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The Tanner ?Light Brigade? Still Carries a Charge
2008-02-29 16:29:00 The art of Dorothy and Mel Tanner returns to Miami after a 29-year journey. The exhibit of the light sculptures of Dorothy Tanner and Mel Tanner at Edge Zones Art Center marks the first time their ground-breaking art has been seen in Miami since they moved from South Florida in 1979. Curated by Dorothy Tanner, the ... More About: Design , Charge , Light
Samsung Mobile Battle of the Bands Contest
2008-02-20 22:22:00 Electronic mongrel Samsung has done it again by bringing you a chanced to shine the spotlight on your band! If your band gets the most votes, you’ll not only win $7,500 bucks, but also land a spot on the Rockstar Get a Life Tour in the cities of your choice. Samsung has created flyers, banners ... More About: Contest , Music , Mobile , Bands
Graffiti Databases have Arrived
2008-02-20 19:16:00 I am frankly amazed that more sites about graffiti have not been born. Sure we have sites promoting the art, but few have meat on their bones providing links and resources. With all the new online galleries and artapedias sprouting like a bad rash of pop-up windows, nowhere in the webosphere could I hunt down ... More About: Design , Graffiti , Databases
Evan Penny Sculpts to Get a Head
2008-02-20 17:26:00 “It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.” - Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. II) Our faces are not alike, yet still all of us are no one in particular, at least to Toronto-based artist Evan Penny who creates the most realistic people ... More About: Head
GALA Wants to Give You A Record Contract
2008-02-20 16:12:00 Are you waiting for millions to hear your music? GALA (Global Access to Local Artists) is searching for the future in music. This internet-based contest has six categories and nine genres ranging from Hip Hop to Country and Pop to Blues. And who better to judge than the masses? The top twenty-five songs in each ... More About: Music , Contract , Give , Record , Gala
TalentDatabase Weekly Spotlight: DJ Blush
2008-02-19 17:35:00 Straight out of Sao Paulo, Brazil rocking electro whipped with creamy indie dance pop is Talent Database’s featured talent DJ Blush . Her sets are eclectic and prove that a club DJ is not limited to the overplayed thumping techno beat. Her influences bounce around from experimental founding fathers Kraftwerk to the oversampled Daft Punk spun with ... More About: Music , Spotlight , Weekly
Is your Website ?Hot or Not??
2008-02-19 16:34:00 Public opinion matters ladies and gents. When it comes to software, web design and other interfaces made for the user, public opinion is as powerful as an atom bomb. One wrong move and bad reviews can obliterate everything you might have worked hard to achieve. CommandShift3 takes you from clicking on hot babes to clicking on ... More About: Design , Website , General
The Grass Is Always Greener
2008-02-18 20:04:00 Forget about giving the neighbor kid down the street ten bucks to mow your lawn, the tech masters at the Landprint project have elevated the lowly mower to high art. Their project aims to reproduce both subtle patterns and photos by melding certain species of plants with programmed robotics. By using robotics for the planting and cutting ... More About: Design , General , Grass
Paul Solberg?s Photos are in Full Bloom
2008-02-18 17:05:00 I have a secret fetish for coffee table books. Unusual, large, minimal text are my prerequisites if the book plans on flying off its shelf and becoming a permanent paper fixture on my walnut table. I recently came across photographer Paul Solberg. Ghostly hauntings of Georgia O’Keefe inhabiting the detailed petal prints of Paul Solberg’s ... More About: Photography , Photos , Full , Bloom
e-MobiLArt Call for Participants!
2008-02-18 16:04:00 European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists (e-MobiLArt) is a project tailored around the process of collaboratively creating interactive installation artworks. Such mediated environments may involve the use of ubiquitous computing, communication networks and mobile or locative media technologies. Participants in this project will be artists and scientists who are active in creating interactive media ... More About: General , Call
LEBO - Paints Filled with Colors and Sound
2008-02-15 21:40:00 If you have ever walked the streets of South Florida chances are you have seen his work. You may have passed his unique take on opaque colored characters inside some South Beach clubs or on the Hollywood Beach Band Shell. And for all of you festival goers you might know his work better as the ... More About: Music , Interviews , Promotion , Sound , Colors
Ikue Mori Comes to Boston
2008-02-15 19:54:00 What to do in Boston ? Check out Ikue Mori ! She will be imposing on Boston’s south end at Mobius with her experiemental stylings with special guests Jessica Rylan, Howard Stelzer, Vic Rawlings, and Jorritt Dijkstra. Mobius is Boston’s artist-run center for experimental work in all media. About Ikue Mori: Ikue moved from her native city of Tokyo ... More About: Music
Phil Toledano?s Hope and Fear Photography
2008-02-15 17:32:00 Phil Toledano’s website has the propaganda “Hope and fear is the external manifestation of the internal desires and paranoia that are adrift in America.” plastered onto its virtual walls. The photographs that follow are surreal portraits of humans with their fears and paranoid counterparts attached. Phil began photographing what he calls “slightly odd pictures” since age ... More About: Photography , Fear , Phil
Something To Yell About
2008-02-15 16:36:00 Like an undersea journey, in a yellow submarine, Yell ena James creates a kaleidoscopic paradise with nothing more than pen and ink. James’ formal art education began in Sarajevo, where she would sneak past snipers to get to her art school. The art environment was a refuge from the war outside, and surrounded her with like-minded souls. James ...
