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We Were Promised Jetpacks – It’s Thunder And It’s Lightning
We Were Promised Jetpacks is an indie rock band from Edinburgh, Scotland, comprising Adam Thompson (vocals, guitar), Michael Palmer (guitar), Sean Smith (bass) and Darren Lackie (drums). The band’s debut album, These Four Walls, was released on 15 June 2009 on Fat Cat Records. I recently just came across them while I was digging through [...]
Sufjan Stevens – Vesuvius
The Age of Adz (pronounced odds) is Sufjan Stevens’ first full-length collection of original songs since 2005’s civic pop opus Illinois. This new album is probably his most unusual, first, for its lack of conceptual underpinnings, and second, for its preoccupation with Sufjan himself. Vesuvius off of The Age of Adz pulls you in right [...]
Lemolo
Lemolo followed me on twitter this last week and I noticed they were local to Seattle so I decided to check them out. When I first hit play I was honestly skeptical when a extremely simplistic electronic beat started. In hopes that it would get better I waited to see if it would build but [...]
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Seoul-based artist Choi Xooang
Choi Xooang has a amazing capability to pull you into his work. Mixing amazing technique and utter blunt shocking images Choi is climbing my list of favorite artists. Half of his outlandish pieces are not done just for shock value but to bring awareness to human right abuses in Korea. Also, if you like this, [...]
Read MoreiPhone Photography
After writing about the WVIL Concept, a detachable SLR camera lens, I started to the question how much longer will quick shot and SLR cameras be around? The mobile camera has advanced so much over the years, you can now download, edit and distribute your pics to the web with a click of a button. [...]
Read MoreGabriel Dawe, Plexus 5
Last week I wrote a post on Anne Lindberge, glowing string installation and it seems to be growing trend. Gabriel Dawe just finished his installation at the Pump Project Art Complex as part of the Texas Biennial in Austin. I love the overall shape and how the installation changes depending on the angles you look [...]
Read MoreLucas Simões, Abstract Portraits
Lucas Simões a artist/architect out of São Paulo, Brazil uses a unique technique to create abstract portraits. Lucas uses ten different layers and then cuts out designs for each layer resulting in the amazing photos below. (via This is colossal)
Read MoreAnne Lindberge, Glowing String
When I was little and went camping with family and friends we use to take yarn and tie it between trees and call it a bear trap. This is basically the same concept but 100% better and smarter. This installation by Anne Lindberg shown at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas is eye candy. [...]
Read MoreMichael Beitz, Sculpting with Subverting Familiar Forms
Sculptor Michael Beitz is sculpting master that takes subverting familiar forms of anatomy, nature, and even furniture and shapes them in thought provoking shapes. Beitz is currently at the John Michael Kohler Art Center Residency in Kohler, Wisconsin and will join artist Larry Bob Phillips in July for a project at Recess Space in New [...]
Read MoreSwinging the Forgotten Art of Fun
This installation by artist Paolo Salvagione at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA. encourages young and old to remember the simplicity of having fun. What other way to do that by creating and enormous rope swings installed 5-on-5 grid in an old gymnasium. How many people in this digitial day in age [...]
Read MoreFloating People, Where did Their Seats Go?
Photographs of people floating is nothing new but Jens Sage has taken a unique perspective on people floating that I think you’ll find interesting. My favorite pic is the last one where there should be a bike, that the guy is riding. For more of Jens Sage photographs take a look at his flickr account. [...]
Read MoreHave you seen my stapler?
Fist time I saw one of these I thought it was a tilt shift shot of NYC. To say the least I was way off, an up an coming trend in the art scene is growing more popular as artists use staples to create some pretty amazing projects. The following projects are from Roger Albani, [...]
Read Morethe bang bang club
Al Farrow a San Francisco artist takes a different approach when he puts his hands on weapons. Meighan over at My Love for You just stopped by Catherine Clark Gallery where he’s showing some of his latest work, and captured some awesome shots. Go through and take a peak of what Al is creating and [...]
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