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Mark Fox Art

We’ve got something a little different from usual today, a look at the art of Mark Fox. I’ve gotten a little obsessed with Mark’s art recently, his character paintings have an other-worldly feel but the subjects and environments are very real.
The main thing I like though are the colours! Bright pastels, awesome contrasts, they’re [...]

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Okay I’ve just completed my third commissioned t-shirt design for Antiphrase.fr. This piece is simply called "Hell". Here’s the thinking behind it:-

"There have been many great philosophers in our collective history, some spiritual, some logical, others existential; and a fair number of them have considered the idea that this life we live, this place, the planet earth, is in fact ‘hell’. Wars, famine, poverty, you name it, we the human race experience it in biblical proportions. Who knows, they may just be correct. In addition, if the Buddhists are on the right track we might have to endure the same ordeal over and over again. Will we ever learn?"

So there was a little debate over the design, essentially Antiphrase wanted to make it more ‘obvious’ to their customers exactly what this piece was about and so I made a few changes to the design to spell it out plain and simple. The first image is the proposed t-shirt design, the second is the original illustration (which along with Body Electric I will most likely offer as limited edition screen prints in the future via my blog).

I’ll let you all know when the 3 t-shirt designs are available from Antiphrase – should be around September.

Tags: antiphrase, art commissions, hell, Paul Baines, t-shirt design

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I got a very strange email yesterday from a guy called Jarret Sexton, it took me a while to soak in what he was actually offering, and to be honest I still haven’t quite got over the shock, but essentially he’s offering advertising on his body, permanent advertising, advertising tattoos.

The fact is even if this guy doesn’t realise it he’s about to embark on a ground breaking arts project, in the tradition of many others, especially in the Pop Art scene he’s about to creatively subvert the way the world views the world of business and it’s unruly companion advertising.

In principle I’ve agreed to be his first paying customer, I personally don’t have a single tattoo on my body, and so I must admit I feel somewhat guilty for enforcing my will on another’s skin, but if he is prepared to do it I can’t stand in his way. I want to keep my ‘advert’ simple and have asked for a plain old url – "www.PaulBaines.co.uk", I’d rather it was in a prominent area, somewhere on the neck or upper chest so it will be easily viewed, but I don’t want the tattoo to cover more than a centimetre or so in height, and four or five in length.

He hasn’t worked out the price structure as yet, he says he’d charge for the cost of the tattoo and a small monthly fee or lump sum, something he will seriously have to consider. I suggested he works upon the idea of standard advertising layout, i.e per square cm or inch, we will see what he comes up with.

I asked Jarrett why he was considering this rather drastic move, he quoted me the following:-

"I began the project because, one the economy is not that great and I’m struggling myself, but mainly I want to do something no else has done, and a new sort of advertisement. Now several people have had companies names and logos tattooed on their body but not as advertising and not the way I am doing it. I got the idea just trying to think of businesses to start, what could be my “catch” that no one else has, and something new. "

There are many people out there who indeed to have the occassional piece of corporate branding tattooed on their body, but this is certainly a step beyond the norm. It should bring him a massive amount of press attention. Still he has certain prerequisites, i.e no tattoos on his face or lower arms which to be honest comes as something of a relief to me. I’d hate to think the guy was ruining his life doing this, then again, even if it is merely for the purpose of commerce, Jarrett is venturing into an area where very few artists dare to tred. He is not merely creating art, he will be art, corporate and commercial art that is.

He will be creating a Facebook page and website in the near future, but if you would like to book yourself some human advertising space then contact Jarrett at sexton.jarrett@gmail.com or walking.billboard.advertising@gmail.com

Tags: advertising and art, art advertising, human billboard, tattoo art, tattooed man, walking billboard

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50 Awesome World Graffiti Urban Art Photos – Part 1
The site has been up in for 8 months now and I’ve been lucky enough to find or be sent some really awesome graffiti and street art from around the world.
So I’ve picked out my 50 favourite graffiti, street art, poster and stencil art photos from all the 2009 [...]

