Wednesday, 22nd May, 2013

Reuben Margolin’s Kinetic Wave Sculptures

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Reuben Margolin, a Bay Area visionary and longtime maker, creates totally singular techno-kinetic wave sculptures. Using everything from wood to cardboard to found and salvaged objects, Reubens artwork is diverse, with sculptures ranging from tiny to looming, motorized to hand-cranked. Focusing on natural elements like a discrete water droplet or a powerful ocean eddy, his work is elegant and hypnotic. Also, learn how ocean waves can power our future. Learn more about Reuben

Erik Mark Sandberg

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In 2002, Erik Mark Sanberg recieved a BFA with distinction, from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, and studied with former Gemini Gel Master Printer Anthony Alan Zepeda from 2003-2007. From 2006 to present, he has taught at Art Center College of Design, OTIS College of Art and Design, and California State University Northridge. He currently resides and works out of Los Angeles, CA. Website

Face Stealer

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The app Face Stealer includes various masks, including dogs, as defaults. You can also make masks yourself. You choose a photo of a face you like, and edit the contour and so on to make a mask.

The app tracks facial feature points, like this. It captures the movements of these feature points, in synch with the motion of your mouth and eyebrows. So it can change how your face looks by synthesizing the mask picture accordingly. A feature of this application is that it tracks in real time, even on a smartphone. We think there aren’t many apps that can track facial feature points using just the processing power of a smartphone. This can track your face even if you vary the angle a lot. It even tracks unusual expressions, so it’s fun to make all sorts of expressions with your mouth.

MARS1

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Mario Martinez (MARS-1) paints from a penetrating perspective of great depth. Viewers are drawn into his imaginative compositions, overflowing with colorful geometric and organic shapes, layered to form unique patterns and textures.

The artist signature style of vast, abstracted, quasi-extraterrestrial looking landscapes feature imagery of surreal distortions, contained within spherically convex transparent bubbles. Skillfully combining optical color blending with perspective line work, his painting techniques result in very three-dimensional forms, which echo the anatomy of architecture, and microcosmic structures of biology.

Synesthetic Locked

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"Synesthesia is the involuntary and interconnected stimulation of the senses produced by a unexpected source. See sounds, feel colors, hear geometric figures, smell moments... But once you have experienced that kind of sense connections hardly you will be able to perceive something with no associations. You are synesthetic locked." Video by Lococrom

Bonobo ‘The North Borders’

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It's been almost three years since the release of Bonobo's masterful, mould-breaking Black Sands, an album that saw him touring a hypnotic live show across the world for well over a year. Now, in 2013, he stands ready to take things up yet another notch. 

The North Borders is a long stride forward - both a natural evolution and a continuation of the electronic palette of Black Sands. Thematic, resonant, addictive and perfectly formed, it's a thrillingly coherent statement piece.

The first track unveiled from the album is "Cirrus" - watch the Cyriak-directed video here

Spring Breakers

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Harmony Korine's launches his new film Spring Breakers. Four sexy college girls plan to fund their spring break getaway by burglarizing a fast food shack. But that’s only the beginning… During a night of partying, the girls hit a roadblock when they are arrested on drug charges. 

Hungover and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge but are bailed out unexpectedly by Alien, an infamous local thug who takes them under his wing and leads them on the wildest Spring Break trip in history.

Neil Krug

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Neil Krug is an American artist based in Los Angeles. Krug has photographed and art directed campaigns for such bands as My Chemical Romance, Ratatat, Justice, Devendra Banhart, Ladytron, The Horrors, Scissor Sisters, Tame Impala, Jim James, Gonjasufi, First Aid Kit, Onra, Canyons, Sea Wolf, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, The Bots, Juan Atkins, Sinner DC, The Pierces, Dri, and White Flight.

Krug, in a creative collaboration with Joni Harbeck, founded PULP ART BOOK wherein his photography can be seen in limited edition prints, books, and films. Krug has exhibited work in Germany, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and plans to release his upcoming feature film INVISIBLE PYRAMID in 2013.

Wednesday, 22nd May, 2013