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10.06.2008 by Zoltan 
Conor Harrington
Comfortably straddling the graffiti and gallery worlds, Conor Harrington mashes up the hyper-realist aesthetic of pre-industrial military portraiture with bold swathes of colour reminiscent of contemporary graphic design. The resulting cacaphony can only be described as uniquely powerful.
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07.03.2008 by Zoltan Content stomps style in the Secret Wars Grand Final
As you know last Friday was the Grand Final of Secret Wars and I’m stoked to say that Wen completely wiped the floor with Odisy. Pics below…
With one judge each, it was decided on the crowd vote and I’m sure Odisy will put it down to Wen having more crew or something else. But the funny thing is that Odisy was so certain he’d win, and his piece so arrogant and juvenile in its simplicity (I’m not talking about line here, but content) that it was poetic justice for “the unkown art fag” to annihilate the old-skool graff boy. Goes to show that thought / insight / content always stomps style.
Big up Wen!
For those that weren’t there, the cap on Odisy in Wen’s piece was the one he was wearing that night, as were the glasses.
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27.02.2008 by Zoltan Gorgeous
Andy Goldsworthy is just a big kid in an infinite playground with a very very delicate and deft touch. via LAEM
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27.02.2008 by Zoltan Secret Wars Grand-Final
This Friday night at 1001 (Truman Brewery) is the Grand-Final of the current series of Secret Wars. The music is always great and the battle is always tight. So if you’re in London there’s nowhere else to be…
More importantly though, this time my good mate Wen (who did the above illustration for the-affair) is up against Odisy for the golden marker. Doors open 6pm, and the battle starts at 8pm. Come early (it will pack out quickly) and support!
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05.02.2008 by Zoltan Pink Teddy Invasion
Pink Teddy Invasion is a self-initiated project by the very talented illustrator Cristina Guitian. The cute style of the bears is juxtaposed with a series of deformities, seemingly as a response to the generic perfection of our media culture. And its the fragility of these deformities that makes each bear feel so human.
Using her friends as “agents” to spread the stickers globally, the project is also an experiment in the power (and dedication) of the network. Real people find real ‘homes’ for the teddies. And each new home that is found is photographed and uploaded to the project archive by the agents themselves, preserving the authenticity of the message that we should celebrate diversity.
And of course, there’s a facebook page you can join to stay on top of all future sightings!
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31.01.2008 by Zoltan Obey Obama
Yesterday Obey released his endorsement poster for Obama (left). Which is great, as I love Obey’s style and I certainly hope that Obama wins - because he might actually change the rotten institutions of American politics rather than just keep the status quo.
But then today, quick as lightning, someone has gone one step further and created a text-generator using the very same image (my version, right). You can only guess at what’s going to happen when the Clinton’s get their hands on this, but at the end of the day it will be Obama’s campaign that wins, because no matter what anyone writes underneath, it’ll still be his face that everyone sees first and associates with Obey’s original messages of “Hope” and “Progress”.
And while we’re on the subject YouBama has just launched which is essentially a user-gen video endorsement site for the main man. So get upping and add to the groundswell of opinion for a (radical) change in USA Inc.
obey obama - via CR yesterday
obey generator - via yacco today
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11.01.2008 by Zoltan Be Fabulous*
If you hate (bad) advertising, you’re going to love the decapitator. Its sick, disgusting, creepy and fantastic all at the same time! A bit like bringing the gore of the PS3/xbox out of the screen and into real life, and simultaneously commenting on the senseless ubiquity of (bad) advertising.
* And does it not work perfectly against the strapline?
via yacco
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20.12.2007 by Zoltan A photographic heartbeat
Beautiful interface design and typography define the work of Jonathan Harris, and his latest piece The Whale Hunt is no different - though it is more about defined narrative than his previous (mashup) work.
Harris explains: “I documented the entire experience with a plodding sequence of 3,214 photographs, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven days later. The photographs were taken at five-minute intervals, even while sleeping (using a chronometer), establishing a constant “photographic heartbeat”. In moments of high adrenaline, this photographic heartbeat would quicken (to a maximum rate of 37 pictures in five minutes while the first whale was being cut up), mimicking the changing pace of my own heartbeat… Each viewer will experience the whale hunt narrative differently, and not necessarily in a linear fashion, constructing his or her own understanding of the experience.
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17.12.2007 by Zoltan God’s eye view
Mash-up Google Earth and the Bible and what you’d end up with is something along the lines of “God’s Eye View”. These deceptively simple, yet immensely powerful representations of the biblical stories we all know bring them aesthetically up-to-date for the internet generation. Fantastically simple work from Australia’s Glue Society.
via CR
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17.12.2007 by Zoltan Pollock was a neuroscientist
The boundaries between art and science became quite a bit more blurry today with the release of the image above. Its a CGI representation of the 10,000 neurons and 30 million connections that make up a single neocortical column (the really complex backbone of any brain) of a rat.
You can read more here, but the really interesting part is how much it resembles Pollock’s series of über-famous action paintings, like the “Blue Poles” example shown just below. These paintings were (supposedly) based on jam dripping down the wall, and if that turns out to be the same pattern as the make up of the most complex super-computer ever, then what exactly does that say about us vs. all the aliens out there in their fancy time-travelling spacecraft?
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29.11.2007 by Zoltan Paper sculpture on acid
Jen Stark makes sculptures out of paper that will literally blow your mind. The intricacy of these is nothing short of incredible, and the explosions of colour against the stark white grounds is simply beautiful.
via swfity
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29.11.2007 by Zoltan Maeda X Reebok
Based on his simplcity theory #3:TIME, the aptly named timetanium (did you see what they did there? pretty amazing huh?) is Maeda’s first foray into the shoe game. I can’t say I’m in love with the green vomit on the heel, but the grey lines are nice. I can imagine the process of this must’ve been amazing, and unfortunate that the product falls well short in its final execution.
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29.11.2007 by Zoltan Musing on Obesity
You might’ve seen that doco by a guy called Spurlock on McDonalds and on the whole obesity problem as a whole. But honestly, it was a little low-brow, no?
Thankfully, Mark Wentzel has come to the rescue of all black-turtleneck wearing design geeks with his ‘XLounge’. The only real shame is that the people most affected by obesity are almost certainly not in the market for an Eames chair, let alone a parody. But hey, its still a great idea!
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29.11.2007 by Zoltan Polish Posters
Good archive of Polish poster design since 1940, with a bit of Saul Bass thrown in for good measure (and I guess influence/reference).
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29.11.2007 by Zoltan Russian Constructivism - Part II
Continuing on the Russian Constructivist tip, Daily Soviet Poster is a more traditional archive, more militaristic in its subject matter and with that hardness not present in the previous post.
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