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JR's TED Prize Wish: Use Art to Turn The World Inside Out

From TED:

JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. Learn more about his work and learn how you can join in at insideoutproject.net.

Swoon and Upper Playground Present: The Walki Print for The Konbit Shelter Project

Swoon and Upper Playground Present:
The Walki Print for The Konbit Shelter Project

New York based artist, Swoon, has teamed with creative lifestyle brand, Upper Playground, to release the limited edition Walki print - 100% of the proceeds from the print will go towards support of The Konbit Shelter Project.

The Konbit Shelter Project was created with the idea that a group of artists, engineers, architects and builders could pool their individual knowledge, resources and time to make a lasting difference in post-earthquake Haiti. Konbit Shelter is a rebuilding initiative, which uses dome-style structures and the super-adobe technique of earth bag architecture to create sustainable, inexpensive and dependable housing for the people of Haiti.  While the structures are extremely resistant to natural disasters, they also have the major benefit of being comprised of 90% earth and requiring no specialized scaffolding and understructure to build - making it a viable option for the people of Haiti to continue building on their own once they learn the method. 

SM - Kcymaerxthaere/Namibia Event (12.16.10 - 12.23.10)

 

Art For Teacher

One of illustrator and art teacher Rama Hughes' fifth graders drew this really awesome still life of Spiderman. Rama says, "This fifth grade drawing of a little vending machine Spider-Man toy is, of course, one of my favorites. I am especially proud of it though because the artist who drew it SO WELL began our classes with a few timid assertions that he just couldn't "do art." More fantastic drawings by Rama's students can be found on his Flickr stream. 

I hope Lulu will have a teacher as inspiring as Rama someday. Believers like him, make dreams a reality. If you'd like to see Rama's own work, drop by Giant Robot's "Post It Show 6" this Saturday!

Dogtown Sunset

I remind myself every day of how lucky we are to live here. Our front yard is one of the most beautiful in the world!

"The Warholian" Recap

We attended the media and VIP reception for Royal/T's "The Warholian" exhibit and received an exclusive tour of the Warhol or Warhol-influenced work by exhibition curator, Eric Shiner, also the Milton Fine Curator of Art at the Andy Warhol Museum. Eric shared new-to-me anecdotes of Warhol's professional and private life including how Warhol found success fairly early in his career. Did you know that Warhol was so successful, he purchased his first Manhattan apartment in his mid-20s for $60,000 (and he paid for half of it in cash)?! Me neither!

Sponsored by Barbie* with free flowing champagne courtesy of Dom Perignon, the opening party was one of the best we've attended in 2010. The bright colors, lively atmosphere, and Lisa Perry pop shop added to the evening's festive vibe. Lulu had tons of fun running around looking at the contemporary works and it seemed like everyone was wearing a smile.

The colorful exhibition contains photos, video, paintings, and objects  by Jeff Koons, Shepard Farey, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, and Warhol and is free and open to the public 10:00am to 6:00pm daily from September 24, 2010 through January 31, 2011. The Lisa Perry shop will be open through October 11th.  Enjoy the event photos! We certainly enjoyed being there.

Royal/T Café
8910 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, California 90232

(310) 559-6300

* The Barbie swag bag included a lovely vinyl bag with electric colors, a super soft short-sleeved t-shirt, a chocolate bar (dark or milk chocolate), and a $25 gift certificate to Barbie!

I Art LA!

Please find it in your heart to help bring art to South Central Los Angeles. Consider showing your support by buying an "I Art LA" shirt designed by artists James Jean, Mel Kadel, SLICK, Marco Zamora, and others. More information available at The Center South LA. Every community deserves art. Let's help make this happen! Thanks, all!

Code for America Fellowship PSA

Bristol - "Art From The New World" (05.15.10 - 08.22.10)

COREY HELFORD GALLERY
in collaboration with
BRISTOL’S CITY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY
present

Art From The New World
A Big Brash Exhibition of the New American Art Scene

***EXHIBITION OPENS TO PUBLIC SATURDAY 15 MAY-SUNDAY 22 AUGUST, 2010***
Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery
Queen’s Road, Bristol BS8 1RL
Free entry. Open daily 10am-5pm

Mother Nature and British Aviation law will not stop the arrival of a shipment of America’s most exciting Urban and Contemporary Art, which is UK-bound to form ART FROM THE NEW WORLD, the ground-breaking exhibition from Los Angeles’ noted Corey Helford Gallery. The world-class, and as yet unseen collection of work from a formidable group of 49 of the finest emerging and noted American artists will now open to the public on SATURDAY 15 MAY. Originally scheduled to be air freighted from the USA, this priceless collection will now arrive from the New World by sea, thanks to the intervention of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökulle volcano.

