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"experiments with hand lettering...a ongoing series based on spam subject lines in my mailbox"
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Steven Johnson New York Times blog on cities is released from behind the Times' paywall.
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My Kid Could Paint That (Trailer)
"In the span of only a few months, 4-year-old Marla Olmstead rocketed from total obscurity into international renown – and sold over $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. She was compared to Kandinsky and Pollock, and called "a budding Picasso.""
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Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not
"There's a mustache drawn on the photo of Marcel Duchamp, the font size keeps changing, and halfway through, the type starts going in a circle. Also, the majority of the actual entry is made up of Krazy Kat cartoons . . . "
Artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck turn a house into an odd work of art.
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"Jonathan Harris distills the Web’s infinite avalanche of thoughts, facts, and feelings into exquisitely framed portraits of humanity."
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Gothamist received a 14-page manifesto from the splasher.
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Diamonds Are Forever! TODAY ONLY!
"If there's any significance at all to Hirst's skull, it's as a symbol of a far-reaching, manipulative cartel of dubious ethics at the center of an elaborately collusive web of mutually beneficial delusion."
Pure insanity.
Not advertising as art but art in advertising
"Dali in some ads. Love that Alka Selzer demo."
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"The oldest, most widely-read fine arts magazine in the world."
Some amazing paper cutouts.
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Patrons or Pirates: the music industry has to choose
What if the music industry restructured itself to more resemble the arts?
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"Soundbombs are New-Media-Accessories. Each one a lowtech object for interactive transmission. An integrated soundmodul makes it possible to record any given sound and then activate it through a motiondetector."
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"interactive design, public installations, 3D software development from Melbourne, Australia"
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"BE AN ANARCHIIVIIST Use Photographs, MOVING IMAGES, TEXTs, s o u n d s , music, PHILOsophies, PORNOgraphies, Artworks–the whole gamut of ‘Information’–and approach it like The Child In Kindergarten"
An exhibit of urinals that look like flowers, shells and other natural things.
Swimming With Famous Dead Sharks
On the replacement of the shark in Damien Hirst's famous “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.�
Try your hand at painting. Virtual style.
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LA///BANKSY'S "BARELY LEGAL" SHOW VIP SNEAK PEEK . . .
Ton of pictures from Banksy's LA show.
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"What if someone told Steve Jobs to “stay in the lines�, or what if Thomas Edison never tried coloring outside of a line, just to see what would happen?"
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'Guerrilla artist' replaces heiress's CDs in shops with doctored versions
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Dangerous Beauty: The Art of the Shiv
A beautiful collection of shivs.
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Does process matter? Does outcome matter? Do neither matter at all?
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With the accessibility of new technology, it's all about the content.
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"A new theory suggests that creativity comes in two distinct types – quick and dramatic, or careful and quiet."
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"The message reflects one of W+K founder Dan Wieden's sayings, "You're only good to me after you've made three tremendous mistakes." (See also our 'Embrace failure' sign.) Hence, the 12's advice to everyone at W+K : Fail Harder."
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"In 1981, artist Richard Serra installs his sculpture Tilted Arc, in Federal Plaza in New York City." It was destroyed because people didn't like it.
A Grand Old Flag And Very Modern Art
"Plenty of rigorous abstraction from the 1960s shares the hard edges, asymmetries, unusual proportions and unlikely color combinations of the American flag."
What if men were drawn in the same objectifying way as women in comic books?
A beautiful short multimedia film based on William Blake's "The Tiger"
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"Author and design critic Rick Poynor takes a hard look at his own profession and finds that, despite living in an age when everyone's a critic, real criticism is almost impossible to find."
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The personal website of Bill Keagy of xBlog fame.
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"Our community provides a virtual banquet of learning opportunities for Web development, but if you’re looking for actual design information you’ll need to tighten your belt. The fare is paltry."
"So in this article, I thought I'd rustle up a few paragraphs describing how I go about producing an A List Apart Illustration."
Nice looking stuff.
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Some artist in Australia took a bunch of what look like giant milk crates and created a giant person out of them.
The portfolio of Mario Hugo.
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Everything Counts (in large amounts)
In this essay we will look at some of the ways that ideas about architecture are affected by electronic communication and the culture that surrounds it.
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Artist Mark Jenkins installed big lollipop looking things over parking meters around Washington DC.
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What do flag colors really mean? Using flags as visual tools for statistics.
