Soo I’m flying to Miami tonight for We Media 2010, a gathering of techies, entrepreneurs, and media wonks. I’ll be blogging for them as well– so if that’s your thing, check it out :P
In the meantime, I wandered through New People in SF this weekend, and discovered the work of Peter Callesen. He’s a Danish artist that uses printer paper to create multi-dimensional paper sculptures.
Introducing Kate McCarthy, an Australian artist who paints colorful graphic creatures over textured layers of paint.
“I have memories of of the pure joy of creating things for no reason when I was a child, I think we all do… While I used to labour over paintings, I now throw colours and shapes straight onto the canvas, allowing them to trigger something within the audience.”
YES YES YES YES YES. Also, happy Friday ^___________^
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So you already know that I’m a fan of iLL-Literacy’s work and their approach to it. This fall, they dropped iB41 for free. Now they’ve emerged post- winter hibernation, all psychedelic and spirals and shit, to ask ya freeloaders to contribute to their latest track. At least the musically-inclined ones.
Check out the track and see what you can do.
iLL-Literacy – Doyoudonotsee?
I’m pretty sure that this thing called collaborative music is gonna swallow up the fatty record industry (or at least force it to take a fatty diet) and re-position music as we know it. I know this cos I often predict the future. Anyway, I’ve already ranted and raved about open source and sharing and the like in a previous post, so I’ll stop right there w/ the nerdery… and let the guys who made it do the talking!
I’m really liking this guy’s artwork. Lawrence Yang is a web geek by day, artist by night. He paints intricate, colorful pieces that mesh nature and technology, watercolor and ink, plus a whole lot of other stuff that simple words cannot articulate!
I also like his approach toward balancing work and art. He makes it sound so simple and enjoyable… as art (and work) ought to be.
A lot of the reason that I paint comes out of what I do during the day. Information architecture is this really cerebral, abstract thing so you have to think about information and how to organize and structure it for a website. I really enjoy it a lot but it really makes my head kind of implode. So usually by the time I get home my brain’s fried and I just need to relax so I’ll just sit down and paint the demons out of my head. That’s a lot of my inspiration.
What I do during the day really balances out what I do at night. I think I need to have both structure and chaos so the art is the chaos and the structure is my job and they sort of balance me out into being a normal functioning person. I think too much of one or the other would make me insane.
For more, check out his bloggy and look out for a group show coming up in March at Giant Robot SF.
I like Thao. She’s from Virginia, plays guitar, and is hella awk.
Thao – When We Swam
Thao – Good Bye Good Luck
@ Berkeley. Despite how serious everyone looks, it was a really good show.
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