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Triangular Modular Table Fractals

2012-01-30T20:07:00.000-08:00

The Fractal Modular Table by Sarah Gibson and Nicholas Karlovasitis of Design By Them is a modular setting, using pattern and repetition to create flexible tables or stools.

Over the rainbow

2012-01-19T03:57:00.000-08:00

ALL moves

2012-01-15T14:15:00.000-08:00

I got a new hat. A gift from ALL knitwear and the numerological bosses on 11.11.11. It arrived just before Christmas, happy me. There has even been some weather cold enough to bust it out midsummer, another reason for a happy me. And also provides an excuse to post this video. Thanks Annie for the colour!

Ping Pong

2011-12-18T15:34:00.000-08:00

At West Space, by Laith McGregor. We had a lot of fun with this on saturday night, and I only wish I'd had more time to look at the table, instead of just playing on it.

This early one from the website, and these from Saturday night's tournament.

Pipilotti Rist

2011-12-15T14:29:00.000-08:00

"Gravity, Be My Friend" from Juliana Alvarez on Vimeo.

Pipilotti Rist, I Packed the Postcard in My Suitcase, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 111 Sturt Street, Southbank, Melbourne, 21 December 2011 – 4 March 2012.

Richard Serra

2011-12-06T02:42:00.000-08:00

Boomerang. 1974. The words bounce and come again. Audio Trouble.

Terry Gilliam

2011-12-04T15:03:00.000-08:00

Terry Gilliam talks cut-out animation in head-to-toe denim. Via Ringo, Have a Banana.

Allison Schulnik

2011-11-26T14:55:00.000-08:00

I did post about Allison Schulnik before, but this one is devoted to the videos. The new one – MOUND – which I saw on the internet this morning and this one – Forest – which really floats my boat. The branches, the moss, the smeary rainbow blob people. Aaaah!

Her paintings are also pretty wonderful. A hobo with flowers in his hair on a bike. Actually, that one could easily be a portrait of me. Uncanny.

Rookie

2011-11-20T00:14:00.000-08:00

This runaway wild girl gang vibe makes the coming of summer seem ok, if only I didn't have to do too much. I have been loving Rookie Mag. These are by Erica Segovia.

Soft Rock

2011-11-15T14:04:00.000-08:00

Bethan Laura Wood makes many amazing things. These scarves make me very happy.

SOFT ROCK
from the series super fake
2010

Digitally printed scarves
Soft Rock scarves, each scarf is based on a different rock or mineral. The outer edge of the scarf is dictated by the form of the rock rather then the conventional shape, allowing each to be worn in a different manner.

Patterns on patterns on ugly patterns. A happy place.

Patchwork

2011-10-06T09:54:00.001-07:00

LOVE these patchwork garments by Jenny Postle.

Rocky

2011-09-25T15:21:00.000-07:00

While we are on the rocky note. The Writing of Stones by Roger Caillois (L'ecriture des pierres, 1970) via but does it float via 50 Watts.

Scotsman

2011-09-13T16:20:00.001-07:00

The Scotsman steps in Edinburgh, by Martin Creed.

Reminded me of this.

Dorothy Liebes

2011-09-06T00:29:00.000-07:00

What a name! And what weaves!

Dorothy Liebes, "Mexican Plaid" drapery, ca. 1938-40

Dorothy Liebes. Rigid weft samples. 1950s. Wood and novelty yarns.

Most images via The Design Center at Philadelphia University.
I found them via Fanny Bostrom Gentle.

Rodarte

2011-09-05T17:27:00.000-07:00

In love with this look book. Rodarte for Opening Ceremony by Autumn de Wilde.

Denim

2011-07-02T20:02:00.000-07:00

A current project here. Many many good things.

Los Eucaliptus

2011-05-31T15:12:00.000-07:00

The story here. And more goodness from Juan Ignacio Moralejo.

Gabriel Kuri

2011-05-17T16:20:00.000-07:00

Gabriel Kuri. Compost Index. Thankyou clouds and please, please, please.

Tree weaving

2011-05-10T16:31:00.000-07:00

"He began to shape trees, by planting in specified patterns; then pruning, grafting and bending them"

Axel Erlandson's Circus Trees. Thanks Pene, via here and elsewhere.

Dream house

2011-05-08T15:48:00.001-07:00

Here.

Maricor/Maricar

2011-04-18T04:45:00.001-07:00

I love this song. AND this video. By Maricor/Maricar. Website and Blog.

