back east recently + damn good time. sweet when the humidity is down. and thanks to everyone there. can’t wait to head out on the sailboat asap myste + beck. came across a trove of cool stuff so here’s a few images + lo down on the the adventure.

lomography gallery store 41st w 8th st nyc – great little space with examples + cameras from across this style spectrum. fun neighborhood if you have the time.

cooper-hewitt natl design museum nyc – brilliant design in all it’s form. really like the moma store as well as muji myself for the take home pieces.

institute of contemporary art boston – shepard fairey – this just ended but was great to see the street promos done in his style that randomly popped of neigherhoods while out walking city streets. acting out by five artists might be sounds like a very worthwhile alternative + is still showing.

museum of bad art boston – in their own words, “is the world’s only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms.”

then more recently in the ny times another look at what has become known as ‘photoshopping’ in certain circles though was around far longer then the mammoth program we know today.

art + copy is a new film delving into the history of what many of us either can’t get enough of or find ourselves getting far too much exposure to. already starting the machine talking it’s sure to ring a few bells + make some waves on it’s current tour.

director Doug Pray (Surfwise, Scratch, Hype!) says on creativepro.com,

“This movie… isn’t about bad advertising. I didn

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“as an artist, nabokov was, according to ramachandran’s research, eight times more likely to have synesthesia than someone who is not an artist..”

more via John Colapinto in The New Yorker. it’s all about perception.

fantastic stuff from artist yellena james – showing in pdx july + august.

live by the numbers + nike+ in the latest wired – interesting concept of working numbers all the time. data, data, data. i’ve seen this taking hold in smaller businesses + specifically in the creative community + it’s good. savings are up everywhere – ever heard of mint?!?!?

can’t wait to catch kathryn bigelow’s new flick the hurt locker.

dropbox – i know it’s just a slicked up ftp widget but damn it’s good.

and finally, sad to see our friend + narrator of my teen years, MJ the king of pop, gone. rip.

Click here to view the embedded video.

“art can affect change.”

“what at first was a budgetary limitation turned into an asthetic asset eventually.”

recent celeb and everywhere artist shepard fairey talks about his views on creativity, tagging, andre the giant + more in this segment. interesting to hear his take, “that grafitti is an eyesore but advertising is ok because it’s paid for, is ridiculous to me”. agree with his methods or not, he’s a great communicator that believes art is open to all and pushes his work in the direction to further that cause – that alone deserves respect.

apparently he’s saying + doing the right things as now sak’s fifth avenue is on the shepard fairey machine via brandweek here. he’s done up a new campaign for the struggling luxury retailer. fairey says, “that he decided to create the new campaign because ‘I’m not interested in speaking to a small group; I’ve always thought it was the duty of intelligence to make art for the people.’”