Clever Word Play

The video Lost Generation was the second place winner in an AARP U@50 video contest and I liked the simplicity of the concept and message.

50 to 70 mph Photographs

Photographer Andrew Bush exposes the tension between private and public with his images. His series entitled Vector Portraits – Photographs made while traveling 50-60 mph in Los Angeles and other parts of the Southwestern United States, Bush photographed his subjects with a camera attached to the passenger window of his car. You can also purchase the book Drive from Yale Press.

Little Factory

The Little Factory is a small commerce site based out of Hong Kong that sells these awesome typographic scarves made out of ultrasuede. They come in upper- or lower-case and numeric versions. They also make some cool graphic print blankets.

Amazing Long Exposures

Born in St. Petersburg in 1962, Alexey Titarenko now splits his time between beloved native city and New York.

A graduate of the Department of Cinematic and Photographic Art at the Leningrad Academy of Culture, Alexey is now a member of the Russian Union of Artists.

I am especially enamored with his City of Shadows collection that was shot in St. Petersburg between 1992 - 1994.

While Shopping in SF

I think most people have come to expect these kind of shenanigans to happen in San Francisco, but this one is extra special.

Monstrous Diabolicos

Since Monstrous Diabolicos is in Spanish, and I don't speak Spanish, I deduced that it's a blog by Rafa Toro who's been posting finds from a sticker collection from the "80". The simple color palettes and rough screen printing of the "creatures" is fantastic.

CORRECTION Armin from Brooklyn shed a little light on this entry for me. He said the illustrations were done (rather than found) by Rafa Toro. The first entry: “Hola a todos, este es el gato unicornio, el primero de una colección de cromos q casi completé a finales de los 80.”

Is:

“Hi everyone, this is the unicorn cat, the first in a collection of drawings I almost finished in the late 80s.”

Still Life

German artist Johan Lorbeer has taken his work to the streets. In his “Still-Life” performances, Lorbeer elevates himself as sculpture in apparently impossible positions, unhinging the laws of gravity. His corporeal installations such as "Tarzan" and "Proletarian Mural" have given the artist much attention in Germany. Perhaps we'll soon see him here in the states.

View his latest public performances here and here, or check out his website.