A fun evening, about to leave now
Archive | March, 2010
@ dr. Sketchys @Roger Smith Hotel
I’m at Dr. Sketchy’s event @Roger Smith Solorium and quite enjoying the crowd and company.
New from Dr D
Maybe a bit more subtle in approach than this effort but David Cameron’s rather smooth face is still attracting the attention of London’s billboard hi-jackers. This one in Dalston is the work of Dr D (where you can find a lot more of this kind of work).
Dr D ‘Suck My Goldman Sachs’. I’m not really that tall – this was taken from the number 76 bus.
SMARTCamp @ Roger Smith Solarium
There’s a party for SMartCamp, an all weekend Art and Technology event in NYC that I’m at right now. I don’t write to ArtNewYorkCity enough – there are so many great events I’m invited to, but lately, I’ve focused on my Analytics work – and yet, at the source of Webmetricsguru.com is an artist. Why? [...]
@ MilavecGreen Opening
I’m at an art opening tonight where I know one of the artists Lisa Lebofsky from a previous opening at BAG a few years ago. Her work has evolved, take a look:
Last chance to see the Eelus show
Saturday March 6th is the last day (and last chance) to see Eelus‘s solo show ‘The Colour Out Of Space’ at the Blackall Studios (73 Leonard Street, EC2A 4DS). I finally managed to check out the gallery yesterday and was really impressed by the ideas, art and execution of a well put together body of work. As well as a wealth of major new pieces there is kind of a retrospective feel – basically everything Eelus has put out over the past few years is represented here in some way. It’s great to see the progression made over the years and the development of a distinct style. If you can’t visit in person I’d recommend for a truly comprehensive look around the show Wallkandy’s excellent Flickr set and also RJ from Vandalog’s video interview where Eelus reveals inspiration came from both early Santa’s Ghetto shows and heavy metal stalwarts Iron Maiden(!)
Lung mixture (detail)
Firestarter (detail)
Icarus (detail)
Icarus (canvas on right is an edition of 3)
New Wooster Special Edition: Exclusive Jon Naar Print and Signed Faith of Graffiti Book
We’re proud to announce that legendary photographer Jon Naar is the latest artist to participate in our “Wooster Special Edition” project. This new project follows sold out editions from such artists as Faile, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, BAST, and Darius and Downey.
Most often when we ask a graffiti or street artist what their favorite book is, inevitably the answer will be: The Faith Of Graffiti
Published 35 years ago, The Faith Of Graffiti, is a meditation of tags, marks, concrete and trains. Legendary photographer Jon Naar captured a moment in history with the eye of a outsider combined with the precision of an architecture and design photographer. Norman Mailer wrote a text that is perhaps more relevant today than ever before.
Until now, Faith of Graffiti has been out-of-print and completely impossible to find. But this month Faith of Graffiti as been re-released in an expanded edition with new cropping and additional photos.
To celebrate the re-release of Faith Of Graffiti, Wooster Collective worked with Jon Naar to create an exclusive print in a numbered edition of 300. The “Wooster Collective Special Edition” includes both the signed print and a signed book.
From the publisher:
“This new edition of The Faith of Graffiti, the first in more than three decades, brings this vibrant work—the seminal document on the origins of street art—to contemporary readers. Photographer Jon Naar has enhanced the original with thirty-two pages of additional photographs that are new to this edition, along with an afterword in which he reflects on the project and the meaning it has taken on in the intervening decades.”
Here’s the specs:
Redbird In The Bronx
Limited Edition Print of 300
8 1/2″ by 11″
Archival paper
Signed and Numbered by Jon Naar – 2010
Faith of Graffiti
Words by Norman Mailer. Photos by Jon Naar
128 pages
Paperback
$75 USD
Shipping US: $12 USD
Shipping EUR $25 USD
The Way Things Go and Pass
Fischli and Weiss, Der Lauf Der Dinge (The Way Things Go), video, 30′, 1987Honda Ad, 2003OK Go – This Too Shall Pass, 2009I remember the choreographer João Fiadeiro once showing Fischli & Weiss’s work during some seminar or workshop and talking ab…