Category Archives: art

Year-long depravity: Groupon’s Contest — Art, Commerce, and Sacrifice

By Daniel | Published: February 7, 2010
The new Groupon promotion “Live off Groupon for a full year and win $100,000″ smells exactly like a Japanese “Live off contest winnings” contest previously covered here where a poor Japanese man had to survive for a year off prize winnings. The Groupon contest description: Nearly all human survival needs are covered by Groupon. You can get your [...]
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Gina M. Contreras at the Adobe Books Backroom Gallery

By Daniel | Published: February 6, 2010
More info @ the Adobe Books Backroom Blog and Gina’s Blog (Que Lindo Prints)
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now you finish your program hun you know children in other countries don’t get sensory overload

By Daniel | Published: February 2, 2010
Spotted in Clarion Alley, SF … via Street Expression
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Standard Time: Menial timekeeping as public art display

By Daniel | Published: December 26, 2009
At Rotterdam Central Station (NL) a “digital” clock was shown for 24 hours from 27 November to 28 November, which was meticulously kept by a total of 36 workers. Each minute was carefully adjusted. The clock, circa 4 meters tall en 12 meters wide, stood on the location where in some years the new station will [...]
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Jonathan Michael Foerster [art]

By Daniel | Published: December 13, 2009
‘Vena‘
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David Enos’ San Francisco

By Daniel | Published: December 3, 2009
Via David Enos
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Wojtek Siudmak

By Daniel | Published: December 2, 2009
More at http://www.siudmak.com/.
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Adobe Books Backroom Gallery – Tara Foley

By Daniel | Published: November 8, 2009
Tara Foley, at the Adobe Books Backroom Gallery. Slideshow here. Details at the Adobe Books Blog
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David Hockney on Brushes for the iPhone [art]

By Daniel | Published: October 4, 2009
“After all, this is a medium of pure light, not ink or pigment, if anything more akin to a stained glass window than an illustration on paper.” It’s always there in my pocket, there’s no thrashing about, scrambling for the right color. One can set to work immediately, there’s this wonderful impromptu quality, this freshness, to [...]
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Fahamu Pecou

By Daniel | Published: October 4, 2009
Lyons Wier Gallery – - Fahamu Pecou.
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