Here’s a cool idea, shoot pictures through some old Blublocker sunglasses and you get Blublocker photography! While I’ve shot through different lenses before I never thought of aiming through sunglasses, but it makes sense, it’s just another filter. Judging by the shots he’s posted on flickr, it gives things an almost otherworldly Mars-like appearance. Cool effect, I’d like to see this done in a low light enviroment to see what really stands out.
On December 9, 10 Robert Pollard had his debut art exhibit called Do The Collage (a play on the title of Guided by Voices 1999 release, Do The Collapse) at Studio Dante. in New York City. Now the entire exhibit is online (but note the person pictured at that link is not Bob), and it displays the talents of Bob’s cut and paste collages, much like the sound of his band’s early recordings.
While the artist Stanley Donwood might not be a household name, his artwork is immediately recognizable. As the former art-school friend of Thom Yorke, he has been Radiohead’s resident cover artist, having designed all of the band’s record art since 1994’s My Iron Lung EP. Most recently he created the frontispiece of Tom Yorke’s solo debut, The Eraser.
He now has a show at Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona, Spain opening this week entitled Dead Children Playing highlighting his work with the band, and features the art for Kid A, Amnesiac, and Hail To The Thief, among others. I’ve always loved his work, although I never knew who created it. I always assumed it was some offshoot alias of Thom Yorke’s, so it’s nice to see more of the background of the artist.
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Jenny Holzer Truisms
Jenny Holzer 'Truisms' 1977
I’ve long been a fan of Jenny Holzer’s art, dealing with text, originally printed as photostat, but later displayed on billboards, in Times Square on the big screen (pictured) and later projected in huge letters on buildings. The idea of presenting ones ideas, or as in this case, declared maxims for her Trusims. I can’t recall where i first came across this piece, but I love reading through them all, with the one “abuse of power comes as no surprise” being my favorite. Even after I forgot about this piece, I never forgot that line and thought of it often. I mean think about it, does that ever *not* happen? She’s an American artist, born in 1950 in Ohio, who started using text as her primary means in the late 70s. An original version of the piece is now part of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and they described it as “…her pithy, ironic, and often disturbing statements have been presented on posters, T-shirts, baseball caps, and a flashing screen in Times Square, New York.”
I’m assuming she won’t mind me adding to the way she displays, so I found a version of her text online and present it here, reading through them again now brought a smile to my face more than a few times.