Alexa Meade

Alexa Meade creates some stunning images (Textures? Paintings? Performances? Call these brilliant work what you will ...!) by applying acrylic on human flesh and our clothes.

Move over realism, because here comes-a ... umm, this!

via todayandtomorrow.

Mobius Dress

Woah there!

Hello.

Maybe I think too much (read: need to get out more ... or at all), but it seems that we are taking a step backwards. Please note that this is me speaking from my own observations and experiences, of course. Despite having a somewhat negative connotation, stepping backwards in this case is rather delightful!

The fascination with technological advances will never cease, but things made by hand, from scratch is rare and thus, we cherish it. Think handmade, sculpted little pieces of art, jewellery for example. I promise this post was not written to brag about my latest (and final one for a little while) film camera purchase... but more and more people are taking up film photography. For me I felt it necessary because I was taking advantage of the auto setting on my digital cameras, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this - not that it is a bad thing, but click click click, no learning in the process.

OK, thinking-aloud session over.

One of the best dresses I have ever laid eyes on - the Mobius Dress by architecture duo Meejin Yoon and Eric Howeler, of MY Studio/HY Architecture. Personal architecture heroes, too. Conceptual, thoughtful architecture, installations, experimentations ... blurring and breaking down boundaries.

I apologise for the sporadic updates! I promise to be less rambly, too ha ha. More architecture-related things up ahead I hope!

typography tuesday: sasha prood

 Sasha Prood, found via BOOOOOM! 

All images from Sasha's website.

cold on the outside; warm on the inside

Two things making me happy this chilly winter morning:

This clip and these two actors together:
Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

(in fact, the truth is that I just love anything from 500 Days of Summer - see exhibits A and B)

And, somewhat more ambivalent about the video, but in love with the song:
Broken Social Scene presents Kevin Drew - Safety Bricks

halsman's jump

Back in the 1950s, photographer Phillipe Hallsman invented his very own, tounge in cheek Rorsach test. At the end of each potrait sitting he did, after all the serious shots were taken, Hallsman asked his subjects to jump for the camera. Ok, so the whole jump thing has been a little overdone of late (I'm looking at you, Toyota), but there is nonetheless something delicious about seeing historical figures cast aside their inhibitions, and quite literally jump for joy.

from the top: Audrey Hepburn, The Windsors, Salvador Dali, Eva Marie Saint, Richard Nixon, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Oppenheimer, Grace Kelly and Dick Clark.

story via checks and spots, images from the photography post

No Man's Land by Christian Boltanski

I've long been a fan of the work of French artist Christian Boltanski, especially his installations in unconventional contexts such as churches and warehouses. His body of work consists of issues concerning self identity, death and the Holocaust ... or I suppose, the effects of the Holocaust - I can't get enough of Nazi Germany history. Boltanski's small and large scale installations create such strong imagery that are evocative, inspiring and engages his audience on a rather personal level - powerful works that evoke emotions.

Boltanski is currently exhibiting a large-scale installation, titled No Man's Land at New York's Park Avenue Armory It features 30 tons of discarded clothing (a medium that he often employs), 3000 used biscuit tins and the sound of human heartbeats, gathered from all over the world.

Typography Tuesday

Word as Image: Clever design from Ji Lee. I, of course, like the last two best.

images from Ji Lee