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Monstra is coming!

Monstra’s – Festival de Cinema de Animação de Lisboa Lisbon’s Animation Film Festival - 6th edition celebrates again this year the world’s best animation, this time with Russia as guest country. This year Monstra will take place at Maria Matos Theatre and King Cinema from the 21st to the 27th May and will be the most ambitious edition to this day.

The guest country is Russia, a country that has given us some of the most unique and creative films in the History of animation. Some of its worldwide awarded cineastes will be in Portugal to present their films and to participate in workshops and master-classes. With its rich as well as turbulent artistic progression, closely related to political convulsions throughout the 20th century, Russia has been throughout History a country occupying a central position as far as author, child, modern and avant-garde animation is concerned. Baring in mind this perspective it wasn’t by chance that “Tale of Tales” (1979) by Yuri Norstein was chosen in 1984 and 2002 as the Best Animation Film of All Times by a group of worldwide experts. Gladly, in this year’s Monstra we will be able to see it.

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Gary Taxali was born in Chandigarh, India in 1968. A year later, he and his family immigrated to Toronto, Canada. The encouragement of his parents led Gary to take art classes as a child which eventually led him to pursue an art education. In 1991, he graduated from the Ontario College of Art and immediately began working as a professional illustrator. A few years later, he began showing in various exhibitions and galleries throughout North America including the Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2005, he launched his first vinyl toy, The Toy Monkey, which includes a special edition specifically created for The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Gary was also asked by the Whitney Museum to donate a limited edition print to be given to top donors at their annual fundraising Art Party. Aside from his gallery shows and illustration work, Gary also devotes a portion of his time traveling through lecturing and teaching at various arts organizations and schools such as The Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Canada. He is a Founding Member of IPA (The Illustrators’ Partnership of America) and sits on the Advisory Board of 3×3: The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration. Currently, Gary is working on his first children’s book, ‘This is Silly’ and a solo show this September at Magic Pony in Toronto. This May, at the invitation of Henrik Drescher, Gary will be conducting a lecture/workshop at The Danish Design School in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Pin-up page, 1940’s and 50’s Pinup girls, including Vargas, Gil Elvgren, Peter Driben, Edward Runci, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Page, Earl Moran. a big resource of pictures and illustrations from the mid-century.

Get Pin-up Posters!

I have just finished the design and development of re-searcher-com / Paula Balreira Artist representation.
This website aggregates a lot of illustrators, children book illustrators, a gallery, a zine, and a lot more to see.
Check out.

The Stockholm Tunnelbana has three lines encompassing 110km of track and 100 stations of which 64km and 55 stations are underground. Several of the deep underground stations are cut into solid rock which were left with cave-like ceilings. The builders carved fascinating artistic objects out of the rock. One like the base of a gigantic Greek column (Station Radhuset) resembles the excavated remains of some lost city of Atlantis encased in an ancient lava flow. The Station Kungstradgarden has torsos and lion heads emerging from the rock. Modern murals and statues are liberally used in many other stations.

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THE KITCHEN is an art proposal included (among other artists) on the curatorial project Trabalhar Cansa.
The Trabalhar Cansa inaugurated/opened this March in the gallery artecontempo in Lisbon.
The proposal KITCHEN integrates a main project called HOUSE, which belongs to a fictional portfolio.

The HOUSE project is a simulation of a curatorial proposal where the artists and works selection are first based in their functional potential for the construction of a living space.
The action consists of building an interior of a habitation space with art object replicas (which are mainly part of the institutional circuit), in a way to be inhabited by the collective during a pre-established period, materializing the objects and giving them a real use.

Pizz Buin is a Portuguese art collective composed by de fine artists Rosa Baptista, Vanda Madureira, Irene Loureiro and Sara Santos. Pizz Buin was created in 2005.
As a collective, they create interferences/noises in modos operandos, demystifying the media powers in art, slicing formats, vices, know how’s and creating a reflection base over the interfaces that feed the art market.
General View

General View

eaten by… (from Daniel Spoerri’s eaten by…)

cake (from Sarah Lucas’s Cake)

le déjeuner en fortune (from Meret Oppenheim’s le déjeuner en fortune)

still life (from David Shrigley’s still life)

An amazing and big collection of vintage vinyl records, mostly jazz records, collected by Yokosul Yasuura.

My friend TIMOTHY SACCENTI from NY has a photography and art direction portfolio to envy. He works with today’s the best bands and music performers. Enough?
Bon Savants : Flaunt

Lady Sovereign

Tv On The Radio

This Exhibition brings together thirteen contemporary artists whose works offer a rich amount of the interplay between abstraction and comic models of representation. From Sunday newspaper “funnies” to Walt Disney’s cartoon shorts, the appropriation of comics by artists has offered a bridge between the lowbrow “stuff” that populate visual culture and rarified brands of fine art. (…)

Awesome collection of luggage labels, mostly from hotels, another great set from flickr.

3677 by cottoncandyhammer on Flickr.

.: ROJO®daily :.
Next March 21st 2007 will be ROJO®’s sixth aniversary! We will celebrate it with a special printed all color 320pg issue, featuring 58 artists and four different covers by north-american artist MWM.

Strange sights
at Google Maps

Also check this Missile or whatever it is, somewhere in the USA…

GiftCatalog_Cover by Life Sciences on Flickr.

7 Laserdeck Skateboard Show, curated by Refill Magazine

A select group of artists globally have contributed their works to explore this new technology. Only 50 limited edition decks will be produced per artist. The aim of the show is to have a series of unique decks that collectors may choose to ride or display.

The exhibition will have its first show at the MTV Gallery Space in Sydney, Australia scheduled on Thursday 29th March, to be followed later in the year by New York, LA, Japan and finally a scheduled tour of Europe.

Yesterday’s lunar Eclipse for those who missed.

…this should be the whole show.

Lunar eclipse 3-4 March 2007 from Maidstone, England.

‘For all you guys that missed it…’ Large On Black
or
View it as a Gif Animation
For all you guys that missed it… by Jonas Thomén on Flickr.

MASA’s work has a srong emphasis in the research of Latin-American pop and worldwide contemporary street culture. The result is a crossover where urban and folklore references get blended together to produce fresh ideas and strong brand identities in every work.

I met these guys over at placeproject and they have been developing some very good work in design, illustration and motion graphics. Very pleased to now their work gets better and better.

EatPES.com

Sarah Phelps and her team is making some twisted, hypnotic, hallucinated, weird.. whatever… EXCELLENT animated shorts. Just eat these and get “wowed”!

KaBoom! 1:05
Written, Directed and Animated by PES
Edited by Sam Welch
Produced by Sarah Phelps & PES
Special Thanks: Dave Bell, Kesselskramer, Diesel, Homestead Editorial

Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics tend to feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or $12.5 million spent every hour on the Iraq war. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.

My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition, or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so. The series is still in its early stages, and new images will be posted as they are completed, so please stay tuned.

~cj, January 2007

Cans Seurat, 2007
Digital C print, 72×110″
Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.

(detail)