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2012-02-12T19:14:00.000-05:00

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Krista Franklin a poetic collages of lifes

2012-01-19T07:39:00.002-05:00

Krista Franklin is a poet and visual artist from Dayton, OH who lives and works in Chicago. Her work straddles the literary and visual worlds. As a writer and mixed media artist, Krista create complex, interrogative images that reflect the vernacular experiences, dream worlds, and psychic landscapes of the black community in the United States and larger African Diaspora.

Her art has a strong focus on subtext. She often utilize distinct, recognizable and familiar images of people of color, popular iconography, and the juxtaposition of text to engage the viewer and deconstruct the ways in which our gaze reifies and distorts notions of culture and gender, race and class, power and privilege.

Krista is deeply inspired by popular culture and public history, as well as by the frenetic glamour of music videos and magazines. Using a variety of mixed media — acrylic, watercolor, handmade paper and found objects: old letters, vintage magazine advertisements, playing cards, old photographs, and receipts —she work to create "post-modern" American totems wherein the complexities of our present and our past(s) are evoked through purposeful layering

African Diaspora folklore and mythmaking are the conceptual concerns of my current visual explorations. Informed by the gothic fugitive slave narrative of Toni Morrison's Beloved, the shapeshifter, telepathic, and dystopic visions of Octavia E. Butler, and the elaborate collages of Romare Bearden, my recent work in papermaking, letterpress and bookmaking explore retro-Afro-Futuristic and Afro-Surrealist themes of the "fantastic" and the "speculative". - via artist statement

“At the heart of my collages is a deep concern for creating complex and interrogative images, dream worlds and psychic landscapes. Deeply inspired by American popular culture and histories, as well as by the frenetic glamour of music videos and magazines, I create my collages in much the same way a hiphop producer creates a beat: through a process comparable to ‘sampling.’ Using a variety of medium—paint, handmade paper, playing cards, old photographs, receipts—I create new visions and totems wherein image is in dialogue with words (sometimes prominent, sometimes obscured), and the complexities of histories are evoked through a purposeful layering.” - krista franklin

Wangechi Mutu This You Call Civilization

2012-01-18T07:49:00.002-05:00

Kenyan-born, New York-based Wangechi Mutu has trained as both a sculptor and anthropologist. Her work explores the contradictions of female and cultural identity and makes reference to colonial history, contemporary African politics and the international fashion industry. Drawing from the aesthetics of traditional crafts, science fiction and funkadelia, Mutu’s works document the contemporary myth making of endangered cultural heritage.

Wangechi Mutu's work has often seemed to bear the gaze of a perpetual outsider, simultaneously drawn to and repulsed by the discovery of another fresh outrage in the lands in which she travels. Much of Mutu's work to date has been concerned with the myriad forms of violence and misrepresentation visited upon women, especially black women, in the contemporary world

Her upbringing proved to be a modern and urban one at different phases of her life. Mutu wasoften baffled by the Western tendency to perceive Africa in terms of its traditionalculture. Being that she was born and raised in the urban portion of Africa she was unable to relate to the “western generalization of the motherland

Serge Gay Jr.

2012-01-18T06:31:00.003-05:00

Serge Gay Jr. is a Grammy nominated illustrator / fine artist / graphic designer currently based out of San Francisco, California.

The story of Serge Gay Jr. began with his birth in Port-au Price, Haiti and developed during his years in the U.S. His art infuses inspiration born from living in cities from coast to coast. Influence in his work can be found from the culture of his homeland, New York, Miami and Detroit. Currently the story continues to evolve from the west coast of the United States. He is the youngest of three boys and a third generation artist. Art is in his blood and he has felt this talent as long as he can remember.

Serge wasted no time in blazing a path for himself. Early on he embarked on a journey of self-discovery aimed at unlocking the potential of his deep seeded creativity through education. The first major step was attending one of the top art high schools in America, New World School of the Arts. This Miami institution exposed him to relationships, concepts and experiences to nurture, develop and channel his artistic instinct. The College for Creative Studies in Detroit would then help him to further refine his skills and build the foundation for his art career.

Since graduating, Serge has taken residence in San Francisco where he continues to explore and share his talent with the world through career oriented and non-profit freelance projects. - via SGjr.wordpress

Serge's work also was featured in many music videos check the link here ( VIDEOS ) to see.

Laylah Ali

2012-01-08T07:41:00.004-05:00

Laylah Ali was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1968, and lives and works in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She received a BA from Williams College and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The precision with which Ali creates her small, figurative, gouache paintings on paper is such that it takes her many months to complete a single work.

She meticulously plots out every aspect of her work in advance, from subject matter to choice of color and the brushes that she will use. In style, her paintings resemble comic-book serials, but they also contain stylistic references to hieroglyphics and American folk-art traditions.

Ali often achieves a high level of emotional tension in her work as a result of juxtaposing brightly colored scenes with dark, often violent subject matter that speaks of political resistance, social relationships, and betrayal.

