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These are some great Flickr Hacks we think are useful for all!

We especially like Flickr Bee: You can spell it with Flickr.

Charles and Ray Eames thought of design as serious play and viewed toys as important means of stimulating creativity in adults and children. The House of Cards, best known of the toys they designed, invited players to construct fantastic towers of images of “familiar and nostalgic objects from the animal, mineral, and vegetable.

Check out this very interesting article on the design of the house of cards.

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And another article

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WHAT is Barney up to now? Chck it out at argosarts.org

Matthew Barney’s entire artistic practice investigates the development of form, and Drawing Restraint is based on the notion that form emerges only through struggle against resistance. The idea grew out of the artist’s early experience as an athlete and his thinking about resistance as a catalyst for muscle growth. By extension, he wondered how this bulking of tissue, known as hypertrophy, might make a case for self-imposed resistance as an impetus for creativity. The work proposes the body as an analogy for creative process and a model for the artist’s conception of a productive state based on unresolved tensions between desire, stored potential, and repression.

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Lorem Ipsum is a design text placeholding tradition, based on tens of centuries old Latin text.
“Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.”

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Very cool link to the P22 type foundry NEWS SITE. Check out the new font Lanston Catalogue. Also look at the amazing Remington Typewriter font. And don’t miss the new Kaatskill Font Collection. Fun fonts for all… BUT NOT FREE.

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We are going back to China on August 24th. IN the meantime we are spending ALL our time developing the envirochina site. Please check it out at www.envirochina.net PLEASE feel free to register here at elasticlimit and continue to POST links and stuff of interest. We will be maintaining this BLOG while in China as well. This space will be used for documenting the oddities that occur outside the focus of the envirochina site. Thanks to Matt Jones for all his continued efforts and The Florida State University for continued funding of the project.

Interesting REAL vs. IDEAL ideas about design and art. Read them both one after the other in no specific order!

LINK to Design Observer Article

LINK to Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

Banksy Speaks With Reuters

About an hour or so ago, Banksy gave an interview to the American wire service, Reuters. In the interview he sheds a few more details on the how he pulled it off.

From the article:
Speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location in Britain, Banksy said he conducted all four operations on March 13, helped by accomplices who filmed him and provided distractions where necessary. “They staged a gay tiff (lovers’ quarrel), shouting very loudly and obnoxiously,” said the artist.

… “”My sister inspired me to do it. She was throwing away loads of my pictures one day and I asked her why. She said ‘It’s not like they’re going to be hanging in the Louvre.”‘ He took that as a challenge. “I thought why wait until I’m dead,” he said. “

Here’s the entire article, hot off the press as they say:

British Prankster Smuggles Art Into Top NY Museums
Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:25 PM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many a visitor to New York’s Museum of Modern Art has probably thought, “I could do that.”

A British graffiti artist who goes by the name “Banksy” went one step further, by smuggling in his own picture of a soup can and hanging it on a wall, where it stayed for more than three days earlier this month before anybody noticed.

The prank was part of a coordinated plan to infiltrate four of New York’s top museums on a single day.

The largest piece, which he smuggled into the Brooklyn Museum, was a 2 foot by 1.5 foot (61cm by 46 cm) oil painting of a colonial-era admiral, to which the artist had added a can of spray paint in his hand and anti-war graffiti in the background.

The other two targets were the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History, where he hung a glass-encased beetle with fighter jet wings and missiles attached to its body — another comment on war, Banksy told Reuters on Thursday.

“It was just an outsider’s view of the modern American bug, bristling with listening devices and military hardware,” he said.

An art Web site called www.woostercollective.com has posted pictures of the artist — wearing an Inspector Clouseau-style overcoat, a hat and a fake beard and nose — hanging up his work at the four museums and describing how he did it.

Speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location in Britain, Banksy said he conducted all four operations on March 13, helped by accomplices who filmed him and provided distractions where necessary.

“They staged a gay tiff (lovers’ quarrel), shouting very loudly and obnoxiously,” said the artist, declining to give his real name or any personal details beyond his occupation as a professional painter and decorator.

It is not the first time he has staged such stunts. Last year he smuggled work into the Louvre in Paris and London’s Tate, attracting attention in the British media.

