Baby on Board
Saw this custom board on Two Birds Fly and loved the story behind it: “Alex gets a custom every time he and his wife Talia have a baby. This is his second custom from us, the first was a Nat Russell / Michele Junod custom to commemorate the birth of his first daughter Sophie. This […]
Let There Be Light
After a week of gray skies in this season where the days are getting shorter, the light lovers among us won’t want to miss this weekend’s festival, Bring to Light, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and other cities around the world on Saturday, October 1st. This free nighttime public festival of art in New York City takes […]
Tim DeChristopher Update
photo by Daniel Rolnik (Argot & Ochre) Earlier this month Tim DeChristopher started serving his prison sentence; he is now in a correction facility in California reportedly doing well. He writes updates to Grist blog if you want to hear from him. If you want to be in touch with him, send correspondence here: Tim […]
Mollusk Surf Shop
Here’s a cool profile on a nice little surf shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a window into the work of artist/owner, Chris Gentile, as well as his perspective on the NYC surf scene.
DUMBO Arts Festival
Our very own Hope Dector, printmaker and designer of the Harmony Blog, has a project at this weekend’s Dumbo Arts Festival. Don’t miss her collaboration, “Coppercussion/Papercussion,” with sound artist Nick Yulman. For their project they use materials of printmaking, electronics and sound to create a network of automated musical devices.
7 Men on a Vault
What art school does teach you is how to teach yourself. No one is going to ask you to do art projects. It’s your freedom. And freedom is the condition of responsibility. You learn how to take responsibility for your time and choices. —artist Jumana Manna in Acne Paper
Etsuko Ichikawa
Japanese-born artist Etsuko Ichikawa creates large-scale pieces of work with a molten fire. “Handling it while aglow at 2100°F, she loops, stretches and presses the smoking mass of lava atop paper to create abstract drawings known as pyrographs,” says the Anthropologist (where you can see a cool short film of Ichikawa in action). “My work […]
Food Porn
Andy Ellison, an MRI technologist at Boston University Medical School, began scanning fruits and veggies in his lab as a way to warm up the machines. The results were so beautiful that he started a blog, Inside Insides, to share the mesmerizing moving images of everything from sliced starfruit (above) to onions.
Climate Week NYC
Time to say goodbye to Fashion Week and hello to Climate Week NYC. From today until September 26th, New York City will host an annual summit with meetings between the world’s leading businesses and governments and an array of events focused on driving a “clean industrial revolution.”
Tony Cragg: Seeing Things
This weekend, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas presents Tony Cragg: Seeing Things, the first U.S. museum exhibition in nearly 20 years of the work of the award-winning, internationally-acclaimed artist. The exhibition will be on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center from September 10, 2011 to January 8, 2012 and is presented by the Dallas […]
Bat Tower
Almost a year ago, the University at Buffalo’s Joyce Hwang installed this twisted bat house at Griffis Sculpture Park in Southwestern New York state. Bat Tower stands about 12 feet tall, with walls of finished plywood panels arranged in a ribbed, accordion-like pattern. The conspicuous design, unusual for a bat house, serves a purpose: Hwang, […]
Clifford Ross Hurricane Series
It is testimony to the power of photography that one can contemplate one of Clifford Ross’s “Hurricane” images and see a thundering wave stopped cold, spray and spume arrested in mid-flight, its fluid power trumped without so much as a molecule deflected from its path. The project Ross designates “Wave Music” is, in his view, […]
Quiksilver Pro Hits Long Beach
Surfers from all over the world descend on Long Beach, LI for the Quiksilver Pro New York tournament starting today (September 1-15). The Big Apple’s surfing community has mixed feelings about the event. Check out one surfer’s opinion, Urban Aloha, that appeared in the NYT last month.
The Roar
“I have been graced with occasions when creation out of destruction has been palpably evoked before my astonished eyes.”—Isamu Noguchi
BirdScraper
Zhong Huang recently took third place in the Animal Architecture awards with plans for a BirdScraper in New York City. The massive structure designed to house birds should address the problems faced by our feathered friends. “Over 90,000 birds die every year by crashing into skyscrapers because lights inside the buildings attract birds flying right […]
Michael Miller
I make surf paintings. My pictures are inspired by the act of surfing. The feeling of the wave, the ride between solid ground and sea, Hawaiian wave rituals, surfers, surf magazines, explorers, flecks of history, personal writings, physical feats of endurance, and liquid cinematography. —Michael Miller, a Brooklyn-based painter who’s transforming five paintings into faceted […]
Come on Irene
While some of us on the East Coast are running from the storm, surfers from Miami to Montauk are heading for the beach this weekend for what’s promised to be an epic swell.
The Everglades by Lisa Elmaleh
A Brooklyn-based photographer preserves an essence of the Everglades with beautiful, haunting images.
Dumpster Design
New Jersey-based recycling and upcycling design studio, TerraCycle, recently renovated their offices using all sorts of trash. Walls were built from old bottles. Chairs were re-covered in Capri Sun pouches. And, yes, a ticking clock made from pregnancy tests. See more images and the full story here.
Drug Money Art
Argentinean-born Tin Ojeda, a Montauk-based painter and surfer who created the Drug Money Art clothing line started by spray painting boards. Now he designs and prints hand-crafted t-shirts, scarves, books and boards that are sold around the world.
Cyclone Lounger
You can almost hear the “click clacking” of Coney Island’s famous Cyclone roller coaster when you look at the white laser-cut metal base of this lounge chair. One of several items in Uhuru‘s Coney Island Line, this piece is crafted from reclaimed wood from the demolished iconic boardwalk. “The Ipe, first installed on the boardwalk in […]
Serena Mitnik Miller
San Francisco based artist Serena Mitnik Miller watercolor on paper (above) and custom painting on a board (below). See more of her work here: twobirdsfly.blogspot.com.
Ultra-Ex
Ultra (Urban Long Term Research Area) scientists have found an interesting use for vacant urban lots—they study “bird and insect populations, watershed systems, soil nematodes and urban farming” in these abandoned areas. According to the Times, “Ultra-Ex advances a forward-looking mission: to document the ecological benefits that vacant lots might provide and to redefine the […]
The Last Mountain
Don’t miss this moving documentary about a passionate group of citizens who are trying to stop Big Coal corporations in Appalachia. Still showing at theaters throughout the U.S. and available for purchase on DVD. “The central front in the battle for America’s energy future, with enormous consequences for the health and economic prospects of every […]
