December 2009
13 posts
This Coming New Years...
…find someone for when the ball drops, Or have a good laugh re-contextualizing Saiman Chow’s, Summer of Love of love drawings like I just did.
Holiday Activities
Assembling my MakerBot
Richard Mosse: Airside
Richard Mosse’s Airside, photographs of dummy airplanes used to practice extinguishing fires, are like half remembered versions of a past fear. His photos look as if someone put you on the spot to remember everything about that last aviation disaster on TV. The basics are there, airplane body, fire, smoke, water. However the fine details are missing. There are no, passengers,no injured,...
Cindy Baker: ANTI Festival 2009
Cindy Baker has recently taken her mascot project, Personal Appearances, to the ANTI Festival in Finland (a presentation of site-specific works made for public spaces). If you haven’t had the opportunity to catch one of Baker’s personal appearances you are missing out. Baker has taken the concept behind her 2001 Plexiglass box one step further, constructing a mascot costume of...
Photoshop Fridge Magnets
There is nothing as pristine and perfect as a blank surface. Paper, Canvas, or what have you. A blank space is solid in it’s principles of design. However when we encounter a blank space there is an overwhelming urge to leave a mark, a representation of self. Acting on this urge records an individuals presence on the surface, but also disrupts it’s balance. One must work to...
Brendan Lee Satish Tang: Manga Ormolu
Brendan Lee Satish Tang’s Manga Ormolu engages with the current culture of globalization by focusing on the adopting,pillaging and remixing of cultural objects. In the 18th century a vase from China was a hot ticket item for the aristocrat. They were fine crafted aesthetic items that contained all the mystery and intrigue of the “Orient” in a convenient package. I’m sure...
Underground Home in Vals, Switzerland
This Amazing elliptically-shaped underground house is a collaboration between the Netherlands architects at SeARCH and Christian Muller Architects. See more photos here
Michael Campbell
For the last few years Michael Campbell has kept a studio on a small West Coast island. There he would collect eroded pieces of iron, rock, wood, and other beach debris, crafting them into the flotilla of ships seen in Field Recordings of Icebergs Melting. Campbell’s vessels have a DIY, post-apocalyptic aesthetic about them. A sort of mishmash of Mad Max and Water World with a little...
Nikolaus Gansterer: Urban Alphabet
A temporary installation in Praterstern, Vienna, Nikolaus Gansterer’s Urban Alphabet uses maps of cities to stand in for letters of the alphabet (example E is for Edmonton) turning place into a layer of abstraction that meaning can be derived from.
Subodh Gupta, Line of Control
Subodh Gupta’s takes the everyday life of India’s economic growth and increased materialist mindset (pots and pans) and dissolves their original meaning into globally recognized icons, such as this giant mushroom cloud titled Line of Control, shown at the 2009 tate triennial. The mushroom cloud is a fitting icon. It’s connection to American prosperity as well as American (and...
Bernie Lubell: Origins of Innocence
Bernie Lubell makes intricate and interactive rube goldberg machines that make the viewer aware of the relationship they have with technology. Lubell shows you how the machine works, how they amplify the potential for work, and how they engage with the human experience.
” As visitors work together to animate the mechanisms they create a theatre for themselves and each other. By...
Charles Hamilton Poetry Slam
I attended the Saskatoon Poetry Slam, at Flint, Sunday night; featuring Charles Hamilton. Charles has just returned from months of travel where he competed in poetry slams all over the United States and was part of the Saskatoon slam team that made a stir at the national competition in Vancouver. The growth in Charles’ poetry can be measured in both the length of his Cat Stevens-like...