Paris - Titi from Paris' "Animal Circus" (04.01.10 - 04.24.10)

LA - "Give Me Space to Think" (02.13.10 - 02.27.10)

LA - "The First Six Years" (11.07.09 - 12.30.09)

Air Skating/Surfing with Uncle Bod

Look at Uncle Bod Boyle give baby Lulu board lessons! We've been joking that he'll sponsor Lulu if she decides to skate someday. Growing up in Dogtown, lots of families enjoying skating together. She already has friends that do. And there's even a new local skatepark!  She'll probably be better than I ever was! Oh a parent can dream!

Geoff McFetridge Wild Things Profile Tee

Everybody in our demographic is anxiously waiting... no, dying to catch Maurice Sendak's classic child lit, "Where the Wild Things Are" movie adaptation shot by perma arrested development savant, Spike Jonze. And the marketers know that.

Urban Outfitter's solution to our predicted insatiable appetite for all things wild is an exclusive online store dedicated to Wild Things paraphernalia. Graphic artist Geoff McFetridge created the best Wild Things tee -- it's so simple and fresh! Note: Geoff also created the titles for the trailer and other stuff for the film. More about that here.

Shirt deets: High Profile. Soft crew neck tee with Where The Wild Things Are graphic at the front. Made in the USA. Machine wash.
* Regular fit
* 27.5"l from shoulder to hem
* Fits true to size
* Cotton, polyester

$28.00 USD

Don't forget! The film hits theaters worldwide on October 16th!

Brooklyn - Paranoid Machines Lecture (04.04.09)

Paranoid Machines Brooklyn edition

Paranoid Machines lecture by Jason Brown
At Cabinet, 300 Nevins St, Brooklyn, NY
Sat, April 4, 7pm – 9pm

Please join Machine Project’s Jason Brown for an epic presentation examining contemporary gnostic mythologies of technology and paranoia, focusing on Vannevar Bush as a self-embodied allegorical emblem of information perversity. Bush’s famed “memex” and the modern UFOs are both hypothetical machines—devices which use association and performativity to spin information out of noise. In modern techno-myths, this process is often represented as an alchemical self-destruction resulting in god-like power. Not coincidentally, all these issues are illustrated with disturbing density and prescience in the 1981 Disney film “Tron.”

Call for Submissions: Mini-Golf Course Design Contest

Big City Forum

March 3, 2009 - 5:12 p.m. - Echo Park, CA

I'm a member of Los Angeles do-good organization, Big City Forum, a "project designed to push forth a creative cities agenda." For the second gathering, we met at the Echo Park Film Center to meet and greet other members and to converse with LA-based architects, Stephanie Smith of Ecoshack, and Jenna Didier and Oliver Hess of Materials & Applications.  It was a pleasure for me to meet Stephanie offline and to catch up with Jenna after a near decade lapse of correspondence. The architects walked us through their life's work and shared their experiences of building and creating in the City of Angels. After the insightful presentations, the floor was open to everyone and the community shared their two cents. Discussions of how we could help one another moving forward seemed really sincere and exciting!

I'm proud to be a part of a community so invested in Los Angeles. And I'm grateful to Leonardo for the opportunity. Thanks, all!

Eye Spy 2008

(almost) a photo a day by hustler of culture and silviothemilvio.

RELATED: Eye Spy 2007, Eye Spy 2006

'The Twitter Film' by CSK

the twitter film (racing north, chased by tweets, chasing tweets) from svanes on Vimeo.

Christian shot his road trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco on May 30, 2008. He recently finished his short film about a time lapse journey by car. Christian meant for the clip to move time forward on three levels, "the actual travel that is recorded on film that can be measured in distance and time, while the twitter postings provide an additional register of the day’s progression." Two of my tweets are used in the film, "check your IM chat log PUNK ASS. May 23rd. 6:56 p.m. APOLOGIES good for the next 24 hours," and "according to GOOGLE MAPS, there are 7 car accidents waiting for me on my commute home. looks like i'm taking surface streets from BURBANK!" It's a fun clip, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Entertainment Gathering 2008 Recap

Entertainment Gathering 2008 was incredibly inspirational and moving. I was at times, welling up witnessing what was on stage. But mostly, I was in awe of the human spirit and all the exciting projects and things people were up to. The company was top notch! So many creatives. So much talent. So nice people! I am grateful to have seen and heard what had transpired over a few days in Monterey, California and I look forward to attending the event again in the near future. Thanks EG 2008 for all the story-worthy memories.