Stuart Hilton

A really marvelous video by Stuart Hilton. It describes our day-to-day activity. Gorgeous! Wish I saw it during my journey project research..

A bit more about experimental film in the 20th Century: Norman McLaren

Norman McLaren was born in Scotland and Glasgow School of Art. After WW2 he moved to Canada and worked for National Film Board. He is also known for his drawings on film and experiments with sounds and graphics.

Neighbours received an Oscar (the propaganda of peace and understanding b/ween neighbours)

A Phantasy in Colour. My personal favourite. The drawings and music are just wonderful.. Love it!

Len Lye

This week we are doing moving image and Len Lye is a really bright example of experimental film. Although I find the videos quite boring at some point, they might be really playful+ the music is really pleasant.
[Len Lye was from New Zealand, but from 1950s was living and working in America]

I need to admit that I adore 'Swinging in the Lambeth walk', it just reflects the music and all the instruments used so perfectly! +Lovely colours. xxx

Gabriella Barouch

Awesome illustrations by a 26 year-old Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem graduate, Gabriella Barouch. Currently lives and works in Paris. Recently I have seen her on various websites and blogs.

So fucking clever.

This week I am doing typography and while researching I found this freaking amazing BMW ad. 

Recents

How many things happen to me every day! Sometimes when we just live and don't keep the record of stuff that we go through, it's so easy to forget all those amazing details that fill certain times and situations. 

Yesterday I was waiting for Y. in Notting Hil Gate in, of course, ITSU. Ok, I can understand that I love sushi and blah-blah-blah but not eating them once very two days and spending 40 pounds!! Although the lamp was really nice.

And today was a marvelous day! I love love Covent Garden. Found that mazing Snow+Rock shop with equipment (!) for snowboards, tracking and stuff. I never expected that the 'clothes' are so expensive, I mean 220 pounds for a jacket!! And eventualy me and Y. found OnePiece clothings which is pretty gorgeous. 

London Graphic Centre cheered me up a bit. Than we went lloking for any fast food places because Y. was running late. And...yay, jacket potatoes and mulled vine!! Perfect. The jacket potatoes man was so awesome, he kept shouting Elvis's song out. All of the feeling were just so great, I could feel Christmas rushing to our doorsteps. Love this time of the year in London.

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I don't know, but I feel amazing when in Oxford Street. Is it because everyone is so excited and happy there? 

ps i love lacoste. screw the brief, my skirt is a way better. LAME

Matt Wisniewski

Matt is a web-developer from Brooklyn, NY. He surfes the web looking for, as he says, 'pretty things' and makes his own. 

I think his work is just beautiful. It also reminds me of collages by John Stezaker.

Artem Krepkij

An outstanding illustrator from Ukraine. He makes this amazing powerful more-like-sketches work.

I think sometimes the work is overwhelmed with tone and seems dirty, but it's just the way Artem works, right?

Illustration+comix

1. Jonathan Edwards+Felt Mistress
He is an illustrator and comix creator, she makes toys. All their work gives me that spirit of Cartoon Network characters:) 

JE

A window in Selfridges by FM

2. Mikker Sommer.

A Copenghagen-born illustrator and comix creator, who is only 23 and who lives and works in Berlin. A whole issue of NOBROW was contributed to his comix stories. 

I adore his sketchbooks! 

Bela Borsodi and how it feels to be back

FINALLY reached the blog after a 2-month break. Honestly, was just really lazy+ didn't have time because of looking for a place to live and stuff. 

So, forget about long introductions and let's get started. Bela Borsodi is a Vienna born photographer who lives and works in New York. He was born 1966 in Vienna and studied Fine Art and Graphic Design n Switzerland. Moved to America in 1992. Started working as a still-life photographer from the beginning of the century.

I think this series with baloons are super clever and so representative. But how are they sticked to the wall or whatever. How did he do it?

This series is amazing. 

A fashion version of Esher.

Ballons again. I loove the nipples hahah. I think he communicated the idea of those celebrities and glamourous, rich people perfectly. I am particularly fascinated by that tiny coctail glass and the bag as the skirt!

'Alphabet that we see every day'

I love it I love it I love it!!! As if the hand and the towels are levitaing! Absolutely fabulous.

                                               

The composition and execution are so perfect. And the colour scheme is very pleasant. 

'The foot fetish'. Was much debated by the feminist movement. Not all of them are perfectly doen but I quite like it and think of it as if it's a really gentle and truthful comparison between women's footwear and women.

Basically his work is full of assemblage, putting things together and creating a complex system of rythms and juxtapositions. It's really fashion but with that spirit of fine and graphic art, it's a study of details and accessories and finding their abilities to communicate and represent; it's colours are always pleasant.