February 2011
28 posts
2 tags
Happy Birthday, Peter.
Living with good people is a good thing. Happy Birthday, Peter!
January 2011
34 posts
2 tags
Golden.
all photos copyright to olivegoldwine I felt yellow today. Golden. Spirited. Funny how your life transforms when you separate all of its facets to momentarily fit into one hue.
3 tags
Quote
nobody tells this to people who are beginners, i wish someone told me. all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. but there is this gap. for the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. it’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. but your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. and your taste is why your...
5 tags
Holly Suan Gray, stylist
Holly Suan Gray is a freelance stylist, and a great one at that. Her images are striking in their color compositions, their lines, and their drama. Some of my favorites. from trendland
4 tags
Beautiful studio spaces.
I felt so inspired after talking on the phone with my dearest Clara tonight that I had to start researching studio designs to send her images. Below are a few of my most inspiring findings. We will be moving into a studio together soon! We both agree that it doesn’t feel real—she likened the feeling to being 12 years old and talking to your tweeny girlfriends about how you will all...
4 tags
Aloe Blacc on La Blogotheque
Aloe Blacc | A Take Away Show - Part 2 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo. So casual. So timeless. So goooood. Aloe Blacc.
4 tags
Chairs today.
These came in my designboom email today. Two very innovative takes on…well….a place to sit. bamboo bench. eco friendly. structurally sound. appealing. discusses nature vs. industry. by israeli designer gal ben-arav. inverted willow chair. odd-looking. innovative (but hard to make, I bet). mass vs. air. organic material in organic shape. by dutch designer floris wubben and artist...
4 tags
Chairs today.
These came in my designboom email today. Two very innovative takes on…well….a place to sit. bamboo bench. eco friendly. structurally sound. appealing. discusses nature vs. industry. by israeli designer gal ben-arav. inverted willow chair. odd-looking. innovative (but hard to make, I bet). mass vs. air. organic material in organic shape. by dutch designer floris wubben and artist...
2 tags
Parking Space Pizzazz.
My sister sent this article to me today in an email. “Talk about creative use of space!!!” she said. She and I relate professionally on very few things, but this was the perfect marriage of our interests (sustainability and biology vs. art and design). Pretty smart. Build a parking garage (aptly designed by Herzog & de Meuron) with an astonishing view of Miami and voila, you have a...
6 tags
Valeska Soares
Pull the lights on. Pull the lights off. Another installation where the audience dictates the drawing. It’s a wonderful composition to boot! Those lines! This was really the image that captured my interest first, thanks to wallpaper*. Titled Un-rest, this installation begins with one glass chair that is preceded by so many beautiful ottomans!
1 tag
Bang Bang.
5 tags
Anna Emelia
This illustration caught my eye on Anna Emilia’s website. I love the lightness of the weight. I love foxes. Her drawing is just beautiful. She is Finnish—I’ve been finding a lot more Finns in the art world lately. Wonderful! Even though her drawings are lovely, I found her blog to be that much more distinct. She calls it her weather diary, and she speaks to each day so...
2 tags
The moon tonight.
This week has been pretty absurd and tough at times. I realized on my drive in today that the moon was full, and for whatever reason, it explained things and made me feel at ease. Here are photos from tonight.
3 tags
Kat Edmonson
While I was focusing all my focus on the two sides of the road today, holding the steering wheel at ten and at two, I heard something crawling through the speakers and straight into my hungriest heart. This piano beats and beats there, it creeps there. Kat Edmonson, I’m swooned. She turned a classic, overplayed song into a new breath. And you know what? She went to school for design.
3 tags
Urnatur, Sweden
I hate to admit it, but The Anthropologist never fails to hit my hard in the heart. That spiral staircase sings to me. A few posts back, they visited Urnatur, a wonderful, natural retreat in Sweden built by Håkan Strotz and Ulrika Krynitz whose lifestyle is so extraordinary there. Watch:
5 tags
Move: Choreographing You
This week is going by so slowly, but this video just brought me so much joy. I love when people are a part of the art. These reactions are hilariously honest. It is about a show called MOVE: Choreographing You that just finished at the Hayward Gallery in London. Google the show to see more videos. The show addresses the clear tie between performance and visual art. The audience is welcomed to...
