My first piece of furniture

I really enjoyed planning and making this piece. Welding was a new experience for me and it was so fun. I'd like to do more furniture in the future and I'd love to see this piece on a really large scale outside a building or something...but that's just a dream. Maybe some day!

Michael Cera is the Coolest Kid

Not to mention...a lucky bugger too. He's in some of the best and most talked about movies of the last 3 years, one of the greatest television shows of all time and seemingly has a group of pretty rad friends. I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling like we could have gone to high school together and that's why I like him. He seems pretty down-to-earth, still kind of a loser, but that breed of loser when at some point they become the coolest loser at school. I dig.

Here he is in Islands new video for No You Don't.

Photos...round one

Underwater photography by Bruce Mozertom, 1938. via Bored Bored.

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Square America. I have a thing for vintage photographs and this site has possibly the best online gallery of them I've ever seen.







...I could go on and on

"Organize Bookmarks"

I have over 100 websites in my bookmarks and desperately need to clean it out. I'm going to do that over the next few days and blog probably most of what I find.

Graffiti

The further you delve into the world of graffiti/street art, the more apparent it is that specific styles begin to emerge out of different cities over time. For whatever reason, "Western" graffiti seems to have taken less of an artistic approach over the years. Granted, occasionally you can discover some incredibly imaginative street art in Canada and America but, for the most part, seriously artistic work is left for Europeans.
Case in point...Ukraine:





via Hemmy

London is home to the infamous Banksy, who has managed to shoot street art into a realm never before seen. I mean, who knew Angelina Jolie would be buying up seriously pricey collections from a man who began by stenciling all over London in the dead of night? I might be slightly "over it" now but I can't make a post about street art without a few Banksy works. And, just to keep with the theme of things, these are all found in London, although he did some incredibly socially-conscious (as his work always is) pieces in New Orleans after the hurricane.




via Art of the State

Going back a few years...
Picasso's light graffiti from 1949. This kind of light art is super popular right now but anytime I see a time-lapse photo of bubbles, robots or words created with any kind of bulb or fire, I think of this. Gorgeous in its simplicity and originality at the time, Picasso's light art is overlooked in most surveys of his work. I find it fascinating that even though this is a hard thing to control, his style permeates.





via Wooster Collective


And finally...
I think I've blogged this before but it's still in my bookmarks and fits this post.
The Reverse Graffiti Project

The Reverse Graffiti Project
by BriKO

via Daily Motion


That's all for now. 4 down...many more to go.

xo

Last Semester

First off, it was a terrible semester for me, hence the lack of blogs, but I'm forcing myself to be enthusiastic again and post regularly.

Here's my final two sculptures from last semester.
































Stay tuned for work this semester and the usual posts. I'm going to get back in the habit of this!

Xo