Mille Miglia
6 January 2010
The Mille Miglia was an open-road (public) endurance race which took place in Italy twenty-four times from 1927 to 1957.
The race made Gran Turismo (Grand Touring) sports cars like Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati and Porsche famous.
The film Mille Miglia, The Spirit of a Legend captures the history, tradition and heritage of this classic automobile race.
One of my favorites…
Tauba Auerbach
4 January 2010
This new set of playing cards from artist Tauba Auerbach is really beautiful.
Released in two iterations, Shapes and Functions.
Each deck is produced in an edition of 250, hand numbered and signed.
Moving Archive
2 January 2010
Really enjoying Felipe’s new video sharing website.
My personal favorite so far.
Assouline Goyard Trunk
30 December 2009
This custom-made trunk was created in collaboration with the famous French craftsman Goyard specially for Assouline.
Each trunk houses 100 of Assouline’s signature Memoire photo-biographies on art, fashion, design and architecture.
Black or White Goyard signature leather
- 100 Memoir books
20.25 x 15.25 x 14 In. / 51.5 x 39 x 35.5 cm
Richard Williams
23 December 2009
The song, the coolness of the character and how it all works together.
Animation and titles genius Richard Williams was one of the few animators out there who stuck with 24 frames instead of 12 per second.
The Return of the Pink Panther introduction is one of my favorites.
Skateboard: Evolution And Art
22 December 2009
If you are around the Santa Monica area anytime soon, drop into the California Heritage Museum to see the current exhibition, Skateboard: Evolution And Art.
Guest curated by Nathan Pratt in conjunction with museum staff curator Michael Trotter and advisory committee members Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom, Cris Dawson, Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta and Christian Hosoi. The exhibition traces the evolution of boards from pre-1950 to the present.
California Heritage Museum
2612 Main Street
Santa Monica Ca 90405
Beginners
18 December 2009
Being that Mike Mills had an exhibition this year at Pool Gallery and that he was featured in a issue edition of Arkitip, it only made sense to take a visit to the set of him new film while Sascha was in town.
Up next, the editing bay…
Panel discussion: Pop Art and Ethics
13 December 2009
Sascha (Pool Gallery) and I went to the Pop Art and Ethics discussion the other evening at Honor Fraser Gallery.
The panel examined what makes pop continually vital, perhaps continually hated, and perhaps a state of art practice that will always exist.
The panel included Irving Blum, David LaChapelle and Holly Myers.
It was really fantastic to hear Irvings stories of the early days of pop art in New York and David was very candid about his start in the commercial world and how he feels about the art market today.
The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox
10 December 2009
Designed by Pentagram featuring storyboards, notes, sketches, in-depth explorations of puppet construction and beautiful photographs of the sets.
A excellent, slightly obsessive account of all the details that went into making this film come to life.
