28 November 2006

Too Much


Too much.

There's a biennale that opens every 3 days. So they're making a biennale that deals with that very matter.

Avatar portraiture by net pioneers 0100101110101101.org

One of the the craziest design websites I have seen in a while has the gayest preloader ever.

Bad t-shirts are so good.

I know what exactly what I would do with this font. Magic.

Too much that I can't even bring myself to write. The internet is so unreal and the world of objects, physical exchanges and realness is reigning.

Above: Tal R, Melody, 2003 --- Saatchi Collection

19 November 2006

6th International Caribbean Biennial


I was reading a book in the book store today after having a tea with Shaun this evening. The book was a whole bunch of interviews with living artists. I decided to read about Maurizio Cattelan. And stumbled into an adventure starring: Olafur Eliasson, Gabriel Orozco, Tobias Rehberger, Pipilotti Rist, Vanessa Beecroft, Rirkrit Tiravanija and others... 6th International Caribbean Biennial

Photo: Vanessa Beecroft

17 November 2006

Wheat Rice Millet Barley Rye Corn Oats

Rockonski is pleased to present the newest multiple produced by studio artist Tonik Wojtyra. Wheat Rice Millet Barley Rye Corn Oats (The Seven Grains) is a 14k solid gold cast of a common one inch button pin. The work is being issued by Rockonski in a signed and numbered limited edition of 7. Each button costs $777 dollars. It may purchased in NYC Novemeber 17-19 through Art Metropole at the The NY Art Book Fair or directly at www.rockonski.com

Small, round, and shiny is at once recognizable as a button pin. Its material lends the piece a number of meanings: part fashion, part art and part do-it-yourself homage. Polished, monotone, and missing a graphic statement like most buttons, the piece presents a blank, yet reflective, statement about statements. In his own words Tonik suggests: "It's quite simple, man: I had this idea for a solid gold button and then I went and I made it. I showed it to a few people. They want to touch it. I don't know what it means but I've been thinking about environment lately: granola, organic food, Greenpeace, give-a-hoot-don't-pollute and all that. It's sparkle is star shine like and there's seven of them; seeds for the beginning of history you know what i mean?"

It's the new millenium. Snap out of candy land kids.