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michellehenry — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:02:10 +0000

Polaroid ends instant film production.

“Polaroid has completed its transition from a real company to something that just slaps its brand on other people’s hardware.” — Wired.

michellehenry — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:00:41 +0000

Feeding the flame of my passion for large-scare installation art (and, who are we kidding, innovative Icelanders) is the forthcoming Ólafur Elíasson retrospective “Take Your Time,” en route from San Francisco to the New York City MoMA. Elíasson’s work ping-pongs between the organic and the industrial and manages to merge the two in-between. At times he favors ephemeral, transient materials like ice, mist and steam; creating rainbows, dying rivers and making water flow uphill. But he also likes tricks, often ones that rely on technology or science: encompassing tunnels and cocoons that show something moving when it’s actually still or something still that moves; something you can see with your eyes closed—pieces that provoke the participant into “seeing themselves seeing,” as the artist puts it.

Untitled (Iceland series, 2002).

Quiet Operation (2003).

The antispective situation (2003).

One-way colour tunnel (2007).

Room for one colour (1997).

concept websites

michellehenry — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:32:14 +0000

“meetyourmeat.com is available for consumers to literally track where their meat came from: from farm to slaughter house to packaging to shipping to the point of purchase just by searching the upc label.”

[happy cows don't always come from california.]

”freecouture.com is dedicated to the appropriation and dissemination of priceless garments once owned by public figures who have gotten all the milage out of them the media will allow.”

[haute for the homeless]

michellehenry — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:37:24 +0000

michellehenry — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:35:07 +0000

Apparently, though puzzle pieces typically only fit into one unique spot, thanks to cost-cutting manufacturers, they can be interchanged with other puzzles of the same brand. Artist Kent Rogowski uses pieces from store bought puzzles to create dramatically surreal designs.

michellehenry — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:33:28 +0000

michellehenry — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:21:24 +0000

Art prints by putting Pantone pens to paper and letting it bleed for a month. Brilliant. Pantone Pen Prints (NOTCOT)

michellehenry — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:58:52 +0000

via FormFiftyFive – Design Inspiration.

michellehenry — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:25:13 +0000


                            

Oded Ezer’s biotypography creatures, via pingmag 

If you call him a typographer, it belittles him; if you call him an artist, it belittles him; if you call him an Israeli image-maker, it belittles him—simply amazing.



michellehenry — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:05:28 +0000


                            
M.I.A. is the new face of marc jacobs menswear.  how frida kahlo is this?  she and juergen teller are my heroes.


                            

                                “ Her connections to both the underground and overground form a bewildering map of contemporary culture, one that flouts the usual divisions between black and white, urban and suburban, British and American, the obscure corners of nightlife and the bright lights of MTV.”

                            

                            Paper Magazine.  I want to be able to describe my life like this.