For Christmas I received an amazing sculpture from my fiancée who apparently is some sort of gift-memory genius. We saw a few of Gordon Bennett’s robot sculptures at the Wired pop-up store in Soho and she did some pretty amazing detective work to get one. This robot is named Foster and comes from the BennettContinue reading ““Foster” by Bennett Robot Works”
Category Archives: Art
Here’s Looking At You
Here’s Looking At You is a brilliant short film by Lenka Clayton and James Price which exposes how people judge each other on first impression. Beyond all of the depressing skepticism that these subjects expose, I find it fascinating how much information people draw from a nearly-still image. It definitely shows how important a photoContinue reading “Here’s Looking At You”
Xerox logo redesign
Brand New discusses the recent change to the Xerox Logo which takes a classic brand and turns it into some 3D garbage reminiscent of 2001. Why? “The Internet, sponsorships, all kinds of 3D icons — none of that existed when Xerox adopted its old logo… and you can do animation with a symbol that youContinue reading “Xerox logo redesign”
The polite umbrella
It’s days like this, where the unexpected rain forces exceptional stress on the public transit system and thousands of unhappy commuters bump into each other, wishing they had their summer back and that the world was a little more civil. A little more like this: The Polite Umbrella is an art project by Joo YounContinue reading “The polite umbrella”
Transforming Citroën: first flight
My friend Dan Paluska is working on an art project in the suburbs of Paris with Chico MacMurtrie called totemobile. I’m sure they have some fancy art words to describe it, but this is how I see things. First, there was the dancing Citroën: People laughed. People cried. People feared that Transformers are coming toContinue reading “Transforming Citroën: first flight”
Graffiti research with Flickr
So you took a picture of some cool looking graffiti and it has piqued your interest. You want to know what it means, where it came from, and who put it there. Gone are the times when tags were a mysterious, obfuscated communication only to be understood by other artists and anthropologists. These days, youContinue reading “Graffiti research with Flickr”
?F00D
John Maeda recently opened a new exhibit in NYC based around the topic of food. The work is currently being displated at the Cristinerose Gallery, which also hosted Maeda’s last big show, Post Digital, in 2000. I was interested to see what the critical response was to his newest stuff (which I find much moreContinue reading “?F00D”
Pixeltees
Design, buy and sell your own pixel-perfect t-shirts at pixeltees.com. Quite an impressive assortment of geek-chic styles (and just in time for Christmas!) [via k10k]
Tiny mechanisms, big ideas
One of the great parts about having friends in town is the excuse it gives you to drag them to all sorts of places you always want to go, but never have the time. At the top of my list was the MIT Museum, which is just down the street, and offers free admission, butContinue reading “Tiny mechanisms, big ideas”
Gondry is God
michel gondry has been getting quite a bit of attention for his recent lego-riffic white stripes video (after similar attention for videos such as daft punk’s ‘around the world’, just about every bjork video ever, and one of my personal favorites, ‘sugar water’ by cibo matto). he has an upcoming feature-length movie, human nature whichContinue reading “Gondry is God”
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