FIBERS

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Michael Johansson

One of those things you WISH you'd thought of. Freakin genius.
Here's his portfolio.

"Johansson was born in Trollhättan 1975, took his MA at the Art Academy in Malmö 2005, where he still lives and works. In his playful installations and sculptures Michael Johansson puts the qualities from daily life objects in opposition to their field of application. By repetition, displacement of scale, and new function, he questions the receivers interpretations of the unique."
-- Abducted by Design

Saturday, January 2, 2010

That new Beach House jam

is swell. Can't wait for Teen Dream, January 26.
Download "Norway" here, legally and free.

Friday, January 1, 2010

Jimmie

"Durham was born in Washington, Arkansas and became active in theatre, performance and literature related to the US civil rights movement in the 1960s. His first solo exhibition as a visual artist was in Austin, Texas in 1965. Durham moved to Geneva, Switzerland in 1968. He studied at L'École des Beaux-Arts, Geneva until being drawn back to the US in 1973 through his involvement with the American Indian Movement (AIM). From 1973 until 1980 Durham worked as a political organizer with AIM, becoming a member of the movement’s Central Council. He also served as director of the International Indian Treaty Council and representative to the United Nations. When AIM fragmented at the end of the 1970s Durham, who was then living in New York City, returned his attention to art, creating sculptures that radically challenged conventional representations of North American Indians. He exhibited and published essays frequently and from 1981 to 1983 he was the director of the Foundation for the Community of Artists in New York. In 1983 West End Press published Columbus Day, a book of his poems and in 1988 his poetry was also included in Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry."

wikipedia.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Around mountain town

Friday, December 25, 2009

The Endangered Analog Species.

Polanoid, an online flickr-esque community of polaroid photographers hosts a lot of interesting projects.

The current one, Unmade Beds (based off the new independant film) is a collection of polaroids that exhibit "the remains of *your* passionate, eggziting, boring, sleepless, sweat-soaked nights."

BUT. That project aside, one of my favorites was the Endangered Analog Species Project:

"Let this project be a tribute to all those analog goodies whose right to exist is endangered by their digital successors - vinyl records and their players, analog phone booths, dial plates, typewriters, Scopitones, Gummiringerln, the Rodox magazine, ... you name it, you shoot it, we celebrate it!"

For all you visual learners..

New York City residents waste 270,000 pounds of food every single day. Want to know what that looks like?
See more videos like these here on the AdBusters blog.