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Well, I have given up on trying to make this a weekly column, so it is becoming an occasional column.
I’ve come across 2 sets of photos in the last two days. One set is pretty interesting and the other set is pretty incredible, both are definitely worth checking out.
The first set of pictures makes it to us all the way from Chili where the Chaitan Volcano has been pretty active recently. During some recent activity there also happened to be a lighting storm that added some incredible effects to the erupting volcano. The Daily Mail has a whole set of the images here.
Our second set of pictures comes from an exhibition titled “The Other Night Sky” currently showing at the UC Berkeley Art Museum. The exhibition shows Trevor Paglen’s photographs of 189 spy satellites that officially do not exist. The title of the exhibition is a play on Galileo’s The Night Sky and offers commentary on how these ‘unofficial’ satellites would paint the sky to astronomers of yesterday. Paglen is also responsible for a book about patches from military black-ops groups that has some great images of the official patches for these groups.
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So we are going a little light with the art today:
First up we have Martin Beckett, I cam across his work right around the same time I found the superhero stuff last week, but it just didn’t fit nicely so I have been holding off on posting it. Beckett is a UK photographer with some decent stuff, but the stuff to really check out are his 360 degree panoramas. The rest of the stuff is nice, but nothing too outstanding.
Following up Beckett we have more of an art related post then actual art (though, looking at the images that is debatable): Crayola Crayons*. Read more »
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Mario Batali, Martha Stewart, Boogie, Jimmi Simpson, Brice Marden are just some of the faces you might recognize on the walls of Jose Picayo’s exhibition: “Mug Shots.”
That isn’t to say though that everyone whose picture is up on the walls of the gallery is famous.
Of the couple hundred photos up on the walls of the gallery, there were only about seven who we could readily identify.
Well, that is besides all the folks who showed up for the opening who had sat for their photos. Read more »
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I feel bad that what, one week after I committed to doing at least one art post a week, I totally dropped the ball and didn’t follow up. Well, a few weeks later we have a follow-up.
I’ve been noticing a bit of a trend recently in turning comic books into movies. I know, this is nothing too new, but it has really been exploding as Marvel licenses every possible character out, DC re-images Superman and Batman (and tries to find a character that someone else might know) and Frank Miller turns everything he has ever done into a movie.
Well, now this trend is moving beyond just films and the art world seems to be jumping on the new-found obsession with Superheroes.
First up we have an exhibit at the Met: Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy. I’d probably have more to say about it, but I haven’t been to the exhibit yet. But I must say this is where I saw the start of the trend, after discovering this exhibit was at the Met (started last week), I keep seeing Superhero art.
Alessandro Cidda’s work found its way into my inbox this morning, close up shots of action figures, well, more precisely portraits of action figures. The originals are blown up to almost 3 feet tall (maybe a bit taller, my cm to inches conversion is a bit weak). The first two galleries on the website have some 33 portraits of all of your favorites (and some obscure) action figures, including Neo, Batman, Mr. Incredible, Jenna Jameson, the Crow and James Bond, to name a few. Read more »