Although Ali’s interest in representations of socio-political issues and current events drives her work, her finished paintings rarely reveal specific references. Her most famous and longest-running series of paintings depicts the brown-skinned and gender-neutral Greenheads, while her most recent works include portraits as well as more abstract biomorphic images.

Ali endows the characters and scenes in her paintings with everyday attributes like dodge balls, sneakers, and Band-aids, as well as historically- and culturally-loaded items such as nooses, hoods, robes, masks, and military-style uniforms. Her drawings, which she describes as “automatic,” are looser and more playful than the paintings and are often the source of material that she explores more deeply in her paintings.

- ( PBS art21 )

Andy Goldsworthy

2011-12-18T20:06:00.002-05:00

Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings.

"We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature. We’ve lost our connection to ourselves."

MARS!

2011-06-10T09:45:00.003-04:00

“A short narrative about human interplanetary exploration”. By Joe Bichard and Jack Cunningham.

Edouard Duval Carrie

2011-04-19T05:49:00.002-04:00

Edouard Duval-Carrié (born 1954) is a Haitian painter and sculptor. Born in Port-au-Prince, his family emigrated to Puerto Rico while he was a child during the François Duvalier regime.Duval-Carrié studied at the Université de Montréal and McGill University in Canada before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola College, Montréal in 1978. He later attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, from 1988 to 1989. He resided in France for many years and currently lives in Miami, Florida. "I didn't want to go back to Haiti because of the political turmoil there. I have two kids," he explains. Instead he resides among Miami's substantial Haitian immigrant population and maintains cultural ties to his homeland. His works have been exhibited in Europe and the Americas.
Duval-Carrié's art reflects the culture and history of Haiti with references to the Vodou religion. His work is often overtly political, executed in attempts to embody his nation's spirit and its troubles with an attitude that is neither detached nor ironic. ( via wikipedia )

Part 1

Part 2

check out more of his works here

Jason deCaires Taylor

2011-03-07T10:58:00.004-05:00

check out more beautiful picture and find out more about Jason deCaires Taylor

Michael Reedy

2011-03-07T08:37:00.002-05:00

Who is Marcellous Lovelace

2011-03-07T05:24:00.003-05:00

Marcellous Lovelace is an amazing artist. A native of Tennessee but was born and raise on the south side of Chicago, Illinois.
He uses art to express his deepest emotions (energy in motion) and calls himself a unique traveler of the world who brings African American Art into a Factual Light. His art is almost completely self-taught. His favorite subject is the human form. He paints using various media from oil, acrylic, pastels, glue, magazines, house paint, shoe polish, Georgia red dirt, and simple ink pens.

connect with him on facebook

this is his blog marcellouslovelace.tumblr.com

Lora Zombie

2011-03-06T04:34:00.003-05:00

Camilla D'Errico

2011-03-05T17:52:00.005-05:00

Camilla's style is known as "pop surrealism," and blends several influences and themes into one playful and just slightly off-kilter whole. The girls she draws are childlike and innocent, but clearly in a world that isn't our own. Her work is haunting and a little creepy. The big doe eyes on her girls and the unusual portrayal of animal life are both attractive and curious in a way that sticks with you.
Read More at :comicsalliance.com

check out her website

Amazing Illustrations by Stanley Lau

2011-03-05T13:51:00.003-05:00

Stanley Lau is a busy child as an illustrator, designer, concept artist and art director. Born and bred in Hong Kong, he soaked up his creativity and interest in arts early on and trained his artistic skills and knowledge ever since in a never-ending process. Filled with creative juices to the top of his head, Stanley is active all day with various projects at his Imaginary Friends Studios designing art and concepts for computer and card games companies, animation houses or comic publishers. He is also founder of his own advertising & design agency and a t-shirt label, and when Stanley is not working on any of these, he can be found playing video games across many platforms or the occasional karaoke session.

his company

The Kiss: An Exploratory Animation

2011-03-05T13:25:00.002-05:00

The Kiss - Infographic from Marija Vidanovic on Vimeo.

DUDU'S WORLD

2011-03-01T10:03:00.006-05:00

dudu is a character in movie called : African United which is base on three Rwandan kids who walk 3000 miles to the Soccer World Cup in South Africa. In the movie had some amazing VFX, which included puppets animation ,stop-motion animation and 2D animation

the creative process : click here

SIXEART

2010-11-16T13:01:00.003-05:00

more of his work

Wenling Chen

2010-11-16T12:22:00.002-05:00

Wenling Chen was born in 1969 in Anxi, Fujian China. He studied at the Xiamen Academy of Art and Design, and at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He is now living and working in Xiamen and Beijing as a professional artist.

this is fucking amazing ......... really !!!

