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03 31 13
Egg decoration by Fred. Eggs by Feather Ridge Farm, Elizaville, NY.
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03 28 13
Ursus Wehrli, comedian and cabaret artist, shares his vision for a cleaner, more organized, tidier form of art by deconstructing the paintings of modern masters into their component pieces, sorted by color and size.
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03 28 13
Pop goes the branding… Interesting look at Justin Timberlake’s return to the pop charts and a masterful marketing strategy leveraging both traditional advertising, promotion and social media. The shift of power away from big record companies towards artists and their own management is obviously in full gear. It clearly takes all things, firing on all cylinders and flawlessly orchestrated to produce the increasingly rare megahit. Extraordinary talent also doesn’t hurt…
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03 27 13
Curated basics. Kaufmann Mercantile is an online store for carefully selected, long-lasting, and well-designed goods. Think your favorite hardware store meets the hippest of Scandinavian emporiums (natural, simply constructed, minimalist, sometime ingenious, etc.). Simply designed no-frills site, amazingly curated product line, fair pricing for the most part. Product photography is perfectly clean and crisp mixed along with some simply styled environmental shots and vintage photographs. If logic prevails and these folks do their part in marketing all this great stuff, KM should fare very well. Dutch gardening tools for everyone…
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03 25 13
Anthropocene by David Thomas Smith (Copper House Gallery, March 21st – April 16th, 2013, Dublin, Ireland). Fascinating new exhibit by artist utilizing aerial images found online. Each image is composed from thousands of thumbnails extracted as screen grabs from Google Maps, which are then reconstructed piece by piece using Photoshop to produce large detailed and patterned images. The artist draws upon the patterns and motifs used by Persian carpet makers, inspired by the weaver’s use of the carpet to record their experiences. A complicated, compelling use of color, pattern and place…
