Hugo Orlandini is a Cuban-born, Barcelona-based, contemporary artist whose work often plays with politics. Like me, and probably some of you reading this, Orlandi thinks of art as having
Noise Park is a brilliant idea for a single subject tumblr blog. By depicting legends of experimental, industrial and noise music as characters from TV’s “South Park,” they
Bruce Bickford was born in 1947 in Seattle, WA. Some 43 years later and 36 miles away in Snoqualmie, David Lynch was filming Twin Peaks. But I’m getting ahead
Amnesty International award-winning photographer, Bran Symondson, brought together 23 artists for AKA Peace, a project tasking creatives to re-imagine fully decommissioned AK-47 assault rifles as art objects. Symondson describes the genesis
If you were wearing an animated gif T-shirt, you’d feel so alive! (You’d just have to watch out for strangers who noticed your new-found ‘huggability’.) Sean Montgomery of Produce Consume Robot is responsible for
Portland’s WeMake has organized the construction and deployment of over 100 designer birdhouses throughout the city. Local, national and international artists answered the call to action and created amazing birdhouses that will be auctioned
Wise men from Bing Crosby to Perry Como to Agent Gordon Cole have advised letting a smile be your umbrella. Well the maker’s of this week’s ultimate popject have other ideas. When it
You’re looking at Karoto, a carrot peeler that takes the form of a pencil sharpener, by Israeli designer Avichai Tadmor. Tadmor got his inspiration from a common school pencil
Remember Diddo Velema’s designer gas masks? The Dutch designer returns with a new rumination on the culture of consumption. He calls it The Cure for Greed: What exactly
Robert Mickelsen has been an artist and “flameworker” for 38 years. For the past year, he’s been making gorgeous, realistic lampworked borosilicate glass guns. Objects so beautiful are not typically