Beth Cavener Stichter

2010-11-16T11:22:00.003-05:00

look and follow the black rabbit down the bright yellow hole

Mehmet Aksoy

2010-11-16T06:45:00.003-05:00

Mehmet Aksoy is a Turkish sculptor. he was born in southern Turkey and studied sculpture in England, Italy and Germany, where he lived and worked for many years. He works primarily in stone but also incorporates other material, fusing metal or differing stones in a single sculpture. He presently resides and works in a studio of his own dramatic design on the outskirts of Istanbul.

this is his wedsite Mehmet Aksoy

GLENN BROWN

2010-11-16T05:43:00.002-05:00

Eisuke SATO

2010-11-16T05:21:00.002-05:00

Oksana Badrak

2010-11-15T07:18:00.002-05:00

Oksana Badrak is an multi-talented artist. she is known as an illustrator, designer and fine artist. Born and raised in Russia, Oksana Badrack moved with her parents to the United States as a young girl. Growing up in an environment heavily influenced by theatre and the arts, Badrack received boundless creative stimuli while being constantly surrounded with objects of fantasy and the unusual. These elements are now commonplace in her surrealistic and sublime depictions

1961 from Paul Yeh on Vimeo.

Directed by: Paul Yeh and Oksana Badrak
Illustration by: Oksana Badrak

this is her website Badrak

2500 Paintings of One Woman

2010-11-13T06:10:00.002-05:00

The work of Pablo Perea is really one face many difference feelings. He is a self taught artist, a native of Cuba (born and raise in Guines , in little town just outside of Havana. Pablo started out with a career in medicine before turning solely to art.

2500 Paintings of One Woman from J. Paul Preseault on Vimeo.

The Man Behind The Album Artworks

2010-11-12T04:48:00.009-05:00

Introducing Mr. LEMI GHARIOKWU , is the man behind the famous album artwork and poster for the late great , legendary Fela Kuti. He is a self-taught Graphic/Fine Artist, Cover Designer and Illustrator from Nigeria, West Africa who has carved a niche for himself in the field of Album Cover Designing and Illustration.
Lemi designed more than 2000 + and counting album covers with his many difference styles, very bold colors and some of the craziest typefaces. The images inspiration comes from the content of the music may it be politic , love , war or happiness .
Lemi also did work for Bob Marley, E. T. Mensah, Osita Osadebe, Gilles Peterson and Antibalas.

Anoda Sistem created in 2002, is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

u can also check the blog artsownkind.wordpress.com

just a video i am feeling - great graphic work

2010-11-09T18:55:00.002-05:00

Hermanos Inglesos feat. MeMe - Wanderland from Kristof Luyckx on Vimeo.

Yayoi Kusama

2010-11-08T10:50:00.003-05:00

More Toshio Saeki work

2010-11-08T07:15:00.002-05:00

The Godfather of Japanese Erotic Creations

2010-11-08T06:05:00.003-05:00

Mr.Toshio Saeki (佐伯俊男) is a Japanese artist and mangaka. He was born in the year 1945 in town of Miyazaki Prefecture and later in his life he moved to Tokyo. Mr. Toshio Saeki is famously known as the godfather of japan erotic creation. He has published numerous book and had gallery shows around the world.

Saeki's paintings often feature men and women as well as demons, animals, corpses, and other creatures in various erotic or violent settings. His work has received warnings from the Japanese government, though it has never been officially banned. His works are collected avidly by erotic art fans in Japan, America, France, and other parts of the world. Saeki has said that he enjoys using his art to shock people and he doesn't really involve himself in the extreme activity of his best known works.

Toshio Saeki official site

THING TO COME IN THE DARK

2010-11-06T14:29:00.003-04:00

Scott Scheidly

Dan May

Charlie Immer

R.S. Connett

Heiko Muller

DAFT BEHEADED & BeHeaded Portrait BY Jackson Armstrong

2010-11-02T09:34:00.006-04:00

DAFT BeHeaded from Jackson Armstrong on Vimeo.

BeHeaded Portrait from Jackson Armstrong on Vimeo.

bonus video

SleepWhenYoureDead from Jackson Armstrong on Vimeo.

ARKIV VILMANSA is an atist to follow

2010-11-02T08:49:00.006-04:00

Indonesian artist Arkiv has been painting, illustrating and designing cartoon like figures since 2005. Shortly after finishing his Bachelor degree in Architecture he plunged into the art world citing his love for drawing figures as his inspiration for this change of career path. Arkiv had a strong debut with his first vinyl figurine called “Arkiv Instant.” After Arkiv Instant many exciting vinyl toys followed including a redesign of Mickey Mouse for Disney Asia.

Arkiv describes himself: “I’m a half animal and half dream. I’m a blend of an overweight panda and Killer whale. I eat kids and I drink bloods. I’m instantly rude and 100% dirty. I sleep longer than any creation the world has ever seen, I sleep like a dead hero and no star. I talk rubbish and my breath smells like it.”

