On the list of some of the coolest shit I’ve seen in a while. A lot of these minimalist interpretations of movies and books have been popping up quite a bit in the last year, but this is the first I’ve seen done for iconic music videos by Federico Mancosu.
Great part about these posters is the credit given to the director for making these videos stand out in our minds, its not just the musician(s) creating the indelible mark these videos have left on our minds.
Featuring Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Beastie Boys’ Sabotage, and Beck’s Devil’s Haircut to name a few. You can snag these sweet prints at ImageKind.com
Sitting firmly at the intersection of fashion and design lies Diego Diaz. Having come across his work, below I was struck by the boldness of the work and immediately Levi Van Veluw’s work came to mind. As Diego uses the body and particularly the head as his canvas to explore shape, texture, and identity.
Multidisciplinary artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, known as Haas&Hahn have been making amazing murals, not only by their artistic quality but also by their sheer scope. Haas&Hahn get the help of the local kids to help them construct their pieces. The results are beautiful and inspiring.
Their most recent piece, “O Morro“, spreads over 7000 square meters and 34 buildings in Rio’s Santa Marta neighborhood. The plan is to turn the neighborhood into a living and active landmark.
Google tests the speed of its recently released browser, in a sort of Rube Goldberg setup. They compare Chrome to electricity, a potato gun, and sound waves. Its pretty dope.
Designer Carnovsky has put together a very interesting concept to interior design. A triple printed wallpaper consisting of 3 layered images, each in either red, green, or blue. The effect is stunning, especially when bathed in either red, green, or blue light (below). (more…)
Levi van Veluw is a Netherlands based artists whose work looks to as he states:
The images that I make consist of often unlogical combinations of materials, patterns, colours, forms, with my head as the only constant factor. Each element is consciously chosen so as to affect a pre-determined transformation. By playing with the value of the each material and by using them for a purpose that was not originally intended for them, I construct within the image, in a very small way, a different perspective on the world.
I’ve never been one of those constant Youtube users. It always seemed rather cheap on the whole. I only find out about cool shit on youtube through friends, blogs, etc. Having to sit through an unreliable buffering video only to have its quality be spotty at best, even with the current HD setting, which has made the experience a bit better. But that still doesn’t make watching someone with an overinflated since of importance discuss the occult symbolism of Lady Gaga, or poorly edited cat videos.
This is why Vimeo is the shit; well crafted videos and art in high quality, with a low level of bullshit thrown in. (more…)
This is a damn dope concept: McDonalds and high fashion. With this project by TheCoolHunter’s latest dedicated entity Access Agency, scheduled to launch this year, they have brought together both the universally accessible and the universally aspirational. The results have been fly:
