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Via DesignBoom

Fernando Brízio, A former teacher at my College (ESAD CR, former ESTGAD), presents this cool project consisting of ‘renewable’ Dress colouring for any occasion, a “do-it-yourself” design concept, in the lines of some of his most notable works. Check out his video explaining the concept.

from designboom

flexibility - design in a fast changing society
ex carceri ‘le nuove’, turin
june 29 - october12
http://www.torinoworlddesigncapital.it

‘flexibility - design in a fast-changing society’ is one of the many events taking place in turin this year in
conjunction with the city being named the ‘design world capital for 2008′. the show consists of nine
projects by international designers installed at a former prison ex carceri ‘le nuove’.

Renewable Clothingby fernando brízio
by placing colored felt-tip pens in the pockets of the dress its appearance changes over time.
within an hour - to one and a half hours the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design
for each occasion. the owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it.

images © Designboom

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Opening: Saturday, Mar 22nd 5-8pm
After Party: The Uptown (17th @Capp) 9-2am

Works from Anthony Lister (NYC), Erkut Terliksiz (Turkey), Christofer Chin (LA), Cody Hudson (Chicago), Corey Arnold (Portland), Keith Shore (New Jersey), Mel Kadel (LA), Tessar Lo (LA), & Travis Millard (LA)

Press Release

Fecal Face Dot Gallery, an extension of the popular San Francisco-based art and culture website Fecalface.com, opens “Out-Of-Towners,” the second show in the galleries two-show opening series. Following the success of the galleries inaugural show “Welcome Home,” “Out-Of-Towners” is a collection of works by site favorites hailing from Los Angeles to Istanbul. “There’s a lot of work by a lot of talented people out there,” says John Trippe, founder and curator of FecalFace.com, “but you can only get so much by viewing work online. I’m excited to merge what we’ve been doing online since 2000 into the vibrant art scene here in San Francisco.”

Anthony Lister - ‘coke nights on thriller(right)’ - mixed media on canvas - 6ft x 6ft

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(A local collage workshop)

08 Março: 9:30h - 13:00 / 14:30 - 18:00 Centro de Artes

R. dr. Ilídio Amado, 2500-117 Caldas da Rainha. Tel. 262 840 540. centro.artes{a}cm-caldas-rainha.pt

Formadora: Graça Santos
Objectivos: Compreender e tomar conhecimento das várias técnicas e suportes de colagem, explicando os seus vários métodos de aplicação, tendo como elemento base a pintura. Encontrar, experimentar e resolver a coloração e texturas nos demais suportes e técnicas, encontrando referências, recursos, percursos e motivações.
Preço: 10€

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Frozen Grand Central for a few minutes. // by Improve Everywhere, posted at adbusters.

Frozen Grand Central from ImprovEverywhere on Vimeo.

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Michel Gondry is now on the homepage of YouTube selecting the featured videos during Sundance Film Festival.

Via Drawn:

Director/animator Michel Gondry is curating the featured videos on YouTube’s home page during the Sundance film festival, where his Be Kind Rewind is premiering. The collection of videos feature the types of creative imagery that you’d expect from a Gondry playlist, including a fair share of stop motion and pixilation, as well as this demonstration of some MIT technology that allows computers to understand simple drawing and mechanics.

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2007 Adobe Design Achievement Awards
Illustration winner: Jörg Block

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Santa’s Ghetto - 2007

Bethlehem is one of the most contentious places on earth.

Perched at the edge of the Judaen desert at the intersection of Europe, Asia and Africa in the state of Palestine it was governed by the British following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. After World War II the United Nations voted to partition the region into two states - one Jewish, one Arab and there’s been fighting ever since.

It’s obviously not the job of a loose collection of idiot doodlers to tell you what’s right or wrong about this situation, so you’re advised to do further reading yourself (this month’s National Geographic has an excellent article all about Bethlehem).

We would like to make it very clear Santa’s Ghetto is not allied to ANY race, creed, religion, political organization or lobby group. As an organisation the only thing we’ll say on behalf of our artists is that we don’t speak on behalf of our artists. This show simply offers the ink-stained hand of friendship to ordinary people in an extraordinary situation.

Every shekel made in the store will be used on local projects for children and young people. Not one cent will go to any political groups, governmental institutions or, in fact, any grown-ups at all.
Salaam.

Blu

Banksy

This wall marks the spot where over 40 people were killed during the first Intafada (the little holes along the top are from bullets).
While Banksy was painting it a lot of people came over, some to shake his hand and others telling him to go away. Eventually the local MP was called out to diffuse the eighty-strong crowd that had built up (by which time Banksy had left and the piece was completed by the local kids).

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Banksy

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Shepard Fairey exhibition Via Wallpaper Mag’s Blog.

Whether you hail him as the originator of the modern urban art scene or a propagandist provocateur, it is undeniable that Shepard Fairey is a staggering success. Since coming to prominence in 1989 with his ‘Obey Giant’ sticker campaign, Fairey has achieved cult status amongst high-end galleries and graffiti artists alike.

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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.

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

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·· MAXALOT GALLERY ··

Prolific New York-based Parisian artist WK Interact holds his first ever Barcelona exhibition, courtesy of Maxalot Gallery.
Never-before-seen renditions of his distinctive black-and-white action-based graphics will be featured inside and outside the gallery; his canvas the gallery walls and doors, the street outside and wooden objects found on the streets of Barcelona.
As well as limited screen-prints, mixed media painted works, and an outdoor triptych mural, the exhibition will feature an installation showing the artist’s “guerilla gear”, his work uniform and tools for pasting and bombing cities all over the world.
His graphic works, installations, and painted murals have been exhibited at high-end contemporary spaces around the world including Cooper Hewitt (New York), Visionaire Gallery (New York) and Colette (Paris).

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indielisboa
INDIELISBOA is a privileged event to meet the most recent and interesting works of independent cinema from all over the world.
The main aim of the Festival is to discover new films and new directors, in the universe of independent cinema.
Keeping its attention on the author’s creativity and independence, in only three years INDIELISBOA was able to become the second most important Portuguese festival.
In 2006 were screened 300 films from all over the world to an audience of 28.000 people and to 300 professional guests.

As usual, besides the film screenings, IndieLisboa runs many other activities. Between 21 and 27 April will happen the Lisbon Talks, wich are divided in different activities: a Seminar, Panels and round tables and Master Classes.

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A set on Flickr with walls painted with well-known comic strips, on this French Village (Angoulême) where the biggest Comics festival in the world is held. See an history of the festival. More info on the set.

"Sales Mioches" - Berlion & Corbeyran - 2003 by alexaaannndre on Flickr.

See where this picture was taken: loc.alize.us, google map [?]

Blake et Mortimer - André Juillard & Yves Sente - 2000

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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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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)

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