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Recession Proofs

Times are tough, but they are also fascinating. Moira McLaughlin decided to challenge herself and the world to make artwork and collages that reflect our economic crisis. The result: "Recession Proofs."  She is welcoming your recession proofs. (Moira's work is illustrated, here).

The rules:

1. You can only use images that you got for free: junk mail, grocery store circulars, j. crew catalogs, free weekly newspapers, etc.

1. Title must reflect current events or your response to the Great Recession.

3. You can use found objects from around your house, for example a plastic bag, but NOT an object that you bought, i.e. a magazine you paid for last year.

4. You may purchase the panel for the foundation of the collage.

The idea is to make art out of things that are free and show that creativity truly is "Recession Proof."
 
Email her at moira@dreamdogsart.com

John Cage

Article: John Cage's Shoes, Robert Storr Lecture in Paris. Here Cage is standing in front of a painting by Gerhard Richter.

The Amazing xkcd Comic Strip - Meat Cereals

This one is called MEAT CEREALS.  More xkcd here.

Lauri Lynnxe Murphy's Menagerie

Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, artist, Denver, Colorado examines another world.  Left: Xololongus Tentacuatle, 2008.

Intelligent Design

Another Hot One From Caterina Verde

Fingerpainting On Mars

Fingerpainting on Mars is a time capsule by Little Shiva, artist, designer and fashion forward thinker. The theme of this new publication is contemporary art: go check out the space dust at FINGERPAINTING ON MARS.

The magazine is available in France at the Centre Pompidou and galerie du jour - agnès b.

See the website for other locations or order this jewel online.

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH OPEN CALL

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH OPEN CALL TO ALL ARTISTS, WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS.

Exhibition in NYC at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery.  Opening 10 September.  Contribute, Participate, Distribute.

Brian Lesteberg At Culturehall

Garage, Sheridan County, ND, 2007. Copyright Brian Lesteberg

Brian Lesteberg is a young and talented photographer based in Minneapolis. His work was published in 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, Volume 2 released this spring by powerHouse and CDS Books at the Center for Documentary Studies. While I was still living in Minneapolis, Brian shot an unforgettable series, Raised to Hunt, about his experiences growing up in culture of hunting in North Dakota. He has since further explored northern environments in his more recent projects: Places of Worship, Portraits of Home, and The Broncos of Miles City.

His work is featured at Culturehall, an online artist portfolio.

SLINKY

Slinky was invented by Naval engineer Richard James. He knocked a spring off of a shelf when he was working to develop springs that could keep ship instruments stable in choppy waters. The spring did what a Slinky does… it stepped down to a stack of books, then to the table, and then to the floor, where it righted itself into a cylinder. James knew it would be a great toy, and tests by neighborhood kids proved him right.

Bathtub IV

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

See: Keith Loutit.

Keith Loutit is a Sydney based photographer. "These photographs and short films were made in ordinary places, probably not too unlike where you live. Combining a variety of techniques including tilt-shift and time-lapse photography, I aim to help people take a second look at places that are familiar to them."

Guitar Store

From David Rager.

CONFESSIONS

DOWNLOAD POSTER FREE : MATTHEW ROSE

The End of the World - New Print From Keep Calm

THE END OF THE WORLD (REALLY BUILT TO LAST) is Paris-based artist Matthew Rose's latest surreal fantasy about the fragility of world we live in and the end of the world we've built. 

 

Based on an original collage from 2008, THE END OF THE WORLD, reports from the frontiers of the real and dream worlds, where foods and animals, naughty little boys and errant little girls enter into the visual field and run, jump, hang and float in and around an assortment of human narratives that are veering dangerously out of control. Like in life.

This work, and others in the series, will appear in Masters of Collage (Lark Publishing, USA) in May 2010 along with 40 other contemporary artists.

This full color print measures 25 x 25 cm, and also has a border for framing.  Signed and numbered in an edition of 85, the print, produced by Lalande Digital Art Press Paris costs 38 UK Pounds exclusively from Keep Calm Gallery.  Click here to go to Keep Calm Gallery to see detailed images and order.

Bernard Madoff Webcam: Pay Back Scheme

How to payback the billions Bernard Madoff ripped off? Set up the Bernie Madoff Live Webcam. For $1 buck a click, this pay per view of Bernard Madoff in his prison diggs will generate billions, the monies of which go back to those he ripped off. Comments? Any partnership ideas out there? Get in touch!

Click here to check out this other great Bernie Madoff Site...free Madoff Toilet Paper.

Caterina Verde : All You Can't Eat

 

Image: POVERTY IS A LUXURY I CAN'T AFFORD. © 2009 Caterina Verde.
VISIT: Caterina Verde All You Can't Eat.

Supply & Demand: Shepard Fairey At The ICA Boston

Guns & Roses, Shepard Fairey, 2007.

Fairey, who is enjoying his first museum retrospective at the ICA Boston, brings together elements of the UK street artist Banksy, the factory-and self-obsessed Mark Kostabi, Russian Constructivism and propaganda to great effect.

Gloria Zein : Migration One Bernauer Straße Berlin

Gloria Zein, "Migration 1," 2008
C-print, Größe variabel.
Ausstellungsansicht "Glück gehabt - Kunst im Untergrund," 2008, NGBK Berlin. U-Bahnhof Bernauer Straße.

Max Mulhern's Ultimate Frisbee

Ray Johnson. Please Add to & Return

Ray Johnson. Please Add to & Return
28 February – 10 May 2009

Thank you Alex Sainsbury for bringing Ray Johnson to London.

Raven Row’s inaugural exhibition is the first large UK show of the collages and mailings of New York artist Ray Johnson (1927–1995). Johnson used radical means to construct and distribute images, inadvertently inventing the ‘mail art movement’. He made art out of social life – both real and imagined – gathering celebrities, the art world, and friends into his work. His influence on twentieth century art far exceeds the recognition he receives.

‘Ray Johnson. Please Add to & Return’ will represent Johnson’s mailings, objects he regarded as gifts and thus contrary to the market, equally with the collage works he made for gallery exhibition in the sixties and seventies. Also included will be the collages he subjected to a seemingly endless process of reworking and overlaying, which were found signed with multiple dates and neatly arranged in his house at the time of his death.

Raven Row 56 Artillery Lane London E1 7LS T +44 (0)20 7377 4300 E: info@ravenrow.org