Featured Blog Posts – October 2009 Archive (190)

Camilla d'Errico



Yesterday, I made my way to Royal-T for Hello Kitty's kick-ass art show, Three Apples. What can I tell you? I was blown away! There was not only amazing artwork from some of our favorite artists, there were…

A couple of masked German artists, who refer to themselves as Neozoon, upcycle old animal fur coats into urban street art. According to Wiki, "upcycling involves processing used materials into new products, or the re-use of a product with crippled functionality for alternative purposes, to prevent waste of potentially useful materials."



In Greek, neozoon…

I'm kind of bummed that Studio Nicoletti Associati's Great Blue Whale placed third in an international competition to design the Thematic Pavilion at the 2012 Yeosu Expo in South Korea. The magnificent structure emerges from Yeosu’s waters as a great blue whale hurling itself out of the port to represent the Expo's theme: The Living Ocean and Coast.



Studio…

Russian photographer, Paul Samokhvalov, shoots Natasha Vyrostkova in this beautiful photo shoot. Not only is the lighting amazing, I love how you can feel the vulnerability in each picture.

Paul Samokhvalov

The most gorgeous modern mermaids have washed up on shore and who's there to capture it all than photographer Emma Tempest. Tempest's amazingly dreamy shots and shows us why she's a master at color and lighting. I love the soft glow.…

Show runs until January 24, 2010 @ Japanese American National Museum



Curated by Giant Robot co-founder and co-editor Eric Nakamura, Giant Robot Biennale 2 will highlight artists associated with the pop-culture magazine over the past 15 years.



In celebration of its 50th issue and in collaboration with the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, the magazine…

What's better than illustrations with witty humor? Nothing, I say! Illustrator Robert Samuel Hanson has a new site filled with excellent work from Monocle, The Economist, and The New York Times. Check it out. My favorite? This unfinished alphabet set. Now if only I could get all of them framed and up on my wall...…

I Was Falling High



Martin Stranka is a Czech artist and photographer who asks us to experience the beauty and pain of love. It's those times in our life when we're consumed by our heartache and grief, when we feel as though no one could understand what we're going through. Stranka draws out those personal memories and for, but a fleeting moment, asks us to remember them again.…

What happens when a brave panda bear decides to leave his group and pursue the woman of his dreams? He must dare to be different. This modern courtship with the red head, blue-eyed beauty is best told through the photographs of Ibai Acevedo.



Ibai Acevedo is a very talented photographer from Barcelona, Spain. He calls his style: Photography based on a…

Welcome to the soft and surreal world of Nicoletta Ceccoli. We just received an email from the CoproGallery letting us know about the web preview to Nicoletta's show. Starting November 7th, 2009, the CoproGallery will present Nicoletta Ceccoli's, "Babes in Toyland." The show will take you to "a land where classic fairy tales meet 16th Century Flemish paintings, a…

Designed by Melbourne-based Peddle Thorpe Architects, Fluid is a whale-inspired pavilion that is sure to be a showstopper at the much-anticipated 2012 World Expo in Yeosu, South Korea.



The floating exhibition space is designed around the concept of adaptability, making the structure useful for many different scenarios. The interior of the pavilion is open,…

The dictionary defines a tastemaker as one who sets the standards of what is currently popular or fashionable. I'd like to take that definition a little further. It's someone who not only has exquisite taste but someone who has the motivation, courage and passion to share that with the world. They are…