Favorite things top 5
Monday, February 15th, 2010
We love love love! a lot of things, and wanted to share our top things and brands with you. We could not get by without these pretty things :)
Sara’s favorites :)
Fiona Timantti - hats – wear them often at our shows and just for fun <3
Minna Parikka – shoes – fun and pretty.
TIGI – hair and make-up, they smell sooo good :)
Vivienne Westwood – accessories- super cute and easy to wear!
Christian Louboutin – shoes, need I say more?
Markku’s favorites :)
Comme des Garçons – shirts and sweaters from Japan, fun fun fun
Romain Laurent – hilarious and absolutely talented photography
Acne jeans – great jeans and everything you need
Yamaha Tenori-On – like playing a game of music, lots of fun
Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair – shirts yeah
White box – animation by Makoto Yabuki. It’s sweet!
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Makoto Yabuki is a Japanese artist who has done some brilliant animation and photography combined with computer generated stuff. His “White box” animation really hit us because it looks like it’s straight out of the TV OFF candyland :)
via Popwhore
Is your shadow playing tricks on you behind your back?
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Two recent art project we have come across have one thing in common: they play with shadows.
Ever played with hand shadows? The British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster sure have. And now they are doing it with piles of rubbish, just take a look:
Image: pashasha
That’s a picture of a piece called “White Trash (With Gulls)”, one of their earliest shadow work. That’s really the shadow of that pile of rubbish projected on the wall. There’s more to be seen at Environmental Graffiti blog. Btw, that’s six months of household waste – this artist couple has a few things to say about the way we live.
On a lighter note, Katie Sokoler has real fun with shadows. She taped paper shadow people onto street walls in Brooklyn and photographed people walking by at the exact moment they matched their shadows. Her photos are really funny and positive:
Here’s more pictures of her Shadow Project, guaranteed to make you smile.
Katie Sokoler also runs a blog worth checking out, she seems to have a positively colorful view on life. It’s called Color Me Katie.
Post-it stop motion animation
Monday, July 13th, 2009
I did a blog post about Post-it note art earlier this year, now I’m going for it again – and this time the sticky little pieces of paper are moving!
Imagine the amount of work done for that.
Short movie recommendation: Synesthesia
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Here’s a fun short movie called Synesthesia by Terri Timely (a film making duo formed by Ian Kibbey and Corey Creasey). It’s pretty brilliant and even has cats in it.
250.000 eurocent street art – stolen
Monday, May 4th, 2009
Experimentadesign’s Urban Design event in Amsterdam featured a pretty amazing piece of street art, created by Sagmeister Inc. “Obsessions Make My Life Worse And My Work Better” written on the street using 250.000 eurocent coins.
Eight days and 250.000 coins later the coins got stolen, or to be exact cleaned up by the authorities. The process got documented on Sagmeister’s website and there’s a Flickr group with a lot of photos from the event.
Photo by PunchDouble
Ok, so these buildings are having a fun night out
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
Someone just taught the Mint Plaza buildings in San Francisco how to cha-cha-cha. This is not CGI animation, it’s in real life and in huge size also, done with a pile of video projectors and lots of wits. It’s pretty amazing – the falling golf(?) balls are my favorite.
Subway art gallery opening
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
The New York based group Improv Everywhere created an art gallery opening on a Manhattan subway platform. The video of the “gallery opening” is hilarious and their idea of converting objects found at the platform, including advertisements, into pieces of art is actually very interesting.
The placards they made to describe the “works of art” can be read at Chad Nicholson’s Flickr photos.
Kutiman takes sampling to another level
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Probably the most amazing piece of sample based music since DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing, this guy called Kutiman just released his Thru You project on the Internet a week ago. I’m excited, it’s something new, really creative and bound to create a whole new thing – just like Endtroducing, I wonder how many kids bought a sampler just because of DJ Shadow (I know I did).
Kutiman created seven video/song remixes from bits and pieces of videos found on YouTube, glued them together and actually made quite impressive music out of those “this is me playing guitar” home videos.
It’s fun to check out the source material, the info description on Kutiman’s video links every original video which he sampled.
Momentary art
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
There’s a yearly art award which is granted to works which only last for a short period of time called the Szpilman Award. One of the works in their previous year’s “best seven” picks really caught my one, “Space Drawing” by Sai Hua Kuan. It’s really momentary indeed.
There’s some really cool pieces on his website.
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