7 tags
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a...
Would I set up shop and live here? Why, yes I would!!! A room filed with butterflies and plants. What could be better? This piece, Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling? by Bik Van Der Pol rests, beautifully constructed, inside the MACRO museum in Rome. See this video for details.
4 tags
On hilarious music videos, 70 Million (by Hold...
4 tags
On hilarious music videos, 70 Million (by Hold...
4 tags
The blizzard that spit snow at the beginning of...
3 tags
manifold clock by studio ve
Manifold Clock from Studio Ve on Vimeo. studio ve via designboom
3 tags
manifold clock by studio ve
Manifold Clock from Studio Ve on Vimeo. studio ve via designboom
4 tags
Bruce Monro's Field of Light Installation
Bruce Monro is a sort of genius in my book. I do NOT like LEDs and all the new lighting that is showing up everywhere, but he has made me fall in love with it. He really does make nature come to life. It reminds me of aurora borealis in the way it looks so transient, and however unnatural it may seem at times, the work still derives its colors from nature.
5 tags
Sophia Brueckner
I’m breaking a rule by posting about more than one thing per day, but have faith. The two posts today have very much to do with one another because of these three things: pattern, shape, and texture. I could have a thousand of these covering a huge wall, and I would never tire of them. The attention to detail, the opacity of the gouache, the background, the circular shape, the pattern,...
4 tags
Jean Opgenhaffen
This woman, Jean Opgenhaffen creates beautiful color studies with….guess……porcelain. Lots of tiny pieces! They become both texture studies (soft spaces created with hard material, I love it!) and color studies. Wonder!
2 tags
Tattoo exploration.
What a funny way to use a tattoo tool! I love the effect of this method of drawing. On a Sailors Grave (no roses grow) from Jacob Dahlstrup on Vimeo.
4 tags
Beili Liu
Delicate. Red. Luring. Natural. Petaled. Ephemeral and Soft-spoken. This is Beili Liu. Her work is specific to her heritage, but mostly only in meaning. It never seems to overt. via murmure visible
3 tags
Swoon.
I have seen SWOON’s work at the ICA in person. Apparently, MoMA has some of her work, too. She is relatively young in the art world, and boy can she draw. She was a street artist to start, when a NYC gallery picked her up and introduced her to the rest of the world. Now she shows internationally. With her unmistakable style, she transforms unnoticed street corners into canvases. Her...
1 tag
Paper crane installation.
I wish I knew who did this, but when I was researching a recent idea with paper cranes in large scale (aka over the 1000 idea mark), I found this image. Sort of blows me away.
6 tags
Noemie Goudal
Found this lovely lady’s work on Poppytalk! Noemie Goudal does these installations with blown up photographs of exterior spaces and brings them inside. She explores the same large concepts that someone like Olafur Eliasson does. Outside inside. The 2 dimensional space in the photographs continue into the space she sets them in. What a beautiful idea—a new way to break the fourth wall....
4 tags
teal is here
We are working on spring display at work, and teal is everywhere! Here are a few great images I found in my research. via knack. via studiofludd
Projection Mapping
I have worked with a few video artists who know how to do it (see: float), and it always continues to amaze me.
4 tags
A nice video of a nice song for a nice day.
lisa hannigan.
4 tags
Museum of Fine Arts, REVAMPED
Okay. I have now visited the new American wing at the MFA five times. I filled one happy hand with visits. Every time I go, there are lots of people and lots of galleries (still!) to visit, so I either meander quickly through all of them, or visit a few with patience and time. Here are my favorite spots, most in color or composition. It’s a bit like “name that painting” I...