lost at e minor…
A big warm thanks to lost at e minor for posting a bit about my work on their illustration pages. They have a very thorough website that reports on everything from film to food, without missing anything in between…plus a slew of guest writers eager to share their newest interest come obsession. It’s sharp as razors so won’t you have a look?
Enter the dragon…
I saw the trailer for this film a little while back but didn’t post anything about it, but in my daily trawling it came up again today. Reading it as some cosmic omen (or simply a trailer link on the apple website) I thought it might be a good idea to share the good news. So let me just a add a little link for you here and let the rest happen naturally. Let it be said, I am very much looking forward to seeing this one. And a short p.s. this clip contains loud music and scenes of a suggestive nature…please be considerate of others in your workplace…
back to work…
I’m getting back to the studio today, after almost a month’s absence. With so many things going on outside of work and the studio in the last few months it just got less and less feasible to dedicate quality time to art and the news pages. Apologies. But check back soon over the next week or so as I get the generators moving again and everything back in order! It’s gonna be great!
Maya Hayuk…
Lifted shamelessly from a Fecal Face interview with Brooklyn based artist Maya Hayuk. Call it the conservation of energy for other challenging Sunday tasks and duties.
“Gallery 16 is pleased to welcome Brooklyn based artist Maya Hayuk to her first solo show with the gallery. Hayuk is a prolific muralist, photographer, printmaker, painter, illustrator, and documentarian. Her fearless attraction to wild color, a genre-bending mix of graphic design, graffiti, illustration, and abstraction has earned her a wide international audience. Hayuk’s work overflows with a uniquely cultivated handmade aesthetic . Part punk, part psychedelic explosion, her paintings, prints and murals display unbridled enthusiasm. Her monograph “Just Good Vibes” describes the work “Multicolored diamonds morph into rainbows on public walls, day glow birds and flowers sprout extra appendages appearing both beautiful and menacing, and everything eschews logic while making perfect aesthetic sense. Hayuk’s bold images of colorful beauty are at once visceral, ethereal, humorous and political.”
graphics with an ‘x’…
All kudos to changethethought for picking up the website of Kristian Hammerstad. He has a beautiful comic influenced style harking back to the 80’s skate designs from the powell/bones era of zombie/metal/horror inspired graphics. All the images on his website are unique and bold and couple perfectly with his particularly dry sense of humour. Worth a good long look.
no comment needed…
Cause it’s just monkey genius, and it makes me shiver (in awe and with a equal amount of jealousy). Check out AJ Fosik’s flickr (and his rad collection of beer sweaters).
temples in lisbon…
Maybe it’s a little too early in the morning for artists statements and overviews, but non-the-less, the sculptural work of Brooklyn based artist Faile was just what I needed to see at 8:42am. I can’t say a hell of a lot about it, cause it’s just so damn remarkable, but it’s safe to say it has scale, guts, and it’s made an impact. Now for coffee.
Yoshitaka Amano…
If you ever played the FF series of Nintendo games back in the era of NES, you probably saw some of Yoshitaka Amano’s beautiful work on the box, cartridge or inside the instruction booklet. In my case I was a little young at the time and didn’t have the patience for anything more challenging than Duck Hunt…even Zelda was a stretch. If you are interested in delving into some video game history and a brief personal history, head west to his wiki entry, if you want to look at some more examples of his work, head south to the BOOOM entry.
inky…
Laura Barnard has a really strong inky thing going on in her portfolio of landscapes and railway lines. I especially like the image above of Bristol. It rightly won an award, and you can learn a bit more about her work and her other experimental stuff on her blog.
it’s a sustained kind of something…
It is kind of shocking, and deflating in the same degree, to find someone else has been down the same path you thought you were beating furiously at alone. But on the other-hand, it can be comforting to know that there are other people out there, totally insane, and obsessed with the minute (and for the most part totally overlooked) little details that bring some kind of satisfaction when they blur into one spasm inducing image at a distance. It’s awesome and so is John Borowicz’s work. Check out the rest of his ‘SPRAWLING CONGLOMERATES’ on his blog or butdoesitfloat?