Another take on the "NYC" portion of the recent and much-maligned NYC taxi redesign. It is praised. The logo on its own is quite interesting, and the possibilities shown with it as a "vessel" are cool.
Brilliant art preserved in digitized notebooks and gallery technology to make the experience just as good (from the folks at Behavior). To all of my friends in NYC, *please* go see. Interesting to note how the iPhone has already raised the bar.
Excellent surreal porcelain sculptures, drawings, etc. Her "Once I had a Child" is used on Canadian supergroup Swan Lake's "Beast Moans" cover. Awesome!
Paul Kopeikin Gallery: Jill Greenberg's "End Times"
"A politically charged photography exhibition" -- she took away her subjects' lollipops and photographed them. Caught flak. Wanted "to convey that the children, if they knew, would be really upset about the way the world is going."
Interesting project: implants to raise the skin into Braille. "opportunity for blind people to have a meaningful body alteration, but also something what could be used by those who live or work with blind people."
Very nice, very creative business cards, but don't expect them to fit in your wallet or Rolodex. Check the comments for bonus footage from "American Psycho."
In the darkroom, you can tilt the photo paper onto which film is projected to get a focal scheme that makes the picture's subject look like a miniature model. Here's how to do it in Photoshop!
From the US National Library of Medicine, a huge collection of free, public-domain images from anatomical atlases. A great wealth of material. Wish it were designed better and that the books were all scanned rather than some photographed.
"An artist is Advanced when they do something that is neither expected of them nor the opposite of what is expected of them." Tongue-in-cheek, but the article lives on. Note the notes on Val Kilmer and C-Murder.
On Advancement Theory: it's not bad; you just don't get it. "The most Advanced figure of all time is Lou Reed [who in] 1986 released the song 'The Original Wrapper,' in which he raps about AIDS, Louis Farrakhan, and waffles."
"Your guide to understanding Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and other highly Advanced musicians." If a genius does something you don't understand, it's probably even more genius.