His description reflects the same silliness and complexity of his characters. Smiling cartoons flipping you the bird. Figures strangling each other. Teddy bears hanging on a rope are just some of the oddities that Arkiv paints with cheery colors and his signature curvy and graphic style.

Michael Shapcott

2010-06-16T13:33:00.003-04:00

his work is amazing ............ amazing !!!!!

Painting a Painting with Michael Shapcott No.1

Painting a Painting with Michael Shapcott No.2

micheal's webblog

motiongraphic work by Gwen Vanhee

2010-06-12T10:55:00.004-04:00

Flightpattern

Flightpattern from Gwen Vanhee on Vimeo.

Geometric

Geometric from Gwen Vanhee on Vimeo.

Geraldine Georges

2010-06-11T09:14:00.002-04:00

The masterful illustration of the young belgian artist Geraldine Georges. her style is abstract, collages- illustration but simple and sophisticated, it a fantastic blend of illustration and photography. she is meanly influences by female , fashion and nature
Geraldine recently held her first very successful solo show in Brussels as well as her work recently being printed in a number of leading design & style magazines. She was also recently spotlighted in the new L'Oreal ads and the New York Time.

check out more beautiful work from her @ www.geraldinegeorges.be

Dave Chung

2010-06-10T19:52:00.002-04:00

to be honest i just love his work. it really funny

Dave Chung website and bio

Dustin Parker

2010-06-10T11:14:00.002-04:00

Dustin Parker was born to create and destroy. Parker has always been an artist. As an Infant, a box of crayons ignited his passion for creating art and that fire continues to burn in his veins. As a child, He drew robots and dinosaurs on his spelling tests and illustrated his own comic books. As an adult, Parker is an accomplished painter and digital artist. Parker earns his bread and butter as a graphic designer and illustrator.

more work and offical web site

James Roper

2010-06-09T10:35:00.003-04:00

James Roper is 28 years old talented digital artist, who was born in Knutsford. James explores the physicality of the human body whilst also drawing comparisons with baroque sculpture and iconography.

james roper website

Ric Stultz

2010-06-08T18:34:00.003-04:00

Ric Stultz is a painter and illustrator living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, He splits his time between drawing, painting, and designing for some of the greatest galleries and agencies across the US. His work has been collected, published, and exhibited internationally. Stultz's images have been commissioned by print magazines such as Arkitip, ROJO, WAV, and Kotori, and he has also done commissions for Throckmorton Press, Graniph in Japan, Bomp Records, and SGE Record

for more on ric stultz amazing work click here

kahori maki

2010-05-09T12:02:00.003-04:00

Kahori Maki is a Japanese-born internationally-educated illustrator and artist born in 1969. She works for magazines, fashion brands and on other projects. Kahori works in various media including drawing, painting, video, and installation. Her projects have included work for Levi's, Comme des Garcons, Dover Street Market, Edwin, And A, Vogue Nippon, and The Hiatus. Besides her commercial work, she has had more than ten solo shows of her work since 1995.

her website is beautiful but you must translate to english
english
japanese

Yuko Shimizu

2010-05-09T11:29:00.004-04:00

Yuko Shimizu is a successful illustrator in New York, a cultivating center of illustration. While she immerses herself in the city where today's globalism and Oriental-ism blend, she dynamically draws her original ideas and expands her stage out internationally.The combination of New York influences, the sexual connotations, the attention to detail and the strong Japanese heritage makes her illustrations unique and so fantastic.

This is her official website. YUKOART

Carlos Ramon AKA DESEO

2010-04-21T21:08:00.002-04:00

Deseo is an independent artist based in Kansas City, Missouri. Having a passion for drawing from a young age, his style is inspired by a diversity of influences ranging from Japanese manga, classic art, pin up, graffiti, the adoration of the female form, and many other artistic styles.
Known for his distinctively sexy digital art, he has been able to share his work with a growing number of fans around the world. In addition to working in the digital art realm, he has contributed to a growing list of art shows in galleries around the country showing his one of a kind acrylic paintings. Learning about animation has given him yet another way to express his ideas, as in the deseoworks intro.

check out more @ deseoworks

Richard Wilkinson

2010-04-21T20:45:00.003-04:00

i really love his style, he does a lot of editorial and commercial illustration work and has a unique style with a subtle but moody color palette.

check out some art and some illustration to see more of his work

Phil Dunne

2010-04-20T22:44:00.002-04:00

Phil Dunne is an illustrator from Dublin, Ireland, which spent the last 29 years drawing, painting, doodling and having amazingly creative thoughts. From 1999 to 2003 Phil was studying at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in Dublin to get his degree in Visual Communications. After graduating he started to built his portfolio with several different projects and clients

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more of Phil Dunne click here

Colin Christian

2010-04-20T21:52:00.003-04:00

Colin Christian is an amazing sculptor, His pop style surrealist art is larger than life its self. Born in england, london in the 1964.
He spent most of his childhood living and going to school in london. around 15 he moved to morocco to live for a year.
many years past and he got married to an amazing painter called sas. him and his wife move to the U.S where they started small business making latex clothing for fetish stores. Colin now works full time on his original sculptures, finding inspiration in old sci-fi movies, pinup girl/supermodels, anime, ambient electronic music and H.P. Lovecraft. In 2004 he started using silicone in his sculptures, a difficult material to use but one that helps him achieve his goal of true cartoon realism, a line drawing made flesh. He is not looking to create every imperfection and flaw, but to take the exaggerations and perfections of cartoons and make them into a realistic 3D form.

for more work for colin christian click here

Pilar Berrio

2010-04-11T10:47:00.004-04:00

I am in love with her work its playful ,full of color and Curvaceous lines with a lot of movement, it simply beautiful. Colombian born pilar berrio is an amazing illustrator and graphic designer. She spent many year working in advertising but didnt like it too much. so she decided to devote herself to illustrations and studying graphic designs

learn more about Pilar berrio @ pilarberrio.com you may need to tranlate this page to english

Amose

2010-04-06T22:00:00.005-04:00

Amose was born in 1979 and currently lives and works in Lille, France. Amose studied illustration at the St. Luc Institute in Belgium. Amose works in various mediums including illustration, traditional painting, spray painting, and screen printing. he also shares a studio in Lille with fellow artists Eroné, Sfer, Nada, Spyre who together form the group called the Mercurocrom Collective.

check more of his work @Amose.free.fr

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

2010-04-06T19:50:00.010-04:00

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is a beautiful, black, sophisticated illustrator and fine artist. She is 25 year of age and a native of Philadelphia, PA, United States. She study at University of the Arts Philadelphia, 2003-2007 BFA. Her pieces on no.44 (mr. President) was featured in Art for Obama: Designing Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change

see her at work check these videos

LEARN MORE ABOUT HER @:tlynnfaz.com

Kris Kuksi the man of imagination

2010-02-19T21:59:00.005-05:00

Kris Kuksi was born March 2nd 1973 ,He grew up in neighboring Kansas, son to a blue-collar working mother and absent father. In his youth open country, sparse trees, and later, alcoholic stepfathers surrounded him. His fascination with dead animals foreshadowed his later macabre drawings and painting. The grotesque as it seemed, was beauty. His art best fits into 'Fantastic Realism', yet the overall body of works have no specific category as seen in his broad range of ideas. He feels that using many directions and styles in art are necessary to express his voice and he feels that to succumb to just one style is without growth or diversity. A quiet and gentle man, Kris Kuksi continues his ideas of beauty and the strange in art while living a lifestyle suited to a nocturnal and oftentimes impulsive individual.

for great work check his site @ kuksi.com

SOUTH AFRICAN ART & ARTIST SERIES VOL.1

2010-02-06T22:10:00.026-05:00

Jane Alexander

BIO
Jane Alexander was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1959. She received her MA in Fine Arts degree at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 1986. Alexander lives and works in Cape Town, where she is a Senior Lecturer in sculpture, photography and drawing at the University of Cape Town.
History
one of South Africa's most important and internationally acclaimed artists. Although best known as a sculptor for iconic works .
Alexander's work does not lend itself to easy interpretation, but despite the artist's silence on the subject, the menacing and eerie figures The Butcher Boys, like Alexander's other sculptures from the late Eighties, were understood to be a manifestation of the deeply maladjusted apartheid society. In the years of change, a new series of work was begun, entitled 'Integration Programme', in which less fearsome but alienated-seeming figures, often hooded, were presented in disturbing tableaux. A second important body of work is Alexander's photomontages, in which her sculptures take on a history of their own as the frequent subject of her compositions.

Vuyile Voyiya

BIO
Vuyile Voyiya was trained as a sculptor at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town, best known for his remarkably articulated linocut prints, which, with their expressive and sensitive modulation of form, are about as close as one can come to achieving three dimensionality on paper. In this simple but unforgiving medium, Vuyile works largely with images of the human body. Often suspended in space, reacting defensively to an unseen threat, to a person or an action beyond the picture frame, the subjects of Vuyile's works induce a sense of extreme disquiet in the viewer.As well as an educationist, actor, television producer and curator, Vuyile is known as a filmmaker, notably directing and co-producing, with Julie McGee, The luggage is still labeled: blackness in South African art 2003. This, as the title suggests, was an interrogation through a series of interviews on whether the processes of transformation in South Africa had achieved any improvement in the situation for black artists.

mustafa maluka

BIO
Mustafa Maluka was born in 1976, Cape Town, South Africa
His interests range from design and fashion to art history, cultural analysis, philosophy and psychology. Maluka’s working method is the process of selecting and assembling portraits. He collects images of faces that have a particular look, that project a particular energy and pride. He liberates the images from their original context and recreates them in a new form on canvas with many layers of paint. Mustafa Maluka studied at the De Ateliers Art Institute in Amsterdam. He lives and works in Helsinki and New York.

lawrence lemaoana

BIO
Lawrence Lemaoana's latest body of work has, as its departure point, a fascination with the role of the mass media in present-day South Africa. In Lemaoana's work the relationship between the 'People' and the media is problematised as a relationship of representation and control - who gets to control modes of representation; and who gets to represent those in control. The power of the media to act as didactic tool or propagandistic weapon, and the power of the media to reveal (and shape) the psyche, or group consciousness of the People, is taken up in Lemaoana's work with the artist's trademark cynical satire.

