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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Hump Day Cool Finger: Miami Artist Stocking Stuffer

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Sam Borkson of FWY’s best gift of 2009. For this week’s Hump Day Cool Finger we sent out an email blast to a bunch of Miami based artists to get a sense of what they were giving and receiving this year. Hoping (obviously) for some SEO lovelies we were of course disappointed by the lack [...]

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The Importance of Daydreams at World Class Boxing

Monday, December 28, 2009

Bruce Connor,  “Crossroads” 1975. Video, 37 minutes. Editors note: As the year wraps up, imploding in the usual whorl of festive eats, drinks and electrostatic fog, we would like to take a look over our shoulder at the year just past by presenting what we found to be the best (most relevant and ominous) independently [...]

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The Sunday Video: Silent Night by Rainbo Video

Sunday, December 27, 2009

This week’s Sunday Video is Silent Night, a new work by Chicago based musician, filmmaker and artist, Rainbo Video. “Silent Night is the second piece in the Acid Colorform Taxonomy cycle. Strange images reveal and impose themselves upon us all the time. When they come to us in dreams, we watch, paralyzed.  When they come [...]

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Friday’s Hairy Eyeball: Miami’s Wade Guyton infestation, Hirschhorn Museum balloon decision, Jerry Saltz praises Jeff Koons

Friday, December 25, 2009

Image credit. Friday’s Hairy Eyeball; come rain, sleet, snow and public holidays. A dedicated piece on the art world’s most powerful figure, Hans Ulrich Obrist entitled, The Man Who Made Curating an Art [via NY Observer] A funny observation regarding the proliferation of Wade Guyton Untitled U‘s in Miami [via Greg.org] The hi-tech bubble meeting [...]

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Hump Day Cool Finger: Jeff Koons Ikepod Horizon Watch

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Image credit. Following our September post “New line of Jeff Koons watches by Ikepod sparks discussion on the subject of market necessity” which mulled the longevity of the phenomenon of art-luxury commercial tie-ins and tempted the end to superfluous purchasing and the production of worthless (in a practical sense) merchandise, Marc Newsom’s watch company, Ikepod, [...]

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The Sunday Video: Eye Sore by Alexandra Kuechenberg

Sunday, December 20, 2009

This weeks Sunday Video is an animation by Alexandra Kuechenberg made in After Effects. “I find it very interesting to play with 2d images in a virtual 3d environment.” Says Kuechenberg. “I want to continue to explore the place where “fabricated” dimension meets “physical” dimension. I would like to project this animation into a ceiling [...]

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