Tag: Art
There’s something oddly poetic about the complexities of governmental bureaucracy and law–just ask David Foster Wallace and Terry Gilliam. German information designer Oliver Bieh-Zimmert has taken that idea to its logical, literal conclusion with his Network of the German Civil Code, an installation piece that puts the titular country’s notoriously complicated Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch ca. 1896 up on the wall (all 2,385 […]
Though the potential consumer and commercial applications for 3D-Printing get wider every day, its high cost and high-tech wonkiness has prohibited it from becoming a household item. The 3Doodler, a handheld 3D-printing device that’s currently funding on Kickstarter, may change all that. “Everyone knows how to use a pen,” says Peter Dilworth, one of 3Doodler’s […]
Vivan Maier was one of the best street photographers no one’s ever heard off, until one lucky kid found 100,000 of her negatives. Nanny by day, and brilliant photographer by later that day, Maier privately captured decades of Chicago’s history. She was also a hoarder, a hermit and just a little bit strange. She hid everything. […]
Photographer Cheyne Gallarde took to Kickstarter last year with a unique way to raise hype and funds for his Universe of One self-portrait series. The project was designed to be a book in which he’d take on the likenesses of a large cast of characters from a variety of backgrounds and genders — an idea derived […]
If you haven’t submitted your 6-second Vine to our Unofficial Vine NC-17 #VeryShortFilmFest, this is your final reminder. You have until midnight tomorrow, Tuesday 2/19, to submit by making video art, porn, porny video art or arty porno video (or something else fun, whatever) by Vining and Tweeting your vid with the hashtag #VeryShortFilmFest or emailing […]
Evan Seitz, the Atlanta-based motionographer who brought you minimalist-y montage quiz animations Alphagames, 123Films and Geovideos, has just released the last in his 5-part series, ABCinema – Take 2. Film nerds rejoice and take a minute to absorb 26 all new two-second soundbites from mostly classic films with a few more contemporary nods than the […]
ESPO hooked up with Kurt Vile, Philadelphia’s king of slacker rock and roll, for the cover of Wakin on a Pretty Daze, Vile’s latest album. The artist born Steve Powers created a giant mural in Kensington, Philly, in his sign-painting style, depicting specific images from the record’s lyrics. “I think Wakin on a Pretty Daze is perfect,” says Powers […]
Totally shocking, breaking Banksy news!!! If you’ve become accustomed to seeing the very famous street artist’s stencils being boarded up, made a fuss about and chiseled out of the walls of Detroit and Palestine (PALESTINE for fuck’s sake!) and then sold off at an auction, all shady-like… It happened again. This time to that hyped one Banksy did recently to […]
Last month, a 25-year-old South East London man charged on credit two Banksy prints, Wrong War and a signed edition of No Ball Games, worth £12,990 (about $20,000 USD), from an Essex art dealer. Two weeks after the the work was shipped to the buyer, bank letters informed the dealer that payments made on the credit cards, one […]
Chinese filmmaker Kit Chung has been experimenting with GIFs pulled from a video he made shooting portrait close-ups on Line 2, Beijing’s oldest running subway rail. The voyeuristic loops of subtle facial gestures are a little bit Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests meet Chris Marker’s Passengers. He’s been posting to his Tumblr which also reminds of […]
