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!! OMG, Venus reborn: 90s waif Venus !!
This masterpiece painted by Alexandre Cabanel depicting the birth of Venus? Yeah, something's wrong with it: Venus. Or rather her hips, according to our contemporary standards of beauty inflamed by the powers of Photoshop. Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano highlights this fact in Venus, a project that slims down art history's famous nudes from Botticelli to Ingres. Rubens, for one, would have been shocked. See the rest of Giordano's re-imagined nudes over at Flavorwire.
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posted by Phillip on Thursday, February 9, 2012
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!! OMG, R.I.P. designer Eiko Ishioka !!
The innovative Japanese art director Eiko Ishioka has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, according to The New York Times. She was 73. Even if you weren't familiar with her otherworldly body of work, you no doubt came across it. She created memorable costumes for feature films such as Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Cell, Broadway productions M. Butterfly and Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, and collaborated with musicians Björk and Grace Jones.
She also made forays into the world of advertising, most famously for Japanese retailer Parco for whom she created an ad in which actress Faye Dunaway silently peels and eats a hard-boiled egg. Watch that above and check out "Cocoon," her 2002 music video for Björk, below.
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posted by Kevin on Friday, January 27, 2012
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!! OMG, neighborhood showdown: Paris vs. New York !!
This map (click to enlarge) is part of dashing French graphic designer Vahram Muratyan's new book "Paris versus New York: A Tally of Two Cities." Like a quirky venn diagram of the the two city's personalities, Muratyan's colorful illustrations portray the differences and similarities between New York and Paris right down to our favorite office-party treats (cupcakes and macarons, respectively).
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posted by Phillip on Thursday, January 26, 2012
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!! OMG, you need it: Pizza Boomerang !!
If a video features pizza, that's usually good enough for us, but this one is so bizarre that we can't say much more about it except that it features a peen amputation (watch out!).
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posted by Frank on Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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!! OMG, click to fullscreen: '2011 // Year in Review' !!
Here's a look at one Brooklyn man's tour of 2011, told through photos and video he created along the way, including stops in Portland, San Francisco, DIA Beacon, Chicago, The Moorefield Farm, Storm King Sculpture Park, and a gay and lesbian campground in the Pocono Mountains. "It begins where I started most days in 2011," he says, "on the subway platform at Graham Avenue waiting for a Manhattan-bound L train..." Visit his blog, An Infinite Sky, for more wanderlusty goodness.
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posted by Phillip on Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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!! OMG, please support 'Community Action Center' !!
Artists A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner have created a collaborative film project called Community Action Center that features the work and stories of many talented artists, musicians, and other members of various queer communities.
Burns and Steiner are currently raising funds to compensate their contributors and tour the work across the U.S. We hope you will consider helping them out! They are halfway to their fundraising goal, which must be reached by December 21.
Community Action Center has already been screened internationally at venues such as Toronto's Pleasure Dome and London's Tate Modern. Here is more about the project:
A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner's Community Action Center is a 69-minute sociosexual video incorporating the erotics of a community where the personal is not only political, but sexual. This project is a unique contemporary composition, an archive of an intergenerational community built on collaboration, friendship, sex and art. Burns and Steiner worked with artists and performers who created infinitely complex gender and performance roles that are both real and fantastical, set to a soundtrack of music by Chicks on Speed, Effi Briest, Electrelane, Chateau featuring K8 Hardy, Lesbians on Ecstasy, Light Asylum, MEN, Motherland, NGUZUNGUZU, I.U.D. (Lizzi Bougatsos & Sadie Laska), Kinski and Thee Majesty (Genesis P-Orridge), and featuring original compositions by Justin Bond, Nick Hallett & Sam Greenleaf Miller, Ashland Mines & Wu Tsang, Sergei Tcherepnin and Tri-State Area with AV Linton.
Click over to the fundraising page to watch the NSFW trailer.
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posted by Frank on Thursday, December 8, 2011
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!! OMG, this'll blow your mind: 'Pina' !!
How amazing does this look?! Better still, it's in 3D (at least in some places). Wim Wenders staged the film as an homage to choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in 2009. Wim set Pina's works around Wuppertal, Germany, where the dance company is based. Restaging the pieces, Wim poses the question, "Is it dance, is it theater, or is it life?"
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posted by Phillip on Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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!! OMG, who thought of this? Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses !!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses. Genius. See more genius after the jump.
(via BuzzFeed)
[[OMG there's more! JUMP IN and read the rest]]
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posted by Phillip on Thursday, October 20, 2011
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!! OMG, need one: Tall painting !!
Do you ever just see something and think, "Dammit, now why didn't I have this (stony) idea myself?!?!" Yeah, well, artist Holton Rower robbed the bank with this one.
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posted by Phillip on Friday, September 23, 2011
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!! OMG, you might need a live model for this: How to draw an elephant !!
I'm no artist, but were I blessed with da Vinician talents, I'd probably use them to make something like this. Juvenile, sure, but what's new?
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posted by Phillip on Thursday, August 11, 2011
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