Europe for the first time. This is a stack of a hundred $1 bills with layers carved away to create an image. His show opens at Lazarides on Greek Street today.
Haven't managed to find out who this is by, but it's pretty striking when you turn the corner. It's in the area of Saint Sulpice, I think on Rue Bonapart, if anyone's there and wants to see it.
The Catacombs were closed (again) due to vandalism, but determined to see something macabre went to the most visited cemetery in Paris. Love these flying skulls and the fact everyone else is too busy trying to find the last resting places of Jim Morrison, Chopin, Edith Piaf etc. to even notice the little things like this. It's a bizarrely peaceful and calm place, not at all grim and scary. But it was a sunny day.
8th March saw the end of the Pulse Art Fair in New York, where the Glue Society had their latest art on show - a role reversal where there's a very small man and a larger than life pigeon. The rest, I'm sure, you can guess.
Martin Creed - Work No. 786 - 2007 - 1/4" Plywood. I love art and I'm not a prude about it. I kind of buy into the whole 'it's art cos I say it's art' attitude. And I love plywood as much as the next man. No. Actually, more than the next man. In fact I have a slightly unhealthy obsession with the stuff. I used 1/4" ply (6mm to us) to cover my kitchen cupboards at my last place, with two sheets of 18 mil. ply laminated together to make the work surface. I've generally used 18 mil. ply (Latvian Birch Ply, to be precise) for more things than I maybe should have. The first birthday gift I gave my girlfriend 6 years ago, for her 21st birthday no less, was presented in a small box I made from 18 mil. ply. Now that had a snug fitting lid (she still has it today and I'm still in awe of it. And she's now my fiancé so something went right). With all that in mind, here's 's "Work No. 786". Is it art, or just a stack of ply. I'll leave you to scream in disagreement at one another, but also check "Work No. 571" from 2006, which is another stack of plywood (Martin's made a few). Or maybe "Work No. 600" from the same year, which looks terribly much like he's made a film of a girl having a poo.
It's from ages ago, but I spotted this entry to Sculpture by the Sea by The Glue Society. It's from back in 2006 but I'm not ageist and besides, I love it. It's called "Hot with a Chance of a Late Storm" and is made from polystyrene and urethane and it's a fair size. Check out their website, they have the equally brilliant acts of God captured by satellite imagery which have to be seen.
Just found these guys, Bompas & Parr, who are Sam Bompas & Harry Parr and are jellymongers - curating jelly events and designing bespoke jelly moulds and other wobbly activities for clients like Habitat, Innocent and the V&A. And they even do glow in the dark jelly. There's not many things I see and really want to do, but this is definitely one of them.
I generally don't seem to find time to follow architecture per se but, while working for a client in London, I stumbled upon this by pure accident while strolling through Bedford Square on my way to the British Museum. I took a few snaps, investigated when I got back to HQ and, for those like me who didn't know, it's the Architectural Association Summer Pavilion. This year it was the Swoosh Pavilion, taken from design to completion by the 2nd and 3rd year students to coincide with the London Festival of Architecture. It joins the [c]space Pavilion and both, for my mind, are an amazing feat and my quick happy snaps do them nowhere near enough justice.
Big shout out to Jason Freeny at Moist Production, who's created some great images and hand customised vinyl toys showing the anatomy of various well knowns. From Mr Potato Head and a Lego man, through to Kidrobot's Dunny, and others like Qee, Domo and more. You can buy some of his stuff on his site and, if you're quick, a hand customised Nemo is up for grabs on Ebay until 21st September...
Wonderfully crafted and intricate sculptures, for want of a better word, are the product of Mike Rea. I love this piece, titled "A prosthetic Suit For Stephen Hawkin w/ Japanese Steel" from 2007, which is massive and actually accommodates a real size human. His website is a bit small and faffy, but well worth a look around. I'm totally in awe of his work.
Known the world over for his skills as a tattoo artist, Scott Campbell is showing artwork in Europe for the first time. This is a stack of a hundred $1 bills with layers carved away to create an image. His show opens at Lazarides on Greek Street today.
Haven't managed to find out who this is by, but it's pretty striking when you turn the corner. It's in the area of Saint Sulpice, I think on Rue Bonapart, if anyone's there and wants to see it.
The Catacombs were closed (again) due to vandalism, but determined to see something macabre went to the most visited cemetery in Paris. Love these flying skulls and the fact everyone else is too busy trying to find the last resting places of Jim Morrison, Chopin, Edith Piaf etc. to even notice the little things like this. It's a bizarrely peaceful and calm place, not at all grim and scary. But it was a sunny day.
8th March saw the end of the Pulse Art Fair in New York, where the Glue Society had their latest art on show - a role reversal where there's a very small man and a larger than life pigeon. The rest, I'm sure, you can guess.
Martin Creed - Work No. 786 - 2007 - 1/4" Plywood. I love art and I'm not a prude about it. I kind of buy into the whole 'it's art cos I say it's art' attitude. And I love plywood as much as the next man. No. Actually, more than the next man. In fact I have a slightly unhealthy obsession with the stuff. I used 1/4" ply (6mm to us) to cover my kitchen cupboards at my last place, with two sheets of 18 mil. ply laminated together to make the work surface. I've generally used 18 mil. ply (Latvian Birch Ply, to be precise) for more things than I maybe should have. The first birthday gift I gave my girlfriend 6 years ago, for her 21st birthday no less, was presented in a small box I made from 18 mil. ply. Now that had a snug fitting lid (she still has it today and I'm still in awe of it. And she's now my fiancé so something went right). With all that in mind, here's 's "Work No. 786". Is it art, or just a stack of ply. I'll leave you to scream in disagreement at one another, but also check "Work No. 571" from 2006, which is another stack of plywood (Martin's made a few). Or maybe "Work No. 600" from the same year, which looks terribly much like he's made a film of a girl having a poo.
