Safety and Stylish

23 Mar

Above: City of new york ‘NYC helmet’ by yves behar / fuse project.

 

 

'topup' has honeycomb structure which can be collapsed and expanded much like an accordian

The concept behind adrien guérin’s ‘topup head protection’ is not a bicycle helmet per se. It should be considered more a helmet for daily protection. the design reduces the task of having to carry around a cumbersome helmet, while bring the user protection through means of comfort. different from the rigid helmet, ‘topup’ utilizes a flexible textile material that is arranged in a honeycomb structure to provide a solution that reconciles safety and comfort.

danish company yakkay produces bicycle helmets are a take on modern hat classics.

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Don’t Make Sense Make Dollars

22 Mar

Cereal Killer

20 Mar

“Remember cartoon-filled mornings as a kid in the 80s and early 90s? A time when all that mattered was wresting control of the remote from your big brother and mastering the marshmallow ratio in whatever totally ridiculous cereal you begged your parents for that week, because your next-door neighbor, Grace Cavadoy, had Fruity Marshmallow Krispies and GODDAMMIT you wanted them too!!! Ah…we’ve lost a lot of good brands since then.

So shotgun the sugar-saturated milk at the bottom of your Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle bowl and imagine “I Will Remember You” playing faintly, as we take a tempting trip back through all the cereals who’ve moved on to that Big Breakfast in the sky”.


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Yarn Bombing Philidephia’s Blue Line

20 Mar

yarn can be fun.


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“Inside Out” Project in Tunisia

20 Mar

Making good on his TED Conference wish, French street artist JR is using his craft to make a difference in the world with his “Inside Out” project. Encouraging people from around the globe to send in photos of themselves, JR has printed these photos and is now pasting them in various locations. JR’s first destination was Tunisia where he has covered a wall with photos of the people in the very same spot where a portrait of Ben Ali was kept. The symbolic gesture serves as a testament to the power of art, giving some hope for the future to the people of Tunisia.
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“Quentin vs. Coen” Art Show NYC

19 Mar


Spoke Art presents “Quentin vs. Coen – An art show tribute to the films of Tarantino and the Brothers,” a followup to last yearʼs highly successful “Bad Dads – a tribute to Wes Anderson.” For “Quentin vs. Coen,” Spoke Art has arranged a battle royal-style art show featuring over 100 world-class artists from the new contemporary art scene. Painters, screen printers and digital artists were invited to reinterpret their favorite scenes, characters and films from the heralded directors, resulting in an eclectic showing of inspirational fine art. No restrictions were placed on content or subject matter, allowing each artist to choose their personal favorite scenes, films and characters. With over 100 artists, “Quentin vs. Coen” offers a broad range of affordable prints and also fine art works. The show opens on Thursday, April 7 at Bold Hype Gallery in New York City and will be on view until Saturday, April 9, 2011.

Bold Hype Gallery
547 W. 27th St.
5th Floor
New York, NY 10001
United States
Tel: 212.868.2322

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Images You Should Not Masturbate To

17 Mar

hmmm. some title

Folks, this is a real book get it at Amazon.com

Product Description

Better than a cold shower-and a lot funnier.

Choking the chicken, spanking the monkey, airing the orchid-whatever you call it, none of the images in this book will encourage the gentle art of self-pleasure. This deceptively simple and strangely addictive book presents a laugh-out-loud collection of random pictures virtually guaranteed to dampen the urge of even the strongest libido.

About the Author

Graham Johnson is a creative director at M&C Saatchi Sydney.
Rob Hibbert is an internationally-awarded advertising copywriter from Melbourne, Australia.

 

Japan society

17 Mar

At New York’s Japan society, the exhibition ‘bye bye kitty!!!: between heaven and hell in contemporary japanese art’ features the works of sixteen artists engaging in critical dialogue with tradition and contemporary culture.

Detail of makoto aida’s ‘harakiri school girls’ (2002), part of the ‘bye bye kitty!!!’ exhibition at new york’s japan society image © makoto aida, courtesy of mizuma art gallery

Many of the works sample from traditional aesthetics: a large triptych by hisashi tenmyouya treats the subject of battle in imagery characteristic of traditional depictions, but illustrates the feral brutality of war rather than the expected lofty religious imagery. likewise, yamaguchi akira’s ‘Narita international airport’ adopts the perspective of seventeenth century illustrations of kyoto, but with airplanes circling the skies and the classic misty clouds cast in a yellow suggestive of pollution. Other works include the debut of  Kohei Nawa’s ‘pixcell-deer #24’, a taxidermized deer whose skin has been covered with different sized plastic beads; large-scale paperwork installations by Tomoko Shioyasu and Haruka Kojin; and Chiharu Shiota’s ‘dialogue with absence’, which links a painted wedding dress, pumps, tubing, and red-dyed water.

yamaguchi akira's 'narita international airport' (2005)
Yamaguchi akira’s ‘narita international airport’ (2005)
Chiharu Shiota’s ‘dialogue with absence’ (2010) on exhibition in paris image courtesy of galerie christophe gaillard

Bye Bye Kitty!!!
Japan Society, New York, USA
March 18th – June 12th, 2011
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Brush Love

16 Mar Artist Kimyon Huggins


Brooklyn-based artist Kimyon Huggins has his creative hands in music and painting, his music lights up the dance floor while his paintings are visually dazzling and unique, the brush strokes are truly strokes of love. Stay tune for more incredible work form this all around creative artist.

All photo’s and art work by Brooklyn artist Kimyon Huggins.

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Nate Dogg dead at 41- “We gon’ rock it til the wheels fall off”

16 Mar
Hip-Hop Artist Nate Dogg Dead at 41

Hip-Hop Artist Nate Dogg Dead at 41

Nathaniel Dwayne Hale, known in the Hip-Hop world as Nate Dogg, died Tuesday at 41. While the cause of death was not released, the singer suffered strokes in 2007 and 2008.

The California musician came to fame during the ’90s when he debuted on Dr. Dre’s “The Chronic.” He also worked with such artists as Warren G, Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur.  Nate Dogg also provided vocal hooks on tracks by Eminem, 50 Cent and Ludacris. Snoop tweeted his respects for his fellow artist and friend. “We lost a true legend n hip hop n rnb. One of my best friends n a brother to me since 1986 when I was a sophomore at poly high where we met. “News of Nate Dogg’s death was first reported by the Long Beach, Calif. newspaper the Press Telegram.

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