Cool Hunting
| 25 October 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Paul Booth: Last Rites Tattoo
by Letizia Rossi
Needled announced the party for the opening of tattoo artist Paul Booth's Last Rites Tattoo Theater a high end tattoo atelier and gallery. Booth is the first tattoo artist to be accepted into the prestigious National Arts Club The opening will feature cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and a chance to win a collaborative tattoo session where featured artists work simultaneously on the same tattoo. See Paul Booth's Tattoo Theater on MTV Overdrive here.
Last Rites Tattoo
27 October 2006, 7pm
$10 cover
511 West 33rd St
New York, NY 10001 map
tel. 01 212 529 0666
Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light
by Ami Kealoha
With neon's flashy allure and an impish wit, Bruce Nauman's light-based works that mix tongue-in-cheek commentary and the eye candy of a commercial medium, are a large part of why he's often referred to as one of the greatest living artists. In a show called "Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light" currently up at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami through 7 January 2007, he's showing 16 of these works ranging from the "sexual politics" of Mean Clown Welcome (pictured) to his classic quip on the role of the artist, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (pictured here).
Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light
13 October 2006-7 January 2007
MOCA
770 NE 125th Street
North Miami, Florida 33161 map
tel. 01 305 893 6211
Blik Autographic
by Ami Kealoha
Blik, makers of the Space Invaders Wall Decals featured on CH in 2004, have recently announced their foray into the world of automobile customization. After realizing that "there's only so much you can do with Calvin, surfboards, and Hawaiian flowers" the decal innovators created Blik Autographic, 12 body graphics and six window graphics to Blik your ride. Designs include works by Ilan Dei and Matthew Haggett, as well as various designs inspired by nature and graphic design. Blik Autographic start at $20 and are available online.
Vintage Penguin and Pelican Book Covers
by Ami Kealoha
Known for their classic pocketable paperbacks, both Penguin and Pelican also were behind some of the more era-defining book covers of the 60's and 70's. Designer Joe Kral's online collection is a great repository of the retro bold graphics and warm colors for anyone who's ever bought a book solely for its cover.
Also on Cool Hunting: The Condiment Packet Museum, Cassette Jam 05
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Damien Kamholtz
by Lost At E Minor
Australian artist Damien Kamholtz spent the first few years of his life in the Northern Territory before moving to Queensland where he now lives in Toowoomba working as an art teacher and tutor. He is a "prolific painter with a strong interest and focus on art and its relationship to the landscape. Through travel around the country, he has discovered and sought to express the parallels between indigenous cultures in a traditional and contemporary sense. His art is an attempt to communicate to the heart and spirit, rather than our intellect—images comprising of subtle and suggestive combinations of nature's organised and abstract shapes, entwined in universal and personal symbolism that incorporate suggested faces, figures and totemic animals."
