all the bad boys are standing in the shadows
A must-see photography portfolio from France: Denis Darzacq’s La Chute.
The Guardian has something to read.
April 27, 2007
A Mean Right Halfback
Does anyone have 14,500 pounds to spend on the “good vs. evil” foosball table?
April 18, 2007
April 2, 2007
March 30, 2007
Skeletal
Does anyone know anything about this?
Boy, that’s awesome. Via Wooster Collective — all I know is that it was “seen in the Palazzo Reale in Milan” and it’s by Italian artist Gino De Dominicis.
March 26, 2007
Trash, Out
German artist HA Shult’s latest installation is 1,000 “Trash People” — on display in Rome:
March 21, 2007
The Originals
The title of the Backwards City post where I discovered these sites is called Nerd Crack — I think that’s about right.
What you see below are pieces of conceptual art designed by Ralph McQuarrie before and during the creation of the original trilogy. There are dozens of these!
March 16, 2007
Time Goes Photoshop
Time magazine has a new cover design, and their first new issue of the n
ew design features a Photoshopped picture of a crying Ronald Reagan.
Is Time hoping a little controversy will draw attention to its redesign? The first new-look issue, on newsstands tomorrow, features what appears to be a photo of Ronald Reagan with a fat tear sliding down his cheek, illustrating the cover story, “How the Right Went Wrong.” A somewhat cryptic credit in small type on the (revamped!) table of contents describes the image this way: “Photograph by David Hume Kennerly. Tear by Tim O’Brien.” Nowhere does it specifically state that the cover is a photo illustration—in other words, that it’s Photoshopped.
Read more here.
March 2, 2007
March 1, 2007
The Good Citizen’s Alphabet
Via the Design Observer, a complete scan of Bertrand Russell’s The Good Citizen’s Alphabet.
It is fascinating to think back to the early 1950s. A couple of Polish émigrés, having studied physics, architecture and painting, and having made a few art films and started a publishing company, sit down with a leading philosopher to make something whimsical and subversive. That an alphabet book was the outcome pleases me to no end.
