Eurobus book out now on Matmos Press (Montreal)
I just bought this book and love it! The first place I cracked it open was on my bus ride home. Pretty sure the boring blue MTA bus I was on felt a little envious.
(via sjwhidden)
8th of February 2012
7th of February 2012
French creative studio Le Creative Sweatshop in collaboration with photographer Fabrice Fouillet, created a series of still-lifes combining translucent jelly and designer lamps…more
17th of November 2011
Ben Roberts’ series of photographs titled ‘Occupied Spaces’ documents some of the communal and private spaces that have been set up outside St. Paul’s Cathedral in central London by protestors representing the global Occupy movement.
(via Junk Culture)
26th of May 2011
![Marcel van Eeden From his series ‘The Occultist (1920)’ (2011)
Here, as is customary of his work, Van Eeden intertwined appropriated elements from historical documents and his personal history (specifically, that of his wife’s family). The series begins in a factual tone, documenting a house in St. Gallen in 1920; the later drawings reverentially record ectoplasm and other manifestations of ghosts brought forth by the titular spiritualist. From a sceptic’s point of view, the potentially factual takes an abrupt fictional turn. For each of his series of drawings, Van Eeden works from found material printed before his birth in 1965, including archival photographs and illustrations from Life and Paris Match. These sources account for the documentary appearance of some of his drawings, though there are equally frequent allusions to film noir, cartoons, commercial logos and pulp fiction. [Frieze Magazine]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llt7raJrVs1qzvxbko1_400.jpg)
Marcel van Eeden
From his series ‘The Occultist (1920)’ (2011)
Here, as is customary of his work, Van Eeden intertwined appropriated elements from historical documents and his personal history (specifically, that of his wife’s family). The series begins in a factual tone, documenting a house in St. Gallen in 1920; the later drawings reverentially record ectoplasm and other manifestations of ghosts brought forth by the titular spiritualist. From a sceptic’s point of view, the potentially factual takes an abrupt fictional turn. For each of his series of drawings, Van Eeden works from found material printed before his birth in 1965, including archival photographs and illustrations from Life and Paris Match. These sources account for the documentary appearance of some of his drawings, though there are equally frequent allusions to film noir, cartoons, commercial logos and pulp fiction. [Frieze Magazine]
6th of April 2011
“Everything in My House that is Orange, Metal, Wood, or in a Container” by Bart Batchelor
17th of March 2011
Get Your Kicks from Met’s Pix Mix:
Not so long ago, most museums banned photos in their galleries. But things are slowly changing–inevitably perhaps, since nowadays just about everyone carries a camera in their pocket! The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in fact, wants you to shoot in the galleries–so much so that it stages contests encouraging the practice. For the current competition, called Get Closer, it’s asking visitors to send details of works in the permanent collection that capture their imagination. You can post the pix, along with a few words explaining why you find the work exciting, on the museum’s Tumblr. The five winners will get their work posted on the Met’s website, and win a free year-long membership. You shoot, you score!
(Source: niborama)
25th of February 2011
I know it has been really quiet on both the blog & dollhouse front, but I’ve been a very busy lady these past couple of weeks.
Last weekend, I was honored to be included in Danielle Terenzio’s photography project of people in creative spaces. Above, a small sample of the pictures she shot. I’m really excited about them.
14th of February 2011
Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea
Everybody is a part of everything anyway
You can have everything if you let yourself be
— Donovan
Untitled
Milton F Stevenson V
Target shopping carts. Edition of 10, 1’x2’ digital prints.
Year Created: 2005
(Source: saatchionline)
9th of February 2011
Kay Thompson, circa 1950
Kay Thompson is a difficult woman to describe. She was, most famously, the creator of the Eloise book series. But she was also the woman who gave voice to MGM’s musicals; a legendary vocal coach for the likes of Frank Sinatra, Lena Horn, Marlene Dietrich and Lucille Ball; a fabled friend and mentor to Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli; the actress who stole a film from under the feet of Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn; and the most popular and highest-paid cabaret performer of all time.
And if that wasn’t enough, she made women’s slacks into a high-fashion item. She was of her time, and before her time — a woman, as they say, of great substance and character. Thompson was a true eccentric, the kind of woman who could waltz through ballrooms and turn every head. She was such a big personality, in fact, that she had to diffuse it into an alter ego, the impish 6-year-old she called Eloise.
“Back in the ’50s, this was you know the Leave it to Beaver, milk and cookies very sweet sort of family values,” says Irvin. “Kaye’s creation of the Eloise character, this was a little girl without parental supervision; she was incredibly rebellious and had an imagination. She very purposefully gave this young girl an independent mind.”
Irvin even credits Thompson with kick-starting the women’s movement: “I really feel that in the ’50s, Kay was spearheading a lot of the early rumblings of feminism — being out there, having careers — and I really think that Eloise was a seminal influence on this.”
5th of February 2011
Portico of the Saint Mark’s Hotel on Windward Avenue in Venice Beach, ca.1906.
(From the USC Digital Archive)
7th of January 2011
ckck:
The ice-covered ruins of the burnt down Equitable Life Assurance Building at Broadway and Cedar Street, New York City. January 11th, 1912.
Photograph by Irving Underhill.
20th of December 2010
Completed first layer of cork board
Including, but not limited to: Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, Little Edie, Big Edie, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Peter Beard, Jackie O, Lee Radziwill, The Shagwong, The Rolling Stones (cover of the album that has “Memory Motel”), Alfonso Ossorio, Ted Dragon, Willem de Kooning, Albert Herter, The Creeks, Paris Hilton with a camel and naked models on elephants.
Who knows how much more I will stick on here. I’m thinking about cutting pins for sewing down to miniature tack-size with wire cutters and pinning them onto the corners of each photo, for effect. I couldn’t find any brads of appropriate scale in the scrapbook section of Michaels, but that’s okay, because I hate spending time in the scrapbook section of Michaels. I always want to say to people who pass me in the aisles, “I’m not in here for scrapbooking. I don’t scrapbook. I make DOLLHOUSES, OKAY?” Once in a blue moon you can find some decent pieces in that section, but mostly all those little 2-D cutouts of cupcakes and butterflies and wedding gowns and graduation caps and USA banners just make me depressed. These just aren’t the “moments” that make up my life. No offense to scrapbookers.
And there you have your Monday morning moment of honesty.
19th of December 2010
Oh, hi Andy.
16th of December 2010
Michael Wolf
Architecture of Density #43
2006
48 x 58 in.
Digital C-print, edition of 9
iseeyou @ Bruce Silverstein Gallery
21st of November 2010
Where can I get/how can I make miniature concrete blocks? I’ve decided to use stripper_polaroids as inspiration for a room in the Painted Lady and this is pretty much the photo that made that happen.
UPDATE:
DONE AND DONE