West Chester Film Festival
2008-02-14 20:12:00 Who says you have to live in a big city to attend a film festival? Running from April 24th to the 27th is the West Chester Film Festival for 2008! The festival will attract filmmakers from all over the United States and Canada, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia. Tickets are relatively inexpensive for ... More About: Film Festival
The Fire Organs Lament
2008-02-14 18:05:00 If you combine the soundtrack for a David Lynch film with the disconsolate cries of a humpback whale, you can imagine what unearthly sound is created from the Fire Organ, an instrument that transforms the heat from a flame into an entirely new energy source, one of sound. The organ pipes produce sounds when heat is ... More About: Music , General , Lament , Organs
Cerith Wyn Evans Installations
2008-02-14 16:27:00 British artist of Welsh origin Cerith Wyn Evans started off his journey into art by making sculptures and installations. His work deals with the phenomenology of time, language and perception. His work is largely comprised of neon light installations, light fixtures and simplistic black and white creations. His designs are romantic, modern and sometimes teeter ... More About: Installations
Become a Rock Star Flash Game Contest
2008-02-13 21:36:00 You can win up to $25,000 in cash and prizes. How could you not enter? There are even iPods up for grabs with your ridiculous cash prize!! Plus, Gaia Online will be conducting a talent search for their next rock star game developer from the contest entries. Based on the entries, Gaia ... More About: Contest , Music , Flash , Rock Star , Rock
Parchment Wonderland
2008-02-13 17:25:00 Paper Forest is dedicated to the world of all things paper. Everything from San Francisco artist Paul Hayes and his undulating mass of suspended sheets to Moneygami, showing new and interesting ways to fold the green stuff. Playful and spirited like Burlabox, the Italian globe-trotting toy that’s been spotted from Japan to the Eiffel Tower, Paper ... More About: General
Sang Won Sung Creates Hybrid Toys
2008-02-13 16:35:00 What to do with Barbie’s head when it pops off or that broken wing off G.I. Joe’s Plane…decisions, decisions. How about a flying barbie head? That is what comprises in hybrid toy creator Sang Won Sung. He recycles old toy parts and creates new toy figures like a phoenix rising from the sandbox. Sure it’s ... More About: Design , Toys , Hybrid
The Body Beautiful
2008-02-12 20:54:00 Since the beginning of time artists have been depicting images of the nude human body. These images incite a singular, emotional response to the naked human form. The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums to participate in this celebration of the bare body. All photographers are welcome, international and domestic, professional ... More About: Body , Beautiful , The Body
Skateboards Shape A New Design
2008-02-12 18:30:00 Skate Study House specializes in recreating popular furniture through the vision of a skateboarder. Founders, Gil Le Bon De Lapointe and Pierre Andre Senizergues have teamed up to create this concept. They use the combination of skateboarding and design to produce a mixture of contemporary lifestyle, art and action sports culture. Gil?s design influence comes from hitting ... More About: Sports , Design , Shape
The Whimsical Ceramics of Megan Bognovich
2008-02-12 16:31:00 When I say whimsical, I mean whimsical. Induced with fairytales, prickled with beanstalks and laden with naivety, Megan Bognovich’s ceramic creations are nothing short of prince charming. Megan loves to tell intimate stories with her pieces, her latest creations “question the safety of the environments and relationships we create.” Her clay fairytales often depict her characters ... More About: Design
Let?s Get Naked Orlando, Florida!
2008-02-11 19:16:00 I eagerly await my annual pilgrimage to the hottest night in town. When I say hot, I mean scintillatingly steamy. A climate of art so erotic it will make your clothes come off. Literally. I present to you, Nude Nite. Now before you panic, you don’t have to be naked to go, although clothing is always ... More About: General , Florida , Orlando , Orlando, Florida
A Cut Above
2008-02-11 16:54:00 Brian Dettmer carves old books with surgical precision, transforming them from words on a page to self-contained worlds of artistic phenomenon. Dettmer recognizes that these volumes become obsolete very quickly and by deconstructing the original media can extend its purpose beyond the original use. Dettmer’s artistic process depends upon the book itself. An old science text becomes ... More About: Design
Nikon?s Small World 2008
2008-02-11 16:06:00 The Nikon International Small World Competition is dedicated to furthering creativity and excellence in photomicrography. Combining microscopy and photography, a photomicrographer is able to capture an image of the world that the naked eye cannot see. Entrants may enter Nikon’s Small World Competition by uploading digital images directly to our servers. Before you begin, read the ... More About: Photography , 2008
Urban Pop Brings Contemporary Art out of the Shadows and into Orlando
2008-02-08 17:31:00 I have lived in Orlando for a decade and still I wait for the multi-colored face of art to prove its existence and emerge out of this city?s trendy plastic robes of pompous art. I?m not an art critic, nor do I think art is dead in Orlando, however, the depth and quality of urban ... More About: Music , Urban , The Shadows , Shadows
Make Magazine?s D.I.Y. For Techies
2008-02-08 16:16:00 Make Magazine is a print magazine and blog dedicated to spreading the word about D.I.Y. projects for technophiles. Have you ever wondered how to make a homemade confetti canon? (Hint: You?ll need a fire extinguisher, a sprinkler valve, and a plastic pipe). Are you interested in making the electronic drumkit that came with the video ... More About: Design , General , Make
Patrick Winfield?s Art of the Polaroid
2008-02-07 22:49:00 The Polaroid is dead. Or so many of us would think with all the choices being thrusted at us in the ways of digital cameras. To be honest, who would want to be bothered with the outdated Polaroid? The quality of images aren’t crystal clear and you can’t email the pictures to friends or post ... More About: Patrick
Scratch Off Wallpaper by Linda Florence
More articles from this author:2008-02-07 17:31:00 London designer Linda Florence has stepped the idea of basic wallpaper up several notches by adding a compelling interactive element: scratch off the silvery top layer to reveal the brightly colored pattern beneath. Similar to scratch-off lottery tickets, you can bet this stuff would have quite the addictive quality. But unlike “scratchers,” you won’t hit ... More About: Design , Wallpaper , Scratch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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