Going to three tiny towns in France: Colomars, Gordes and Autoire.
Ah French food, the countryside of Provence and good friends.
And mostly speaking French, the language of my heart and soul.
Monthly Archives: June 2009
On Vacation June 10 - July 8
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Coat Hanger Gorilla
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
David Mach’s 2007 sculpture Silver Back won him a place in the Guinness Book of Records for “largest coat hanger installation”; it’s not clear how much competition he had. The whole piece is 7 feet tall, 9 feet long, and 5 feet wide, and it required 2,705 hours and 7,500 hangers to make.
Source: Futility Closet.
Another French Giant is Born
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The Royale De Luxe Company from France has created another theatrical visual marvel. I LOVE THESE PEOPLE! Their first, work was a narrative played out in the streets: ” The little girl giant woke up one morning, got a shower from the Sultan;’s Elephant, and wandered off to play in the park…” To see a [...]
VERY Cool Ad from Akbank in Turkey
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Beautiful, fabulous choreography. If you are old and remember the June Taylor Dancers, this is for you. Endless June Taylor money shot. Click here to see ad #1. Click here to see ad #2.
Creative OCD
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Another lead from Neatorama. Josie Peppenhuis is a Dutch flight attendant. One of her friends asked her to look for miniature houses when she traveled and when her 3 1/2 year old son saw a miniature village while she was doing some research for her friend, she decided to build a dolls house in accurate [...]
Today and Yesterday in One Shot
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Click here to visit a Flickr pool of images posted by people who take photographs of contemporary sites in their cities while holding up historic images of the same site in order to produce time sheared images of interest. Like many innovative projects, there soon too many images here and as these types of collections [...]
Night in the Museum
Saturday, June 6, 2009
There’s an interesting article in the June 1 “New Yorker” about the use of iconic art pieces in the movie “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.” Although it is not a movie I would want to see, the story of how it came to be and the difficulties in not only getting the [...]
BRILLIANT Wedding Invitation
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Corey McKenna created this unique stop-motion video as an invitation to his wedding to Rachel. The music is M79 by Vampire Weekend. To see the video, click here. Thanks to Abroath.
Surgery Makes Him An Artist
Thursday, June 4, 2009
From Mirror.co.uk:
Life-saving brain surgery has turned a double-glazing salesman with no drawing skills into a talented artist. Alan Brown, 49, could barely draw before a 16-hour operation to stem a brain bleed. But after two months recovering in intensive care he tried doodling to pass the time. The moment his pencil touched the paper, Alan could precisely [...]
I Love This Image
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
The four reconfigured photographic images in this series (above) feature all the Playboy centrefolds from four particular decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s). Salavon creates his signature blurred photographic effect by overlaying numerous photographs and averaging the results by computer, to make a visual amalgamation.
This quote is from a blog called “The News in Print.” [...]