“My sister inspired me to do it. She was throwing away loads of my pictures one day and I asked her why. She said ‘It’s not like they’re going to be hanging in the Louvre.”‘

He took that as a challenge. “I thought why wait until I’m dead,” he said.

His preferred creative outlet, graffiti on trains, was growing more difficult due to greater security so he decided to branch out into infiltrating museums. “I tend to gravitate to places with less sophisticated security systems,” he said.

Officials at the Natural History Museum declined to comment on security. Museum of Modern Art officials said only that the offending picture was taken down on March 17.

It was unclear what gave the game away but Banksy’s version of Andy Warhol’s iconic images of Campbell’s Soup Cans showed a can of Tesco value tomato soup, a discounted brand sold by a British supermarket chain.

“Obviously they’ve got their eye a lot more on things leaving than things going in which works in my favor,” Banksy said. “I imagine they’ll be doing stricter bag checks now.”

He said the painting in the Metropolitan Museum, a small portrait of a woman wearing a gas mask, had been discovered after one day, while the others stayed up for several days. The paintings were fixed to the wall with extra-strong glue.

Asked how he managed to escape notice while putting them up on a busy Sunday at the museums, he said: “They do get pretty full, but not if you put the pictures in the boring bits.”

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New website by Matt Jones CHECK IT OUT!
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Developed by James Patten and Ben Recht, the Audiopad is projected on a special table equipped with radio sensors that track the position and movement of half a dozen plastic discs, or “pucks.” Most of the pucks control a series of preprogrammed tracks — the rhythm, the bass line, the melody and other samples.
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TypoGenerator

An Article about the typoGenerator

Happiness is a warm bag

Dont mess with that author.

Midwest seeks to be a catalyst for creative thought and action to complement the development of artistic practice within the visual arts. This site aims to support regional, national and international collaboration and communication. Midwest was originated in the West Midlands region of the UK at the invitation of the Arts Council England, West Midlands.

http://www.midwest.org.uk/

re.mixd by POTTER/FICHTER/GROENIGER 2005

It is the first film image from the Fahrenheit 9/11 extra features stuff, ‘the day before the war’. I call it, ‘before the rain’
(which is the title of an excellent movie about Yugoslavia war/Bosnia - but also very close to Max Ernst’s ‘after the rain’ artworks about the tragic shape of the world and most prominently Europe after the wwII.

N. Potter

Check out OBEYgiant’s new anti-Bush posters. NICE.

www.obeygiant.com

Submit work NOWdeadline is November 25th. Online exhibition sponsored by Diesel and
Design is Kinky. Check www.semipermanent.com for sumbission details.

This was sent in by Robert Fichter an image maker living in Tallahassee. Awesome drawing.
Check out the rest of his artworks and projects online at Fichter’s Webzone at the following LINK

this is a independent movie that was made with $400.. if you havent seen it .. i suggest you do… with what they had… they made an INCREDIBLE film… enjoi
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Everything about this foto is funny. But it seems as though Jeffrey Deitch, art dealer of Soho snagged the idea 4 fraudulent political banners before our GD-3 class, see bottom right corner. This poster is used to advertise the opening of a show of Terry Richardson’s photographs. Found this at artnet.com. Check it out, enjoi!!!!!!!

This is a sticker to advertise something that I have been planning to do for a while; to be a female impersonator for one day. This will be one of a series of ads that will build up to the final event, which will hopefully occur sometime at the end of the fall. The look of the sticker was intended to be androgynous and have a Micheal Alig-ish feel to it that would almost disturb the viewer as he/she looks at it. I hope it works

This image is drawn in chalk on Meriadoc Rd.

I was driving to work last week when I saw a semi truck run over two white doves that had escaped from a local bird show. The birds were victims of domestication and the irresponsibility of drivers. A day after the bird incident my bestfriend’s dog was hit by a car and killed. I don’t know if it was the drivers fault or the ignorance of the animals, but what ever the cause we need to be more aware to protect the lives of could-be-roadkill.

