Sëmk Kats
I love this HK design company! > http://www.semk.net/
Semk: Simple design, Emotional Expression, Multiple functions and meticulous Knack.
SHIFT 2010 Calendar
I received this today, seems like I’ve won one of the SHIFT 2010 calendars! ~~~LUCKYYYYY!!!
POP LIFE @ Tate Modern
There seemed to be lots of stuff by Warhol, but I have to say my favourite pieces were by Murakami!!!! The music video starring Kirsten Dunst in Akihabara (‘Akihabara Majokko Princess’) was fun to watch ;D I hope we get to see it somewhere online soon… Some information about the past GEISAI#11 (Murakami’s annual art expo & competition in Tokyo) was shown. I still think Mr.’s work is a bit creepy… and it’s cool to know that Kaikai Kiki Co have been around for nearly 10 years now! (they are currently recruiting I think.. o.o).
Irresistable cuteness…
I saw Murakami’s flower cushions – and just had to buy!
Available at Tate Modern from the current ‘Pop Life‘ exhibition.
Clocky
I saw this in a gadget store yesterday and thought it’s a genius idea! So cute too! www.clocky.net
Walking in My Mind @ Hayward Gallery
Walking in My Mind (http://www.haywardgallery.org.uk/) explores the inner workings of the artist’s imagination through immersive, large-scale installation art. Ten international artists transform the Hayward Gallery’s indoor galleries and outdoor sculpture terraces into a series of gigantic sculptural environments, each of which represents an individual mindscape. Interior worlds of emotions, thoughts, memories and dreams collide with exterior reality, blurring the boundaries between inner and outer space. Artists include: Charles Avery, Thomas Hirschhorn, Yayoi Kusama, Bo Christian Larsson, Mark Manders, Yoshitomo Nara, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Chiharu Shiota and Keith Tyson.
Jeff Soto | ‘The Inland Empire’
Jeff Soto | ‘The Inland Empire’
Solo exhibition @ Stolenspace Gallery (London)
14 May 2009 – 07 June 2009
the [white paper] concept.
I’ve been pondering about the idea that if we were left with a nice piece of blank white paper in front of us, the chances are that we’d start doing ’something’ to it. Now this could be folding it – origami if we are keen, tearing it, using it as an ‘emergency’ tissue or something to wrap-up gum, or maybe for some of us – to eat?… But I believe that more likely we’d be leaving some kind of ‘mark’ on it (assuming we had the right materials at hand) using pen, pencil, chalk, paint, or more easily – our dirty fingers!
What I find most interesting is the variety and randomness of ‘doodles’ that people do on spare bits of paper lying around in cafes, lecture rooms, mm… a receipt on a floor, toilet paper, magazines in doctor waiting rooms, etc. Now this is only natural since we always have things to think about, and it’s not surprising that we decide to draw out some of our thoughts down on solid paper. Maybe it’s something we’d like others to know? to share our problems? to advocate something or to promote? (think graffiti art) mm… to ‘express’ in general, like a feeling or an emotion! This is more prominent in the small paper pads that you normally find in art shops – now those are covered with allsorts of scribbles! (and it’s funny that you’ll always find a penis drawn in there somewhere..). I believe that as humans, we all have the natural tendency to express with the most simplest form besides talking or using body language – and this is to DRAW! To surrender to the most primitive form of expression that we had learned as kids since kindergarten! The childishness that we already knew, and that we do not object to use to most easily and effectively express ourselves.
Now, as an experiment (more…)
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