If you haven’t heard of Cmmnwlth (or Commonwealth) yet, do your self a favor, and make a bookmark. Founded by Zoe Coombes and David Boira, Cmmnwlth is a furniture, art and design studio based in an industrial building in Williamsburg, New York. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Art
HEARTBEATBOX
compositions and colours, unreal and timeless Continue reading
Windcuts
Windcuts [flickr.com] consists of various experiments that turn quantitative sensor data into visually compelling physical instantiations. Wind movement measurement data, such as wind direction, velocity and temperature, was used as the foundation to generate a 3D form, which was then … Continue reading
We Are All Animals
We received an email by SLip, a french artist working on collage and cyanotype technic especially on his collection W3A – We Are All Animals. We liked the idea (and final result) and are happy to share it with you. … Continue reading
Dot. Dot. Polka dot.
Polka dots are back in ‘fashion’. Not that they were ever out. While polka dots are ancient, they first became common on clothing in the late nineteenth century in Britain. At the same time polka music was extremely popular and … Continue reading
First Spring; a movie by Prada + Yang Fudong
Inspired by the Chinese adage that “the whole year’s work depends on a good start in spring”, this bold and beautiful film (9,17 mins) represents an exciting new direction for Prada’s visual communications at the start of this decade. Featuring … Continue reading
ARCHITECTURE OF DENSITY
German-born photographer Michael Wolf has been described by some as ‘humanly alert’. His work talks about the urban dynamics of a complex culture. Continue reading
Ai WeiWei does Barcelona in a pool full of milk
The Mies van der Rohe Pavilion is the object of an intervention that reflects upon the use of buildings and how we perceive them as unique and inalterable spaces. Artist Ai Weiwei, one of the most distinguished figures of Chinese … Continue reading
China censors Ai Weiwei
Leading Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s activism has finally provoked the Chinese authorities to act against him. His studio is being staked out by plainclothes police, and last month the artist’s popular blog on Sina.com was deleted, as well as his … Continue reading
your own collab with Joshua Davis
Here at LA76 are big fans of Joshua Davis for several different reasons. His work as an early Flash pioneer with Praystation and he was a one of the first people to release their Flash code as open source so … Continue reading
Gangs of Kabukicho by Watanabe Katsumi
I found a post about Watanabe Katsumi on The Moment blog, really liked the imagery and wanted to share it with you… Despite recent attempts at gentrification, Kabukicho in the East Shinjuku section of Tokyo remains the city’s seedy underbelly. … Continue reading