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Trophy 2009 / electrical conduit, junction boxes

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.

Psuedoevent (detail from much longer jpeg)  Link

(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.

Mind Games (har har)

Mind Games: Freud

Link

Invitations From the Sky 

Invitations from the sky

hymn of oblivion

we remember the sun

Link

Korean Methodist Church

Barbara and Brea

Trini Circle

Totally loving this work by Laguna Beach based Brad Moore. Absolutely great eye + composition (Link via This isnt happiness)

Church Drawing 24 by Casey Jex Smith

Church Drawing 20 by Casey Jex Smith

?? by Kyle Field

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).

Still from this video of the same name (via loreto martin)

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.

Guitar by Matt Phillips. It’s a painting but I coulda sworn it was a quilt when I saw it on the lcd. Link (via Daily Serving)

Badeschiff, Berlin pool by Wilk-Salinas  Link

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…

Enlightenment (link via hysysk) vvork and others have also posted his tower of buckets.  The transformation  piece below is also not bad.

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.

Charlie Brown

Ring of Fire

(you’ll need a fast connection or safari for all the items on the second one to load it seems….)

Ebay	Funny or Die	The Knot	??	Talking Points Mem

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Unknown photographer @ lund lund (via style press / hysysk)

walky by nathaniel russel who i’m pretty sure i’ve linked to before

Methusalem, 1922. Costume design for Deer and Cat

found here

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.

Really great work…

Link (via Port)

Link and Link (via little paper planes)

Super impressed with this lady’s work… Link (via Design for Mankind)

I wish I could see the other images in this show. All the internet gives me is this. (via hysysk)

A banana
at the armory show
costs two dollars

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)

Some nice work by Tijuana based Charles Glaubitz…

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. ..

Link (via 40 fakes)

Tuneable Cities Radio Birds (video still)

Link (via Less and More)

Link (via Roberta + Libby who always find great things)

sound bites abound here… via art fag city

Third Wave 2008

Green Wave

Golden Box Set

Link (via bloggy / james wagner)

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.