Hey everybody,

Now that I'm on this eye torture trip I thought I'd grace us all with a little film by Salvador Dali. You'll love it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqdhsrKkck8&feature=player_embedded#

Thanks for watching everyone!

Invisible man

This guy paints himself to blend in with his surroundings.

www.v1kram.posterous.com/liu-bolinthe-invisible-man

Hilary Koob-Sassen

Matt's work made me think about the ambitious metal and stone sculptural work of my college classmate, Hilary Koob-Sassen. Hilary (who is the son of the famous sociologist Saskia Sassen) started making this kind of work in college, where he used classic materials from the European fine art tradition to craft elaborate visual metaphors for the capitalist exploitation of nature and human labor.

Tyler Shields

I came across this photographer recently. He has no formal experience but managed to work his way up and make lots of celebrity connections and has become famous for a lot of his work. He also makes what has been called 'video portraits' where he records his subject much like one would take a picture but manipulates time and sometimes forwards/backwards motion of the film. Mostly it just looks like film that's rolling during his photoshoots that he messes around with later..
Thus, his photos and videos are very over the top, theatrical, and cinematic (with his background in directing music videos)
Some of it's interesting..some of it's boring. Mostly just visually exciting.


www.tylershields.com

Bridging the Physical and Digital World

I forgot to post this last night after several hours of browsing forums and videos on tech savvy things. I thought this was very intriguing since it has a concrete concept and high potential in the near future for technology, possibly surpassing the iPhone generation and other next gen hand held tech.

Pranav Mistry is the mastermind behind this neat concept.

SixthSense Technology

Migrating Forms: Half-Inch, Half-Life

A recent event at the Anthology Film Archives showcasing artists' and critics' VHS collections.

Presented as Migrating Forms’ contribution to X Initiative’s No Soul for Sale: a festival of independents, Half-inch Half-life is a semi-intimate, public viewing room showcasing a 43-hour marathon of selections from the personal VHS archives of artists, critics, curators, scholars and other devotees to the medium, on a large, media-appropriate television set.

http://www.migratingforms.org/mf09/

So, you may have seen me carrying around bits of twisted steel, and maybe you've noticed this around the Building:



That's right: I have a show in the BFA gallery this week! Closing reception is thursday from 6-9 (an open house affair). Check it out if you are passing by