Hotpants

2011-04-09T21:43:00.000-07:00

From a book called American Denim, 1975.

Textbook

2011-04-05T05:06:00.000-07:00

Mug Shots

2011-03-08T22:09:00.000-08:00

All images from the Historic Houses Trust pictures collection. Mugshots from Sydney during the twenties. This one's for International Womens Day.

Michel Gondry

2011-03-01T12:24:00.000-08:00

All portraits from photographs sent to the lovely and amazing Michel Gondry. I want one. Please Michel.

Claudio Bravo

2011-02-20T23:56:00.001-08:00

Lithographs by Claudio Bravo. The donkey and the calf are both on my wishlist.

Eva Hesse

2011-02-19T00:52:00.001-08:00

Eva Hesse in her studio, and a letter from Sol LeWitt here.

Bicycle Portraits

2011-02-12T21:19:00.001-08:00

Photographs from South Africa by Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler. A good story here. With many great pictures and great bikes. Keep up the good works. More bikes equals people power. In South Africa, and everywhere.

'I use it to run away and to go to school, I've had it for six years.'

'To go to school, that is what I use it for. It is a bit far to walk with my own feet.'

'This flag was given to me by another meneer with his bakkie, he said my bicycle is beautiful so he gave me this flag.'

‘Why do I cycle? I love a bicycle. If it breaks I fix it myself. And if I ride a lot I’ll get nice muscles - legs and all that.'

‘If I want to go somewhere and I want to go quickly, I ride my bike.'

A Forest Story

2011-01-21T03:29:00.000-08:00

Illustrations by Rudolf Mates for A Forest Story by Josef Kozisek (Czechoslovakia, 1929)
Via the wonderful, fascinating and brilliant A Journey Round My Skull.

Handkerchiefs

2011-01-09T21:05:00.000-08:00

I found this wonderful bunch of Political Americana handkerchiefs via Miss Moss via the Cornell University Library collection on flickr. I do love the idea of blowing my nose on a politicians face. They also have some other great images like these postcards.

Thomas Albdorf

2010-12-17T12:29:00.001-08:00

Thomas Albdorf

Edward James

2010-12-12T17:40:00.000-08:00

Edward James and his Guide - Hadrian - the Macaw. From this great post here.

Las Pozas ("the Pools") is a sculpture garden built by James, more than 2,000 feet above sea level, in a tropical rain forest in the mountains of Mexico. It includes more than 80 acres of natural waterfalls and pools interlaced with towering Surrealist sculptures in concrete.

I originally saw this garden on 'Around the World in 80 Gardens'. I loved that show. No wonder I get teased for my granny tastes. Anyway, it reminds me of Paronella Park in North Queensland.

Alexander Calder

2010-10-30T16:55:00.001-07:00

"To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry."

I saw a retrospective of his at the Miro Foundation in Barcelona when I was 19. There were early films of his mobiles and his studio and his circus. It was one of my first moments when I found it hard to leave the gallery, I was there for hours.

Anyway, these from the home of Alexander Calder. A little bit of a dream house.

Eileen Agar

2010-10-30T07:03:00.000-07:00

It began here. More here. Eileen Agar. I love her numbers shirt.

Rope

2010-10-21T17:45:00.000-07:00

Shimenawa. Shinto. Another reason to love Japan, the wedded rocks.

Make Me Psychic

2010-10-15T21:36:00.000-07:00

Sally Cruikshank

Renilde Depeuter

2010-09-06T03:52:00.000-07:00

Renilde Depeuter from Antwerp. Gorgeous needlework. I LOVE these. And would like to live with those harlequins and little people.
At Swim – Two Birds. And here.

Folding and sorting

2010-09-05T06:03:00.000-07:00

Some Clothes to sort. Guerra de la Paz, Christian Boltanski and Derick Melander.

Brion Nuda Rosch

2010-07-17T03:38:00.001-07:00

Brion Nuda Rosch.

Carnival

2010-07-04T05:53:00.001-07:00

Here’s a nice collection of three vintage Knock Down Dolls or Punks from a Carnival or Circus. All 3 characters have their own personality— all double sided and retain their original wood bases.

Via Accidental Mysteries.

ALL swank Dollar

2010-06-18T02:46:00.000-07:00

Annie Larson of ALL is obviously alright by me. Crazy coloured knit cotton goodness of my geometric multi-clashing dreams. Waaaah. Of course I want some. I will just have to settle to watching from afar just now.

