Grand Saloon Tonight at the Wunderbar!

No.1 on the top 10 list of things to do in the next 10 minutes.

http://vimeo.com/5677104?hd=1

Puppet show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qpzgA4VUqQ

hey here is the link to my puppet show :)

Typographic Kerning Rings

Freakn excellent haha this is the link.

THE INVISIBLE MAN

Liu Bolin is a young Beijing artist who mostly exhibits in China. In this series 'Camoflage' he looks at human instincts. He paints Chinese citizens to blend into their surroundings, painted from head to toe in clothing, then placed in front of flags, other people or billboards for example. 

Hi I'm a website.

M+B. Cool website, heaps of artists. Handy. 

And just to remind you all... 9 days to go!

PAULO GABRIEL

Abduzeedo is a blog created by Brazilian designer Fabio Sasso, these images I found on the blog along with a lot of other interesting things. These are slow exposure works, I was really into them, they're not like the usual light slow exposure shots i've seen before. The artist is Paulo Gabriel, also a Brazilian artist. 

YAYOI KUSAMA

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist whose exhibiting in Wellington at the moment, I went and saw it when I was there last week. If your planning on heading to wellington before Feb 10 next year you should go see it, there's a lot on at the moment in Wellington, there was even a real naked party when i went there... chose to pass on that one...

'Following an 11 month building development, City Gallery Wellington will reopen with a solo exhibition of internationally renowned Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama. Mirrored Years allows New Zealanders the rare opportunity to experience the strange and dizzying world of this avant-garde artist and her trademark polka dots. She is famous for her obsession with repetition and her exhilarating room-sized mirrored installations, which allow the viewer a breathtaking experience of infinity.'

WILLIAM WEGMAR

Anyone remember the dogs from sesame street? A good ones where the dogs make homemade bread. A photographer called William Wegmar originally started doing weir and interesting films but moved onto photography of the dogs later on when audiences took a liking to them. A conversation with William Wegmar kind of explains a lot

FISH

Awesome crustacean, probably my favourite in fact.

The Pistol Shrimp.

AIGA ARCHIVES

If you haven't already come across it a great place to go if your stuck for ideas and need somewhere to look for inspiration head to the AIGA Design Archives

October 16 an epic movie comes out, directed by Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are, we've all i assume read the book so know the story line, cinematically it looks like a great film too so worth a look

This ones for you Han.
http://www.non-format.com

PRILL & VIECELI

Prill & Vieceli is a graphic design studio established by Tania Prill and Albert Vieceli, its based in Zurich and unfortunately its not in english but they have some really interesting book design on there, bit of inspiration for our books... well, later books as theoretically we should have all of ours done. Tops to Han and Edwin for getting the book displays too

THREADLESS

Threadless.com is a cool site where you can design t-shirts/hoodies for and win lots of money. You submit a design and people come along and vote on it, if it gets enough votes it will go to print, every time it gets sold you get a bit of the profit. Cool way to make some money if your designs liked and there are some really cool designs on there to check out too. All of them are really cheap too, ridiculously cheap in fact, especially in the recession. Apparently the recessions over but I haven't noticed any prices going down yet. You've all seen my t-shirt with the unicorns ah.. having a good time together? That ones from this site.

THE BODY FESTIVAL

The Body Festival, Christchurch’s annual dance festival, is a showcase and celebration of New Zealand’s dancing talent. Ranging from professional shows to amateur productions, the festival covers a variety of enjoyment for all audiences and participators. Its on at the moment, started on the 26th September and there are heaps of different types of dancing you can try out for free while this body festival is on here. This weekend on Sunday 4th from 2.00pm - 3.00pm at the Christchurch Art Gallery there's Modern Ballroom and Latin.

Were going to head down and have a laugh and break out some sweet moves. oh yeah. I suggest you all come along or at least get to one of the workshops for a bit of fun and a taste of a different type of art.

TINY PEOPLE

Tiny People - a tiny street art project
One of Slinkachu's street art works, check more of these cool little set ups and other projects like 'Inner City Snail - a slow moving street project', very cool

THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS

15 DAYS!
So not trying to scare you all but we've got 15days left until the end of the term and our final submission yeehaa!
And so, in preparation ella soph and I thought perhaps a meeting together to discuss where we're all going to put our work so we don't find ourselves in a similar situation to mid-year submission running around like headless chickens trying to find space. As good as a bookshelf looks ontop of a toilet, i think we can do better haha
So friday at 12 we're going to meet, i assume in the design room lounge area, i suggest we all bring treats
Let someone know if you cant come and maybe tell us your plans for where you want your work so we can all work together on it this time around

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Op-Art: The Lost Summer

"So what did you manage to do this summer? Did you accomplish everything you set out to accomplish before Memorial Day? Clean your garage? Build a campfire? Paint a wall? Take in a ballgame? Sleep under the stars? If your summer wish list remains unfinished, despair not. You’re not alone. The notes you're about to view were gathered by Illegal Art, a collective of artists in New York, which used 6,000 Post-it notes to spell out the words “To Do” on windows and billboards across the city. Passers-by were then invited to write on the blank notes, to cover them with descriptions of tasks they hadn’t gotten around to this summer. A few of the collected notes are presented in their original handwriting — a catalog of unfinished business, just waiting for fall"

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/09/02/opinion/20070902opart_index.html

Melissa, this is similar to your piece on obsessions although post-its about things to do.

this site might inspire some ideas for a book cover. although ours will be just text and in black and white. It might be helpful in the future...

http://bookcoverarchive.com/

They also have a blog

http://blog.bookcoverarchive.com/

For anyone that's interested, The September Issue, a docu that looks behind the scenes of Vogue is showing at Rialto at the moment. I think it's pretty insightful movie and it's been getting quite good reviews.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq4wo4JYy2s

The trailer if you just want a preview

The Vegetable Museum

Interesting selection of works. Famous artworks made from vegetables.

http://www.parisbeijingphotogallery.com/main/juduoqiworks.asp