F5-RE:PLAY film festival

F5-RE:PLAY is a film festival in New York and the last edition was on April 16th and 17th, 2009. I heard that was a great success...so why not watch 2 films created especially for the festival?

The first one is by SEHSUCHT called Idea and the second, Popcycle by SUPERFAD

Chris Scarborough

Untitled (Portrait). Graphite and Watercolor on Paper
36.87 x 30 inches. 2009

Untitled (Chimera). Graphite on Paper
22 x 30 inches. 2008

Untitled (Ecstasy). Graphite on Paper
22 x 30 inches. 2007

Untitled (Big Bang). Graphite and Watercolor on Paper
14.75 x 19.25 inches. 2009

Untitled (Float). Graphite on Paper
19 x 22 inches. 2005

CHRIS SCARBOROUGH is an american artist who began working with photography as an already accomplished painter and draftsman.Working in intricate detail , he reconstructs and distorts his subjects’ faces and bodies according to the tropes of Japanese manga or anime.

Matthias Bitzer

Mde Demimonde. 2007. acrylic and ink on raw canvas. 250 x 190 cm

1+1 =1. 2007. Ink and acrylic on canvas. 110x 90 cm

blood embrace. 2006. Ink and acrylic on canvas

Untitled. 2008. graphite on paper. 30 x 21 cm

Reconnaissance. 2007. graphite on paper. spray paint on glass and wall. 70 x 70 cm

MATTHIAS BITZER is a german artist discovered @ Liste 09. If you want to know more about him, it's here!

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Liste 09

Kuhl & Leyton

Micheal Jackson Busted! November 20, 2006. Lewd & Lascivious Acts
Acrylic tape on paper. 60" X 90"

Mike Tyson Busted! December 2006. Cocaine Bust
Acrylic tape on paper. 60" X 90

Mel Gibson Busted! July 28, 2006. D.U.I
Acrylic tape on paper. 60 " X 90"

Snoop Dog Busted! November 2006 .Deadly Weapon
Acrylic tape on paper. 60" X 90"

Discovered at PING PONG BASEL 09, KUHL & LEYTON have been collaborating for over five years, and have worked closely as artists for over seven years.

Busted! series features the most prominent cases of celebrity infamy of the last decade. Executed in bi-colored acrylic tape these notorious 60” x 80” portraits include the likes of Mel Gibson, Paris Hilton, and O.J. Staring back at us they question our obsession with their fall from grace and portray America’s lust for gossip, violence and fame.

Marvielab

MARIAVITTORIA SARGENTINI was born in Perugia, Italy. After studying arts, philosophy, design and costume, she has worked as a style-assistant to Antonio Marras for two years and for Carpe Diem for three years. The developing of the Linea project for Maurizio Altieri marks the culmination of her educational development and the birth of her own brand, MARVIE.

Her first project S+M+L was shown for the first time at the Pitti Rooms in 2007 and it awoke the interest of the press and public. With this project, MARIAVITTORIA SARGENTINI revises classic cuts by alternating sizes, the result is an interesting play with volume and silhouettes. This results in three substantially different dynamic interchageable silhouette.

Andy Gilmore

ANDY GILMORE is an illustrator, designer and musician based in Rochester, NY. His work ranges from sketchy ink drawings to kaleidoscopic, geometric patterns.

Don't miss his two blogs: BLOG A (WFW's favourite) and BLOG B!

Hugo & Marie

Illustration by FONTAINE ANDERSON

Beck Modern guilt by MARIO HUGO

Illustration by FONTAINE ANDERSON

HUGO & MARIE is a consultancy studio specializing in artist management. HUGO & MARIE was founded in early 2008 by MARIO HUGO GONZALEZ and JENNIFER MARIE SIMS.

Check it out!

Thomas Kim

THOMAS KIM from Paris just launched his new online folio and that's make me happy!

found via http://thestrangeattractor.net/

Adam McEwen

Untitled Text Message (Steve). 2007
matte black adhesive vinyl on wall
25 x 25 in / 63.5 x 63.5 cm

Untitled Text Msg (Lily). 2007
matte black adhesive vinyl on wall
25 x 25 in / 63.5 x 63.5 cm

Untitled Text Msg (Private Caller). 2007
matte black adhesive vinyl on wall
25 x 25 in / 63.5 x 63.5 cm

Untitled Text Msg (David). 2007
matte black adhesive vinyl on wall
25 x 25 in / 63.5 x 63.5 cm

photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/bloglounge

English artist ADAM MCEWEN's work includes includes a series of obituaries written about living celebrities, haiku-like text messages taken out of context and framed and a realistic oil painting of an air conditioner. Irreverent and witty? Yes, and we like that @ WFW!

"I had a standard Nokia phone, which is the most common phone in Europe, and I got somebody to design a font that exactly matched my phone's-pixel by pixel. Because this context is so familiar and everyone sees it every day in its most banal function, you could surprise yourself with meaning. It's the same thing as walking down the street and seeing a sign on a store that says sorry, we're closed. The familiarity of that opens up the possibility of throwing in the unfamiliar."

"They're all real texts, texted to me or texted to friends of mine who've forwarded them to me."

-by ADAM MCEWEN

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an interview of ADAM MCEWEN? No problem, it's here

Karen Funk

Untitled #12. 2005. acrylic on panel

Untitled #17. 2005. acrylic on panel. 36 x 33 inches

Untitled #7. 2004. acrylic on panel. 14 x 18 3/4 inches

Untitled #19. 2006. acrylic on panel. 31 x 24 inches

Untitled. 2002. acrylic on panel

I've discovered the hyperrealistic painting by KAREL FUNK @ Art Basel 40. She produces portraits of men shown in head-and-shoulders view, painted in acrylic on wood panel.

I'm just fascinated by the extreme precision of the rendering and the imprecision of the space and by the personal and the anonymous of her portraits.

Chris Searl

CHRIS SEARL currently works as both Editor and Senior Photographer of the arts/design title Monster Children and Paperplane Magazine. He is also a director and co-owner of the Monster Children Gallery. His work captures the youthful exuberance so sorely missed by marketeers and advertising folk.

Chris has shot for Nylon, Vice, and Beikoku Ongaku, Japan, and Intersection magazine. And on a gratuitously cool note, Chris was invited as a guest photographer on Spike Jonze's "Where the Wild Things Are".

David OReilly

PLEASE SAY SOMETHING is a 10 minute short animation -created by DAVID OREILLY- concerning a troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future. The final film was completed in January 2009 and contains 23 episodes of exactly 25 seconds each. Images from it can be seen on the Flickr.

The film won the Golden Bear for best short at the 2009 Berlinale and the Special Distinction award at Annecy!

Watch with caution, it could make or ruin your day depending on your mood.

Jean Jullien

Poster exhibition

We are Monday 29th June and since 3 days now, the first exhibition of illustrator JEAN JULLIEN is running...et vous avez manqué ça ? No problem, you have until September 5th to view in person his work! Where? It's @ Galerie des Arts Graphiques (GAG) in Paris, honey!

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Galerie des Arts Graphiques
4 rue Dante
75005 Paris
09 52 21 21 72
Métro: Maubert Mutualité, Cluny La Sorbonne

Typecut

Expansive Patience. by NORIK

Fourplay by NORIK

Concept 02 by BRISSEAUX

Scream by NORIK

Formidable Approach by NORIK

TYPECUT is an interesting project within a circle of contributing designers and illustrators. TYPECUT is curated by RICHARD BLOOM and ERIK FINSRUD of NORIK.