Archive for March, 2009
surveillance ecclesiastica
Jerry Juarez recently released her super resistentes project via F.A.T.Labs; they help the wearer by offering “extra-protection from surveillance, power, copyright and greed.” I was so moved by the project that I made some fan art! get the wallpaper sized image here.
also Reid and Colin of alloverthewhere have got a video in the disposable film festival, vote for them w/ a vimeo heart cuse the video is so good!
Biking/Driving/Throwing from Disposable Film Festival on Vimeo.
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this weekend Jamie and I headed over to Insadong, the “art market” of Seoul according to wikipedia. there we saw lots of very bad paintings and uninspired shows but also some really nice finds. Insa art center had a great couple of shows; one on Vic Muniz, a group show titled “Orient Sprit” featuring a couple of pixelated paintings by Jung, Myaung-Gook, which you can see below, and Eco Flow by Kim Tae Sue. while looking at this show this guy that was next to me cordially gave one of his book catalogs to the owner of the space and after doing this he signed the good wishes book by the entrance and left. oh and all catalogs are priced at 3000 won (around $3). Also the Gana art center had this great show about an artists whose name I can only write in Korean and can’t begin to pronounce, but very nice sorta Nara inspired paintings by way of pop and a bit more personal.
Insadong is also home to Millimeter Milligram, one of the best paper, notebook, awesomeness stores I have ever been to. Their mission is to “make products with joy, which is useful for the notes about your private senses in your life” in short, they make some of the best designed and minimalist paper products with a sensibility geared toward personal customization and individuality. Most of their design comes from circusboyband a.k.a. Hyunsuk O; needless to say I really love his style and I bought so many of their stickers/
also the screaming females keep the good news rolling in, this time they released a video for their new single Bell produced by none other than the lovely Biz Lynch of courtlandtland.com. it debuted as a must-see-feature of the daily swarm - enjoy:
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this weekend Jamie and I headed over to Insadong, the “art market” of Seoul according to wikipedia. there we saw lots of very bad paintings and uninspired shows but also some really nice finds. Insa art center had a great couple of shows; one on Vic Muniz, a group show titled “Orient Sprit” featuring a couple of pixelated paintings by Jung, Myaung-Gook, which you can see below, and Eco Flow by Kim Tae Sue. while looking at this show this guy that was next to me cordially gave one of his book catalogs to the owner of the space and after doing this he signed the good wishes book by the entrance and left. oh and all catalogs are priced at 3000 won (around $3). Also the Gana art center had this great show about an artists whose name I can only write in Korean and can’t begin to pronounce, but very nice sorta Nara inspired paintings by way of pop and a bit more personal.
Insadong is also home to Millimeter Milligram, one of the best paper, notebook, awesomeness stores I have ever been to. Their mission is to “make products with joy, which is useful for the notes about your private senses in your life” in short, they make some of the best designed and minimalist paper products with a sensibility geared toward personal customization and individuality. Most of their design comes from circusboyband a.k.a. Hyunsuk O; needless to say I really love his style and I bought so many of their stickers/
also the screaming females keep the good news rolling in, this time they released a video for their new single Bell produced by none other than the lovely Biz Lynch of courtlandtland.com. it debuted as a must-see-feature of the daily swarm - enjoy:
Seoul
I live in Seoul now. Korean buildings present themselves as culture signifiers. they are logically built and numbered chronologically, numbers which are painted on the most visible and highest of points. text in the subway is written in helvetica. there are no street names or house numbers; you find an address by context. this is a car culture; pedestrians come second. sidewalks merge with roads and simply become paths, which move the city. always in motion and with self respect.
I am still settling into my new environment and catching up with life; read about a great group show at the Nam June Paik Art Center near Seoul and visited the National Museum of Korea which really got me excited about cartography and typography again. I have been trying to keep up with America by slowly digesting google reader but I am starting to feel a world away from myself. saw this over @ the screaming females blog the other day:
Noun - Holy Hell from If You Make It on Vimeo.
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