A reverse transformation of later year Michael Jackson to his Jackson Five days before all the plastic surgery and injections.
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Candice Breitz's video installation "King (A Portrait of Michael Jackson)."
In these works, Breitz gathered fans by posting advertisements in newspapers and fan websites, and then they were asked to sing their way through a key album. Shot in screen-test mode and presented as a choral grid over a wall of TV screens, these installations are both compelling and toe-curlingly difficult to watch, affectionate glimpses into the power structures inherent in mass media and its passionate consumers.
Here's a sample clip from Breitz's exhibit of fans singing and dancing to what I consider to be Michael Jackson's best song "Billie Jean."
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Czech artist EPOS 257's latest work is a public installation recreating a cryptozoological Mongolian death worm running amok in Prague.
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This video is like the sweet spot in a venn diagram of geek interests: Macs, animation, color theory. Emilio Gomariz had to create 22,655 folders to produce it. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/5265672]
After a 20 year hiatus raising a couple daughters, pop artist Kenny Scharf, a former Eighties club kid who ran with the likes of Keith Haring, is back with this new psychedelic orgy of colors in Brooklyn: "Set in the basement of the Bushwick warehouse where Mr. Scharf has been living and working for about a year and a half, the Cavern is alive with the spirit of the early ’80s, lined in the Day-Glo-painted trash-bedecked panels he once deployed in nightclubs and galleries."
I don't think he'll get his security deposit back after the landlord sees this.
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Tokujin Yoshioka's "Lake of Shimmer," a 9 by 8 meter wall pixelated with 16,000 individually computer controlled mirrors, on display at the Swarovski stand at this year's Baselworld, the largest watch fair in the world held in Switzerland. Stunning, although this installation isn't with some minor controversy. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8nYSuyC3o4&fmt=18]
Nicholas Konert's sporty street art in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood earlier this year. I'm fully in favor of these nets being installed on all public trash containers. Can I get a second?
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As if my blog isn't New York-centric enough, here's this picture from New York photographer Kevin Landers.
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Uber-designer Ji Lee (previously) pays homage to French artist Marcel Duchamp by re-introducing one of his iconic and seminal pieces, "Bicycle Wheel" for the modern ages.
On 3rd Avenue and Houston Street, New York
On 14th Street and 3rd Avenue, New York
And my personal favorite variation: In front of MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street, New York
An interesting reversal is also at work here: where Duchamp took objects found on the street, made slight adjustments to them and then displayed them in galleries and museums, here Ji Lee is doing the opposite. See what I pointed out there?
Cast your discerning gaze onto the pricelessly terrible works on display at the entirely serious MoBA: Museum of Bad Art, "the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms."
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View more photos of this eye catching sculpture created by Unleash your inner Shephard Fairey and join the Wooster Collective by following these simple instructions from MAKE Magazine on how to tag up a street. [Via]
A sculpture from artist Miranda July's latest "Eleven Heavy Things." It's an interactive collection of eleven outdoor pieces consisting of "pedestals to stand on, tablets with holes for body parts, and free-standing headdresses" that are meant to be posed with by viewers.
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Among the many steps involved in the process of developing an animated film, especially ones as complex as those produced by Pixar, a color script is created, which is used by the filmmakers "to get a feel of the colour, mood, and visual atmosphere of the film." Check out these high res color script used in the production of Pixar's latest brilliant "Up." Of course if you haven't seen it yet and plan on doing so, here's your spoiler warning.
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An older gummy piece by Simone Decker.
Check out Brooklyn artist Mark Dean Veca who is "renowned for creating paintings, drawings and installations that portray surreal cartoons, psychedelic landscapes, and pop culture iconography while also being inspired by long-established decorative motifs."
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Seen in Cologne, Germany, this whimsy installation was commission in 2001 by the building owners from duo Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Check out their other great large scale pieces.
