Billy and Steven Dufala came to my attention for their ice cream tank at space 1026 in philly earlier this year but I missed the above piece over at the pretty reliable Fleisher Ollman gallery back in March. Images pilfered from Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof’s flickr.
(or if you prefer a non-scrolly version look here)
A rhizome selection in the 7×7 series up at Why and Wherefore. Nicely done. In general there are lots of nice things over at the w&w site. well worth browsing around.
If you like drawing there are two shows in town (neither which I have seen yet) that will be worth checking out. Casey Jex Smith’s show opens up in a few days at laviola bank and Kyle Field has a show over at Cinders (image above lifted from hammerhead shark who checked out the show).
A year or so I saw a great series of photos by Baldessari called something along the lines of “trying to hit objects with a golf club so that they appear in the center of the frame”. always been a fan.
Proposal for Chicago 2016 Olympics Aquatic Center by (Link via ever reliable Pruned - click on the piscinas link)
No, no… ”color of water” does not refer to the Oprah-esque tale of growing up in an interracial family. Aesthetically these are really great but they can’t help but remind you about the sketchiness of the water on the other side of the pool. I never made it out to the floating pool they had here in Brooklyn (which has since moved to the Bronx) .
I think the Ganges would be the best place for one of these…
Nicely done resume by Parisian Clement Boutignon created entirely with Daytum (Felton Report guy’s new site for doing beautiful, beautiful charts and infographics). Cmon, Frenchies. Hire this guy.
Dear internet: here is my mashup request…. if someone could connect Swivel (which bills itself as “youtube for charts”) and Daytum, you’d really have something quite nice. Say for instance, the relationship between violent crime and wine consumption in the US.
Very impressed by the work of French photographer Remy Lidereau. I wasnt sure I was looking at a photo when seeing those first two images but that could have a lot to do with the shortcomings of looking at art online. The second two are more straight.
This appears to be a still from a game that may or may not exist called fez. I’m not much of a gamer but was struck by the visuals here. Link (via Jean Snow)
The early stuff is kind of unremarkable for me and very reminiscent of various cali artists (manuel ocampo, baseman, jeff soto) even though odds are decent he isnt familiar with their work. But then in 2007 it kind of goes in a different direction. ..
New images by Andrew Holder for Arkitip are really quite nice! Aesthetically: A+ (though its unclear whether or not they are part of a giant advert campaign for a hotel chain or not. I’m not sure whether or not it matters). Link
It’s just that it’s getting harder and harder to figure out what is and isnt an exercise in product placement these days. Have you heard about that new show called “Trust Me” with the Will + Grace guy in it? The show is about an ad agency and the characters work on pitches but for real world clients who have paid for product placement (Link to NY Times article). So, for example, Dove gives them a pile of money and then on that week’s show the characters sit around and try to figure out a pitch for Dove. It’s simultaneously a brilliant meta formula (really, my hats off to them) and a crass sort of infomercial.
But any ways: Andrew Holder! Really nice new work. If you’re over here on this blog then you probably have already seen his fantastic “Mountain Town” print which was ubiquitous on the design blogs awhile back.