As a kid, I was fascinated by the patterns (and occasional lingering dot) that different TVs would produce in the instant when they were switched off. Stephan Tillmans has a series of photographs that capture that moment. I’m also just old enough to remember when the networks went off the air and into a test pattern at the end of the night, starting up early the next morning with the Star Spangled Banner…
More info and clips at Quayola.
If there was one person I wish would tag my house (it happens in Venice) it’s Futura. (via Dangerous Minds)
My brother has been sending me photos of City Gardens, a venue in southern New Jersey where we witnessed all manner of punk/hardcore/ska bands in the late 80s/early 90s. Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, Leeway, NY Citizens…all of the photos are essentially a scrum of unrelenting energy, almost violent save for the few smiling faces in the crowd. Dan Witz faithfully captures a flash of these moments – in oils – in his series “Mosh Pits”, where humanity crushes together into a fluid and dynamic expulsion of energy with nowhere to go.
Kevin Cyr conceptualized and ultimately built this self-powered Winnebago. The whole of his work – particularly the Van paintings – is amazing.
If you grew up in the 80′s and spent time in the school cafeteria sketching typography, logos and stuff you just thought looked “cool”, chances are you were influenced in some way by the cholo/asian calligraphy hybrids that Chaz Bojórquez was pioneering. For a kid growing up on the other side of the country, his work in part epitomized the magical and crazy place that we pictured Southern California to be. He’s got a book out now.
Amazing sculptural work from Antony Gormley.
Great ocean + surf inspired work from Julie Goldstein.
This dude made the greatest Halloween costume ever – a low poly-count version of himself. Here’s the technical details, and a flickr set.
Lots more here.
from Wooster Collective
Really nice work from Germany. I don’t know why, but his hand-drawn typography makes me laugh in a good way. There’s also pandas with harmoniums and fire-breathing giraffes if you look closely enough.
Built using Scriptographer, a scripting plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. Jonathan Puckey is part of the team behind Scriptographer, and this particular plug-in is still in development.
Lui Ferreyra evokes Chuck Close, Egon Schiele and a touch of the digital in his figurative and landscape work that he refers to as “fragmentism”. Most of the works are at least 48″ on the short side and must be spectacular to look at in person.
Mike Sinclair has a great portfolio, but his personal work (as above) is truly killer.
Satellite views of subdivisions illustrated by hand by Ross Racine.
“Babel Tales” appear to be composed scenes with a cast of actors, but are rather carefully composited photographs created from multiple candid exposures of New York City street corners. The result is a discovery of order amongst the chaos of the city, even if it takes weeks of photographs to distill that particular order. Just as with multiple exposures a composite could be made to remove humanity from these scenes, these images bring it to the forefront with the usage of compressed time. The whole series is fantastic.
Peter Funch
Represented in the US by Levine/Leavitt
I’ve been experimenting lately with fluid and smoke simulations in Softimage. The latest version of the software uses a tree-based system called ICE that allows the creation of very complex particle and deformation effects using a graphic interface.
The problem with creating fluids or smoke using particles is that it takes a tremendous amount of particles to create a realistic effect – into the millions – which results in an extra-ordinary amount of point data as well as requiring a fair amount of memory to simply render a single image. Computers keep getting faster, and we keep finding ways to push them to an absolute limit…
Considering this, it makes this spot for Audi ever more impressive. Design and effects are by INFECTED, for the agency kempertrautmann/Hamberg.
Quite simply, this is insane + beautiful stuff. Additionally, the making of video is worth your time as well.
