Recently an “Australian” alcohol brand created a project in which artists are asked to submit designs for a paper bag, (The type of paperbags used to cover their bottles of wine). The project is to promote a new drink the company has, which one could assume will be aimed at the youth market.
How does it work? Well, you submit your designs and they are judged, then you win all sorts of sexy prizes if you come out the other side on top.
This seems to be a bit of a trend recently with big corporations such as Piza Hut and Nikee are both doing similiar art related competitions, which makes you wonder who was first, and who jumped on the wagon.
Anyhow, we know Australia is a small country, but we are very talented in many fields here, and you often wonder why we need to pull in a big international star to make something seem exciting (think of that actor from friends at the logies a few years ago, he “rocked”)
Ok, if we cant make something like this happen on our own so lets pull the big star to get the kids excited, and who do they decide to pull in? None other than this person, and there is no need to tell you anything about him, you can read it all yourself on that page.
The question is this, why couldn’t they have chosen another local artist? If they wanted one with a political edge we have more than enough here doing Fantastic work, one only need think of the likes of Ben Frost etc.
- David Goldberg
One of the central works in the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May), Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells taken from mice, has died. The artists, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, say the work which was fed nutrients by tube, expanded too quickly and clogged its own incubation system just five weeks after the show opened.
Catts and Zurr run a laboratory at the University of Western Australia in Perth; this combines artistic practice with scientific research. The jacket is one of several works created as part of their Tissue Culture & Art Project. Speaking to The Art Newspaper for a televised interview, Paola Antonelli, head of MoMA’s architecture and design department and curator of the show, says she had to make the decision to turn off the life-support system for the work, basically “killing” it.
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12.05.08. filed under General.
The brilliant Josef Lee is back with 2 more works of art (click the images above or the links to see them)
His 2nd story - ‘Feb 14′ is a quirky love story between a Giant and the Statue of Liberty. Like Cloverfield, but minus the mass destruction.
The 3rd story, only recently released is titled ‘The Adventures of Yutaro’, a modern and strange Japanese folktale about a half-fish, half-human boy named Yutaro.
For more info, you can check out his recent interview with SCENE360, the film and arts online magazine for my short stories.
“If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything…”
Who can forget that famous line by Marty McFly from the classic 80’s generation defining series ‘Back to the Future’?
Meet Tyrone’s Spring/Summer 08/09 collection titled ‘Back to the Future’ is inspired by time travel and the fascination with the parallel universe. It is about travelling at breakneck speeds in a time continuum to the future while the present stands still.
The ‘Back to the future’ range features assorted, comfortable and light summer pieces for men and women. Meet Tyrone’s original graphic T-Shirt designs feature three summer prints the ‘Clock’, ‘De Lorean’, and ‘Abstract’. All shirts are available in charcoal, white and turquoise and feature a new summer cut $79.20 RRP.
To Meet Tyrone visit www.meettyrone.com and check out the fashion of the future that is still the same - yet refreshingly different.
Our good friends at Two Flat Whites have a nice little interview with Luke Feldman creator of SKAFFS and you can read it here
11.05.08. filed under Blogs.
Just a note to anyone noticing some weird things here, we have migrated to an australian server finally, so it should be nice and fast!
Also, we have changed location and our permalinks, a bit of a hassle, but worth it in the end. This means you will need to update your old links to articles and also our RSS feed.
So I just flew in from attending some Melbourne and Sydney fashion week shows and I have to say, what the fuck is going on with the models?
We know it happens all the time - people say the models are too thin, but maybe it’s because they actually are. Having seen them first hand - I have to say, some of these girls look revolting. And while it may be the clothes look better on thin girls, if we wanted to see skeletons we could have gone to the cemetery and dug up some corpses. Continue Reading ►
kinyobi has just released hoodies for winter ‘08.
All prints are printed by hand at strathwood studios, vic and highly limited
designs include:
‘electric swarm’ - printed on black and grey
’short blade’ - printed on grey and sand
’stencil fuzz’ - printed on dark grey
’stencil fro’ - printed on black
check the website for full details www.kinyobidesigns.com
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