I dig: Sam Winston

Given the content of this blog, you may wonder if my interests span outside of the music realm. Rarely, but yes...I’m not joking, just joking, I am joking, just joking, I’m not joking.

So, Sam Winston is a brilliant London artist who works with words, language, typography, literature and semantics in artistic form. His genius borders on insanity in terms of the painstaking detail and numeracy in his work. His projects epitomize the non-dichotomous aspects of art, math, science and language. The ideas behind Orphan and Darwin are some of the most impressive I've seen in a while.

Richard Kern

My interest started when I saw the book Looker, and now I just can't get enough of this man's work.

Check out this for a taste of his provocative but undeniably real portrayals of sexuality.

Manufacturing the Sublime

When you step beyond those paramount boundaries, the dreamlike becomes palpable, the odyssey of meaning begins, and the astute ability to discern between living and mere existence becomes both an overwhelming gift and a detrimental curse.





That shit sure was fun.

To see more about The Wedge, visit The Windmill Factory.

Papergirl

Yet another reason why Berlin is my next destination of choice- innovative alternative solutions to publicly accessible art...distributed impulsively!

Papergirl #3 from Papergirl on Vimeo.

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The Joy of Not Being Sold Anything

When I was a kid I used to
pray every night for a new bicycle.
Then I realised God doesn’t work
that way, so I stole one and
prayed for forgiveness.
-Emo Philips

Banksy's new exhibit entitled The Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill, solidifies that this "concept artist" is a virtuoso in the art of good humour and satire. The pet shop opened earlier this week and exposes Banksy's take on the ironic love/eat relationship humans have with animals, as well as the ethics and reality of factory farming. The BBC has a short but fairly comprehensive video covering the exhibit.

















See more of Banksy's work here.

Big Ideas (don't get any)

This Radiohead remix for Nude is truly genius. Visit James Houston's explanation behind the video here

Now on View @ The MoMA

One of the current MoMA exhibits, "Design and The Elastic Mind". Some pretty interesting stuff. I particularly enjoy the "Afterlife" project (1:17), as well as the origami compositions and their relation to the telescope lens (3:00). Just goes to show that science and art are not as disassociated as most of us think.