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Dia Art Foundation's museum in Beacon, NY. It's supposed to be great.
Blog from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "Eye Level will be dedicated to American art and the ways in which the nation’s art reflects its history and culture."
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Portfolio of Eduardo Recife.
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Seen On The Streets of Bushwick (New York)
Some beautiful street art from Brooklyn.
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"Parasite is an independant projection-system that can be attached to subways and other trains with suction pads. Using the speed of the train as parameter for the projected content, the projection starts with the train moving inside a tunnel."
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An amazing interview with Cost and Revs for 1994
"Written back in 1994, I think it would be good for the Wooster readers to remember who took the paste up and turned it into something dangerous and started a Street Art phenomenon that is world wide now."
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Some good photos by an old friend.
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Bugs are pretty much the only thing left without any advertising . . . not for much longer.
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"For the first time in history, Skewville, America's most subversive street art twins, will be unlcoking their doors and allowing the public to explore their secret laboratory."
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Website of Jan Rambousek, freelance designer.
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Stories of how street artists got their names. This installment includes: WK, Elboe-Toe, Klutch, Geo, Spazmat, and Dr. D.
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An impressive collection of posters from the Cuban revolution
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Simplicity: The Goldilocks Rule
Good design gives users just enough, but not too much, information -- once knowledge is gleaned, attention moves easily on to a larger task
"Media allegiance spells limitation. Think first, then choose what tools to use."
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Flash game in which Helvetica and Arial duke it out. Helvetica to Arial: "We don't need your type here."
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"The winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003 was JONATHAN IVE, senior vice-president of design at Apple whose innovations include the iPod and iMac."
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A series of Cynthia Greig photos of common objects in tiny proportions
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"Need icons for your new website or web application, at the best price there is (free!)? Try one of the following sets"
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An interactive gallery of movie title sequences designed by Saul Bass
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Pioneering programmer Joshua Dvis works with a star pupil: his software.
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"Information and experience are like food for the creative process. It's raw substance. Information needs to be digested to brain-fat so it can re-immerge as mature creative energy."
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"Joshua Davis is a New York based artist, designer, and technologist producing both public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions."
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Content Stripped Bare: Death of design; reign of content?
"Design, too, is stripped bare. With content playing first fiddle to the world of digital applications, design (or the kind of design that encompasses album art, book jackets, editorial illustrations, and even websites) becomes less and less important."
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Street art around New York, all being released to the public domain
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" A piece about memories, seasons and using the elements of the textual representation of the memory to create an interactive one."
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Scans of the ads in the New Yorker issue that Target completely bought out
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"Approximately 1800 web sites later, I have this collection of 300 of the most interesting, unique, and beautiful formations of pixels to display."
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"This fountain is connected to money currency rates on the internet. It is realtime! Refreshed every five seconds."
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SimpleBits: "Here’s a quick look at the methods and techniques I used to create an icon from the Overcast set."
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Art prankster sprays Israeli wall
Secretive "guerrilla" artist Banksy has decorated Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side.
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Coldplay X&Y Album Art Generator
You type your words and it encodes it into Coldplay X&Y album art
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Keeping T-Shirts in the Moment
NYTimes: "Lately limited edition T-shirts, most likely made in someone's cellar in Brooklyn, have suddenly become the hipster's preferred mode of expression."
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Three-dimensional looking chalk sidewalk art.
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How two mathematicians came to the aid of the Met.
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You give them 28 characters (including spaces) and $9.95, you get back your very own custom stencil.
A blog about creative information visualization
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Put up stickers in support of Darwin and evolution
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"This post is about those symbols we use … or rather, those other people use … to indicate common themes, concepts or ideas. "
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Things Not Overheard at a Conceptual-Art Gallery Opening.
McSweeney's: ""Does naming the work 'Chaos' belie the artist's reliance upon a sparse, monochromatic field, or am I just a pretentious douchebag?""
Adrian Shaughnessy: Decoding Coldplay’s X&Y
Design Observer examines the cover art of Coldplay's new album X&Y
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Yoko Ono has long been defined by her status first as John Lennon's wife and then his widow. But now, at 72, she says she is brimming with a newfound love for life - kinda thing
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Jonah Peretti, Director of R&D at Eyebeam
"Hipster designers and viral marketing firms almost always fail when they try to recreate the magic of these serendipitous projects."
