Author Archives: amy

Xylor Jane & B. Wurtz Exhibition ends tomorrow

B. WURST XYLOR JANE Show runs Jan 17, 2012 – Mar 24, 2012, at the Pacific North­west Col­lege of Art (Port­land, Ore­gon) in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Museum of Contemporary Craft.

Maske Inspiration

The pho­tos of Phyl­lis Galembo

Cosmic Wonder… …simply wonderful

www.cosmicwonder.com

super sale this weekend!

Elf sandals, anyone?

My new favorite shoes: bread knife meets broken-in desert boots…

Jonny Ollsin / CHILDREN video

Some­times there is noth­ing more excit­ing than 3 young men in sun­glasses and long johns, run­ning through a for­est. …(Also  check out Jonny’s web­site, a well-crafted machine of audi­tory & visual hal­lu­ci­na­tion… www.jonnollsin.com )

STRANGE

Iconic…  Strange… Out­landish…  VA VOOM.

DAUGHTERS of DAWN

The Spring 2010 col­lec­tion is now up on Daugh­ter of Dawn Vin­tage, and the pho­tos look ver­rrry niic­cce.……! This online vin­tage bazaar is impec­ca­bly curated. So wan­der over and have a look! www.daughtersofdawn.com

Gee’s Bend Again

I’ve also been look­ing at the Gee’s Bend quilts again, through the book Gee’s Bend: The Archi­tec­ture of the Quilt . The visual inspi­ra­tion from these art­works is untold for me. I added some exam­ples below, of the cor­duroy & denim quilts, fea­tur­ing recy­cled mate­ri­als (how a quilt is defined in my view)…although just a few […]

What have you looked at lately.…?

I love these video effects — best video I’ve found for this track from Brian Eno & Jon Has­sell’s Fourth World, Vol. 1: Pos­si­ble Musics. Was appar­ently made in the late 80’s by this You Tube user. In the artist’s own words: “I shot the footage in Yosemite using a low cost VHS cam­era,  then […]