It’s a holiday weekend here in the States and I have no idea what day it is. I’m hiding out in my bunker of a studio avoiding the mad shopping crush. But I got YOU something nice because here are some Quickies for ya’!
- The lovely and amazing Marian Call has a new collection, a digital album called Sketchbook, songs about songs about love, lightning, time, birds, and hope, written mostly on the road.
- The artist John Grade devised this incredibly cool capacitor installation.
- Proving that there is no useless space, author Noah J.D. Chinn turned a tiny little closet into the coolest home office. {via Surly Amy}
- Malaysia-based graphic artist Tang Yau Hoong created a very clever series of negative space illustrations that tell a story.
- A high art moment for you: El Lissitzky had created a series of drawings for suprematist automatons inspired by the futuristic Russian opera Victory Over the Sun.
- RETAIL ALERT! Y’know how Colossal is a treasure trove of fascination? Well they have a wonderful online shop with items from Metro cuffs to Solar System lollipops to [my favorite] a Homo Sapien chalkboard skull.
- Nastya Klimova and Lisa Smirnova collaborated on a collection featuring embroidered anatomical elements.
- Tumblr find: The Coolsumist.
- Pinterest find: This is how it sounds.
- Twitter find: Faces in Things is the premise of @FacePics … “Admit it. You see a face.”
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In more ways than you ever thought possible…
Four guys play a piano
{via @twinarp}
More from The Piano Guys.
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Phillip K Smith III: Lucid Stead (Joshua Tree, California 2013)
http://royaleprojects.com/lucid-stead
from the page
PHILLIP K SMITH III : Lucid Stead
On the weekend of October 12th in Joshua Tree, California, artist Phillip K Smith III revealed his light based project, Lucid Stead. What was expected to be a two day event for a handful of viewers, turned into over 400 people making the journey over two weekends. People as far away as New York City and Canada traveled to the California High Desert to experience it. Numerous media sources have asked to do cover stories on the work. Thousands of photos professional and amateur, were taken, posted and shared across blogs and social media sights. In just over 30 days, Lucid Stead officially became a phenomenon.
Composed of mirror, LED lighting, custom built electronic equipment and Arduino programming amalgamated with a preexisting structure, this architectural intervention, at first, seems alien in context to the bleak landscape. Upon further viewing, Lucid Stead imposes a delirious, almost spiritual experience. Like the enveloping vista that changes hue as time passes, Lucid Stead transforms. In daylight the 70 year old homesteader shack, that serves as the armature of the piece, reflects and refracts the surrounding terrain like a mirage or an hallucination. As the sun tucks behind the mountains, slowly shifting, geometric color fields emerge until they hover in the desolate darkness. This transformation also adapts personal perception, realigning one’s sensory priorities. A heightened awareness of solitude and the measured pace of the environment is realized.
Smith states, “Lucid Stead is about tapping into the quiet and the pace of change of the desert. When you slow down and align yourself with the desert, the project begins to unfold before you. It reveals that it is about light and shadow, reflected light, projected light, and change.”
Phillip K Smith III received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. He draws inspiration from the reductive logic of minimalism and the optic sensation of California’s Light and Space movement. Smith’s innovation and exploitation of new technologies keeps these ideologies current. He was honored as the 2010 Artist in Residence at the Palm Springs Art Museum and was included in the exhibition, Smooth Operations: Substance and Surface in Southern California Art, alongside artists such as Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, DeWain Valentine, and Craig Kauffman at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster CA. He has been asked to return to the museum for a solo exhibition opening in January 2014. He has been commissioned to create over a dozen monumental art works and his light based sculptures are collected Nationwide. Phillip will open a solo exhibition of lightworks at royale projects : contemporary art in Palm Desert on November 29 2013. His work will be featured at UNTITLED art fair in Miami opening December 1st.
for more info visit: lucidstead.com
contact: royaleprojects.com
video courtesy of: Phillip K Smith, III & royale projects : contemporary art
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How to sharpen pencils
from the page
Official Selection:
2013 Austin Film Festival
2013 SF Docfest
2013 Sidewalk Film Festival (Winner: Best Documentary Short)
2013 Indie Memphis Film Festival (Winner: Special Jury Prize)
2013 Cucalorus Film Festival
A practical and theoretical treatise on the artisanal craft of pencil sharpening. The number one #2 pencil sharpener in the world, David Rees takes viewers through the delicate process of sharpening a pencil by hand.
a film by KENNETH PRICE
written by DAVID REES
camera operator DAVID HAMBRIDGE
sound mixer JUSTIN DRUST
composer FRANCIS DYER
pricefilms.com
twitter.com/pricefilms
2013
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Featured image is Frida Kahlo embroidered by Lisa Smirnova.
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