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Digital photos can look great, but some labs won't print those that appear too professional
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With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour
"It was free. It didn't involve the museum's audio device, which resembles a cellphone crossed with a nightstick. And best of all, it was slightly subversive: an unofficial, homemade and thoroughly irreverent audio guide to MoMA, downloaded onto her own i
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NYTimes: "On the spur-of-the-moment, Simon Curtis, inset, grabbed a self-portrait of Michelle Cortez from 31 Grand, a Williamsburg gallery, during an art opening."
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A series of pictures from an abandoned themed park.
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Bending, Bolting and Evading the Police
New York Times profile of street artist Leon Reid
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After five years and 22 million visitors, Tate Modern has changed the way we think about contemporary art
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A Graffiti Legend Is Back on the Street
In the New York graffiti world of the early 1990's, he was everywhere and larger than life, sometimes literally: the name Revs, usually accompanied by that of his partner in crime, Cost, could be found scrawled, wheat-pasted or painted in gargantuan white
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Damn . . . these are some badass pizza cutters.
Idle Words: "But after a while, you begin to notice that all the essays are an elaborate set of mirrors set up to reflect different facets of the author, in a big distributed act of participatory narcissism."
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Do you have what it takes to corral enough traffic to win the cash prizes? Can you make the next Dancing Baby, All Your Base, or Star Wars Kid and ride into the sunset with the bounty?
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Guardian: "What happens to the large-scale installations commissioned for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall when they are taken down? "
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An amazing interactive table that can play CDs without taking them out of the case
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Lots of markers and other so-called graffiti supplies
How did you get your f*&%ing awesome job?
An interview with Incredibles' director Brad Bird
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Wooster Collective: "Tano is an artist in Chicago who pastes photographs over no-parking signs throughout the city of Chicago. We're told that these images are not manipulated."
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More web design resource links than you could shake a stick at
Wooster gets hold of the Reuters article " British Prankster Smuggles Art Into Top NY Museums"
Homepage for future reference . . . currently showing Damien Hirst in Chelsea
Outakes from The New York Times Article
Banksy makes the New York Times
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Banksy Hits New York's Most Famous Museums (All of them)
Banksy put up his own masterpieces in the city's big museums . . . amazing
New York Times article on sneaker culture
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Flickr group of photos of circular objects in a square frame
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Quality pre-made stencils
Art and culture are open to interpretation. Why must we give them fixed identities?
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Some great online art projects
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These are true works of art
A great breakdown of the real costs associated with putting up The Gates in Central Park
A high quality arial picture of the Central Park gates
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Thundercut Alters Downtown WALK Signs in NYC
New York Magazine article about the couple that puts figures on the WALK/DON'T WALK signs
Scott Blake is an artist who makes art out of barcodes
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A very impressive collection of photos displayed impressively with flash in 3D
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Favorite Things of 2004: Part 1
Wooster asks a bunch of artists what their favorie things of 2004 were
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Video showcasing the city council member graffiti campaign to fight the laws they're trying to put in place
Tom Otterness statues on Broadway through November 22
Everyday Matters is a series of occasional essays on creative things, journal making, drawing, etc. intended to challenge, inspire and perplex
Including the complete peice that is the cover of the Beastie Boys' 'To the 5 Boroughs'
Tom Otterness: Life Underground
Awesome installation at the 14th Street & 8th Avenue L/ACE station
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Pong brought alive
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A breakdown of the presidential logos
Welcome to the Stencil Revolution
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The Book
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Recreations of Escher drawings
A list of graffiti sites
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A Wall-to-Wall Tour of New York Street Art
Shepard Fairey and Neckface hit LA
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How could you not be inspired by a yellow circle with a mouth?
More cool stuff from my favorite street artist
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Greatest heists in art history
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Guerrilla artist in statue stunt
BBC covers the new Banksy statue
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New Nike Commercial: See Lance Ride
Really just a good looking commercial
Five tips from Public Ad Campaign
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The company that makes all those crazy pictures made up of crazy pictures
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Wooster Collective : Stickers / Posters / Graf / Culture Jamming
Good advice
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Lawbreakers, armed with paint and paste
NYTimes on street art
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One of my favorite museums in the world
USATODAY.com - Every picture tells a story even on an album cover
A couple of these albums have really good songs on them too
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grainbag On-Line Gallery : Art at your fingertips
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