Lindsay Lawson, ‘Das Ding’ (2010)
This video mimics the famous pottery scene from the movie Ghost when Patrick Swayze (who is a ghost for most of the movie) flirtatiously helps Demi Moore as she throws clay into a vase while the song Unchained Melody plays in the background.
Watch video here
By mh
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Posted in Abstraction
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Also tagged das ding, demi moore, DIY, erotic, flirting, fuckem, ghost, glass, invisible, light, lindsay lawson, movie, Patrick Swayze, pottery, romance, sculpture, see-through, sexy, transparent, unknown, vase, video, water
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Kelly Nipper, ‘Circle Circle’ (2007)
Watch an excerpt of the video here
By dd
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged ass, back, backdrop, circle, clock, color, dance, double, hair, Kelly Nipper, loop, mirror, move it, performance, round and round, sound, symmetry, ticking, unknown, video
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John Gaughan, replica of ‘The Turk‘, chess playing mechanical device originally designed by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1770.
interview with John Gaughan
By dd
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Posted in Abstraction
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Also tagged automaton, believe, chess, DIY, hoax, john gaughan, joke, magic, mechanical sculpture, meta, moving, relational aesthetics, replica, unknown
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Achille Devéria, ‘The Puppets’ (1824)
By mh
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged achille deveria, action, disguise, feet, hidden, lithograph, painting, play, print, puppets, romance, show, unknown
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A photograph from the 1931 Society of Beaux Arts Architects Costume Ball, where architects traditionally dress up as their best/most famous building.
In front and center is William Van Alen, architect of the Chrysler Building.
By mh
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged annuall ball, architects, architecture, beaux-arts, buildings, Chrysler Building, costumes, DIY, dressing up, Ely Jacques Kahn, famous, fuckem, history, imitating, joke, One Wall Street, performance, photograph, pretending, public art, Ralph Walker, sculpture, society, Squibb Building, the wild, trash, William Van Alen
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Céline Cléron, ‘Nature permanente’ (2010)
By dd
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Posted in Abstraction
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Also tagged action, beauty, céline cléron, curlers, feelings, fuckem, installation, nature, permanent, pink, romance, sun, suspension, the wild, tree, weeping willow
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By mh
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged action, beautiful, complex, compliments, flattering, fuckem, inferiority, installation, lamp, light, murray gaylard, performance, public art, public space, romance, street, text, ugly, unknown
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Anne Daems, ‘People had covered their heads with plastic bags against the rain.’ (1995)
By dd
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Posted in Abstraction
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Also tagged Anne Daems, belgium, believe, blue, context, drawing, light, music, plastic bags, rain, running, sky, text, water
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Matt Johnson, ‘Breadface’ (2004)
Oil paint on cast plastic.
By mh
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Posted in Abstraction
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Also tagged bread, DIY, face, imitation, joke, life, mask, matt johnson, oil, painting, plastic, real, sculpture, slice, unknown
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Tatsumi Orimoto, from the series ‘Bread man’ (1991-2007)
By dd
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Posted in Composition
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Also tagged blue, bread, communication, face, fuckem, hair, japanese, mother, performance, photograph, romance, seeds, simple, Tatsumi Orimoto, toxedo
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