Papermation, Jen Stark, 2005, 38 sec, with music by Eddie Alonso.
Papermation (2005) is an impressive stop-motion animation by Jen Stark, a Miami-based artist and animator, whose work channels phantasmagoric tropes of the extrasensory, with motifs of psychedelia, the rainbow spectrum, geometric forms, and other extrasensory phantasms that defy classification.
Jen made Papermation entirely from paper, hence the title Papermation. Jen is prolific with paper, using it in her animations, sculptures, and of course, her drawings. Her work has colorful zest, and her work explores the extrasensory in a playful manner. These days, most kaleidoscopic animations are rendered synthetically; however, the tactility of Stark’s approach carries organic warmth; the warmth endures its digital conversion. Charming.
by Tuan Andrew Nguyen & Superflex,2009, 20 min, HD Video
From the Superflex vimeo page:Flooded McDonald’s is a film work in which a convincing life-size replica of the interior of a McDonald’s burger bar, without any customers or staff present, gradually floods with water. Furniture is lifted up by the water, trays of food and drinks start to float around, electrics short circuit and eventually the space becomes completely submerged.
Flooded McDonald’s is a film by Superflex. Produced by Propeller Group (Ho Chi Minh City) in association with Matching Studio (Bangkok) and co-produced by the South London Gallery, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark) and Oriel Mostyn Gallery (Wales) with generous support from the Danish Film Institute.
Julien Ducourthial studied audiovisual media at the Esba, France, graduating from there in 2006. The project Ilbm.info | Interleaved Bitmap | in reference to the amiga computer picture format, was created with artworks inspired by low-tech, graffiti & abstraction.
Here’s a revised version of some artwork I designed for fun. Back in November, I submitted this to Adbusters Magazine for their end-of-the-year issue, Big Ideas of 2010. Once the magazine hit the news stands, I visited the Barnes and Noble on State St. to see if my design made the cut; It didn’t make the cut, but I was fine with it, because after skimming the mag, I realized that the design didn’t fit the theme of the issue anyway.
Reissue poster for Jean Luc Godard’s Pierrot Le Fou(1965)
We continue to plow our way through the best, and worst, film posters of the last 10 years. Today, on this good Tuesday, we’ll take a close look at 10 more great works.
The above poster is a lovely re-release of Jean-Lu Godard’s 1965 road film Pierrot Le Fou.
Marian Bantjes is a graphic designer from O(!) CANADA(!), well, from the prairies of Saskatchewan, to be accurate. I found out about Marian from Michael Bierut’s name dropping of her in this article published by Azure Magazine. I can’t say I know much about her, but I can say that I like her work.
Marian on herself:
I have a very big virtual life. In fact, most of my life these days seems to exist in the ether of the internet. I’m not that happy about this, but … I live on an island on the west coast of Canada, so, uh …
I do not know if I am lazy or driven. A little of both. While I tend to work every day, from morning to night (I’m frequently working past midnight), my days are relatively stress free. In the summer I tend to take a lot of breaks and sit in the sun or go for a walk. I spend a lot of time thinking. Just staring into space and thinking. Does this count as work? Sometimes. When I wake up in the morning with the perfect solution to a given problem, have I been working while I was sleeping? Perhaps.
Petra Cortright, art-gem of the net, posts a lot of videos of herself dancing, and I admire how she posted this video of herself performing a potboiler of a dance to Kraftwerk’s “The Model.”
In the silent abstract piece of video-art (above) we observe Petra as she juggles das football in das hot-pink onezee. A synthetic pink cloud hovers. This is seductive.
We love Deborah Stratman. 1) She’s from Chicago. 2) She experiments with film and other forms of media/technology. The following is a brilliant concept: Continue Reading »
Yes, there is a website for just about everything, and yes, there is an entire site dedicated to posters found on the streets of Oslo, Sweden, and yes, Nordic/European graphic design always is ten kilometers ahead of American design.
People snap photos of posters they find on the streets of Oslo and submit them to http://osloposters.net/. Considering the prevalence of graphic design in Oslo, a city of 580,229 people, it seems designers would be bumping into each other as they hung their posters, and bumping into pedestrians as they photographed the posters. Below are more posters. Posters
Pixelgarten: Oceanworld is a series of large-format illustrations created in 2001. The drawings were inspired by the architecture of and activity in American amusement parks. The construction of the pictures plays with the observer: from a distance only geometric areas of color can be seen; the actual content is revealed by taking a closer look.
Yes, you heard right — artist/musician Bjorn Copeland of Black Dice has designed a $70 art scarf that was made in Italy. The scarf measures 35” x 35”, is 100% silk, and is being sold at United Bamboo. Fall fashion season 2009.
Some readers may find Anton Kannemeyer’s Congo Parody offensive. You have been warned.
Anton Kannemeyer Biography
Kannemeyer completed an MFA at the University of Stellenbosch in 1997 and lectured there periodically until recently. Together with Conrad Botes, he has been at the forefront of introducing a comic and satirical aesthetic to South African art. He and Botes were the co-founders and are the ongoing co-editors of the Bitterkomix series, which started in 1992 and has become revered for its subversive stance and dark humour. He held his first New York solo exhibition, The Haunt of Fears, at Jack Shainman Gallery in April-May 2008.
Dot matrix printers originated in the 1970s and gained popularity in the ’80s through the early to mid ’90s. The printers are known for being exceptionally slow, noisy, and for printing with limited color performance and quality.
Nowadays, dot matrix printers are still around, however the printer is considered obsolete for the home computer user and is mostly used in lo-tech devices such as a receipt printer or an ATM. Some individuals find other uses for the dot matrix printer — e.g, making rhythmic and pulsating music. Meet Sue Harding.
The Exquisite Corpse Gallery in Kalamazoo is graciously hosting an exhibition of some of my poster work.
On display for the month of September will be the entire series of silkscreened posters from the Frostic Alternative Film Series that you may or may not already be familiar with.
There will an opening reception on Friday Sept. 11th (art hop!) from 5 till 9 P.M. So, mark your calendars.
Originally posted on Art 21. This video is excerpted from a Season 5 episode of Art 21, titled Fantasy.
“Fantasy” presents four artists — Cao Fei, Mary Heilmann, Jeff Koons, and Florian Maier-Aichen — whose hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime works transport us to imaginary worlds and altered states of consciousness.
Jeff Koons plucks images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure. His contextual sleight-of-hand, which transforms banal items into sumptuous icons, takes on a psychological dimension through dramatic shifts in scale, spectacularly engineered surfaces, and subliminal allegories of animals, humans, and anthropomorphized objects.
Season 5 of Art 21 premieres on PBS Wednesday, October 14, 2009 @ 10pm (est).
Susan Pack’s Film Posters of the Avant-Garde is a collection of prints from the Soviet Union from the 1920’s and 1930’s, a period characterized by high creativity, before the Stalin regime made Soviet Realism its official art doctrine. I have yet to look through the book though I plan to in the future after looking at *’s scans of these few select posters. Continue Reading »
Ascii artwork is a retro form of graphic design that originated in the early ’80s. It’s no surprise that computers from the early ’80s were severely limited (think black backgrounds with fluorescent green text); the limitations of these early computers sometimes required the use of text characters to represent images. Computer printers of the early ’80s were also limited; ascii art was Continue Reading »