NATO: Northern Arts Tactical Offensive

Sue HubbardOpening Spaces: poetry as public art
Many of today’s art projects will be temporary interventions in neglected spaces of the city ripe for regeneration, or endangered rural areas. The temporary nature of this work allows for subtle and modest intentions. Poets and artists can work with community groups and schools, old people and youth clubs to create temporary installations relevant to the needs and vision of a particular community. Neglected sites of inner city architecture can be reclaimed short-term as subjects and sites for poetry. The historic function of an abandoned building can act as a catalyst to the creation of poetry as public art.
www.poetrysociety.org.uk

www.cat.com

I just wanted to expand in more detail on what you suggested about the CATERPILLAR® logo within your post on the Human Locator project. Mosty because some of our readers may not remember or have ever noticed (or rather REALLY SEEN) the genius within the CAT® logo and additionally, to make the point that we may be expecting too much from Freeset™ when comparing them to CAT®: Its just a whole new kind of world really… perhaps uncharted territory in terms of logo design and branding. Remember, that the CATERPILLAR® corporation has been around since 1890 or so. It took the company until around 1915 to establish a LASTING corporate identity which emerged only as they perfected the gas powered tractor for the allies in World War I. My point here is I think it is a slippery comparison to attempt to critique the (not yet even corporate) identity of a very new, very small startup software company to that of a 100+ year old machinery manufacturer. Its just not the same world. The Human Locator is so new that I think we have perhaps a unique design problem on our hands in terms of: “How does one BRAND (or market) technology to technophiles and marketers?” I will wager that within TWO years this product and perhaps its parent company will be absorbed within a much larger corperation ANYWAY so perhaps its current independently designed LOGO and/or brand identity SHOULD be seen as merely temporary. Again…I agree with you- their current logo is horrible and does not communicate anything about the techonology OR the potential of the product. But to compare them to a company like CATERPILLAR® may be expecting too much too soon from such an experimental startup. Finally, it is also important to note that human location mapping/surveillence technology in relation to content delivery is not new. Prof. Keith Roberson brought the artist Myron Kruger to my attention. Further research seems necessary.

Islamic Art from The State Hermitage Museum and The Khalili Collection

A page from the Gulshan-i ‘Ishq (The Rose-garden of Love)
by the Sufi poet, Nusrati
India (Hyderabad), c. 1710
Opaque watercolour and gold on paper
© The Khalili Collection, London

25th March 2004 - 3rd October 2004
Everyone in London must see this show!
The most significant exhibition of Islamic art to be held in London since the Festival of Islam at the Hayward Gallery in 1976, this small but dazzling introduction to the art and artefacts of the Islamic world promises to be one of the cultural highlights of the year. Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands includes artwork representing the finest decorative arts of Islam - calligraphy, textiles, jewels, metalwork, ceramics and paintings, ranging in date from the 9th to the 19th century and covering an area stretching from Spain and the Arab world to Persia and the Indian subcontinent.
www.hermitagerooms.com

Surface to Air is a New York- and Paris based art collective, with a goal to shape a new tradition in fashion and art.
Its a rather cool if not somewhat dated takeover of your desktop.

Surface to Air

Hey all this is the copy of an email Mary Balthrop sent me after she looked at the student work site. I thought you might want to know your work is impressing everyone back at International Programs in Tallahassee! Mary was the director of the London Program here for several years. She is now back in Tallahassee. Thanks for your input!

All links are now Pink…as Becca and I have found this color to be quite nice I decided to make the blog match (sort of) the launch of the new Student work site which is posted below. All catgories are now black. Its looking a bit “post-punk” I think. Enjoy.

I am outta here on Thursday. If anyone finds errors on the student work site post them to the BLOG or email them to me and I will fix ASAP. I will also email everyone the new URL for the site once we get it get it online the in Fall. This will be the permanent HOME for the FSU:::London_Summer_EuroGraphica website. So keep checking and adding as you move through your travels in the world. I think it would be great to have one of you back as a visiting speaker you all begin to settle into your careers here in London or wherever you decide to land.

Here’s the link to the student work site again…..I know I’ve posted it before but….just so everyone knows this BLOG is now in pingback and trackback mode….so every link you post to another blog or anyone monitoring pingback and trackbacks will know. This link is posted here to test this functionality.

FSU:::EuroGraphicaSummer2004_Student Work WebCompendium

cheers-
SG

finally.

Check it out and let me know what you think. GREAT time this summer lads! Good luck to all of the brave folks staying behind as we return back to the burning inferno that is FLA…USA.

stay in touch

bon voyage……
sg.

FSU:::EuroGraphicaSummer2004_Student Work WebCompendium