(The work of Masako Miki,as seen on The Jealous Curator)
Happy February!
Before I move on to Web Finds, I wanted to take a quick moment to thank you, yes you.
January was a huge traffic milestone for me on FLUX. which makes me so excited. I’m not too concerned with numbers, but for my fledgling FLUX., a local grown art site that isn’t exactly a platform for debuting viral videos to drive visitors, and went from nothing to something within a matter of months, it makes me so so happy to see that you guys are obviously sharing this site with your friends and family.
That is all I could ever ask for, and will continue to uphold my end of the bargain in sharing things with you.
This is a big milestone for me, personally. So, thank you—you’re the best. ♥
(The work of Motohiko Odani)
“Colossal was launched in August 2010 primarily as an art and design blog born from my friends’ request that I stop bombarding them with every random thing I find online. Now, I post about it here first and bombard them with links back to Colossal. It works out great. Frequently I post things that have nothing to do with art or design, but trust me, it’s for your own good.”
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Tuesdays with Kubrick.
(via thisisn’thappiness)
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Noticed the work of Nathan Sawaya on dog-milk the other day, he was commissioned to make a replica of a Vogue.com employee’s beloved canine. His other LEGO work isn’t too shabby either. I have pretty klutzy friends, so I don’t think miss Mae will be getting the brick treatment any time soon.
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Wendy Gold creates custom globes called ImagineNations by collaging interesting designs on them. I never thought about globes as a potential canvas before but think it’s a great idea! With all this snow I think its time for me to get out some glue, paint, magazines and create something that will collect dust and take up serious shelf space.
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(The work of Masako Miki)
“A collection of artwork that inspires and depresses me. ‘There is one moment, in the first few seconds, when you look at a piece of art and know that you love it. It’s the moment when, if you’re an artist yourself, you look at it and feel a rush of uplifting inspiration… and total soul-crushing jealousy all at the same time. It’s when you walk away thinking, “Damn, I wish I thought of that.”’
The Jealous Curator is one of my newest Twitter pals. Are WE Twitter pals?
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Pretty insane what she has done with the place. “Photo Gallery: Sandra Foster turned a Catskills hunting cabin into the romantic Victorian cottage she had always wanted, using vintage columns, flooring and wavy glass windows, and doing the carpentry herself.”
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“The only way a kid can survive life in a small rural town is through imagination. That’s what I used to think. Many years later I moved to a big city, grew up, studied art, and graduated. I can now see that an imagination is essential no matter what the scenery is and no matter at what age.
Currently practicing as an artist in Toronto, I create images that question and entertain the discussion of connectivity. Within the stage that is my canvas, I present animals and objects in bizarre manners, placing them in scenes that oppose practicality. My paintings become a space in which nature becomes unnatural, bordering surreal.”
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“Mjölk is a lifestyle store; we look to our everyday life to find inspiration for the products we carry. Our smaller products can be used without thought, or quietly admired. In our eyes just the simple satisfaction of functionality and durability, is all you need for a successful product, but when you can derive beauty from the uttermost simplistic tools, then you have something special.
We specialize in Scandinavia because the north enthralls us. Soft, quiet snowy forests and streets in the winter. Glittery, blinding sunlight on colourful buildings during the summer. Fika (coffee break) at the Konditori, with a kaffe and Napoleon pastry in hand. Trolling the Helsinki open-air markets for treasures. Stalking Arne Jacobsen at the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel. Shopping at Illums Bolighus. S.O.S. (Smör Ost och Sill = butter, cheese and herring). Swedish style. Grass roofs. Hot dog streetside snacks. And of course, the Arctic. These are a few of our favourite things.”
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This is Twin : Futuretwin
I love this video of graffiti artist Futuretwin’s thoughts on being part of a city.
“I see creating beauty as so multi level, it’s like yeah the artist can paint this painting and it can be beautiful but if he isn’t taking care of his kids, or if he is neglecting his wife or being a dick to his neighbor, I feel like he isn’t creating beauty. I feel like creating beauty is a spherical thing, it’s the whole process involved and the whole life involved around the whole object, it’s a more wholistic view of creating beauty in that it isn’t tied into an object but its tied into a life and a legacy behind the object.”
Wow.
He has so much respect for the urban landscape and eloquently puts words to thoughts/questions I have had floating in my head for quite some time.
(via Wooster Collective)
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This looks amazing. I am a sucker for Focus Features.
“From writer/director Mike Mills comes a comedy/drama about how deeply funny and transformative life can be, even at its most serious moments. -Beginners- imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Golden Globe Award nominee Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna (Melanie Laurent of Inglourious Basterds) only months after his father Hal (Academy Award nominee Christopher Plummer) has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who – following 44 years of marriage – came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavors to love Anna with all the bravery, humor, and hope that his father taught him.”
Check out the complete trailer here.
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“Looking at the faces of Takahiro Kimura, you have the feeling that you’re back where you started, looking again, for the second or third time. That in a way you’ve been beside Takahiro all along, as he’s found the photos in magazines, randomly, and then torn their faces into pieces, reconfiguring them before painting the resulting image. For such is your wonder, your sense of sheer discovery, grounded in the deepest familiarity. Not of form necessarily, but of mood, expression and, most importantly, emotion. Takahiro has deconstructed and reconstructed the human face as if with panes of glass, or, more, planes of emotion, applied with the care and resonance of someone looking not at his model…but at you the viewer. Discovering what both you and he – what we all – conceal behind our constructed layers. Thus the undeniable mastery of Takahiro’s medium, while rooted in color, line, texture, is equally his deft wielding of the mirror “(write up via postroadmag)
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Stay warm ♥
