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AO on site – New York (with Video): Barry McGee’s Graffiti Wall on East Houston and Bowery
Art Observed was on site for Barry McGee’s (aka “TWIST”) new work on the “Deitch Wall” on East Houston and Bowery. With longtime collaborator Josh Lazcano (aka “AMAZE”), Mcgee spray painted simple red tags of the names and crews of graffiti writers from both past and present generations. Watch the video above for AO’s short [...]
Posted on 4 September 2010 @ 2:12 am
AO on site – New York (with Video): Barry McGee’s Graffiti Wall on East Houston and Bowery
Art Observed was on site for Barry McGee’s (aka “TWIST”) new work on the “Deitch Wall” on East Houston and Bowery. With longtime collaborator Josh Lazcano (aka “AMAZE”), Mcgee spray painted simple red tags of the names and crews of graffiti writers from both past and present generations. Watch the video above for AO’s short [...]
Posted on 4 September 2010 @ 2:12 am
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P.S. 1 Summer Warm-Up With Holy Ghost! + House of House + DJ Mehdi
Posted on 4 September 2010 @ 3:55 pm
P.S. 1 Summer Warm-Up With Holy Ghost! + House of House + DJ Mehdi
For this, the last installment of P.S. 1's tried and true Summer Warm-Up series, they've gathered together a pretty sweet lineup. DFA neo-disco darlings Holy Ghost! will be manning the decks alongside New York house duo House of House and French hip hop and electro producer DJ Mehdi.
Posted on 4 September 2010 @ 3:55 pm
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Jessica Stam and Tom Guinness Serve Cuteness for a Cause with Aldo on FNO
Posted on 4 September 2010 @ 1:30 am
Jessica Stam and Tom Guinness Serve Cuteness for a Cause with Aldo on FNO
I know. I know. I know! You don't need anything else to do on
Fashion's Night Out but this one is too cute not to plug! Aldo is
hosting a little shindig with cutie/spokesmodel Jessica Stam and
DJ/Paper contributing fashion editor Tom Guinness, who ingeniously
styled the "She's Got Balls" fashion spread in our September issue. A double dose of deliciousness! Also 50% of the proceeds will go to Aldo Fights AIDS.
Posted on 4 September 2010 @ 1:30 am
Paper Forest
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The newspaper sculptures of Nick Georgiou
His very impressive work is divided mainly in two parts: the framed work like a painting and the organic sculptures as street art or urban intervention.
(via Notcot.org and Thisblogrules.com, see title link, where you can find artists blog My Human Computer)
Posted on 29 June 2010 @ 3:27 am
Paper Art News and Ideas
The newspaper sculptures of Nick Georgiou
His very impressive work is divided mainly in two parts: the framed work like a painting and the organic sculptures as street art or urban intervention.
(via Notcot.org and Thisblogrules.com, see title link, where you can find artists blog My Human Computer)
Posted on 29 June 2010 @ 3:27 am
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Going the Distance
Posted on 4 September 2010 @ 3:48 pm
Going the Distance
So, last night we saw Going the Distance, the rom-com starring Drew Barrymore and Justin Long about a couple navigating the rather quotidian dramas of a long distance relationship. Low-stakes aside, it was totally cute and funny. Long and Barrymore have sweet, real-life chemistry; Charlie Day, who plays Long's goofy roommate, is truly hilarious; and there's a Moesha joke.
Posted on 4 September 2010 @ 3:48 pm
Paper Source - New & Seasonal
Paper Source - New & Seasonal
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Moss Marquis I Am Thankful Cards
A new design in our classic "I Am Thankful For" series of letterpressed cards and envelopes. Our vin ... read more
Posted on 30 August 2010 @ 4:00 am
Paper Source is the premiere seller of fine, handmade papers from around the world.
Moss Marquis I Am Thankful Cards
A new design in our classic "I Am Thankful For" series of letterpressed cards and envelopes. Our vin ... read morePosted on 30 August 2010 @ 4:00 am
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Tiny Tea Time Tutorial
Posted on 3 September 2010 @ 5:22 pm
Paper Art News and Ideas
Tiny Tea Time Tutorial
It's my birthday again! Which can only mean one thing... a new paper tutorial for everyone to have fun with! Ray!
This year's lesson shares an easy technique I developed for creating the tiniest tea cups, saucers, and plates I've ever seen. These were created for an original folktale movie I'm making whose tiny little red cloth-covered mushroom cafe in the garden needed little white dishware spots on them!
I'm thinking a child finding a tea setting on a rock or flower in a real garden would fill them with the pure joy and wonder at the possibilities forever, don't you agree!?
I used plain white watercolor paper and fast-grab white glue. Here's how.
1. Just tear little squares of whatever heavy-ish paper you might have around. For the scale of mine, the wooden point in the picture is a clay tool but I imagine any simple pencil with tape to cover the lead would do the trick.
2. Smash the paper square down around your pointed tool, creasing and pressing, until it begins to conform and hold the shape a bit.
