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All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
And now you can knit your own FSM to worship and adore...or go have a beer with.
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DIY Album Cover Girl / Sleeve Face!
We’re sure your record collection is as hot as you are! And now you can be an art model. While you’re lying around watching your favorite vinyls spin, you too could become immortalized as a living album cover aka a Sleeve Face. Check out this clever instructional video, dress the part, get in place, and with the click of a button your could make a famous cover shot come alive! Send your pics to us at tips@thefrisky.com. And gentlemen...we would love to find a man who can fill out Sticky Fingers.
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Artist J A Nicholls, London
These paintings look like collage but are made entirely of paint on a single canvas surface.
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Contemporary Art Projects (Exhibitor) in London (United Kingdom) from Re-title.com
An energetic curiosity about the world of things unites the work of Craig Fisher, J.A. Nicholls and Debra Swann. Cutting it up, shunting it around and shoving it down in a different way is what they each do with a confidence that runs a road through the familiar. These works transgress referential and material boundaries with a desire at times plainly wanton and at others with the tentative steps of a torchless, night-time adventure. What drives these practices is an appetite for a different kind of sense, new associations offering the possibility of new stories.
Fisher renders the accessories of tough urban life in fabric offering a new take on traditional representations of aggression and hostility. Soft and sensuous collisions of technique, of high and low culture and of pictorial and sculptural space cause slippages in meaning through which new territories can be glimpsed.
Gesturing from the far side, Nicholls’ faux collage paintings concern themselves with the pleasures of referentiality. These works pursue a dynamic dialogue with the remains of meaning, a range of faded visual histories, feeling what the curves and lines of familiar marks might contribute to the making of a new story.
As with Fisher and Nicholls, there is an almost fetishistic fascination with the physicality of materials in Swann’s delicately made and deceitful artefacts. A compulsive authorial shadow asserts its presence in the transformation of resources providing a fantastical gateway to the world of nature.
Inhabiting a point of view both within and at a distance from what’s agreed, the work of these three artists makes the assertion that odd associations have a rightful place, which strays from the requirement that they be competent, able to provide answers in known terms.
An energetic curiosity about the world of things unites the work of Craig Fisher, J.A. Nicholls and Debra Swann. Cutting it up, shunti... more -
Debra Swann (Artist) in London (United Kingdom) from Re-title.com
Debra Swann (Artist) in London (United Kingdom) from Re-title.com
DEBRA'S STATEMENT
My work is informed by the physicality of being human and yet the most visible trait comes from a collision between the worlds of reality and fantasy. Taking materials from the everyday and transforming them into fantastical objects or attire, I attempt to investigate my own imagination and explore the boundaries between the everyday and the subconscious or metaphysical worlds of fantasy. I am interested in how science tries to explain or make sense of the world and the way in which we place our trust in what we consider to be fact. Debra Swann (Artist) in London (United Kingdom) from Re-title.com DEBRA'S STATEMENT ... more -
Artist Craig Fisher: Kill Bill meets South Park
Born 1976, lives and works in Nottingham and London.
Craig's statement: "Currently I am making large scale sculptural installations using various fabrics that question representations of violence, disaster and macho stereotypes. I reference and make work from cloth (including my recent wallpaintings) due to its rich wealth of associations. I employ textiles/craft, which are traditionally perceived as being associated to women to question people’s assumptions about what I’m allowed to be as a man and how masculinity is defined.
I am particularly interested in playing with boundaries - mixing techniques of art and craft I reference both high and low culture and compose narratives that sit between reality and fantasy. I make work that operates in a space in between disciplines/boundaries ... the work is not identifiable as any one thing, be it image or object, craft/fashion or art, furniture or sculpture, high or low, masculine or feminine, functional or dysfunctional.
I explore these boundaries as potential spaces of slippage, of accidents, which allow for discoveries beyond confined and referenced fields of art production. The audience will hopefully perceive this ‘state-in-between’ as a challenge to their habits of looking. While the individual details of the installations I make may reference the latest in avant garde design, the overall impression is that you are being transported by your TV to the latest media disaster: or is it a film set – Kill Bill meets South Park, The Shining via The Wizard of Oz and then back again through Bowling for Columbine! I am trying to create an aftermath of multiple popular references, which need to be unpicked. Familiarity, confused by representational play recedes leaving a nightmarish playground of soft-edged things to consider." Born 1976, lives and works in Nottingham and London. ... more -
Want the new iPhone? You don't have to wait until July!
Seriously. You can get one right here, right now. Who cares if it's not real?
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Just in time for summer: recycled art!
