Archive | January, 2010

Wondering Where We’ve Been – An Explanation



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Sometimes life throws you curve balls when you least expect it.

For Sara, Samantha, and I, this has been one of those times.

As most of you know, while the Wooster Collective site often appears to be bigger than it is, it’s never really been anything more than a small personal blog. But that small personal blog has been something that for over seven years we’ve updated almost every day without fail. We update it with new inspiring images every day not because it’s something that we feel like we have to do, but rather, because it’s something that we want to do. It’s something we love.

To explain why we haven’t updated the site in the last few days – a very close family member has unexpectedly become gravely ill. We received the news on New Years Eve and ever since that moment have been supporting our family and close friends away from home in Los Angeles.

Sometimes you don’t fully realize how much a part of your life something is until you begin to lose it. Right now words cannot express what we’ve been feeling in our hearts so we won’t even begin to attempt to describe it. It’s been a very sad and trying time for us and we so greatly appreciate everyone’s kind and loving words of support.

We do expect to be back full speed next week.

With Much Love,

Marc, Sara, and Samantha

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A Little Help Here



Parked about the place, doing a slow burn, has been a dubious project. It is a deconstruction of sorts wherein an ordered and functional format is scrambled.

It contains the elements of a compass including a round face. The letters designating the cardinal directions, however, are congregated in a pattern that …

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Kiefer Technic Showroom Facade



Created by architect Giselbrecht + Partner ZT GmbH this amazing project is called “Dynamic Facade” better known as the Kiefer Technic Showroom in Bad Gleichenberg, Austria.

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Requiem for a magazine

I attended a wake for I.D. magazine last night in New York. Not I.D., the fashion magazine. I.D. the design magazine. Now dead.

Like so many of its recently-axed midsize peers, I.D. — International Design — leaves a much larger hole in our cultural landscape than its modest circulation numbers …

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Banksy in Watford? Hmm, I don’t think so!

The Watford Observer reported a sighting of a possible new Banksy in the local town centre on Monday. The paper retained a sound stance of sitting on the fence on whether it was a Banksy or not but 47 year old local IT Security engineer Charles London thought it “definitely…genuine”. One look at the picture in the article made me certain it wasn’t a Banksy but seeing as I was in the town today to see an old friend I tracked it down all the same. In real life it was much larger than expected and seemed to be hand painted rather than stenciled onto the wall. More interestingly I found another similarly styled figure nearby in a more public location which was in my opinion a much more technically accomplished piece. Tagged with the name ‘matey’ it seemed to have been completed freehand and showed a nice line of shading (especially in the detail of the face). Maybe over time we’ll get to hear more about the artist and their reasons….



Matey “It’s The Queens Orders”



Detail of ‘Matey’ piece in Watford



The original artwork reported in the paper


   


 

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Sand Painting

Finely ground black sand overlies coarser light sand at a particular location along the shore of Lake Michigan.

Rough surf paints in black sand.

Starting this post, I thought that I would not dare to take these sand paintings of a Great Lake as motifs for my own oil painting. …

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New Years Eve 2009 and into 2010 @HavanaCentral West End

Actually, I was at Havana Central West End location at 2911 Broadway (113th Street)  for New Years Eve 2009 as it turned into 2010 -the best place I could imagine for a New Years celebration and the food was fantastic.  Wish my iPhone camera has built in flash, but it doesn’t so the photos were [...]

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Olympics clean up can’t get above eight feet

This used to be pretty much my favourite wall in London directly opposite the 2012 site.



That was until the graffiti removal team went to work on it recently buffing back to brick everything below an 8 foot line. Anything else probably was beyond the power of the jet wash team. So now we get left with the ridiculous view of just the top bit of the art. Oh, and Tek33 / Burning Candy already reclaiming the space!




  

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Shit We’re Diggin’: Brian Hunter’s Mattresses

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More from Brian here.

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Remi/Rough and Jaybo at the Projectroom in Berlin

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