Archive for the ‘contemporary’ Category

Space Invaders in a city near you

An anonymous French artist has been throwing up tile mosaics of Space Invaders [yes, the video game from back in the day] in cities all over the globe, including NYC, Paris, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, and many many more. The artist explains that he is ‘leaving a gift to the city’. Whether considered graffiti, social commentary on media and corporate signage, or simply a crazy ninja obsessed with Atari, the lil guys are pretty dope.

Link via anArchitecture
Check em out, they’re both great sites

[for you more avid readers of mnp, you might have read our post on this back in august]

Icaro Doria

Colombia

USA

Brazil

"Icaro Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal, for the last 3 years. He is part of the team (with Luis Silva Dias, JoA£o Roque, Andrea Vallenti and JoA£o Roque) that produced the flags campaign which has been circulating the Earth in chain letters via e-mail. Icaro gave us a small statement about the campaign, translated by Isabell Erdmann:

The magazine Revista Grande Reportagem is a Hard Journalism magazine, on the same line as the Times. The idea was to bring across the concept that the magazine offers profound journalism about topics of real importance to the world of today.
This is how we thought of the concept Meet the World.

We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO.

The campaign has been running in Portugal since January 2005. There are eight flags that portray very current topics like the division of opinions about the war in Iraq in the United States, the violence against women in Africa, the social inequality in Brazil, the drug trafficking in Columbia, Aids and malaria in Angola, etc.

With regards to the email presenting the campaign as being done by a Norwegian diplomat, this information is completely wrong. There is no Norwegian diplomat called Charung Gollar, there was no presentation in the UNO, and the campaign is not called a€The Power of the Starsa€™. This was all invented and is going round the world via email."

Thanks go to Brett.

Dizzy Until Dawn

Images from Sean Qualls‘ upcoming Dizzy Gillespie children’s book.

from theispot

ART!

It’s our first Art Day in three weeks! Today we have a whole bunch of flickr photostreams for you, ranging from really ill to straight up weird. Set them as your background… look at them… print them and throw darts at them or slice them into little pieces with katanas. Do whatever you wanna do. Do you. It’s yo’ world, baby.

The above image is from an artist named iAAeA™is± (um, yes) from the ARARIO gallery, from which we have featured artists before. Check them out, they have cool stuff.

MNP Art

PingMag has a great feature, including an in-depth interview, on Heath Nash, a South African designer who creates his artwork out of recycled materials such as discarded plastic bottles. His work is innovative, sophisticated and gorgeous.

Check out the feature at PingMag

Pop Life Art

Sounds like some new hit record. It’s not though, it’s a blog which features celebrities who create their own art. That’s right. Here, you can see art from the Beatles, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and other celebrity artists.

The above painting is by none other than Rocky himself, Sylvester Stallone.

Pop Life Art

via Neatorama

Adam Stennett…Mouse Art

Adam Stennett is a Brooklyn-based artist, originally from Alaska, who paints amazingly photorealistic pieces, each of which contains a mouse somewhere in the image. As strange as that may sound, his art is simply breathtaking.
Check it out on his site.

via Neatorama

Birds, Birds Everywhere!

From Beat in Switzerland:

"the idea of Windowzoo is simple. you know those bird-stickers one uses to scare birds away from big glass-surfaces (so they won’t fly into the glass)? my friend started making his own bird-shapes out of sticky foil, and keeps putting them up on various locations all around the world - but almost always on glass, also besides the "boring" standard-stickers. As this is non-destructive art only visible to those with keen eyes and a sense for discovering the unusual, it remains exhibited longer - and generates more buzz among those in the know.

Right now there are 169 birds in 55 cities all around the globe. have a look at the worldmap showing the locations that he put up in the "about" section."

Windowzoo

via Wooster Collective

Brooklyn Keeps on Makin It!

Opening today at the Heidi Cho Gallery in Manhattan is an exhibition entitled "A to B and Back Again."

"The show centers on a group of Brooklyn designers, many of whom began their careers by working within the Manhattan establishment, galleries, showrooms, and artists’ studios. Striking out on their own, however, they gravitated to Brooklyn, an environment conducive to their creativity and the examination of concept and process that invariably underlies their designs."
Brooklyn keeps on makin it! Manhattan keeps on takin it!

Some highlights:

The BDDW Swim Rug

Andrew Andrew cookie with edible nutrition label

A to B and Back Again

Curated by Tobias Wong & Carlos Salgado

September 7, 2006 - October 14, 2006

via MocoLoco