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You were either there or you weren’t, I was, I was of an age when Polaroid cameras, at least here in Britain seemed like something new. Funnily enough the results of instant polaroid shots were invariably of another age, the hues, the colours, the tones that this technology captured (or rather misrepresented) did something very strange to photography, it imbued everything from a test shot of a super model to a family day out on the beach with a strange and timeless quality hardly seen since the phasing out of sepia.

Here are a few Warhol celebrity photos to give you an idea of what I mean, there’s no chance of an airbrush or a Photoshop wizard working their trickery on these, they were taken, they developed and here are the results:-

It’s almost as if technology has gone too far these days, for instance the amount of movie directors who openly speak out against CGI animation, it’s cold, hard and lifeless. The same can be said for much of digital photography, something is missing, a warmth, a randomness of result so lacking these days. Nothing is left to chance, there are no mistakes, and if there are they can be erased. A chemical process is more likely to surprise, the chaos chemistry of liquid and light, digitisation is orderly, it must be manipulated after the event to create anything but a stilted reportage confined within the boundaries of good technology.

I received an email the other day from Maurice Sikkink at www.Rollip.com who invited me to come over and try out their polarisation site, they offer a range of interesting and unique filters to polarise any image you require. I played around for a while and came up with a few of my own. The first is just a holiday snap from Google Images.

I played around with a few other images, there are a wide selection of filters, exposures and effects at Rollip and you have the choice of maintaining your image size or reducing it to a Polaroid format. I’ve seen this kind of application before but I have to admit Rolip have put extra effort into giving far more options for customization and better quality effects, and the online format makes it much easier to share pictures across the social web. Why not try processing your entire collection?

 

 

Try out your own at www.Rollip.com

Tags: Polaroid, polaroid camera, polaroid images, vintage photography

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The piece above was done for this weekend’s Hacia Afuera Festival

You can see more of Michael’s work here.

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A few weeks ago we posted a call for artists to assist in a massive mural in Washington DC, sponsored by the fantastic nonprofit group Albus Cavus. The final wall is absolutely stunning.

But to show how ignorant some people can be, we heard today that the local Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Marshall Phillips is now protesting the mural because, according to him, for it to be acceptable it needs to include references to MLK, the Redskins football team, and the Nationals baseball team.

Watch below:

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The New York Times recently ran a fascinating article about Isaiah Zagar, an artist whos has created elaborate mosaics that cover many buildings in South Philadelphia.

Isaiah is now the subject of, In A Dream, an award winning documentary by his son Jeremiah.

You can read the NY Times article here. The DVD of the film will be released in the States on September 29th, 2009.

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The New York Times recently ran a fascinating article about Isaiah Zagar, an artist whos has created elaborate mosaics that cover many buildings in South Philadelphia.

Isaiah is now the subject of, In A Dream, an award winning documentary by his son Jeremiah.

You can read the NY Times article here. The DVD of the film will be released in the States on September 29th, 2009.

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Artist: Pedro Matos

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Weapon of Choice gallery present ‘Mash Media’Featuring artists:BYROGLYPHICSJAMES BAKER& TRXTROpening preview 17th September 6-10pmFree entry, drinks provided.Exhibition running until the 11th October 2009Weapon of Choice Gallery, 14 St Michael’s Hill, Bristol, BS2 8DTSince joining Red Propeller Gallery, who were instrumental in launching the careers of Ian Francis and Guy Denning, a phenomena

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Sam3 will be showing new work at Anno Domini in San Jose, Ca on September 4th. The exhibit will be on view through October 17, 2009

Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
366 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113
www.galleryAD.com 408.271.5155

gallery hours:
Tuesday thru Friday, Noon – 7pm
Saturday, Noon – 5pm
First Fridays 8pm ’til late.

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