Beautiful 'Stuff'

I am now clanking around with rusty stuff, drinking beer.
—Judy Pfaff





To motivate my freelance work today, I have been watching and listening to Art: 21 tv on Hulu. Full episodes of Play and Romance have influenced my labor in creating playful logos for a thoughtful nonprofit and peaceful Minnesota resort. I've found today that my process demands making with my hands to ignite the best workings. Judy Pfaff offers the insight that she perhaps received too much romance, love, emotion and affection throughout her life and has shifted to now create almost macabre installations that destruct a notion of what is decorative. As I have transitioned into working in a studio based in my childhood bedroom, I too reflect on my sometimes saccahrine upbringing. In escape, I take joy in building with paper, slicing cardboard, rolling on the adhesive wax and combining crude brush strokes to command that a chaos of disparate items do become whole afterall.

Animaterese

Talking Deer, at "The Ol' Farm", courtesy of David Elhard.



Kevin Wade Shaw and Rob Matthews at Mass. MOCA.



Anton Pearson and Michael Aberman, Slanguage; A Portmanshow at MCAD.

AGAINST THE GRAIN. AGAINST THE STIGMA.

They’re quitting because they’re discouraged and bored, not because they’re dark, depressed, anxious, or neurotic. It’s a myth that creative people have these traits. (Those traits actually shut down creativity; they make people less open to experience and less interested in novelty.) Rather, creative people, for the most part, exhibit active moods and positive affect. They’re not particularly happy—contentment is a kind of complacency creative people rarely have. But they’re engaged, motivated, and open to the world.

Excerpt from the Newsweek article The Creativity Crisis.

NYC Maloof Money Cup

Despite the clashing candor of its title, The Maloof Money Cup is breaking new ground for the playful progression of this inherently limitless passion called skateboarding (read; sport). By re-appropriating urban skate features from around its home city—as well as reclaiming a space that once showcased artists such as Andy Warhol—this event is distinguishing skateboarding with high-class appeal.

I'm thankful for this candid look at the development behind New York City's latest monument.

URBAN OUTCRITTERS

Very impressed with Space 15 Twenty, as I happened upon it's Where the Wild Things are pop-up store in the Urban Outfitters foyer yesterday. More evidence can be seen here. My favorite part was the integration of raw wood material and crusty old afghans in the form of shanty structures. Inside the quinzee-like dome were mountain models—also made of raw sticks—painted with snowy white tops. Miniature monsters lurked throughout the display of high-fashion replicas of characters from the storybook. Shamefully, I have never been in tune with this children's book nor the storyline, but I could not be more excited for the film to blow the minds and hearts of an eclectic generation y!



All this exposure to the production design of cinema, advertising, retail and human beauty (vanity?) is really exciting for me while staying in Los Angeles this month. I'm going to continue my research and will keep trying to get a hand in it all!

TOTAL THRASH

Thrasher Magazine is archiving their historic mag!!
Why dont I have a THRASHIRT yet?

And this Cal Streets archive will blow your mind.

Srsly.

LOVE DRUGS

Ok, I love paper-cut design. Paper cutting is my drug. Also tea is my drug, and scorpions are my biggest fear probably.

Thank you to the great Aaron Draplin for posting this on his truly great blog.

This snow is making things dangerously nostalgic during finals week here.
I want to know, who designed this myspace smiley-face above.

I decided to do it proper, with a snowy-face.
(I'm not even that in to emotional icons.)

My favorite campaign sign, by Amalia Nicholson.