Spend a minute to watch this inventive Audi Q5 commercial, created by Aaron Duffy and Russell Brooke…
Audi Q5 “Unbox” spot from Will McCain on Vimeo.
…and remember, everything that’s old is new again, as the song goes. Look no further for the inspiration than Saul Steinberg, 1914-1999…
..thanks Mike Dempsey…
This is in homage to the Canadian penny, which, as of this month, is no more. Here, Robert Wechsler has made sculptures from the ubiquitous U.S. penny…
…thanks ThisIsColossal…
I have been watching the progress of Edmund de Waal‘s quiet, elegant ceramics over the years, and have only just read his wonderful memoir, ‘The Hare With The Amber Eyes‘, which tracks the journey of his inherited Netsuke collection, starting its life at the turn of the last century within his immensely wealthy family in Paris and Vienna, only to become the sole survivor of a vast art collection through the cataclysm of World War II. It’s a beautifully written, heartbreaking story; an elegiac account of the ascent and decline of a Jewish dynasty. De Waal’s most current exhibition of his work, ‘A Thousand Hours’, just closed at the Alan Cristea Gallery in London. Read an interesting article on him in The Telegraph…
… just a few examples from the 264 netsuke in his collection, “small, tough explosion of exactitude” as he describes them…
Multi-talented Italian painter and sculptor Velasco Vitali has many métiers, but his delightful dogs caught my eye today…
I love the sculpture of U.K. artist Sally Matthews. She seems to get the shagginess of animals just right. Below, her deerhounds are made with hay, mud and graphite, while others are made with bronze, wood, steel and cow-pats…
These wonderful sculptures by Hiroyuki Hamada start life with foam and wood, then are covered in burlap and resin, tar or plaster, then worked on with drills, files and saws, evolving into these strange, beautiful objects…
…Read an interview with Hamada in Booooooom…
“Making is…hard. Actually, I generally feel blocked. And the process is so slow that I can barely see it. It’s like trying to see plants grow. But in a way, this might be helping my brain to stick with the really important stuffs, the kind of things that actually seep out of my brain and slowly drip onto the piece without myself knowing about it, or something like that… There are a few things that I do when I get really desperate. They sort of help me to see the work more objectively. I use a mirror to see it flipped or upside down. I take pictures of it and see them on a screen or/and open them with Photoshop to see them differently. I would put away the piece for a while. I would try different lighting’.
Read an interview with Hamada in Spray Blog and another interesting one at Cementum…thanks DailyArtMuse…
