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Portals in Photos
Check out this innovative use of photographs by Scott Hazard found at Colossal. Raleigh-based artist and landscape architect Scott Hazard uses carefully layered photographs to create delicately torn concentric shapes symbolizing plumes of smoke, clouds, and mysterious portals in walls. Hazard has also used adaptations of the same technique to create a number of fantastic typographic works he calls Text ...
Building Bikes with People
Check out this video from SwissMiss... Watch the Video: The Inverted Bike Shop "This whole buisiness is built around building bikes with people...the client will come in and we will actually build the bike with them." "For me, there's this reaction to wanting to kind of connect with humanity again, and you can't hammer a nail over the internet, you can't be a butcher over the internet...
Swarming Forces in Nature
A highlight from over at GOOD: In Thomas Jackson's "Emergent Behaviors" photo series, flying cheese balls and hovering plastic cups replace nature's swarming forces. The Brooklyn-based Jackson, who shot his ongoing series in New York City and upstate New York, was inspired by "self-organizing emergent systems in nature," like termite mounds, locusts, and birds. Jackson has always been intrigued by ...
Made by Hand Series
Made by Hand was created out of the belief that the things we collect, consume, use, and share are part of who we are as individuals. For example, the food that we eat says something about each of us, as do the tools we use and the chairs we rest on. Objects that surround the space we dwell in tell stories, and not just about us. Where did they come from? Who made them? How were they made? Each film aims...
Purging in Austin
Check out this article from Colossal on a recent installation by Ink Tank, an arts collective in Austin, Texas. "A few days ago I happened upon a rather unique art project called Last New Year in theAustin American Statesman, showing photos of a dilapidated home recently transformed with a number of installations by a small arts collective called Ink Tank. The premise for the project was fascinating: the ensembl...
Musicians take to the Skies
For those musicians that are frequent flyers, exciting news from Congress-- published at Blue Grass Today. In what is being hailed as a victory by traveling musicians in the US, the latest reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration has codified provisions that create a uniform national standard for musical instruments being treated as carry-on luggage. This legislation establishes that any instrument...
Oakland's New 'Food Gallery'
Check out this new article from GOOD's Lifestyle on a new type of restaurant in Oakland that is creating opportunities for up-and-coming chefs... Guest Chef is the brainchild of Bay Area real estate developer Scott Cameron. Simply put, it is a permanent space without permanent cooks...So the 20-seat restaurant changes hands every two weeks as a new emerging or established chef takes over with access to a f...
Facebook's Got Soul?
Check out this post by E.B. Boyd at The Morning News about Facebook's new 'Timeline' feature. From the post: Facebook’s Timeline (the new version of the user profile which is slated to be released to the general public “in the next few weeks”) wanted to do something more: It wanted to convey a feeling. Two feelings actually: The feeling of telling someone your life story, and the feeling of me...