Louise Bourgeois

2010-06-01T06:34:00.000-07:00

Louise Bourgeois 1911 - 2010

Bourgeois last exhibition in Venice (2010) I'd love to go. Oh well.

From 5 June to 19 September an exhibition entitles "Fabric Drawings" opens in Venice at the Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova. Presenting the work of Louise Bourgeois, it has been curated by Germano Celant in collaboration with Jerry Gorovoy of the Studio Bourgeois, New York and is the last exhibition in which she was actively involved. On show in the Venetian space, in an architectural setting designed to house drawings and sculptures, will be her almost unknown output of works made out of fabric, such as the rich series of her Fabric Drawings, created between 2002 and 2008, and the light presence of her Cells, like Conscious and Unconscious, 2008. Bourgeois passed away from a heart attack on May 31, 2010.

Masquerade

2010-05-29T22:57:00.001-07:00

Photographs by Phyllis Galembo. Via but does it float care of Cookie Burrows. Thanks Cooks!

Adam Cruickshank

2010-05-26T16:53:00.000-07:00

DOMESTIC DEATH RATTLE.
Opening: June 3, 2010. 6pm – 8pm
West Space, Lvl 1, 15-19 Anthony Street, Melbourne.

http://www.adamcruickshank.com/2010/domestic-death-rattle/

Elisa Strozyk

2010-04-30T04:36:00.000-07:00

Wooden Textiles 2009-2010

The world around us is becoming increasingly immaterial. We are now used to write emails instead of letters, to pay online, to download music and touch virtual buttons on touch screens. We live in a society of images, a visual culture full of colours, advertisements, television and the internet. There is not much left to feel. Giving importance to surfaces that are desirable to touch can reconnect us with the material world and enhance the emotional value of an object.
“Wooden Textiles” convey a new tactile experience. We are used to experience wood as a hard material, we know the feeling of walking across wooden floors, to touch a wooden tabletop or to feel the bark of a tree. But we usually don’t experience a wooden surface which can be manipulated by touch.

Map Quilt

2010-04-18T03:58:00.001-07:00

Great quilt. Hi + Low.

Flags

2010-04-12T22:56:00.000-07:00

FANTE, ASAFO FLAGS, Ghana.

Crystal too

2010-04-04T18:28:00.001-07:00

These stunning rings are made by New Zealand designer Nga Waiata and I want one of them. Unusual for me as I couldn't care less for rings and struggle to wear them, though for these I could get over it. Seen on the blog of clever Nikki Gabriel.

Crystal

2010-04-04T18:13:00.000-07:00

These beautiful crystal paintings by Carly Waito are very easy to love. I don't think that should be held against them though. I could stare at them for ages.

Bamboo magic

2010-03-29T17:03:00.000-07:00

I found this incredible bamboo encased phone on Afrigadget. A showcase for all kinds of African ingenuity, including 3 men building a helicopter using scrap metal and an old van engine.

Ikea Headdress

2010-03-29T07:29:00.000-07:00

Adam Cruickshank wearing the Ikea Headdress from 'Reverse Cargo', his recent exhibition at Craft Victoria.

Headgear

2010-03-27T20:57:00.001-07:00

Knitted grey pullover mask.

I love all kinds of headgear. What's not to love about rolled plantain fibre, quilted pith helmets and beaded buckskin. Even the names are perfect. From the Peabody Collection, though I saw them here first.

Quilted pith helmet originally belonging to F.J. Gillen.

Plantain Fiber Fighting Turban.

Apache buckskin cap.

Peabody Museum
Harvard University

11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Mass.

Hunt Slonem

2010-03-16T03:36:00.001-07:00

All images from The Selby.
It's seems Hunt Slonem has a studio after my own heart. Orchids, parrots, monkeys and some joyous, dodgy cut outs. I love them.

More Michel Gondry Goodness

2010-02-10T20:24:00.000-08:00

Mia Doi Todd "Open Your Heart" dir. Michel Gondry from Viewers Like You on Vimeo.

Sanne Maloe Slecht

2010-02-01T17:18:00.000-08:00

Another rainbow obsessive, from here.

Rainbow pigeon

2010-01-03T00:23:00.000-08:00

Laurel Roth
Biodiversity Reclamation Suits for Urban Pigeons: Carolina Parakeet
2009
crocheted yarn, hand carved pigeon mannequin, walnut stand

Allison Schulnik

2009-11-22T18:57:00.001-08:00

Standing Gin and 1/3 Gold Nipple man, both from a set called THING. Found Here.

