Archive for the ‘art (not mine)’ Category

I could go on and on about the brilliance of this piece, about the simplicity and the energy and the motion and the tension and the balance. But I would so much rather look at it.

By Alice McGrory of London, England, this piece joined our collection as a birthday card from the artist to her Uncle William and will soon be framed and on the wall. Unfortunately, this scan does not do justice to the sunny orange and intrepid blue.

Logorama, an animated short film by the French collective H5, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Animated Shorts category.

Logorama is set in a clean Utopian LA, a branded landscape, where even the people are logos: AOL men, Bic men, the cops are Michelin men. Ronald McDonald is a badass with an automatic weapon, Big Boy is a snarky truant. Logorama supplies a dose of popular movie mechanisms: car chases, shoot outs, Tarantino-esque conversations, and curvy models. Cataclysm ensues, that can only be inspired by absurd apocalypse plots rampant in Hollywood today.

Here it is in two parts:

First there was Beyonce dancing for a few minutes, then there was a youtube baby dancing to Beyonce dancing, then there was Kirk and the whole football team on Glee winning The Big Game with the help of “Single Ladies.”

I think this could be my favorite:

from www.mattus.web

Ah, September’s show at the (crustless) Whitebread Gallery is coming down. I have very much enjoyed the images of William Eggleston.

A new show is going up today and the  Eggleston postcards are getting mailed . If you are here because you received one, welcome. If you want to be on my future mailing list, let me know.