Pawn Shop was a brilliant idea for an art store, bringing art by some very high profile artists down to street level in Chinatown, NYC. It also challenged the very nature of the gallery space as unsuspecting patrons could walk in to view the goods, instead finding art. Unfortunately it seems that they have now filed for bankruptcy.
Karsten Schmidt’s website Toxi has some really great experiments in generative/computational form.
The Aquarium Gallery in London is currently hosting the Splatter Exhibition featuring all your favourite cartoon characters slicing and dicing each other up. Think Loony Tunes meets Itchy & Scratchy. (via Slash Film)
It’s that time of year again. The onedotzero motion graphics festival is once again upon us. With upcoming events in Denmark, Russia and the UK, if you’re around you should definitely get down to one to check out some of the freshest work in the industry. (Check out the trailers on Vimeo).
WWEK (white weekend kites) is a collective researching computational forms in architecture. Some of the concepts are amazing. Definitely worth a look for those of you into generative art or futuristic architecture.
Damien Correll is a designer from NYC with some pretty fresh work. Shown above is the piece ‘One Shot’ which was created for an advertising campaign to entice young creatives to produce a treatment for an ad spot which would then be created by the sponsor.
Dirty Found (NSFW) is the sister site to Found Magazine and contains all the risque finds that aren’t published in the regular version. The items shown are funny, creepy, sexy or just plain weird, but provide an interesting insight into the thought process of others.
I’m not really sure how to define, Magdalena Bors’ work. Amazing sculptures depicting fantastic landscapes, created from everyday objects that can be found in the home.
Minimaforms are and architecture and design form who build experimental and ephemeral structures designed to engage and experiment. Shown above is a still from their ‘smoke signals‘ installation which explores the dynamics of smoke and light integrated with todays SMS technology.
