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Thursday, December 9, 2010

ahhh... an end of year feet-up-cup-of-tea moment...

I have to say I'm very sorry to toucan lovers such as TONY... my internet at home decided to kark it and so I haven't posted anything in ages!!!

well... here are some treats to round out the end of the year. Some wonderful animations and short arty-filmy things that caught my heart. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have!

Huzzah and bless. x x x x x x xx x


SUPAKITCH & KORALIE - VĂ„RLDSKULTUR MUSEET GĂ–TEBORG from elr°y on Vimeo.

Wall painting by Supakitch + Koralie



I am a Forest hq from Alex Schulz on Vimeo.

Alex Schulz's animated short "I am a Forest" tells the story of two forest critters ... created entirely from paper, the story itself is pretty cute... If a satellite falls in the forest, does anybody hear?



Subcarpati - Am crescut pe la Romana from z00x on Vimeo.

The film's creators, Ionut Negrila and Mihai Calota, say “The story makes more sense if you understand the lyrics." I don't but I still think its rad.... they made it with NO budget and it invloves 57 stencils and over 5,000 photographs.




INTO THE COSMOS - Architeq/Chopsy from Chopsy on Vimeo.

This is collaboration between director/animator Chopsy and Bristol beatsmith Architeq (Tirk Recordings)... The combination of stop-frame, pixelation, live action, and time lapse animation is accompanied with music and sound effects by Architeq. (This is dedicated to my man Monk Fly... coz he's got heaps of records.)




Standing in Silence

Kiwi electronic composer Rhian Sheehan creates soundscapes using ambient tunes and pieces of environmental field recordings collected on his travels.



"Hands" from Chopsy on Vimeo.

Another one from Chopsy... I just thought this one was kind of funny.





Ok Go - Last leaf
L.A.- based OK Go ... features ace animation art from Geoff McFetridge. Created entirely from images burnt in toast, the stop-motion piece even has lovely guitar trees. mmm.



Beat13 / Lucy McLauchlan - Fame Festival 2009. from Beat13 on Vimeo.

And this one is an old favourite from Lucy McLauchlan.. I just love it.

Friday, August 20, 2010

COLOURS COLOURS TEXTURES PATTERNS

Wine Wall
by Hannes Broeker
...... a play on people having a drink at a gallery opening!
You take your glass over and fill it up from one of the artworks... they are all different flavoured cocktails... ha!

So I am currently totally obsessed with bright beautiful colours, patterns, textiles and people... probably this is because I am working on an extremely colourful public artwork at the moment, Sydney Statues:Project!
Here are some pics of things that are inspiring me at the mo..... they really don't have much to do with each other except that they are very colourful and I love them. Hope you do too!! x x

street work by Kaso, Italy

Blanket-Stitch

Who Owns You?
Installation by Heather Dewey-Hagborg
Brooklyn, New York


This is a beautiful painting and I can't find the artist's name!!! sincere apologies... if it is you /or you know who it is please let me know and I will amend!!




LA mural artist, Mac



Artist / illustrator, Linn Olofsdotter


Amazing Toucan fabric design from a comapny called TOUCAN DANCE!!!! OMG!!!





Ian Hundley
This is totally exquisite. It is a patchworked aerial map of London.





Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe (cover art)
from an excellent blog





This is from a great article on colour from the
Cool Hunter... no credit to the artist though!!










A picture taken by my friend, Jack, of a bird his cat Sabi artistically presented to him one morning.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

sydney based artist: junky


Fabulous guerilla artist Junky tags around and about the city and the country-side with these little people. soooooo cute!!!!! I've seen a couple in the flesh... can't wait to discover some more. Great urban name too.... very apt!! HuzzaH!! x x x












Tuesday, May 18, 2010

a newbie


Exciting yes it is!!! Sydney is getting a brand new piece of permanent public artwork being opened tHIS WEEEEEEK!!!! The work Aspire is by professional light-based Australian artist Warren Langley. Here is a pre-visual of the piece to be opened:

It's trees. Lovely big golden trees propping up the Western Distrbutor. Here is the official word from the Lord Mayer who is opening the work tomorrow night:

The work, by eminent Australian artist Warren Langley, features a forest of golden trees which stretch upwards and appear to keep the vast bulk of the freeway at bay. Internal environmentally friendly lighting, which I will switch on at the launch, creates their golden
hue.

The finished work recalls the combined activism of local community members who helped save local housing from being totally obliterated by the freeway and inspires and reminds us that we can all aspire to creating a better environment.

Launch of Aspire by Warren Langley: Wednesday 19 May, 6.15pm, Under the Western Distributor, Corner of Bulwarra Road and Fig Street, Ultimo.


Now, you may remember Warren Langely from last years VIVID / Smartlight festival. He did the big ugly pot-vase full of 80's style flowers. It was a work that irked me to tears and I totally wrote him off as an ugly person.


HOWEVER, since I discovered he was repsonsible for this new work, which I actually really like, I was promted to look further into his past bits. Here are some pieces that I found that are, quite frankly, wonderful. And I am now reassured that even professional Public Artists have bad-hair days and put out complete doozeys. Ahhhhh, the humanity.































And lastly, a work by a different artist from last years VIVID / Smartlight Festival, who actually really nailed it and I felt compelled to include in this post because it is so so so so beautiful. Francesco Mariotti's work titled Fire Flies. The sculpture used low energy lighting and recycled materials such as PET bottles to create a poignant piece about the effects of urban lighting on the lifecycle of fireflies. MwaH! What a delicious use of medium to convey a message, and so perfectly captures the flitty, phosphuorescent light of a firefly.


FYI, VIVID is just about to launch its 2010 season minus the Smartlight component. I got an email which assured everyone that it will be back again next year. I hope so, it has so much growing to do and so much growing of artists in return.