design:related - lizdesign's inspirations

Again and Again video

Sun, 11 May 2008 18:02:00 GMT

Super cool video using the mac OSX Leopard desktop by a digital filmmaker named Dennis Liu.

Tabaimo

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:09:06 GMT

Tabaimo creates animated works that are as beautifully crafted and aesthetically appealing as they are enigmatic, fascinating, and often quite disturbing. Not content to simply construct beautiful or intriguing images, she clearly aims to offer a complex and pessimistic vision of Japanese society at the start of the new millennium.

If you live in NYC, you can see her stuff at the James Cohen Gallery in Chelsea until April 12.

MAH PAPER RAD INTERNETZ. LET ME SHOW U IT.

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:51:25 GMT

Paper Rad is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania/Providence, Rhode Island American art collective that makes comics zines, video art, net art, MIDI files, paintings, installations, and are in a variety of bands. www.paperrad.org

The Reverend Howard Finster

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:30:44 GMT

The Reverend Howard Finster was a folk artist from Summerville, Georgia who claimed to be inspired by God to spread the gospel through the environment of Paradise Garden and over 46,000 pieces of art.

Finster gained national fame after his collaborative work with Athens, Georgia-based rock band R.E.M. The group filmed the video for their debut single Radio Free Europe in Finster's Paradise Gardens in 1983. The following year, the band's singer Michael Stipe and Finster collaborated on a painting for the cover of their second album Reckoning.

The Talking Heads commissioned a Finster painting for Little Creatures in 1985 that was subsequently selected as album cover of the year by Rolling Stone magazine.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:01:28 GMT

Hiroshi Sugimoto (杉本博司, Sugimoto Hiroshi)
is a Japanese photographer currently dividing his time between Tokyo and New York City. His catalog is made up of a number of series, each having a distinct theme and similar attributes.

His use of an 8×10 large-format camera and extremely long exposures have garnered Sugimoto a reputation as a photographer of the highest technical ability. He is equally acclaimed for the conceptual and philosophical aspects of his work.

Reading is FUNdamental

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:42:56 GMT

my 'read' shelf: