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Sami Rintala and Dagur Eggertsson make up the Norweigan architectural firm Rinalta Eggertsson. A recent (and impressive) build is The Ark, featured at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the Architects Build Small Spaces exhibit. With small private rooms inside the structure, the Ark is a free standing dream of refuge for readers. It carries around 6 thousand volumes. View a short film about the structure below: (more…) |
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Andrew Zuckerman is a documentarian, a photographer, who puts his subjects in front of a plain white background and allows you to focus on what makes them special. You may remember his Bird Book which featured incredible images of exotic birds from around the world. His latest work is called “Music” which does the same for a very different subject. The trailer below shows many of the artists involved with the film, and the roster is quite impressive. The 300 page book comes out October 1st and includes an access code to download the film at TheMusicBook.com . You can order it at Amazon for only $31.50 right now. (more…) |
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Featuring James Franco as Allen Ginsberg, Jeff Daniels, & Jon Hamm, Howl the movie is set to show in theaters September 24th. I recommend you read Howl and listen to Allen Ginsberg himself read it, both of which can be done from The Academy of American Poets website. Disclaimer: the audio version may be inappropriate for work, as the piece includes some foul language. Check out the trailer for the picture at the movie’s website. |
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Mark Ryden has just published an 11×14″ hardcover book presenting the paintings and drawings from his incredible Snow Yak Show. The exhibition, held in Tokyo last year, featured exquisite snow, fur, and ice-drenched paintings depicting a winter weirdland of yaks, Yetis, nudes, and, er, Abe Lincoln. Also available is a microportfolio of 17 postcards with images from the show. More images from the book after the jump. (more…) |
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James Jean is a wonderfully talented artist who uses subtle imagery to provoke a wide array of thoughts. He has recently released a book called Rift, which is really neat and also very affordable. It has 15 images that are stamped with gold foil to give them a nice tint and adds a shine to the panels. Each book comes signed and with a nice slipcase to keep the cover safe. Also, James Jean has a new print, Sink II. Jean using gold leaf to beautifully accent the colors in his print. This new edition is limited to 100 copies, so if it suits your fancy you better pick one up before they’re gone! More images of both the book and the print are included after the break. (more…) |
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Photographer Andrew Zuckerman‘s latest book, “Bird” is a volume of images that are unbelievably stunning. On the website for the book, you can see several large, striking images of Zuckerman’s subjects. Types of bird I have never seen are displayed with vivid detail isolated against a stark white background. Another fun part about the full screen flash website is that all of the images have different positions on the screen depending on what composition they call for. It keeps the presentation fresh and interesting. You can buy the book at amazon here. |
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Brian Ewing is an illustrator who has been working regularly for the Vans Warped Tour and other great musical acts for some time now. His brand new book entitled “Don’t Hold Your Breath: Nothing New From Brian Ewing” is available now and features large full color reproductions of his best work for a variety of clients. You can check out more images from the layout below, and order the book from Amazon for a mere $15.63. For a hardcover, that is a steal! There is also a very cool flip book that lets you browse even more pages of the book. Most interesting about this book is the inclusion of thumbnail sketches for many of the finished designs included in the book as seen below. This sort of behind-the-scenes stuff is very inspiration to any visual artist! (more…) |
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Hiroaki Samura is an artist that I’ve been following since the late 90′s when I stumbled upon a copy of Blood of a Thousand at a friend of a friend’s house. The book belonged to the brother of said person and when I asked if I could read it he promptly gave an angry “No”. I got the better of him, I read it while he was gone. The first thing that struck me was just how different it looked. Everybody knows what manga and anime are supposed to look like. Just the mention brings a preloaded image into your brain. I didn’t get that with Blade of The Immortal. The style was a mix of japanese stylization with a solid grounding in the natural world. Hiroaki’s compositions tell of a clear understanding of the fundamentals of life drawing. The tone was also very modern for a story in historic Japan. Samurai punk would be a good way to describe it. This is a mature title in every way, violent samurai battles, swearing, sexual themes, and political discussion on the idea of the Bushido system that governed the land. (more…) |
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Tomorrow, June 30, Trela Media will be rereleasing The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol, by John Wilcock. The book, originally released in 1971, contains interviews with the artist himself and by the people that were closest to him. Within it’s covers are numerous pictures of Warhol, his friends, and his art. It includes both color images and black and white images.
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