3. Use whatever glue you like to work with (I am a huge fan of Aileene's Fast Grab white glue because it's thick enough to actually stick right away and hold on tightly.) and apply it into the folds of these little creases with the tip of a toothpick. Let set for a moment until you can remove the little cup and it will keep its shape as it dries.
4. Moving on to the saucer, I used a standard round hole punch to knock out as many little bases from the same paper for the amazing cups I wanted, crunch, crunch crunch.
5. With a sharp scissor, slice off a bunch of super thin, fairly even, paper slivers, about an inch in length, for the fancy cup handles. These can be cut to size or curled into fancy-pants shapes, depending on your dexterity and patience. But even a simple curve will make for a perfect illusion.
I used a toothpick to work the strip into a curl (those familiar with paper sculpture will recognize how it feels to break down the paper fibers so they'll hold a shape--only this is at nano scale). *one important note is that the key for the tea cup structure is to use a tweezer and crisply bend one end of your newly made handle (marked with an asterisk in #5 and 9 to demonstrate why that works so well to do.)
I used a toothpick to work the strip into a curl (those familiar with paper sculpture will recognize how it feels to break down the paper fibers so they'll hold a shape--only this is at nano scale). *one important note is that the key for the tea cup structure is to use a tweezer and crisply bend one end of your newly made handle (marked with an asterisk in #5 and 9 to demonstrate why that works so well to do.)
6. The next step is to trim the now dry cups off at their tops to even out all the little folds for a smoother rim. (The bottom of the cup shown is to the left of the scissor blades as the tops are being cut away on the right.)
7. Get a dollop of glue out nearby, load a bit onto a toothpick, touch it to one of your saucers in its middle, while holding it down with a pair of tweezers on the edge. Then take one of your now trimmed cups and smash in down onto the glue on the saucer (sorry for the dark photo, it got overcast quickly that day). Leave these assembled teacups and saucers to dry a bit.
8. Now your handles come into play. Put a bit of glue onto the bent end of the little strip and nestle it against the bottom of the cup, where it meets the saucer. Let it grab and then dry it well. (Doing a bunch at once makes the entire assembly painless because by the time you finish the last in your set, the first one is ready for the next step.)
9. The last step is to adhere the top end of the handle to the rim of your cup with a small bit of glue applied via toothpick tip. (I have been known to glue a too-long handle right inside the cup and use my tweezers to crimp the two pieces, cup and handle, into one thing, laminating them together, as it were.) Point is, there's no wrong way to finish these off. Cut the handle to length, make another curly-que at the top and then glue it down, etc. Even plain the effect will be magical.
To make the plates, cut out small, slightly larger, circles by hand and press their centers with a grommet (I had one laying around that was the correct diameter but you can use anything around, even a pen cap) to create the plate's rim shape.
If you like, you can seal and finish the set with a coating of varnish for greater durability outside, unless a fairy takes them home right away, in which case it doesn't matter. :-)
If you like, you can seal and finish the set with a coating of varnish for greater durability outside, unless a fairy takes them home right away, in which case it doesn't matter. :-)
That's it! Delight all the little ones you know by afixing a few of these in your garden, where you think fairies might naturally gather for tea, and letting them find them on their own. Be sure to pretend you have no idea where they've come from! I bet they will always look very closely at nature from that day on. Better yet, why not make these for friends with sweet kidlettes too. They'd be awfully cute gift wrapped as a set in a small jewelry box!
Enjoy! I'd love to see what you do with these!
Posted on 3 September 2010 @ 5:22 pm
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Rewind 2009: Papers for iPhone 1.3
Posted on 8 January 2010 @ 7:34 pm
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Rewind 2009: Papers for iPhone 1.3
Welcome to a new decade! It’s hard to believe what has all happened in the past 10 years; what has started completely from scratch as a very small hobby in 2001, culminated in an award winning and thriving software company. And what better way to finish the year than discovering that Papers for iPhone was choosen among the 30 best iPhone Apps of 2009 in the UK iTunes store! A big thanks to everybody for making this app such a success!
Papers for iPhone ranked among the 30 best iPhone apps of 2009
Speaking of which, we’re also very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Papers for iPhone 1.3, you can now download the update via iTunes. In version 1.3 we not only fixed the recently changed Google Scholar search engine*, but perhaps even more importantly, we significantly improved the PDF viewer inside Papers for iPhone. Text is rendered much sharper and the entire reading experience is more robust and speedier.
Best of all, Papers for iPhone 1.3 is just the beginning, we have a lot more exciting new releases lined up for 2010, we can’t wait to show you, stay tuned!
The mekentosj team
*) an update for the Mac version of Papers is also available, see here for more information.
Posted on 8 January 2010 @ 7:34 pm
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Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in East Street, Walworth, London, England on April 16,1889. Chaplin was the son of two music hall singers and entretainers, Charles Sr. and his wife Hannah. His father was quite well known in the profession, but it was his mother who inspired him to pursue a career in music and acting. He had a half brother named Sydney, who was born from a different father. His parents seperated before he was three years old. His father was an alcoholic and died at age 37 from scirocis of the liver, and his mother suffered from both mental and physical health issues, and eventually had to be institutionalized. This left Ch...
Posted on 6 August 2010 @ 2:05 am