New York I Love You

I just watched the horrible new Muppet Christmas Special tonight.
Paul Williams just should have done the cameo and
left the music up to LCD Soundsystem.

Google meets LIFE

okay, so a month later I finally here about this...kinda cool.

BLÜTT at Atomic Sketch Event

I got a Blütt!

this month's ASE yielded some great work.
the featured artists this month created a triad of awesomeness.
Blütt shared the walls w/ Czr Prz who collaborated w/
a sadly absent BonuS...BonuS, where Art thou?
it was a great crowd. Dominic said he's superpsyched
about January's panel...so be there or be...artless!

My Blütt score (kinda looks like W.S. Burroughs, yes?)...

The Starn Twins at David Weingberg Gallery

(me being snarky)...I guess when you get older and have kids
you stop cutting up pictures of Jesus then taping them
together again and start taking pictures of snowflakes.

(me being honest) I had a smile on my face the
whole time I was ogling them. we all claim to
have an eye for detail in nature, but this show
sheds a little light on how we tend to be
oblivious of nature in detail.

DAVID WEINBERG GALLERY

BOOBS

according to the website, the BOOBS design is currently sold out,
but the "Captain Seabeard" design is still available
and ARRRRguably on par w/ BOOBS.

Jeremy Boston Designs

Core77

I'm clearly feeling a little "gift-minded" this morning. I literally almost got goosebumps when I realized that the throwing stars were magnets...and the pant clips?... they have J. Stander's name written all over them.

more cool stuff at...http://www.core77.com/UltimateGiftGuide/

MUJI

MUJI is the next big concept design store import to hit NYC (5 locations there and counting) and leave the rest of us in the country buzzing about it (remember IKEA and H&M?). the site is attractive, cryptic and not yet accepting stateside orders (UK catalog HERE)....but the minimal design fetishist in me is keeping its eyes and ears open for a Chicago store...tho I suspect L.A. will get it first.

www.MUJI.com

Bacon of the Month Club

"it's a bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon world"
check it out

Cannonball (1976)

among the car chases and wacky 70's antics of Bartel's
road/race movie is this little oasis of wind-in-hair bliss...

Bob Carradine naps. Belinda Balaski sings along
with the radio while sporting a ragin' pair of shades (Foster Grants?).

Wordle.net

www.wordle.net

ok, so if you're a graphic designer, you can knock this type of
stuff out in Illustrator...(bully for us!) for everyone else,
it's kind of a nifty application.
I just plopped in the words to William Carlos Williams' "This Is Just To Say".
neat!

Friday the 13th remake

oh no they dininnn't! yes...they did. I do like how they used the "countdown" as an homage to the original trailer. I'm such a nerd.

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

nestled within Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2006
was Walker's "The Drift". I'd never heard of him, but
downloaded it on a whim. I had no idea what I was
listening to, but kept listening. totally looking forward
to this doc.

Two Great Tastes... Pt.2

MGMT's "The Youth" is probably the most infectious on the album for me. and the video is perfect...but I still couldn't leave it well enough alone by mixin' it up with a possible inspiration for it.

MGMT's "The Youth"


Sparkle Motion in motion


MGMT - The Youth (Sparkle Motion edit)

Swedish Fish ad

putting the "mmmm" in mmmew

Fish Out Of Water preview Parts 1&2

very timely...and co-animated by Kyle Harter, who did the "bear head" drawing in my Atomic Sketch post.

Adidas Adicolor

Adidas ran this campaign a couple of years ago. directed by Charlie White, "Pink" is still my favorite. the song is "Made" by Greg Weeks. other colors/short films

Adam Wallacavage

to quote the Gizmodo site, "chandeliers to class up the place"...right on!

check out more HERE

Sleeveface.com

SLEEVEFACE.COM


kinda self-explanatory...but there's an instructional video



here's my contribution...45's prove more challenging...

Ethan Hutchinson

artist? madman? or perhaps a little from Side A and a little from Side B? regardless, I have the honor/pleasure of owning a few of Ethan's pieces. he's also a regular at the aforementioned ATOMIC SKETCH and is being showcased for the January AS event.

MGMT

Happy Belated Thanksgiving from MGMT

Atomic Sketch

stellar event! Atomic Sketch has been happening (mostly) on the last Thursday of every month at Evil Olive in Wicker Park. a panel of artists sit at a long table sweatshopping artwork for "the wall". some of the work doesn't even make it up on the wall before being snatched up by PBR-swilling patrons. prices range from $5 to $20. for more info, check out the Atomic Sketch Blog

here are a couple of my AS scores...

artist David Johnson


artist Kyle Harter

Someoddpilot

Chris Eichenseer, mastermind of Someoddpilot in Chicago, just launched their new site. a genuinely prolific gaggle of designers.
SOMEODDPILOT

Renegade Arts and Crafts

there's always something very "I wish I'd thought of that" at these fairs. crafty folks creating interesting these and thats. go check it out!
the SITE

Craig Abell-Champion

then there's THIS guy...
http://www.craigachampion.com

The Sweptaways

American Apparel ad? Feist influence? Pre-Olympic hype? who cares?
I dig it.
THE SWEPTAWAYS

Let The Right One In

Two Great Tastes... Pt.1

Cinema Paradiso ending (spoiler alert!) and Love's "Always See Your Face".
(by some cosmic fluke, I realized the song and the clip were the same length,
just had to mix 'em).

Mattress Bunny

http://mattressbunny.org/

High Society

Bing holds his liquor. Frank?...not so much. but, man, to they swing, chum. altogether, a pretty cheerful clip, until you think about how every single person in the scene, including the extras, is dead.