ART + ACTION = OBAMA 08 : Invitation

ART + ACTION = OBAMA 08, presented by Jailbreak Toys, is coming up on October 17th in New York City. ART + ACTION is an exhibition of custom Obama Action Figures by contemporary artists, graf writers, and toymakers. Visionary pieces by Mars-1 and Jason Alberto Garcia, edgy versions by Damion Silver and David Choong Lee, [...]

Yellow Sticky Notes

This is youtube at its best. Art that you (and I) never would have seen otherwise.

Science, I’d Like You To Meet Art

Once a very unlikely pairing, the fields of science and art are now more than ever like peanut butter and jelly. Thanks to regular updates from the Buckminster Fuller Institute I was tipped off to these excellent articles on some current projects that are converging these once divergent fields. Served tastefully by our good friends [...]

The Paintings of Audrey Kawasaki

From time to time, I’ll use this blog to promote artists that I really believe in. The first of those is Audrey Kawasaki, whose amazing paintings you’re looking at right now. I met Audrey when she was an undergrad at Pratt, here in Brooklyn. She pulled out some pictures of her paintings one day and [...]

Pimp My Rice Paddy

That image is not Photoshopped. It’s a real rice paddy in Japan shot from above. Here’s an excerpt of the article : “Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety. This [...]

What’s Inside an Elephant’s Mind?

I don’t want to spoil the video because I think most of the joy comes in watching him (her?) at work. Having said that, this video does really open up some questions about how brains work and what separates us from all the rest of the animal kingdom. (Answer: less than we think!) I’m very [...]