Stefan Nadelman and his work

2009-12-27T09:48:00.004-05:00

A stunning video by Stefan Nadelman for ‘I Say Fever’, from Ramona Falls’ Intuit, Stefan combined brilliantly dark visuals with spooky animation for an utterly mind-bending result.
Stefan Nadelman (born Stefan Jan Nadelman) is an award winning director and animator of short films and commercials. He is known for his stylized 2.5D compositions, innovative uses of digital photoanimation, and faux stop motion techniques.

Stefan other works

Latin Alive

Terminal Bar

One Step Ahead

"Evil Bee" - Menomena

Food Fight

My Dog Impersonating Orson Welles

Showreel 2007

Showreel 2008

Showreel 2009

Caravan Palace

2009-12-12T23:02:00.001-05:00

I like this video

Patrick Blanc’s vertical gardens

2009-12-12T21:14:00.002-05:00

DIY-VIDEO

Patrick Blanc is known for his" living walls." He travels the world creating ecosystems so that plants can grow where conditions had dictated they couldn't. Vertical Garden System known as Le Mur Vegetal in French, allows both plants and buildings to live in harmony with one another.
check out his site for more info & bioverticalgardenpatrickblanc.com

DIY-VIDEO

Choose A Different Ending

2009-12-12T20:53:00.004-05:00

This video, which is a narrative about a young person deciding which group of friends to hang out with, is one of the most clever on YouTube. The reason it’s so engaging is because it’s presented in “choose your own adventure” style. That’s right — it’s an interactive video, and you determine the ending based on which choices you make. It is very well done and extremely powerful.What a great campaign to let people in gangs etc just think what could happen to them.
www.droptheweapons.org is an organization run by the Metropolitan Police Service of London that aims to raise awareness of knife and gun violence and encourage people to reconsider carrying a weapon.

Billy Nunez aka Biz20

2009-09-27T08:39:00.004-04:00

from the sunny land of dominican republic to the busy urban city of boston . BIZ20 is one of my favorite illustrator and designer.
He is best know for his flattering portrayals of full-figured women. biz has been producing high quality work using many different media eg. acrylic, aerosol ,oil , pen and digital .
for more great work check out BIZ20

Women's Herstory Flyer.

Interactive Pixel Mirror : IPM

2009-08-28T04:31:00.006-04:00

LIFE FINDER FILMS presents

2009-07-30T22:52:00.009-04:00

i recently met Matthew Amenta one of the co-founder of life finder films and the director of a new documentary call " you are here : a documentary." on a project i was doing in brooklyn.
After hearing the amazing story about the trip to uganda and watching the trailer for the documentary. i decide to help support their cause .
we can all help in some way ........... just get up and do it! HELP

more about matthew amenta and life finder films

also check out :
CHRONIC POVERTY AND DISABILITY IN UGANDA
and CHILDREN IN ABJECT POVERTY IN UGANDA

12TheBand: ¨Prosper ¨Animation Art Music Video

2009-07-17T22:41:00.003-04:00

Prosper from wendell mc shine on Vimeo.

12TheBand: ¨Prosper ¨Animation Art Music Video
directed by WENDELL MC SHINE
check out more of his work @ .72ironmen

DRAGON-76 and his work

2009-06-05T10:02:00.006-04:00

DRAGON -76 is a japanese artist and he work is crazy hot. he did the album covers for one of my favorite reggae band BAGDAD CAFE THE trench town
He regularly travels around the world painting live at events, music events, gallery openings and peace camps. He has also produced commissioned work for a variety of clients in the music, publishing, advertising and magazine industries.

His work has recently been featured in books such as ILLUSIVE, Contemporary illustration and Illustration Now 2 by Taschen.

