Saturday Night

I am a sucker for red. Clothes, shoes or accessories. If you are wearing red, you have my attention. Especially in a sea of black on a Saturday night. There is nothing unusual about the accessories, but I love the color. It just made her stand out.

Gangsta Rap!

You would think that teaching is a boring profession. Now, most days, I would admit that you are not very far away from the truth. But then, this happens. College students have the wackiest sartorial sense. And these pictures prove my point. Enough said about trying to be the crowd. I wouldn’t usually approve of thus attired Gangstas in my class, but heck, it does a day or two good to have a spot of that yellow snoring in the back seat.





The Bling is not to be missed. No wonder he wasn’t taking notes. Not with those gloves on!

Nicola Bockelmann | Porn Chic

Nicola Bockelmann's art currently deals with the phenomenon of “Porn Chic” which is omnipresent in the society. “Porn Chic evolved in the 90s when the media contributed to the sexualisation of culture. As a result the boundaries between pornography and culture became blurred and permeable and elements of pornography trickled into the mainstream."

Boho Chic

Today seems like a good day to start. So a couple of pictures off the street. I see this girl pretty often and she is always dressed well. Here, I like the fact that she has kept the bling minimal, with just a beaded bag and pretty earrings. The black sleeveless tee, worn inside the green dress teams well with the tights. Also, I like the shredded scarf. It sort of balances the different colours. She was wearing a metal coin belt for added effect. Not many people carry boho chic so well.

Harma Heikens

"The recent work produced by sculptress Harma Heikens shows life-size orphaned children, smeared with dirt and scantily clad in rags. They are busily engaged with money, food and clothing. Their cartoon-like clothing and expressive glances make them appear like a cross between porcelain Hummel figurines and personages from the Manga comic strips. Heikens uses culturally determined symbols wherein the representation of the child can be seen as a metaphor for the near future. Working within the playful idiom of popular culture and making use of techniques of temptation derived from the advertising world, she calls forth visions of a befouled world terrorised by economic and sexual exploitation." (via)

Chris Devera

Bruno Dayan

Jeff Bark

Jimmy Turrell

Antonella Arismendi

Couture Shots Off The Street

I have been a follower of the indigenous sartorial style for quite some time now. It is in our country that many newly-weds show off a red and white bridal chudaa teamed with a well-fitted pair of jeans and a flattering tee. Tribal accessories complement western attires, and I once saw a bride, lehenga and all, with a Fifty Cent locket on a gold chain around her neck! I have come across Satya Paul saris teamed with a silver vest from fashion street, and a Versace blouse adding style to a patchwork skirt from Janpath.

I am not necessarily addicted to fashion. In fact, anything but. What I do love is observing it, especially on the streets. I love the influence fashion has on our daily lives. I love the way a well-worn chiffon kurti and the right perfume can wipe away the Monday morning blues. I like men and women dressed beautifully for the runway of life. I love the unique form fashion takes off the ramp. I love individual interpretations of designer lines which in turn are quixotic enough to end up as inspirations for a new design.

So I have decided to capture this face of fashion. This distinctive style of our fashionista on the street. This style that gives our fashion color, energy and an inimitable vitality that can only come from an everyday individual’s version of high fashion.

Shotcouture will take you on a journey through the streets of different cities across India. It will capture individual sense of style in all its quirky glory. It will bring a smile to your face, and will make you look around a little more to see what the people around you are wearing. It will, I hope, help you rediscover fashion as a personal statement of individuality and creativity.

Juergen Grewe

H099 | Richard Hogg

Richard Hogg is a designer, illustrator and art director, sometimes working on films too.

via cosmonova

Scanner @ Avion07

Scanner (UK) - AV projects + screening + Q&A
AVmotional @ Orange Concept Store / 12 dec / 19:00

Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in London, whose works traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Radiohead, Laurie Anderson, The Royal Ballet, Steve McQueen, Mike Kelley, and Douglas Gordon. His work has been presented throughout the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

Kelly Haigh | Doll in the family

Ric Stultz

Zuzamade

Zuzamade is a place for things made by Zuzanna Krzysik, freelancer illustrator and filmmaker.

irlo | neaparat!

Chris Anthony

Brian M. Viveros

"Mysterious sexy women, with their remarkable sensual eyes, and a cigarette in the corner of their mouths, became his trademark. These characters play their lustful roles, sprouted from the brain of the American artist Brian Viveros. His art is a unique mixture of different visual and artistic concepts, surrealism, role playing and some quite heavy pain fantasies. Like the ones where the women are hooked, tortured and bound, but somehow, even in these morbid scenes, he is capable of maintaining a decent dose of humor." (Art of Love)

Roman Tolici

via mojo

Special Guest

Special Guest is a new studio featuring directors like Aaron Duffy, dedicated to the use of stop-motion, CG, cell animation. Special Guest creates fun, light-hearted, story driven pieces with a fresh playful perspective and vision.

Nicolae Comanescu | dust 2 dust

"Art seems to employ a myriad of textures and materials – and even no materials at all – in order to express itself. Yet there is something which has been used from the very start of this thing called art, when our cave-dwelling ancestors began leaving their spiritual mark on this world. I am talking about dust, about dirt, earth, humus. The Neolithic "artist" imprinted his thought firstly and foremost by using charcoal and various types of dust, preferably of the reddish variety. The results are stunning even nowadays, after millennia and millennia. And they are born out of one of the most elemental materials available to humankind, something that just lies around in every corner and, indeed, everywhere one cares to look. [...] The art with dust I would like to talk about is the sort of art that is really connected to people. We can add to this small but nevertheless illustrious gallery our own Nicolae Comanescu, the painter of Romanian disconnected realities."

"The "Dust 2.0" series goes one step further in showing us the darker, even more serious side of Nicolae Comanescu, and this is more than likely aided by restricting the chromatics to various shades of dust. But we have to observe another preoccupation in the artist's mid. These new works depicting the neighbourhood of Berceni literally convey the life of the artist, and I would make so bold as to compare them to Utrillo's Montmartre paintings. What we see is the artist's immediate environment, the places where he spends a great deal of his time, and where some of inspiration comes from.[...] I think that Nicolae is the first Romanian artist to treat this underrated medium with the respect it deserves. One of the basest things in life, dirt, has been elevated to the rank of artistic endeavour. The metaphor-lover would go on to say that by this act, the artist has emphasised the transitoriness of life, and that all we are is dust in the wind and from dust we come and to dust we shall return, or even that life is dirt." (by Mihai Risnoveanu)

Galeria 26 / OTA
Opening: 28 Nov / 19.30

Big Face - I Wanna Be A Style Crusader

Official video for Big Face's 'I Wanna Be A Style Crusader' single, released through Kitsuné Records - a 9 days video shoot involving 700 boxes, with majority of the imagery being hand animated by two people. Watch more cool videos on videoclectic!

Troy Williams

Popel Coumou

Popel Coumou builds two dimensional spaces of paper, photos and clay. By using daylight and sometimes artificial light she bring the third dimension into her work. She uses an analogue 35 mm camera to capture these spaces. With these techniques she seems to be challenging the boarder of photography and painting.

She is fascinated by spaces where you can feel the absence of human presence, spaces that have a sense of mystery and silence. By combining the spaces with portraits she brings an extra layer in the work and makes it more intimate. It even emphasizes the absence of a human being. In her latest work the photos become more abstract and you can see her fascination for architecture.

Conny Kuilboer

About her work, Conny Kuilboer says: "With my work I’m searching for connections. I find them in simple objects and images I see and use daily but also in more complex subjects like religion and media. Nowadays, individualism is the standard. I want to ask questions about this. questions that summon to reflect about how people relate to each another. I research the resemblance that connect all of us. But without the intention to communicate this in an unambiguous manner. I translate this research in objects and (temporal) installations in which the application of the chosen material plays an significant role. The material I use most are blankets. It is a intriguing and polyvalent material with contradictionary qualities. blankets protect and give warmth. they suggest comfort but are really oppressive, irritating and often a fire hazard. I try to use all these medium specific qualities. But there are more reasons for me to work with blankets. they seem to absorb, have a special texture and the colours are fantastic. The application possibilities are endless. I use them in layers, with stencils etc.. Blankets have a rough texture which forces me to stylize my language of image. Therefore a continuous interaction arises within the searching and finding of the own form."

Joe Vaux

Still on the run | the online portofolio of TKSH

Tragiklab Inc. | The Dark Fairy Tales of Crypto Tragikdermy

Tragiklab Inc. is the experimental playground of Dhanank Pambayun a.k.a tragikpixel evolving to an experimental room for various commercial and personal projects such as, 2d animation, graphic, digital/manual illustration, and much more, also support any independent projects, like an offline and online digital art exhibition. After an intense two years experiment, tragikpixel has turned into tragiklabs. Today with Jogjaforce Digital Art Community found daily art and design resources called Designdiary, also released Designflip, bimonthly design&art e-zine.

Daniela Uhlig

Street-value | The Art of Greg Gossel

Ricky Butler Illustration

Groove.Ro | The Good Vibes Platform

Jamie Nelson | Fashion & Beauty Photographer

Martin Nikoloff