Amy Goodwin

There's an artist who's been making these animals out of discarded plastic bags. He (or she) ties the bags to the ventilation grates above the subway lines so that when the subway rushes through underneath, the animal jumps up and springs to life.

Wooster Collective

Who Is Banksy?

“If you're willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then I guess you must really need the money.”
Julio Diaz, speaking with the teenager who robbed him
read this great story

Takashi Murakami

trailer for director Michel Gondry

Google earth is one thing but…

Google Sky…amazing

She & Him, is a duet consisting of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward. The two first met when they were recording a song for film and immediately struck accord. One album later and we have “Volume One” – a 13-track jaunt into that familiar olde-tyme-country-folk sound that M. Ward so perfectly creates. Zooey’s bold and playful voice seems to flirt with Ward’s guitar, belting out as tempos skip into melodies that remind us of simpler times.

She & Him-You Really Got A Hold On Me (Smokey Robinson cover)

they do such wonderful work

Estes Twombly Architects

Photoshop is now on the web
click here to check it out

HillarACK

via The New Republic

via sprayglue

I like Isaac Mizrahi's designs for Target.
I also enjoy the higher end clothes he creates.
Pretty, pretty, pretty…

more Isaac

Beautiful Losers trailer

makemakemake

Tatum 9

Prada- Trembled Blossoms
animated commercial for Prada.

Prada: Trembled Blossoms
by Razorbuzz

St. Lawrence String Quartet seminar (part1)
This was so inspiring.
It is all about the love of music and making discoveries.

I even watched part 2

2 great places to play with color

KULER

COLORLOVERS

Teddy Bear Skulls

from the artist's statement:
'a pseudo-scientific study of the morphology of skulls: the form and structures that differentiate one
breed from another and give a sense of the story of the individual. my approach is to research,
document, present, and interpret evidence in a formal manner. my subject species is the teddy bear:
a creature made by humans (and made ‘alive’ by imagination) whose morphological history is tied to
social trends. my idea of ‘logical’ evidence (a stuffed animal would have a skull made of felt) becomes
an emotionally loaded image that brings up a wide range of responses and proves to be ripe for further
exploration'.

more by Stephanie Metz

What happens when you combine typography with motion? That''s the process of kinematic typography and the results, when paired with some excellent scenes from your favorite films and TV shows, can be moving and marvelous

more examples here

I have always liked the work of Italian painter and sculptor Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920).

and Sean Scully

International Pillow Fight Day
March 22nd

find a fight

Marian Bantjes + Stefan Sagmeister + sugar

more here

Eastern European Matchbox labels

to see more

QUEEN

Chris Levine

At the Whitney, 2008 is the year of the Art School Biennial. Not because the art in the new Biennial is immature or because the artists all went to art school—although I bet they did—but because it centers on a very narrow slice of highly educated artistic activity and features a lot of very thought-out, extremely self-conscious, carefully pieced-together installations, sculpture, and earnestly political art. These works often resemble architectural fragments, customized found objects, ersatz modernist monuments, Home Depot displays, graphic design, or magazine layouts, and the resultant assemblage-college aesthetic, while compelling in the hands of some, is completely beholden to ideas taught in hip academies. It’s the style du jour right now. (It also promises to become really annoying in the not too distant future…
more in NYMagazine

GlassLab at Design Miami 2007

Thanks for the Donuts Leika

kate spade

I forget where I found this wonderful jacket.

It is one of those days.

I just bought this Nate Duval screen print.
here is the link

In writing about Elliot Spitzer on his blog, Edward Winkleman sums it up very well.
He writes:

"This is not a case of a blow job by a willing intern that his enemies used to undermine him. This is a case of a man who made a mission out of destroying others who bent the rules, only to then exhibit the kind of mind-numbing audacity that suggests he was corrupted by power in return. Cheating on his wife is his business. Cheating on her with a prostitute, again, IMO, is his business. But his breaking the law is something that makes this affair our business."

to read the rest

keri smith

Christopher Wool

Visual thinking
Abstract thinking

notcot