Dragon was invited in 2008 and 2009 by Peace Boat (NGO) to visit refugee camps in Aqabe, Jordan live painting for charity for a period of 3 weeks.

more great work check out:
dragon76.net
profile pdf

Geometric

2009-02-18T15:56:00.003-05:00

just having a lil funny ...... i made this geometric poster base on a tutorial on abduzeedo.com

ABDUZEEDO hope u enjoy it

Political Graphic Arts Video

2009-02-17T09:08:00.006-05:00

the power gap
Behind the scenes process click here

kill the gun

cost of war

big brother state

headache by antares

Headache from Antares on Vimeo.

champion by antares

Champions from Antares on Vimeo.

the hidden cost of war

the crisis of credit

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

the life of Ryan Larkin

2009-02-13T16:42:00.004-05:00

created by Chris Landreth and was 2005 OSCARS for Best Short Animation

Ryan Larkin was everything to animation. he was an artist, and sculptor who rose to fame. As a teenager, Ryan Larkin studied at the Art School of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Arthur Lismer, and clearly showed sharp talent for character and figure drawing. In the early 1960s, he was hired by the National Film Board of Canada, and was immediately recognized by NFB's Norman McLaren as one of the brightest new artists in that organization. Norman personally took Ryan on as a protégé; and gave him the resources to create two animated short films: Citérama (1966) ("Cityscape") in 1963 and Syrinx (1965) in 1964. The latter film won worldwide recognition and propelled Ryan to even more ambitious projects.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. He was given write-ups in Time Magazine and called the "Frank Zappa or George Harrison of Animation"

SOME OF RYAN'S WORK

Street Musique

BLACK HISTORY : HUNGU

2009-02-09T21:57:00.003-05:00

HUNGU :
The hungu is an African musical instrument, ancestor of the Brazilian berimbau. Its origins are carried on in an ancient tradition. Inspired by the grace and raw beauty of African rock paintings, Nicolas Brault applies his narrative gifts to a world where humans and nature are subtly linked.

Under the African sun, a child walks in the desert with his kin. Death is prowling, but a mother's soul resurrected by music will return strength and life to the child when he becomes a man.

The filmmaker combines 2D animation on a graphics tablet with the warmth of sand animation, thus uniting modernity and tradition, Brazil and Africa, music and memory. Sparse in design and humanist in its outlook, Hungu exudes the elegance and suggestive power of a timeless story.
....... THE DIRECTORS -Nicolas Brault ......... THE PRODUCERS - julie Roy ...........

HUNGU website

how the net was one

2009-01-28T02:07:00.002-05:00

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by packet switching using the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies.
The Internet carries various information resources and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and the inter-linked hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW).

click to read history of the net on the net

GOOGLE RULE HA,HA ,HA ....................... TO BE CONTINUE

mr. obey " SHEPARD FAIREY on OBAMA / and random pics

2009-01-21T10:34:00.003-05:00

The man

The Capital
by L_Objectif

44TH REPORTING

2009-01-08T10:01:00.004-05:00

my first president obama poster. he have a lot of work ahead of him. The economy , the war , health care , education ............................. ect
i just hope he promote peace too.

also u could see more Art for Obama @ OBAMA ART REPORT

Natty lioness crafts

2009-01-05T18:24:00.005-05:00

my friend sofia aka natty-lioness is making some beautiful Crochê stuff
u can check out her work @ Natty Crafts
all the best for '09

California Love

2009-01-04T03:55:00.002-05:00

California-Love - Making-Of from Yann BOYER

JEN STARK V.S PAPER

2009-01-04T03:09:00.007-05:00

link check out her site here

MY BOY NICK MADE THE BOOK

2009-01-03T15:40:00.004-05:00

NICK YOU MADE IT IN.
that a big look for '08
Nick Keppol some of his work was published in the Design is Kinky Semi-Permanent 2008 book.
all the best in 2009 bro
P.S this time i wil submit earlier

AURELIE

2009-01-03T14:05:00.002-05:00

elephant is back

2009-01-03T10:58:00.003-05:00

NAME: MENTOR LESS ELEPHANT
AGE: ---------------
P.O.B: OE1 STUDIO -NEW YORK
CREATOR : OASIS1

O -REN ishill

2008-12-27T18:56:00.001-05:00

My Drive Thru video

2008-12-22T21:25:00.001-05:00

My Drive Thru - Santogold, Julian Casablancas, N.E.R.D produced by Pharrell

real change ........funny

2008-12-19T23:58:00.001-05:00

AN EYE FOR ANNAI

2008-12-19T12:23:00.001-05:00

by Jon Klassen + Dan Rodrigues

OBAMA LOG DESIGN

2008-12-19T11:20:00.003-05:00

part 1

part 2

logo design by sender llc
Sender, in partnership with motion design studio mo/de, recently launched the campaign identity for Barack Obama's historic bid for the White House. The Sender brand identity team broke new ground in the development of a logomark and brand system that captures the essence of the candidate's message.
link senderllc.com/

STefan Sagmeister

2008-12-19T09:19:00.006-05:00

part1

part2

part3

Producer: Megan Cunningham, Hei-Man (Anita) Yu
Director of Photography: Mike Coleman
Editor: Hei-Man (Anita) Yu
Graphics: Simon Yuen
Special Thanks: Richard The
Production Notes:

Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962 in Bregenz, Austria) is a graphic designer and typographer currently based in New York City. He has his own design firm, Sagmeister Inc. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, the Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny.
orld-renowned graphic artist Stefan Sagmeister is respected for his maverick approach and gritty, handmade style. Once called “the Johnny Depp of the design world,” he blends sexuality, tenacity, and wit to create work that pushes boundaries and never fails to intrigue. Although today he's best known as an innovative interactive artist, his early career predates modern desktop publishing tools. This week's Designing Minds is the second of three episodes about Sagmeister. In it, he discusses his move to New York City, his book Things I have Learned in My Life So Far, his experimental work, and how he was able to combine his two passions: design and music
check out his work @ Sagmeister.com

SAVING THE PLANET

2008-10-07T23:11:00.003-04:00

remember bob

2008-02-10T14:33:00.000-05:00

This is a post card i made for a friend on bob earth strong day( birthday). The concept is simple color/colour bob, but remember his life was not just outline or color/colour . He was about peace , love ,respect and truth

I met the walrus

2008-01-26T17:39:00.000-05:00

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. Using the original interview as the soundtrack, this narrative tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multi-pronged animation

computer illustration by ALEX KURINA
pen illustration by JAMES BRAITWAITE
directed & animated by JOSH RASKIN

Miracle

2008-01-18T08:30:00.000-05:00

i did this album cover for my reggae sister/friend I-dina.
Miracle coming soon 2008

THE ROOM

2008-01-17T22:15:00.000-05:00

THE ROOM was done by the Rinpa Eshidan group
"Rinpa" is a word created by the founders of the group meaning "to bring people together, while "Eshidan" essentially means "art crew." The Rinpa Eshidan is a team of artists brought together by a common creative expression.

for more on there work check@RINPA ESHIDAN

tribute to Oskar Fischinger

2007-10-31T21:58:00.000-04:00

decades before computer graphics, before music videos, even before "Fantasia" (the 1940 version), there were the abstract animated films of Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967), master of "absolute" or nonobjective filmmaking. He was cinema's Kandinsky, an animator who, beginning in the 1920's in Germany, created exquisite "visual music" using geometric patterns and shapes choreographed tightly to classical music and jazz. (John Canemaker, New York Times)

Oskar Fischinger is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, embracing the abstraction that became the major art movement of that century, and exploring the new technology of the cinema to open abstract painting into a new Visual Music that performs in liquid time. (Biographer William Moritz)

matt-&-i-collab-dumbo-festi

2007-10-02T07:59:00.000-04:00

i was at the dumbo arts festival ,yes it was HOT . my boy matthew brennan and i did this collaborate while he was sell ticket for
Micheal Alan's DRAW-A-THON

jena 6

2007-09-23T10:11:00.002-04:00

for more check out :FREEDOM FOR JENA SIX

radio head anime life

2007-09-04T08:19:00.000-04:00

i really like this band. music for the mind u have to think.
for more check out RADIOHEAD MUSIC

for the movement / we need love. we need peace

2007-08-30T20:22:00.000-04:00

please check out SLAVE NARRATIVE

louis vuitton i know!!!!!!!

2007-08-27T08:20:00.000-04:00

i must learn FLASH CS3

2007-08-26T22:38:00.000-04:00

The Scritch-Scratch of Busy Little Hands

2007-08-26T22:30:00.000-04:00

music live in the heart

2007-08-21T22:55:00.000-04:00

yeah people music lives in the heart. my friend are the new up and coming raggae stars Metric man & Fari
please support music support life
for more check out myspace:MERTIC MAN

DEATH=death

2007-08-20T07:42:00.000-04:00

by oasis1

sing a good song

2007-08-07T00:04:00.000-04:00

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NINA SIMONE is MUSIC
LIFE
LOVE
GREATNESS

CITY OF GODS BLEEDING ......10parts

2007-07-10T10:01:00.000-04:00

WAR IS BEAUTIFUL

2007-07-10T09:44:00.000-04:00

War is a prolonged state of violent, large-scale conflict involving two or more groups of people. What more can i say
P.S it is not beautiful
collage by oasis1

TRUSTED COMPUTING

2007-07-10T09:24:00.000-04:00

i saw this short story a while ago. i found it back on You tube. so i wanted to share it with u.
Created by Benjamin stephan & Lutz vogel
for more stuff check out LAFKON
P.S you tube much love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some JOSH PYKE

2007-07-10T08:47:00.000-04:00

music is always good but better with a nice video
for more music check out JOSH PYKE MUSIC

KAVINSKY

2007-07-05T20:54:00.000-04:00

FOR MORE U COULD CHECK OUT ------KAVINSKY MUSIC

SWEET DOGS VIDEO

2007-07-01T16:44:00.000-04:00

TROLLLE//SIEBENHAAR is a hot new group out of denmark. it a mix of urban soul/trip hop and a lil reggae favour.
Great music, Nice video and some hot graphic illustrations

FOR MORE U COULD CHECK OUT trollesiebenhaar.com