A tar-painted female figure shines forks for a halo. Her arms have eyes. She’s holding a pair of old brown work boots as an offering. A second figure holds a banjo. She’s skating on top of an alligator that’s lying flat on a skateboard. A third wears electrical outlets for a dress. She’s about to explode. Her chicken legs and tiny feet are seemingly too fragile to support her swollen body. The lips of their cowrie shell mouths curl inward, …
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To everybody making work, here’s a list of important places to get sounds and visuals. They’re all free downloads for your manipulating pleasure. If you got any more URL’s to ad, post them in the comments. The Library of Congress is a maze of dusty digital gold. Its the largest library on the planet, over 160 million items in their collection: manuscripts, audio, propaganda, microforms, photos. The BBC has over 16,000 sound effects: the false start of a car engine, …
As part of the Pow! Wow! Hawai’i week long event, in conjunction with Thinkspace Gallery, they had a show at Honolulu Museum of Art School on February 8th. Dubbed “Pow! Wow!: Exploring The New Contemporary Movement” the show featured 2×2′ pieces from nearly 50 artists. Some of the featured artists included Fernando Chamarelli, Curiot and Low Bros. Curated by Andrew Hosner from Thinkspace, the exhibit will stay up for the duration of Pow! Images of said artists’ work and flicks from the gallery space are below. Images …
In Colin M. Day’s second installment of “Building Detroit,” he interviews various artists and surveys a bankrupt city that was once a thriving metropolis and hopes to be again. There’s a lot of beautiful pans of the local Detroit street art and graffiti. Bay Area artist Monica Canilao shows off “The Treasure Nest,” a entire house that she transformed (using only recycled parts) into an instillation. Another featured artists is DABLS, founder of The African Bead Museum. He tells the story of …
Images from the book Chinese prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum were recently posted on 50 Watts. The site featured a collection of these ill prints ranging from otherworldly to everyday life. According to the site, these were “hard-to-find” but East Art Online will make all images in the publication searchable and zoomable online. …
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