Archive for September, 2009
Santa’s Little Helper – Paul McCarthy
Sep 26th
Over the past four decades, Paul McCarthy’s work has gone from intimate performance videos to spectacular public sculptures — all without sacrificing its unnerving psychosexual tone. While the artist’s recent show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York surprised many with its unornamented structuralism, its restraint was comically upstaged by the unmooring of his giant inflatable dog turd at Switzerland’s Zentrum Paul Klee, which left a trail of downed power lines in its wake. It was as if McCarthy’s art had unleashed on the Swiss countryside the cartoonish extravagance that had been put on the back burner for the Whitney.
Not that McCarthy hasn’t paid tribute to the twisted pop-mythological deities of the American psyche. “I’m interested in caricatures — from Miss Piggy to Popeye to Santa Claus — that are cultural fabrications,” observes the 63-year-old artist from his LA home. “Santa is one that I’ve hung on to longer, that I repeat more. There’s the whole thing of Christmas and consumption and commodity, and its relationship to capitalism and Western culture and Americana. The character itself is this roly-poly patriarch with a beard — almost a godlike figure.” In fact, he notes, one of his earliest childhood drawings is of Santa Claus.
Oh my Tee
Sep 25th
A shop in Utrecht (NL) with some nice tee’s, paintings and all kinds of jummy things for your vision!
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Computerlove {cpluv.com}
Sep 25th
Computerlove {cpluv.com} is a unique social platform and source of inspiration for talented creatives.
- Find inspiration and get fresh, hot design news
- Share you work with talented and awarded creatives (Population: 20,000+)
- Stay connected with creative people you know and admire
- Promote yourself to find a job or get famous !
Every free account include: Personal blog/ RSS, Gallery & portfolio management tools, plus a networking engine.
Dutch Design Week 09
Sep 23rd
Each year in October Dutch Design Week is organized by Design Platform Eindhoven (DPE). DPE is a professional organization that, supported by the Eindhoven Design community, seeks to develop a stimulating and dynamic design climate in all cultural, social and economic domains in the region of Eindhoven. To that end, DPE organizes events, conferences, lectures and workshops based on three major dimensions: cultural stimulation, social cohesion and economic enhancement. More >
addicting OMGPOP | play games. meet people. hang out.
Sep 3rd
OMGPOP (formerly i’minlikewithyou or iilwy) is a casual online multiplayer gaming website built entirely in Flash. OMGPOP states on its homepage that it is “a place to hang out, play free online multiplayer games, chat and make friends”.
The OMGPOP team is based in Soho, in New York City. The site was founded by Charles Forman. Dan Porter is the CEO and E.J. Mablekos is the CTO. OMGPOP is funded by Spark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures and Betaworks, as well as angel investors including Ron Conway, Kevin Rose and Marc Andreessen.
OMGPOP is on TIME Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2009.
Swedish House Mafia | Leave The World Behind
Sep 2nd
Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, and Laidback Luke’s Leave The World Behind is officially THE best-selling single of the year so far.
The chart sees the Swedish House Mafia and the Dutch boy wonder’s piano-soaked anthem topping a list which includes Calvin Harris, Deadmau5, Eric Prydz, and more.
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What is Society6?
Sep 2nd