OMFG!

2009-11-22T17:40:00.000-08:00

ADAM CRUICKSHANK
HIT & MISS
KOTOE ISHII
ROB MCLEISH
SIMON PERICICH
DELL STEWART
EMILE ZILE

Curated by Adam Cruickshank and Dell Stewart.

OMFG! Various meanings, forms and incidences are offensive to some, but not to others. Why, where and what are these subjectivities and how can we possibly hope for everyone to be happy, all of the time?

In a world where big culture costs trillions, is cynically target-marketed and controlled by bigger economics, the individual artist deciding she or he can brazenly contribute to culture on their own divisive terms is tantamount to a revolution.

Opens 25th November , 6pm at C3 Gallery.

Watermelons

2009-11-05T00:33:00.000-08:00

I love these gay carvings. Found by googling 'great art'. Also, another questionable development on the watermelon front, square stackable melons.

War Rugs

2009-10-21T14:46:00.001-07:00

For thousands of years, the woman of nomadic tribes in what is now Afghanistan and its environs have been weaving rugs by hand. The oldest known and intact example of these rugs in the world is the “Pazyryk” rug dating from the 4th century B.C. (currently housed in the St. Petersburg Museum). These traditional pieces of folk art have long depicted the same deeply rooted motifs and patterns, with occasional images derived from the artist’s everyday experiences. However, about 25 years ago, all that suddenly changed. Following the 1979 Soviet invasion into Afghanistan, rug dealers began seeing drastic alterations in the content of Afghani rugs. Tanks replaced flowers, rocket launchers replaced vases and airplanes replaced abstract borders.

Those living outside of the war-torn Afghanistan can’t comprehend the reality of living in a world where the images depicted through the rugs are a part of everyday life. To the women of Afghanistan the rugs have become a way to make their voices heard and to communicate to the rest of the world what they live with everyday.

Adam sent me this website yesterday with the subject line: Would we get one? All of these rugs and many more are here.

Eatable of Many Orders

2009-10-07T16:44:00.001-07:00

I found these incredible bags here. Like some things I have been wanting to make.

I really wanna go Japan next year

2009-10-07T14:21:00.000-07:00

All images and more information at Biliodyssey, the internet home of amazing images.

Charlie Logan

2009-09-30T16:44:00.000-07:00

This is he, and his incredible work. Thanks to Pen for the heads up. All images and more information can be found at Accidental Mysteries.

Mr Imagination

2009-09-30T15:08:00.001-07:00

Found here.

Rosemarie Fiore

2009-09-19T19:06:00.001-07:00

Rosemarie Fiore lots of good work, but these fireworks paintings just look so good.

Anna Emilia

2009-09-19T19:01:00.001-07:00

Anna Emilia probably likes wood too.

William Blake

2009-09-16T21:00:00.001-07:00

Movie posters from Ghana

2009-09-02T15:10:00.000-07:00

I thankfully found them here...

Sally Campbell

2009-08-29T16:32:00.001-07:00

These gorgeous patchwork quilts from vintage sari fabrics, handmade in villages in India. I would love one. More here. I read about them here.

Good enough to eat

2009-08-19T03:52:00.000-07:00

This beautiful dress is apparently made from hand-loomed shimsa (nonviolent) silk blessed by H.H. The Dalai Lama, hand-dyed with iris root, sumac leaves, boiled carob, indigo, blueberries, first-year woad leaves, mulberries, elderberries, grapes, cherry root, red maple, raspberries, blackberries, pokeweed, hibiscus, day lillies, and (wait for it) logwood!.

Look here for more. Bodkin.

Emily Barletta

2009-08-09T22:10:00.000-07:00

From top to bottom, Spill, Pelt and Flesh Spot.

Beautiful, yet gory. Like the prettiest scabs and vomit you've ever seen. More here.

John Brack

2009-08-08T21:03:00.000-07:00

On history, on war, on humanity, with paint and pencils.

Ikat

2009-08-03T23:24:00.001-07:00

Stunning textiles, I found here. I would wear all of them.

Noble and Webster

2009-07-11T00:26:00.001-07:00

Some more here and here.

Same Same

2009-07-10T22:59:00.000-07:00

Hagenspiegel (Hare Mirror), 1988-2000 by Markus Raetz

I just caught an amazing documentary on Markus Raetz. Very inspiring. I had seen this before, and loved it so was good to be reminded. eben, an animation, look here.

