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My Friends at VASAVA have just loaded some cool new works.
Also don’t miss their Store/Gallery: Vallery, showing works by previously featured on FitaCola, MARIO HUGO.

Edwin Fotheringham Illustration

Edwin Fotheringham spent his formative years in Sydney, Australia, and was educated at the University of Washington School of Art in Seattle, where he lives today with his family.

In 1992, after giving up on the idea of being a fine artist and stockboy, Edwin met with the eminent graphic artist Art Chantry for a portfolio review. With the response, “don’t quit your day job,” the gauntlet was thrown down. Never one to back away from a challenge, Mr. Fotheringham was born.

It was a golden moment in Seattle’s history: the nation’s psyche was focused on some grubby music types and all that they touched. Mr. Fotheringham was lucky enough to have been touched, and seized the opportunity; a trip to New York yielded incredible results, and that was that.

With work that has addressed subjects and markets as varied as punk rock and Neiman Marcus, The New Yorker and Ladies Home Journal, a Visa Card campaign and an elementary school auction, Mr. Fotheringham continues to enjoy solving visual problems with blotty lines.

Graphite Sequencer (2006) by Calb Coppock| Video

“Graphite Sequencer” by Caleb Coppock. Video. Graphite conducts electricity. Two wires brush against the surface of a paper disk as it spins. The wires are connected to a simple electronic tone generator. When a line of graphite is drawn across the disk, connecting the two wires, a tone is heard.

Words for what? just click around and enjoy this engaging experience over Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible interactive video.
Arcade Fire - Album Neon Fire Now Available - Download  on iTunes

This movie, Madame Tutli-Putli, will definitely collect a lot of awards and prizes in the future… According to NFB, this 17′ minute movie has been 5 years in the making, so judging to the trailer, I can’t wait to see it. Via Drawn.

Madame Tutli-Putli boards the night train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past.

She travels alone, facing both the kindness and menace of strangers. As day descends into dark, she finds herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure. Adrift between real and imagined worlds, Madame Tutli-Putli confronts her demons and is drawn into an undertow of mystery and suspense.

The National Film Board of Canada presents a stunning, stop-motion animated film that takes the viewer on an exhilarating existential journey. The film introduces groundbreaking visual techniques and is supported by a haunting and original score. Painstaking care and craftsmanship in form and detail bring to life a fully imagined, tactile world unlike any you have seen.

Jungian thriller? Hitchcockian suspense? Artistic tour de force? The night train awaits you.

Tina Berning : 100 girls on cheap paper, in NY, in Tokyo and on a book.

A very nice selection of Record Envelopes.

Martin Klimas Interview - (”Still Life” series in The Morning News )

Martin Klimas destroys a lot of clay to make his art. Combining the silence of Eadweard Muybridge’s horse pictures with the association-rich composition of a still life, Klimas breaks recognizable objects so they become something else, and stops us just at the moment of transformation.

Klimas was born in 1971 in Singen, Germany. All images courtesy Martin Klimas and Foley Gallery; all images copyright © Martin Klimas, all rights reserved.

adhesive tape (Fita-cola) by Ana Ventura.

Each roll (printed in PVC 5 cm = 1,96 inches - height) have 66 m = 72,20 yd.
Pattern repeats every 20 cm = 7,87 inches.

for more information please send me an email to: anaventura@clix.pt (let the subject be tape)

Thanks

sticky tape by ana ventura on Flickr.

Some posters by Alphonse Mucha that reminds me this Autumn season… (through affiliation)

Seasons, 1896

Seasons, Winter Panel, 1897

The Four Seasons, Spring

The Four Seasons, Summer

The Four Seasons, Autumn

A few weeks ago, I was surprised while visiting my local news stand, to look at the price of a PRINT MAG, it was about 40€!! no lie! No I wonder where retailers and distributors get such percentage.
Today I was reading the regular newsletter from amazon, they are now offering a 6 issue subscription for only $37. I can save ± 80% if ordering through amazon. This is not easy advertising, a serious recommendation! Click the image to access the promotion (time limited).

Via Its nice that

matchbox5.jpg by COOP666 on Flickr.

…You all know what DADA is…

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The Dada movement was a protest against the barbarism of World War I, the bourgeois interests that Dada adherents believed inspired the war, and what they believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society. Dada was an international movement, and it is difficult to classify artists as being from any one particular country, as they were constantly moving from one place to another.

Dada thought that reason and logic had led people into the horrors of war, so the only route to salvation was to reject logic and embrace anarchy and irrationality. However, this could also be thought of as the logical side of anarchy and rejection of values and order; it is not irrational to embrace the systematic destruction of values, if one thinks them to be flawed.

According to its proponents, Dada was not art - it was “anti-art”. It was anti-art in the sense that Dadaists protested against the contemporary academic and cultured values of art. For everything that art stood for, Dada was to represent the opposite. Where art was concerned with aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art were to have at least an implicit or latent message, Dada strove to have no meaning - interpretation of Dada is dependent entirely on the viewer. If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dada is to offend. Ironically, Dada became an influential movement in modern art, a commentary on order and the carnage Dadaists believed it wreaked. Through their rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics they hoped to destroy them.

A reviewer from the American Art News stated at the time that “The Dada philosophy is the sickest, most paralyzing and most destructive thing that has ever originated from the brain of man.” Art historians have described Dada as being, in large part, “in reaction to what many of these artists saw as nothing more than an insane spectacle of collective homicide.”

Years later, Dada artists described the movement as “a phenomenon bursting forth in the midst of the postwar economic and moral crisis, a savior, a monster, which would lay waste to everything in its path. It was a systematic work of destruction and demoralization…In the end it became nothing but an act of sacrilege.”

While broad, the movement was unstable. By 1924 in Paris, Dada was melding into surrealism, and artists had gone on to other ideas and movements, including surrealism, social realism and other forms of modernism. Some theorists argue that Dada was actually the beginning of postmodern art.

By the dawn of World War II, many of the European Dadaists had fled or emigrated to the United States. Some died in death camps under Hitler, who persecuted the kind of “Degenerate art” that Dada represented. The movement became less active as post-World War II optimism led to new movements in art and literature.

Dada is a named influence and reference of various anti-art and political and cultural movements including the Lettrists and the Situationists.

Evil Bee Menomena

Directed by Stefan Nadelman

I am a Canadian illustrator who grew up on the Prairies, but currently live in Brooklyn, NY. I do mostly editorial illustration for magazines, newspapers, and websites. I am also in the process of producing a graphic novel adaptation of Skim, to be published in 2008.You can read about that project in the “comics” section of this website. Hobbies include cooking, public broadcasting, and reading Victorian novels. I am not 80, but 27.

Some cute and weird interesting robots by Lockwasher

I created this from an all aluminum vintage tricycle seat, pair of Harley brake/clutch levers, typewriter parts and a couple of clock gears.
steer skull by Lockwasher on Flickr.

Glitch Browser

The glitch browser represents a deliberate attempt to subvert theusual course of conformity and signal perfection. Information packetswhich are communicated with integrity are intentionally lost intransit or otherwise misplaced and rearranged. The consequences ofsuch subversion are seen in the surprisingly beautiful readymadevisual glitches provoked by the glitch browser and displayed throughour forgiving and unsuspecting web browsers.

This work was produced for New Langton Arts Packets programme,by Dimitre Lima, Tony Scott and Iman Moradi.