Posted on October 7, 2008 by jennbreck
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, [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Politics, What Is Art Anyway? | Tagged: ART + ACTION = OBAMA 08, Art Plus Action, Barack Obama, Brin Berliner, Damion Silver, David Choong Lee, Jailbreak Toys, Jason Alberto Garcia, kaNO, Mars-1, Obama Action Figure, Obama art, ROn English, Shepherd Fairey, The Showroom NYC, Toy Tokyo, Truth And Soul | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 19, 2008 by jailbreaktoys
This is youtube at its best. Art that you (and I) never would have seen otherwise.
Filed under: Eye Candy, Fun Stuff on the Web, What Is Art Anyway? | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 4, 2008 by jailbreaktoys
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 [...]
Filed under: What Is Art Anyway? | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 2, 2008 by jailbreaktoys
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 [...]
Filed under: What Is Art Anyway? | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 1, 2008 by jailbreaktoys
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. [...]
Filed under: What Is Art Anyway? | Tagged: rice paddy art | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 31, 2008 by jailbreaktoys
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 [...]
Filed under: Weird Science, What Is Art Anyway? | Tagged: elephant, flower, paint, painting | Leave a Comment »