by osmosis

The law of gravity never gets old.  We marvel at both feats that defy its nature (the jetting profile of a skyscraper, a tightrope walker dancing between the towers), and those resigned to it's power (a thunderous waterfall, the controlled fall of a skydiver).  
The work of Nick Van Woert, a […]

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Zimoun has a unique understanding of amplification.  He is able to create a sonic crescendo out of what would otherwise be a mundane raddle, clink or crackle.  Zimoun's sound sculptures epitomize Aristotle's "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."  A mic (pictured above) acts as a sonic x-ray for the unassuming log.  […]

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Once again Arcade Fire leap frog their peers, and release one of the best "music videos" I've seen in a while.  The interactive film relies on one very important factor - that you put in your correct address and that your address has a google street view.  I won't say anything more… visit the site […]

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Mash-up and DJs, David Lynch and appropriation. These words sound risky to me, and so the smooth sound of Dark Night of the Soul caught me off guard. I expected to be jarred but Dark Night is an album that makes eeriness soothing.
Rumors about collaboration between Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, both musical entrepreneurs, began to […]

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"I'm interested in a visual language that's over-determined, exhausted, or just over-burdened by meaning.  All those images are like zombies - they're stripped of vitality, yet sometimes they get life back in them…and like zombies, usually something goes wrong when they wake up again."     -Banks Violette
I've always been fascinated with the culture surrounding genres of […]

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Conscious of the difficulties surrounding minimalist and conceptual art, Danish born (and Berlin based) artist, Jeppe Hein, incorporates a keen sense of humor and imaginative eye to masterfully transcend the arena's pitfalls.  Keeping a mininal aesthetic allows the true concepts of Hein's work to emerge.  These themes deal with natural elements/forces (ie gravity, fire, light, […]

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Ariana Reines gets at the murkiness of being human with stunning precision. She’s a young poet, which is important, because she’s lost in the weird, bodiless world of screens and projections that has proliferated over the last two decades. There’s a feeling of distance that she’s wading through, as if writing about what’s outside of […]

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The Internet is a great place to find visual and informational common threads, despite its vast landscape.  Sometimes it takes a few of these connections before I make the decision to actually explore the person, place or thing I keep running into.  The latest example of this phenomenon is with Carlo Van De Roer's photography.  […]

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Matthew Monahan doesn't consider himself a sculptor, but instead sees his pieces as "deep drawings." I saw his show at MOCA a few years back and was struck specifically by his use of paper.  He's able to take his drawings and lift them off the page by distorting the paper itself into three-dimensional space.  He […]

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Here is part two of our collaboration with LA's premiere art mag Beautiful / Decay.  In this episode we visit the highly skilled and innovative painter Aaron Noble.  Noble says his work looks like he put "comic book heroes into a blender," and that's a pretty good first description.  He goes onto explain the many […]

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