Florence Gidez is an artist and printmaker based in Brooklyn, originally from Vermont. I’m particularly fond of the ramshackle dwellings she depicts in some of her prints, structures that are somehow endearing as they lean and crumble into their wild, occasionally surreal surroundings.
Articles By: Nikolai Soudek
Nick Gentry: Floppy Disk Portraits
London-based artist Nick Gentry uses old floppy disks as a canvas in his painted portraits, in doing so exploring humanity’s ongoing integration with technology and the issues of identity, life cycles and waste culture inherent within.
Louis CK Honors George Carlin
In a clip from the Tribute to George Carlin at the New York Public Library in March 2010, comedian Louis CK reflects on the influence the late George Carlin had on his career and approach to new material.
Aryz: Street Art & Paintings
Aryz is a painter and graffiti artist from Barcelona. He creates stunning and intricately detailed works using mostly spray paint and paint rollers.
Trevor “Trevz” Bayack, The New Pop
Trevor “Trevz” Bayack is a Brooklyn-born filmmaker and video-blogging pioneer who produces riveting short-form web documentaries.
Skywalk This Way: adidas Originals x Star Wars
Star Wars and adidas Originals have teamed up again for Fall/Winter 2011.
Selections from the 2011 International Photography Awards
The International Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for professional, non-professional, and student photographers on a global scale, creating one of the most ambitious and comprehensive competitions in the photography world today.
Shock Value by Jason Zinoman
Shock Value by Jason Zinoman chronicles the rise of George Romero, Wes Craven, John Carpenter and a handful of other young, eccentric filmmakers whose grim and confrontational visions revitalized the 60s/70s horror genre and laid the groundwork for what is modern horror today.
i³ Lab: Full Moon Mattress & Cushion
i³ Lab has produced a series of items inviting the user to literally embrace the moon as a vessel of passage into their dreams.
Scream Your Head Off! Zombie Head Bowling
Zombie/severed head bowling balls created by advertising agency Jung Von Matt in conjunction with spraypaint artist Oliver Paaß, as part of a marketing campaign for 13th Street, a German sci-fi/horror cable channel.
James Jirat Patradoon: Hyper-Masculine Mythologies
James Jirat Patradoon is an artist & illustrator based in Sydney, Australia. I’ve been totally geeking out on his illustrations as they strike so many chords from my younger days of binging on comics, punk rock and 80’s cult films.
IHadCancer.com
Mailet Lopez channeled her intense and challenging experience of battling breast cancer into something creative and positive— IHadCancer, a social network for people whose lives have been touched by cancer.
