YouTube user marcoseiji videotapes himself drawing portraits of people, most of whom are themselves YouTube users, then posts the videos. The videos are quirky and charming, and his drawings are definitely above and beyond boardwalk portraiture. The clips tend to have high production values while still using an unpolished aesthetic that leaves in the videographic […]
The third issue of Wallspankers is up for grabs. Wallspankers is a free quarterly ezine that includes sticker art from dozens of artists. The idea is that readers can print out the images and paste them up in their own ‘hoods, thereby spreading the innovative graffiti art love all over the globe. If you’re not […]
So, a group of artists have decided that the thing to do is to launch a giant geostationary banana over the state of Texas. The project is called, that’s right, “Geostationary Banana Over Texas.” The illustration on the website is utterly fantastic, and more or less what I imagine this would look like in various […]
I just read Henry Jenkins’s newest book, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. I highly recommend the book, which has turned me on to a number of interesting ideas as well as a lot of interesting media works, like Sadie Benning’s early video works done with a Fisher Price PXL-2000, and Evan Mather’s […]
Robert Horvath is both a family friend and a fantastic artist. Here, you can see a tour of his current show at the Packer Schopf Gallery. Robert’s paintings insert disease imagery into portraits of really exceptionally good-looking people. The work is deeply ambivalent, landing somewhere between uncomfortable and intoxicating.