Graphic Art
There is something ethereal about Axtell’s work that made me look at every image on his site. The photography and tone of the images alone would have drawn me in, but the way he shifts pieces of the images and overlays text and other imagery is fantastic. Geometry meets photography meets hipstamatic.
Check out more of his work here – http://www.behance.net/taxtell
People generally like their art big. I have my own personal issues with how small my art is. Street artist Slinkachu proves that it is not the size of the art but the motion of the ocean that counts. Slinkachu takes tiny portions of cities and creates miniature scenes that evoke loneliness and tells the story of how humanity is alone. I love the way Slinkachu uses scale to distort everyday objects and scenes. Scale changes everything.
Bruce Mau is a bad ass. He understands that things need to change and that design can change things. Bruce looks at design holistically and works closely with architects to help them understand what most architects don’t, vision and clarity. The problem is that architects are generally little bitches. So Bruce went to Harvard and met a bunch of whiny over privileged brats and realized that he needs to write an article on how architects can do better. The only problem is that they can’t. The whole structure of architecture in America is fucked.
Graffiti master Blu has been putting out more videos than Bin Laden lately. Stop motion animation + graffiti + insane scale = awesome.
BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Lebbeus Woods is an architectural anarchist, and I mean that in the best possible way. Part philosophy, part art and part architecture; Wood’s blog is always thought provoking.
In one post, he writes about architecture at The Edge.
At the edge, we perform at our peak, our best. We have no choice, really. Anything less and we fall off the edge, plunging into the unknown. The edge is a limit, in the first place of our knowledge. We have to push ourselves to get to it. The closer we come to the edge, the more we have to use the knowledge we have. At the edge only the hard-core knowledge is useful. All the frills and redundancies, the posturings and pretensions, simply get in the way and in fact will doom us to failure. At the edge it is only the essential and the authentic that count.
Architects rarely work anywhere near the edge. Read more…
December took all of my time. New posts coming soon.
“I’m not trying to change the world. I am just reacting to the world trying to change me.” Anthony Lister
but this faucet by NY based Watermark Designs has just made me jizz in my pants a little bit.
Family Guy explains the flaw in Death Star. It had to be an architect.