Follow the url for some great projects to do with all those pesky plastic bags. *Dress above was knitted using plastic bags
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Support SF's local art scene at Mission Bazaar
Bay Area Creatives Light Up Historic Armory For May 17/18 Weekend!
30 Year Darkness Ends with Gift & Performance Expo
Set within one of San Francisco’s most dramatic historical landmark buildings –
The Armory (it’s first public event in over 30 years), Mission Bazaar is a unique art, craft & performance expo showcasing some of the Bay Area’s most vibrant creative talent. Join a diverse lineup of artisans exhibiting fashion, jewelry, art and accessories, a variety of SF non-profit organizations, and 2 stages with 20 hours of live music, dance, circus arts, performance artists and DJs. Performances include gypsy jazz, bellydance, spoken word, beatbox, choral ensembles, fashion shows, puppetry, theater, flamenco, and much more.
Visit http://www.MissionBazaar.com for further information.
When: Saturday, May 17 & Sunday, May 18 10am – 8pm
Where: The Armory, 1800 Mission Street @ 14th Street
What: A Creative Gift and Performance Expo
Cost: $5 (Children under 8 – Free)
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Renegade Craft Fair
The Renegade Craft Fair is a unique DIY craft fair showcasing the handmade work of over 200 of your favorite artists! This event is held four times a year, in three cities around the US - Brooklyn, NY, Chicago, IL and San Francisco, CA. The Renegade Craft Fair is a unique DIY craft fair showcasing the handmade work of over 200 of your favorite artists! This event is he... more
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Chicago: Constructor Craft Fair @Fitzgerald's 5/25
CONSTRUCTOR will be held at FitzGerald's (6615 Roosevelt Road, Berwyn) and will give you the opportunity to shop goods from over 30 of the most talented crafters in the Chicagoland area, hand-picked by the Fly Peanut for your crafting pleasure. Your ears will revel in the sweet jams of local Dj's while you nosh on food from Wishbone and local pastry artisans. And, of course, the opportunity to belly up to the beloved bar at Fitzgerald's for a drink or two, should not be missed. The first 50 attendees at this event will receive a super fabulous bag of swag delight. Admission is FREE. CONSTRUCTOR will be held at FitzGerald's (6615 Roosevelt Road, Berwyn) and will give you the opportunity to shop goods from over 30 of... more
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the lifesize mousetrap in action
not the best video in the world; a little janky and I missed some of the safe falling at the very end, but you can hear it thud. that's a metal skeleton man that dives into the yellow bucket at the end. not the best video in the world; a little janky and I missed some of the safe falling at the very end, but you can hear it thud. that'... more
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BubbleGum Music
UC Berkeley's Hannas Hesse and Andrew Mcdermid show current tv a peek into their underground workshop where electronic beats creep through the hallways.
Their invention, a bubblegum ball activated drum sequencer, shows just how tangible the binary language can be. UC Berkeley's Hannas Hesse and Andrew Mcdermid show current tv a peek into their underground workshop where electronic beats creep thr... more -
Rickrolled by....cake?
Someone made a Rickroll cake. Yes, cake. Awesome.
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A Techie's Paradise
Maker Faire is a breeding ground for everyone who enjoys inventing and crafting all kinds of homemade gadgets.
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Eco-friendly Swiffer cover
What am I doing to be eco-friendly this Earth Day? I'll be knitting my own Swiffer cover. It beats throwing away the disposable kind, and I imagine it probably works better too.
Maybe it'll even inspire me to, um, actually clean something. (Or not.) What am I doing to be eco-friendly this Earth Day? I'll be knitting my own Swiffer cover. It beats throwing away the disposable kind... more -
The Do-It-Yourself Counterculture of Makers
If you haven't been to the Makers Faire, plan to go this year. DIY is on the rise, and it's a telling example of course correction spurning from a convenience-based culture where technological advancements replace the struggle of day-to-day task with "ease."
Why build your own clock when you could buy one? Why learn the art of soldering? Hardly necessary, but these skill sets are useful and at risk of being lost in the clutter.
Check out details about the 2008 faire here: http://makerfaire.com/ If you haven't been to the Makers Faire, plan to go this year. DIY is on the rise, and it's a telling example of course correction spu... more -
Got Wood?
Check out this radical Chicago based artist. Mike Rea works in wood and his craft ROCKS! He's Interviewed in this article.
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Art vs. Craft
We would like to Explore...the difference between Arts and Crafts
Joy and Sunny visit Art Basel Miami Beach and the Woodstock Arts and Crafts Fair in Sunrise Florida. We would like to Explore...the difference between Arts and Crafts ... more
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