Rope Masks by Bertjan Pot

Hand stitched by Dutch interior designer Bertjan Pot, these rope masks are a playful experimentation of woven materials that can become both graphical and fashionable.

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Jayson Musson

"Halcyon Days"

He was one my favorite characters in Philadelphia! I remember meeting him and wishing that he can be my friend so I can have a blasting experience during my stay there. His sarcasm and attitude cracks my mind cause he has a very *badass way of saying "Black Like Me" (also was the name of his column in Philadelphia Weekly). I'm surprised to see his new artworks as he had a very different take on to this "black" attitude. He wove stacks of Coogi sweaters (we are familiar with the apparel brand as being Bill Cosby's favorite sweater in his show and rappers like The Notorious B.I.G populiarized the brand by calling "cool gangster/coogi") and called his exhibition's name Halcyon Days, where Halcyon bird  is known as a kingfisher that resides in sub-Saharan Africa and so is the name of the the bird in Greek legend that is now used as a term for peace or calmness. So you get the idea.

* You need to check out Jayson Musson's early works to see what kind of humor I'm talking about.

Christoffer Relande

Multiple Exposures by1986 born Finish photographer Christoffer Rlande.

Kevin Weir - Flux Machine

I love love love gifs! Enjoy watching these spectacular old pictures becoming alive with Kevin's spooky imagination through his Flux Machine.

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Monster Rally "The Color Sky" (The Melon Workers) by Nathaniel Whitcomb

Just found and had to share another work by Nathaniel Whitcomb's for Monster Rally "The Color Sky" (The Melon Workers) - I've watched Monster Rally's show @ Glasslands Gallery when I was living in Brooklyn last year. He had good old visuals and his music was fun!





Nice catch!

Holy Spirits - White Walls crafted by Nathaniel Whitcomb

I love collage but motion collage!? I'm much more in love right now!

Digging deep for GIFs nowadays especially the ones that comes with cool mixtapes!
- check out my friends' blog Jumpy Potato,  will have a post about the designers as soon as they publish their new website. Though I've been craving to work on my own collage posts lately, if you didn't catch it here it is "Falling down as a Ghost".  I will post a new one soon...

This "motion collage" phenomenon is something new to me and the fact that it sings about the white wall and depicts it in such charming way mesmerized me as I was just working on a piece last night similar to the "white wall" concept myself! When it's done I'll let you know!

For now let's enjoy this piece that was created for Holy Spirits debut ep "The Afternoon Blood" where the 40 year old National Geographic magazines were hand cut, scanned and digitally assembled by talented artist Nathaniel Whitcomb. It works magically with the song  in a bit of spooky way. The wall appearing in these retro images  recalls the wall in Space Odessey to me, it's almost like a secret message delivered to us now - considering that we are in 2012 now!




(sad news:  I just discovered that the group fell apart last year :( I guess it makes them much more valuable for the time being... )

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Ashley Joseph Edwards

City//People//Shape

Destructive influence

//Embrace//Nature//

He//Promised//Me//The//Galaxy

Hot Airlephant

Lost

Mangled

//Mentally//Departed//

Moonscape

The Weather Can Be Unpredictable

Check out for more

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Chad Wys

First time I saw his works, I thought he actually painted them (yes out from scratch) but now I realized they are digitally made...

The Nocturne series

Nocturne 112

archival pigment print

2011

Nocturne 112

archival pigment print

2011

Nocturne 113

archival pigment print

2011

Nocturne 113

archival pigment print

2011

Nocturne 93

archival pigment print

2011

Nocturne 93

archival pigment print

2011

Nocturne 80

archival pigment print

2011

Nocturne 80

archival pigment print

2011

via but does it float

Prince Lauder: Mixed Media Collages

I just dug my old FB posts and found this artist Prince Lauder (aka Carlos Guerrero), a Mexican illustrator who uses mixed media to create his drawings inspired mainly by fashion.

                                               Sofía Mónaco

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Sung Yeonju

Born in Korea in 1986, Sung Yeonju graduated from the Hong Ik University in 2010.
She makes garments out of food and photographs them. This series of work called "Wearable Foods".
Sung Yeonju is represented by LA based art consulting firm Art-Merge.

Banana

Eggplant

Bubblegum

Winter Mushroom

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Esra Carus - Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair:

Esra Carus, who was born in 1969 in Istanbul graduated from Mimar Sinan University, Ceramic-Glass Department. She's been active with her art projects since 1991 but transformed herself into a graphic artist starting from 2008.
I encountered to one of her pieces  in Contemporary Istanbul Fair last Sunday and collected more for my taste:

Dancer

Odalisk

from puppet masters project

Sultan Abdulhamit

via Contemporary Istanbul

Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove

Dr Strangelove Dr Strangelove, 2003-2006
giclee print on archival photo paper mounted on DiBond, 27.9 x 76.2 cm

by 

Kristan Horton 

via The World's Best Ever

David Gomez

 via Escape Into Life

For more of his work check out his website and his blog

Maurizio Anzeri: The Embroidered Secrets

Nadia, 2009 Embroidery on Print

Peter, 2009 Embroidery on Print
 

Angelo, 2009 Embroidery on Print

Louise B, 2009 Embroidery on Print
 

Barnaba, 2009 Embroidery on Print 

Rebecca, 2009 Embroidery on Print 20.5 x 15.5 cm

 

Penny, 2009. Embroidery on Print 24 x 13 cnm.

Round Midnight, 2009 Embroidery on Print 62 x 45cm

Rita, 2011. Embroidery on print 23.5 x 17.5 cm

"It's about feeding another dimension" 

- Maurizio Anzeri

For him, the physicality of puncturing a needle in the actual image is"an action of penetration".

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