Art news
My childhood obsession with ponies was bound to extend into my adult hood. In fact, I actually requested a My Little Pony for my 18th as I felt without such a right of passage (you see I had never owned one) I could not progress into adulthood. But the fixation with all things equine continues. On every gift-giving occasion I am handed envelopes and an assortment of boxes as I exclaim "IS IT A PONY?!" So I was quite excited when I heard everyone's favourite plastic pony was to celebrate its 25th birthday this year. My Little Pony is celebrating being a quarter of a century old, and to commemorate 25 years of pony pottiness, owner Hasbro has asked 25 celebrities, designers and competition winners to create their own unique mini figurine, where they will be auctioned off on Charity Folks. Peeps like John Stamos (Uncle Jesse from Full House), Leann Rimes and Courtney Cox have gotten involved, and some fairly psychedelic creations are up for the bid. Hasbro has also released a Silver Anniversary version, made of 100% Sterling Silver. Clearly just for us "mature" grown ups. All proceeds will go to children with terminal illnesses. See http://www.charityfolks.com to make a bid for Stephan Maze Georges & Laurel St. Romain's design, pictured on the left.
Post secret is an art project that started in Washington DC and has expanded worldwide the man behind the project Frank Warren receives thousands of secrets every week and these secrets are not merely arriving on paper anymore they are arriving on items as exotic as artificial bananas. These secrets are a form of liberation for each anonymous person and for each person who encounters them on the website every week.
The project illuminates the inner lives of people, some are funny, some are sexual, some are devastating and some are hopeful but each is an expression of a hidden desire, habit or thought that makes the individual who shares it quintessentially them. But what makes this project so amazing is that the secrets are universal they are things we are all afraid to say or can relate to in some way, they are thoughts we never even knew we ourselves had, written and expressed on paper. They highlight a social landscape of devastation, discrimination, bad behaviour, hidden dreams and doubts that is often ignored and forgotten about. Each postcard and secret is a gift from an individual reaching out and expressing and isn’t that what art is all about? It’s worth a look.
You never know what you might found about yourself through another.
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Yep. i've already posted an article on KAWS before, but who cares cause he's just
about to open an amazing show called 'Saturated' that's full of re-appropriated
paintings of Spongebob square pants that was sponsored and curated by Pharrell Williams from N.E.R.D. It's in miami, and i wish i could check it out and drop some money
on a piece...sigh...check out these pics curtesy of Hypebeast.
Children's author, illustrator and designer Maira Kalman's ingenious annotated works are absolutely dripping in vibrant colour, quirky humour and unbridled wit. 'Nuff said.
If you see me gnawing at and/or slowly devouring my bedroom walls from this weekend onwards let me tell you now, it’s not because my body is craving plaster and dried up blu-tack from when I decided to cover my room with Tazos. It’s because I’m painting my room a delectable shade of Iced Vovo. Dulux hooked me in by naming their paint colours after that famous “pink fondant either side of a strip of strawberry jam and sprinkled with coconut” (according to the Iced Vovo page on Wikipedia which I may or may not be the main contributor to). But seriously how much pulling power does the name of a colour of paint have when choosing the shade for your bedroom walls? If I was in the market for a crisp white bucket of paint for my minimalist bedroom, no questions asked I’d pick Mexican Milk over White Watsonia any day. Purple gal? I’d recommend Astro Zinger or for a more subdue choice, try Fiddlesticks. If you want to liven things up with yellow you could swing by Cowardly Custard or even a nice shade of Garfield slapped on your wall. If you don’t have a sweet tooth and a bucket of liquid Iced Vovo doesn’t tempt you, there is always the savoury version called Slippery Salmon to fall back on. Dulux caters for everyone.
He looks totally sinister right? This shot is nothing compared to the other ones she has since got a bit photoshop-happy with on and posted on her website. Check 'em out...
http://www.manipulator.com/
...it's been reported Jill feels it was "somewhat irresponsible" of The Atlantic to hire her in the first place and The Atlantic has issued an apology to McCain.
