Category Archives: Art

Terry Richardson Directs Pirelli Calendar

By Chungaiz | Published: January 29, 2010

Oh my. Terry Richardson’s directed and photographed the new Pirelli Calendar. Thank you High Snobiety for publishing all the pics. Featuring Miranda Kerr, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Ana Beatriz Barros, Lily Cole, Daisy Lowe, Marloes Horst, Abbey Lee, Catherine McNeil, Eniko Mihalik, Georgina Stojiljkovic, and Gracie Carvalho. Biographies of all those involved are available at Pirelli. Backstage videos here [...]

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felix’s machines

By Andy | Published: December 15, 2009

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Sweat Shoppe – “Painting” Video Wall Projections

By Chungaiz | Published: December 10, 2009

Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw, the two masked artists from New York City in the video below, are the minds behind a new multimedia performance collaboration called Sweat Shoppe. Their aim? The intersection of art, music and technology to create something that has an element of pop accessibility. Sweat Shoppe recently showed our friends at [...]

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Battle of Branchage

By Andy | Published: December 3, 2009

pretty pretty good. Battle of Branchage from seeper on Vimeo. Interactive architecture, light mapping, and digital technology. more of their work on the seeper website

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Berlin Wall – 20 years on

By Kai | Published: November 10, 2009

20 years since the wall came down – nice photoessay from the Boston Globe - their photoblog “The Big Picture” is well worth subscribing to (we mentioned it before, twice)

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we live in public – josh harris

By Andy | Published: November 8, 2009

On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect it is having on our society as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of”, visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner (“DIG!”), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade, to [...]

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Magic Realism

By Chungaiz | Published: October 9, 2009

Magic Realism “Magic realism, or magical realism, is an artistic genre in which magical elements or illogical scenarios appear in an otherwise realistic or even “normal” setting. It has been widely used in relation to literature, art, and film.” It’s also a project curated by Yes Studio. It’s brilliant. I think they should add Chuck Anderson’s “No [...]

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Travel Italia

By Chungaiz | Published: September 9, 2009

The Golden Age of Italian Travel Posters is beautiful. Organised by region, featuring 170 posters from 1920-60, as commissioned by the Italian State Tourism Board and Italian State Railways. Click here to look inside

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Huxley, Not Orwell, Was Right About “The Future” (i.e: Today)

By Chungaiz | Published: August 18, 2009

Related to the notes I’m keeping on The Future Of Media, here’s a great cartoon strip by Stuart McMillan based on words by Neil Postman – as featured in the book “Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness”. I reckon Postman’s book would go nicely on your reading list with “Everything Bad Is [...]