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Mark Menjivar: You Are What You Eat
Posted by amyt Aug, 03, 2009 @ 5:42 pmFrom Design Boom: photographer mark menjivar has created a series of portraits looking inside people’s fridges. the series was completed of a span of three years in homes all over the united states. each photograph is shot ‘as is’ and represents a wide swath of people. the series began when menjivar traveled across the us and began to ‘think about the foods we consume and the effects they have on us as individuals and communities’. this led him to ask people to photograph their fridge. the series is very revealing as each piece is accompanied by a short description of its owner.
owner of defunct amusement park | alpine, TX | 1-person household | former WWII prisoner of war | 2007
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Trailer for 9.99, Animated Stop Motion
Posted by amyt Jul, 01, 2009 @ 2:13 pmBased on the short stories of Etgar Keret, and adapted for the screen by Etgar Keret and Director Tatia Rosenthal, $9.99 is a stop motion animated feature which offers slightly less than $10 worth about the meaning of life.
Have you ever wondered What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist? The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You’ll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms your reason for being! The booklet, printed on the finest paper, contains illuminating, exquisite colour pictures, and could be yours for a mere $9.99. This is the ad that alters the life of the unemployed 28 year old who still lives at home, Dave Peck. In his …
Art Fry – Invention in Action
Posted by amyt Apr, 28, 2009 @ 10:09 amA while back, the artists/experimentalists at EepyBird put together a really amazing and now infamous video using hundreds of Post-Its.
Now, Vimeo user/photographer Ironic Sans/David Friedman, in his new project where he interviews various inventors, has met with Post-Its inventor Art Fry, and filmed Fry watching the EepyBird experiment. It’s really cool to watch him see his own work, originally invented for better productivity, put to such creative use.
Post-it Note inventor watches Sticky Note Experiments from Ironic Sans on Vimeo.
Check out Friedman’s inventor project here.
Acura Artistry
Posted by amyt Mar, 26, 2009 @ 12:53 pmBack in January, Acura released one of the coolest car commercials, ever. Yes, even better than this one.
Yea so anyway, here’s the Acura ad —
– and now Booooooom! has posted a video of the Collision Films “Wall Art” commercial in the making, with street artists David Whittle and Henry “Sainty” St. Leger. The two artists are making a name for themselves in Bristol, England.
Check out David Whittle’s lovely children’s illustrations, and Henry St. Leger’s impressive showreel below.
Converse Concept
Posted by amyt Mar, 16, 2009 @ 2:17 pmTwo designers, Andy J. Miller of Koma Design, and Jeffrey Bowman of Mr. Bowlegs, teamed up to draw with black markers on the Converse storefront windows and on the sneakers themselves, in Glasgow, UK.
converse illustrators @ Office Glasgow and London from Orange Dot on Vimeo.
Miller and Bowman’s work comes together almost seamlessly with their similar drawing styles that focus on simple design and line-based, cartoonish concepts. They also collaborate together on a bi-monthly zine called “The Wizard’s Hat” which celebrates the art of illustration. Check out the blog here, and Bowman’s flickr here. Their designs remind me of the very cool ‘08 Converse work from Jeff Hamada.
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I Want Little Cupcake Babies
Posted by amyt Mar, 06, 2009 @ 9:52 amIf you read this blog at all regularly – thanks mom – you may have noticed by now that I have a slight obsession with stop-motion animation and film animation in general, especially art and animation that brings inanimate objects to life. Well, I just came across the mother load.
Indulge in Kirsten Lepore’s “Sweet Dreams,” a ten-minute trek into an adorable world of cupcakes and horticultural love.
Lepore earned her BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2007. Here’s a recent interview with Kirsten and her blog, Flickr and Vimeo.
Book Cutter
Posted by amyt Feb, 23, 2009 @ 10:24 amNoriko Ambe is a New York artist whose work is different from anything I’ve ever seen ever. She works primarily with bound paper/books by cutting holes and layers into the paper sources and creating what looks like typographical maps and staggering sculpture design.
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Graphic Delirium
Posted by amyt Feb, 05, 2009 @ 10:06 amGuilherme Marconi, Brazilian illustrator and designer, is perhaps most famous for his Absolut and Nokia ads.
Marconi has also worked with Mazda and Havainas, and His work is bright, bold, intricate, and reminds me of a cross between I Spy and Magic Eye. The detail is of the most impressive I’ve ever seen. On his blog called, “My Schizophrenic Brain,” he says, “My idea is to create images like graphic delirium,” which perfectly describes his stuff.
My favorite piece, however, is much different from his advertising style.
Robot Girl Looks Real, But Is Not Real
Posted by amyt Feb, 03, 2009 @ 9:23 amRobot Girl (not to be confused with the creepy Japanese robot girls) is an amazing project by Tamar Levine, who shot the photography, and Rob Sheridan, who worked in Photoshop.
On his blog, Sheridan says they’re now wanting the next shots to show the robot girls with missing arms and legs. “We’re looking for someone with some skills in prop-making or fashioning mechanical parts who could help us create some cool-looking bits and pieces of robot joints and insides and other mechanical parts that would be coming out of broken-off limbs and cracked-open joints. If you or someone you know has any crazy sculpting/mechanical skills and might want to help out, drop me a line: rob (at) …
Michael Phelps Is The Gold Medal Winner of Bong Hits
Posted by amyt Feb, 02, 2009 @ 12:28 pmMichael Phelps has apologized for taking hits from the bong, resulting in a huge picture of him doing so in the British paper News of the World.
“I’m 23 years old and despite the successes I’ve had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again,” Phelps announced on his Facebook page.
Who really cares. It’s not as if he was taking a drug to help him be a better swimmer, like a baseball player takes steroids. If anything, pot brings new athletic challenges, so great that if Phelps is as good of a swimmer after taking massive bong rips, it …
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