My friend Dave White is at it again– this time with a new exhibition (and his largest to date) entitled “Natural Selection” presented by London’s The Hospital Club Gallery and artrepublic.
The show will shine a spotlight on a number of threatened animal species and consist of an array of oil paintings, limited edition prints and works on paper.
Additionally, in celebration of the upcoming exhibition, White and Talenthouse are extending an opportunity to animators, inviting submissions of showreels and short films inspired by the Amazonian Parrot, with the winning animator set to collaborate with White on a brand new piece to be featured in the London show. Those interested can find further info and enter here. “Natural Selection” is set to open on June 22 and run through July 7.
The Hospital Club Gallery
Dave White “Natural Selection”
June 22-July 7, 2012
24 Endell St.
London WC2H 9HQ
A collection of pie charts depicting the ingredients in thirteen delectable pies. Data meets design meets delicious. $17 from Pop Chart Lab in Brooklyn.
Each print is signed and numbered by the artists from a first edition of 500.
Using 100 lb. archival recycled stock certified by The Forest Stewardship Council, this print is produced with vegetable-based inks in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Fear.Less is a collaborative project between Daniel Ting Chong & Jordan Metcalf. The objects are all representative of weapons/items used in acts of crime in South Africa, both by criminal and the law. More pictures here (and a few of my favorites below).
The objects seek to playfully examine the place of fear and crime in South Africa context, framing our obsession with violence and the casual paranoia we all seem to suffer from. By scaling the objects and turning them into artworks, the artists aim to re-contextualise the place these items hold in our everyday lives.
We all saw the Jay-Z and Kanye West video for Otis. We all thought to our ourselves, oh no, seriously? The Maybach? Don’t do it!!!
Thankfully rap isn’t all just bling bling– they’re auctioning off The Otis Maybach for charity, this Thursday, March 8th in New York City. The lot is being sold partly to benefit Save the Children by Phillips Depury.
Estimates are $100,000-$150,000 and I imagine it will do just fine. Who wouldn’t want a ‘04 Maybach destroyed by Jigga himself? I’m going to go ahead and put this into the Art category.
2004 Maybach 57 customized for the video for the Grammy Award winning song Otis, 2011
Stomping around airports can get old. Design to the rescue! Jeriël Bobbe, a recent Eindhoven grad, has devised a musical floor that you play by dragging your suitcase across it.
Bobbe was inspired by something he noticed during his weekly train trips from Eindhoven to Amsterdam. “Whether they are stone slabs, tactile paving for the blind, or a grid for wheelchairs, there is music in everything,” the Dutch designer writes. So he decided to formalize the music-making, by creating pieces of ribbed wood that can be arranged like musical notes. The distance between the grooves corresponds to pitch, while the depth of the ruts determines volume.
Dominic Wilcox has created some new watch sculptures– tiny people standing on the hands of a watch, on subjects from protest and big brother to money and football. Via Mocoloco
The new Watch Sculptures are part of a larger series of miniature time-based sculptures by Wilcox that uses vintage mechanical timepieces and customized model figures.
Old friend Chuck Anderson of NoPattern has released a few new goodies for the holiday season. Above is his latest NoPattern Calendar– a 7×7 calendar packaged inside a black vinyl record sleeve screenprinted with gold ink, signed and numbered in an edition of 300.
There are also some new t-shirts. Two of the six latest shirts are below. Great stuff.
Josh Spear readers can used the code jspear for $5 off their order in the store. Enjoy!
Check out my friend Rafa Jenn’s latest creation. The Feline Totem is a four-color, limited edition screen print. Edition of 36. Archival ink on heavy-weight archival paper. Signed and numbered. Dimensions: 11.75″ x 36″. Fun for $69.
Head over to designboom for a great story and photo essay about the human billboard paintings at the North Korean Mass Games.
Believe it or not, I actually had flights to North Korea to see the Mass Games this past September– but the whole trip was cancelled for ‘unknown’ reasons. I’m looking forward to trying again for my night in Pyongyang next year. It looks a-mazing.
My brothers filmWe Are The Hartmans is premiering tonight at 7pm in NYC at The Hiro Ballroom inside The Maratime Hotel. If you’re around, come and check it out.
Loving this huge and amazing list of tributed artwork remembering Steve Jobs. I wonder if he’s rolling over in his grave though! I once read he hated photographs of himself– except the one on the front page of the Apple website right now, which he actually liked.
