Archive for January, 2010
On MTV from 1986-1987–when the network still played music and hadn’t yet been deluged by drunken roommates, celebrity abodes, and culturally-entrancing guidos–Andy Warhol hosted a five-episode-long television program called, ‘Fifteen Minutes.’ Interviewees included Pee-Wee Herman, John Waters, Robin Leach, Kevin Dillon, Courtney Love, William Burroughs, and a number of key members of both the fashion (Marc Jacobs) and music (The Ramones) worlds. Warhol, who had two other shows prior to ‘Fifteen Minutes,’ passed before the last episode aired. But thanks to the wonder of the Internet, we’ve been pointed toward four of the five episodes and embedded them after the break. [Courtesy of Buzzfeed via Zamboni] [ed note: at the request of the Warhol Foundation, the videos of Andy Warhol's '15 Minutes' television program have been removed]
It looks like a theme is developing in today’s posts: Artists who have taken esoteric forms of technology and are using them as the basis for their work. The sheep shown above were created a few years back by artist Jean-Luc Cornec, who ironically doesn’t even have a website. He took rotary phones and built the animals for an exhibition at the Frankfurt Museum of Communications. More photos below. [Courtesy of This Blog Rules]
UK-based artist, Nick Gentry, uses floppy disks and other outdated technological stuff for his impressive mixed media paintings. Check out a bunch of his best below. [Courtesy of Wooster Collective] I just stumbled upon this video while hitting the always interesting Stumble Upon button on my Firefox browser. It’s called, “Did You Know?” and features a bunch of facts about America and China and the Internet and Google and education and jobs and MySpace and Facebook. Wait, MySpace? Yeah, while informative, it’s crazy to see how outdated this thing has become in just over a year. There’s no mention of Twitter or the iPhone or the economy or the dying print media or any other current topics of the zeitgeist (i.e. Jersey Shore). You should watch it because there’s a whole bunch of shit in there you didn’t know five minutes ago.
This has to be one of the most half-baked inventions in history. If it didn’t come with such noble intentions–to question the relationship between the human body and its surrounding environment–it would most definitely take the cake. It’s implausible to think that anyone in their right mind would ever 1. buy this and 2. wear it in public. I’m all for getting more sleep throughout the day, but wearing a foam cocoon so I can pass out anywhere is a bit ridiculous. Not to mention people would think I were mad, and probably either push me down a hill or have me admitted. Lots of information and photos, including a detailed explanation of putting it on and taking if off in less than a minute, are included below. [Courtesy of Dangerous Minds via Blogitecture]
In a brief yet revealing interview at the Marijuana Policy Project’s 15th Anniversary Gala, Politico learned that the godfathers of weed, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, would love nothing more than to light up a nice big joint with former vice presidential candidate and current Fox talking head, Sarah Palin. Why? Because she answers a lot of questions like a stoner and lives in Alaska so ergo grows an abundance of fantastic weed. If you could smoke pot with any politician dead or alive, who would it be and why? [Courtesy of HuffPo]
French artist Michel de Broin built a massive disco ball that measures 23.6-feet in diameter and contains a whopping 1,000 individual mirrors. Then he attached the sphere to a crane 165-feet in the air and suspended it in the Jardin du Luxembourg during the Nuit Blanche event in Paris. After directing spotlights at it from various locations around the city, de Broin hit a switch and let the party commence. We’ve included a bunch more photos below so you can see just got big this thing really is. [Courtesy of Dude Craft via Life Lounge] This is a nice little stop motion advertisement for Lego CL!CK. Great marketing here, folks.
Amsterdam-based artist, Peter Schuyff, takes ordinary objects like baseball bats and colored pencils and carves them into intricate and delicate works of art. It must take a ton of trial and error to get these to the point where they don’t fall apart during the work process. Check out a bunch more photos below.
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