But I also fell in love with his kinetic sculptures, particularly OUI-NON, the suspended faces (duo) and his various mickey heads. All of which I am having trouble finding images of at the moment.

Michael Jackson

2009-07-03T16:32:00.000-07:00

Love over Gold

2009-06-21T20:46:00.000-07:00

A couple of photos from my visit to Helen Johnson's show at Sutton Gallery.

Maybe it's Maybelline

2009-06-19T19:19:00.000-07:00

International Makeovers and Other Catastrophes, 2009.

Brand make-up and hair-dye including Maybelline™ concealer, Estee Lauder™, MAC™, Dior™,L'Oreal™ etc.
15 printed newspaper clippings of victims of disasters and misfortune.

Customized A4 black frames, novelty sticky tape, stickers, glitter.

I think this makeover collection by Simon Pericich is a little piece of genius. Currently on show at 200 Gertrude St.

AND... an old favourite.

When They Come We Will Be Ready 2008

We live in an age where we can't take sunscreen on a plane because of fear that it may be weapon. Simon Pericich comments on these and other recent global paranoias with a display of over 70 hysterical renditions of dangerous looking artworks crudely yet obsessively fashioned out of common house-hold objects. The overwhelming arsenal for an imagined futuristic army keeps us hilariously safe from unknown benevolent forces, reminding viewers 'everything really isn't that bad'.

AJ Fosik

2009-06-18T22:45:00.000-07:00

Seen via Jonathan Levine Gallery

Each Morning Takes Figuring Out How to Live All Over Again

Bear Study Life Size (Mixed Media)

Lionel Esteve

2009-04-28T20:52:00.000-07:00

"The River at Night" 2009 and "Nice Haircut" 2004

Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin

Hemlock

2009-04-21T05:06:00.000-07:00

Bryan Nash Gill

Henrique Oliveira

2009-04-12T01:47:00.000-07:00

Trunk 2007

Tapumes 2008
Tapumes (detail) 2008

Henrique Oliveira

color location ultimate experience

2009-03-22T15:27:00.000-07:00

Still from a performance by A.L. Steiner + robbinschilds; the videos are choreographed patterns, crafted through the use of carefully timed jump cuts that divide the piece into discrete, color-coded sections. In C.L.U.E., robbinschilds is costumed in rainbow hues as they perform a series of choreographed duets to a score by Kinski.

Karl Blossfeldt

2009-03-17T14:38:00.000-07:00

All images from Karl Blossfeldt's masterwork, Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Nature).
Self-taught in photography, he devoted himself to the study of nature, photographing nothing but flowers, buds and seed capsules for thirty-five years. He once said, "The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form."

BAGISM

2009-03-02T13:56:00.000-08:00

Ricky Swallow

2009-03-01T18:16:00.001-08:00

Field Recording/Highland Park Hydra
Ricky Swallow

yayoi kusama

2009-03-01T17:05:00.000-08:00

sleeping bag bear

2009-02-25T16:19:00.001-08:00

need I say more?

http://eikoishizawa.com/

pastel cats

2009-02-23T00:29:00.000-08:00

Not sure why but I love this image...

Brad Moore

2009-02-22T18:16:00.001-08:00

More here...

Louise Weaver

2009-02-02T12:25:00.000-08:00

I could go on and on about these beautiful things, and many others, but I won't. Louise Weaver.

Ubiquitous Slopes

2008-12-12T15:05:00.000-08:00

Susan Jacobs at Utopian Slumps

tattooed lady

2008-11-13T01:20:00.000-08:00

las hermanas iglesias

2008-10-27T06:43:00.000-07:00

Las Hermanas Iglesias

louis porter

2008-10-09T21:02:00.000-07:00

lots of good photos here...

deyrolle

2008-10-03T07:16:00.000-07:00

If I only had a photo of the taxidermied woolly calf to show you, but right now, I don't, I'll just be annoying and write a 'note to self' about it.

michelle arcila

2008-09-29T21:03:00.000-07:00

Miss Michelle Arcila, I do love you!

beard be gone

2008-09-29T20:57:00.000-07:00

hairy green bean man

2008-08-24T00:54:00.000-07:00

dreamer

2008-07-24T05:01:00.001-07:00

Installation detail, 'Dead to the World' a collaborative exhibition, from sleepclub.
Adam Cruickshank & Dell Stewart at Utopian Slumps in 2006.