John and I are in the LA/OC area working on some things. Today we dropped by Dan Taylor’s surfboard factory in Costa Mesa to hang with DT in his shaping bay. John picked up his wicked ‘Burger Beater’, a chip with a little more foam hidden away for the waist waste high days. It’s always good to check in with sensei DT.
Trip Riddled
®NOVA is a new kind of creative event, open to public, which takes over MIS, Museu da Imagem e do Som in São Paulo, Brazil, and presents live collaborated work in progress processes by more than 100 selected artists from around the world, featuring live art, music & audiovisuals; performances, video screenings, round tables, workshops and many unpredictable social consequences. 7 weeks of non-stop serious art fun. An interactive, full-environmental experience utilizing color, light, textures, music and design, in the form of collaborative and integrated compositions by more than 100 artists from around the world. From hand-made illustrations to large scale murals to modern digital art; moving image to multimedia convergence, art will be made without the limitations or restrictions of traditional format and will rely heavily on the magic of live improvisation. During this constantly evolving and mutating exhibition, the creative process are to be witnessed as an ongoing work in progress rife with experimentation, challenging traditional and contemporary techniques and the bending of modern technology. Only for the happy, the gifted, the curious and the open minded.
Dive Studies by Pedro Ramos
all images from various sources
Olafur Eliasson & Ma Yansong
Feelings are facts, 2010
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
photos politely appropriated from DesignBoom and other sources.
a selection of paintings from Argentine artist Diego Gravinese. This from NY Arts Magazine:
What makes Gravinese’s work especially enticing though, once it is viewed beyond the technical skill, is the subject matter. In one painting three young women sit casually on a sofa; two in their underwear and the third nude. None is paying any particular attention to the next. To the right, another portrait broken from the first frame by thick white border, is another young woman, nude, holding a digital camera. By the way she looks at the back of the camera, we guess that she is reviewing the shot just snapped; perhaps a photo of herself taken in the mirror. This sort of casual exploration of burgeoning sexuality is subtly present throughout the paintings of the exhibition.
Clothing and (un)dressing is repeated iconography found in the photos depicted, and there is a sense of learning and coming of age associated with this depiction. In other moments, where we see one young woman assist another in the application of eye make-up, or in El Elastico a young girl helps another with the back hook of her bra, a sense of collective rites of passage come across.
