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Creating appreciation.
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Art.sy: an online art collection site that, ingeniously, uses algorithms to understand your preferred works of art (or those in your own collection) and suggests new matches for you. You can even follow a certain ‘gene’ or type of art, such as 1960’s Art, or Black & White Photography. And once you’ve followed an artist or gene, you’ll get an email notification about new artworks, sales and upcoming shows. Utterly brilliant. Have an explore, its been in private testing for a while now, but opened to the public yesterday.
And even better, the website design is super slick and easy to use. Now to discover new artworks to love!
Visual Art
Several oil paintings on canvas from 2010 - 2012 by Scranton, Pennsylvania born artist Russ Noto.
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Time-lapse video from the awesome people at MOO.com.
(But they’re in printing, not umbrellas)
Rolien Sandelowsky: this
Project video by the beautiful Rolien, and she writes:
“this is a movie i made using a doll, a chair and a bag of plain flower, referring to the superficial overconsious world we are living in. we all grow up thinking we can do everything and be everyone. people do things because other people do so, without acting with a reason, just because they do. drugs, sex, walking away being alone rather than an independent individual. in contrast to this superficiality, I decided to include heavier work of a known, gifted and appreciated artist chopin. the background music in this video is etude op. 10, number for - by sviatoslav richter”
Take a watch!
Ronallman: The Dic-sters
Dictators with a hipster makeover. ha.
Festival of Play: celebrating 50 years of LEGO in Australia! #thedarling http://instagr.am/p/LVGHKrThPj/
Melóm: Noches
Super fun illustrations. The bottom one is such an adventure, really beautiful.
David Kelly: How to build your creative confidence
Resonating entirely, I’ve got that story of primary school too. And even though I found some creative confidence whilst in 6th form - thank you Mrs Egan-Fowler - I’ve lost it again. Have to work on finding it and enticing it out once more.
Tadao Cern: Blow Job
A friend, Jonny Grubin, alerted to me to this collection, and this one’s my personal favourite. Aside from the obvious humour associated with titling the set “Blow Job”, these are great images.
First of all, the photography is stunning. A snapshot of a moment in time yet I can almost see the skin still rippling.
Then there’s the whole thing of temporarily transforming these faces into something really quite visually unappealing. And even though we imagine the noise and sound of the machine in the subjects’ face, the images convey a sort of unnatural peacefullness.
With the photograph I’ve chosen as my favourite, I love the colours and pattern in the model’s shirt, bringing out the pinks/blues/purple in her eyelids. Colours associated with bruising and pain, yet she looks really quite serene.
Check out the rest of the set here: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Blow-Job/3926709
Vivid Sydney 2012: Opera House
Friday night I schmoozed along to the MCA Artbar launch night. Its going to happen the last Friday of every month - but this one was doubly special as it was also the light-up night for 2012’s Vivid Sydney Festival.
Firstly, the MCA Artbar was definitely worth the visit! Having loved the Jurassic Lounge seasons held at the Australian Museum, this was along a similar vein. Being able experience and discuss artworks in a gallery space, yet with a glass of wine in hand and this great vibe all around you is certainly something special. (And all museums should invest some time into making it happen!) There was even Karaoke on one of the floors - singing one’s heart out in a civilised cultural zone is pretty funky hey?! And then boogied on down on the new redesigned MCA balcony with incredible views of the harbour (and the Vivid Sydney projections). Met some incredible artists too - all very romantic yada yada
Friday night was also the start of Vivid Sydney 2012. Consisting of 63 light sculptures/installations all the way from the Opera House to Walsh Bay, its makes a dramatic change to the iconic shapes we’re used to seeing surrounding the harbour. The video above is probably my favourite section of the projection sequence.
To alter everyone’s perception of this world famous building is an incredible talent, and I found myself suspending my disbelief at countless points during the evening - utterly astounded by what I was seeing happen to the facade of Opera House.
We managed to check some of the other light installations that evening too - the Customs House, the old facade of the MCA and the sound-visual sensory structures in the grassed areas around Circular Quay - before heading off to Baxter Inn to slurp countless whisky-apple-oranges.
Gareth and Will even joined me on Saturday night to try and see some more of the Vivid installations and we still didn’t get around to see them all! Planning on doing some more this week - I don’t think I’ll get bored of the vibe over the next two weeks either. You MUST get yourselves in the area, its on until 11 June.
