We do it #ForTheCultr
Skateboarding culture might seem like a pastime for delinquents but its influence on modern art cannot be understated. Picture a modern art museum. Perhaps one like MoMA with all those white paintings nobody understands. Now think of skateboarding culture. How well do you think those worlds complement each other? Very well, in fact. Artists like …
Continue reading "5 ways skateboarding culture inspired modern art"
Mies van der Rohe documentaries featuring the man himself are rare so you should definitely check this out. I love a bit of modernist architecture and my favourite building is the Barcelona Pavilion in Barcelona. I loved it before I knew who the architect was but once I did, my eyes were opened to some …
Continue reading "Rent this Mies van der Rohe documentary on Vimeo"
Ctrl Shift Face swaps Jack Nicholson's face with Jim Carrey's in a deepfake scene from The Shining. Ever heard of deepfaking? It's a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake" and describes a technique involving the superimposition of images and videos onto other images and videos. Put another way, it's like Face/Off but in 2019 and …
Art director & photographer Liam Wong shows how alluring night time can be with his trademark "neon noir cyberpunk" photography. There's something so appealing about the night. People unwind and live their second lives - for those who aren't asleep. The darkness is brought alive by lights of varying types and colours. And Liam Wong …
Continue reading "The captivating neon photography of Liam Wong"
From his days as a TV image retoucher, Wong Ping has blossomed into an animator with a unique sense of style. Chinese culture site Goldthread made a video about Wong Ping, an animator from Hong Kong. He's a 34.4-year-old and started out in broadcasting before founding Wong Ping Animation Lab in 2014. According to Wong, …
The Violence Interrupters are working to end violence in their communities. Making Peace tells their stories. One of my favourite Jamaican proverbs is "if you cannot hear, you must feel" and that's something many Jamaican live by. Making Peace is a documentary about former gang members who probably followed that unwritten law in their former …
Continue reading "Making Peace in Jamaica with former gang members"
If you fancy candy with a Scoville rating of 9,000,000, Lil' Nitro is the gummy for you. We've seen people eat hot chicken wings, ghost peppers, and chips with Carolina Reaper peppers. Now there's a new challenger entering the fire ring. Weighing in at 1.5g... Lil' Nitro! The gummy bear is made and sold in …
Continue reading "Lil’ Nitro is the world’s hottest gummy bear"
Saul Steinberg called himself a "writer who drew" and worked with some of the biggest brands of the 20th century. At work, I nearly fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole but stopped myself at Saul Steinberg. The reason I even got there was because I was looking up Slash from Guns N' Roses and discovered …
Continue reading "Saul Steinberg on art and philosophy in 1967"
Rome wasn't built in a day but this kintsugi foodsafe was and Alex shows us how. The art of repairing pottery with gold, known as kintsugi is popular for its aesthetic appeal and the associated philosophy. The problem is, it can take months to do and in an ultrafast world, we want things done quicker. …
Continue reading "Alex’s “foodsafe” kintsugi hack only took a day to make"
You'll wish Matt Needle had designed the posters for your favourite films when you've seen his work. You just can't get artistic film posters for new movies nowadays. We discovered so many weird and wonderful ones when we interviewed CoolFilmArt a while back but the stuff you get now is basic and cookie-cutter nonsense. So …
Continue reading "The fantastic film posters of Matt Needle"