French music site La Blogothèque’s self-produced Take Away Shows feature exclusive, unedited footage of top indie artists performing in public places.
Shooting bands on the street, in the subway, or in a restaurant, auteurs like Vincent Moon (also a co-founder of the site) capture the devil-may-care nature of impromptu performances by artists such as Phoenix, Fleet Foxes, Arcade Fire, St. Vincent, and even R.E.M.
Spotlighting the work of New York-based artists P.S.1‘s new Studio Visit website provides an interactive, online peek into creative studios throughout the city.
The 459 (and counting) studios featured on the site will be displayed for a minimum of one month each, acting as temporary portals into the practices of emerging artists. The project is community-inspired and supported, with any professional artist in the five boroughs invited to submit photos and video of his or her space.
Music Blog Zeitgeist is the Hype Machine’s punchy visual reference for the most blogged-about bands and artists of 2009.
Based on thousands of daily posts by bloggers writing about their favorite music, the Hype Machine aggregates the myriad songs and remixes floating across the web. At the end of the year, the site revealed the top 50 artists according to how frequently it posted their songs, then paired each act with a visual artist who created original work based on the band name.
The latest web effort from creative hub Behance, Served aggregates the best emerging design in five categories.
The site streams fresh projects and portfolios culled from the most promising teams working today in industrial design, motion graphics, typography, photography, and fashion. The archive is curated by graphic designer Oscar Ramos Orozco, and each featured profile links directly to its creator, allowing creative control and snipping out the middleman.
Employing themes of functionality and repetition, Michael Johansson subverts everyday objects into neatly packaged contemporary art.
Most of Johansson’s work pokes at the tension between what the artist calls the “now-familiar” and the “now-unknown,” finding a happy medium in an exaggerated form of regularity. Taking apart commonplace objects (suitcases, mattress springs, hairdryers), he both highlights and renders useless their original functions.
Cutting out the middleman, Society6 offers a creator-driven online marketplace for affordable art.
Operating on the premise that community aids commerce, Society6 is social networking at its targeted best: artists and designers can connect with other studios, sell their work directly, and even hook up with companies offering commissioned collaborations. Wannabe curators, meanwhile, can put together a gallery of shoppable artwork from the gallery of prints featured; other collectible items will go up on the site in 2010. Think Etsy with less arts-n-crafts or 20×200 with more crowd autonomy.
PBS-produced online video series New York on the Clock reveals the making of a metropolis, one worker at a time.
In each of the documentary on-the-job interviews posted bi-weekly on Thirteen.org, one of the city’s eight million people — from a film location scout to a tugboat captain — illuminates his or her professional experience. This week, New York on the Clock profiles a renowned Brooklyn mohel to coincide with the beginning of Hanukkah; just before Christmas we’ll hear from the Saks Fifth Avenue window dresser.
We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion culls personal revelations from the blogosphere and classifies them to map our collective conscience.
Wefeelfine.org was originally conceived as a web program that isolated online entries of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling” — typically clocking in 10,000 such admissions daily. Authors Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris selected some 10 million feelings from their database and filed them by demographic for the book.
Matching the entries with images, author profiles, locations, and weather conditions, the resulting tome is a fascinating breakdown of human perceptions — a sociological topography of the digital age.
The GOOD 100 is a compendium of people, ideas, and programs changing our planet for the better.
Put together by GOOD magazine, the online version of the list has added five innovative subjects each day in October, hitting the full 100 today. With picks ranging from a small Australian town’s bottled-water boycott to a teacher-salary initiative started by the leaders of 826, the savvy editors have compiled dozens of sources of inspiration, culled from an array of entries and their own archive.
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Soliciting art and illustration from contributors across the world, Mail Me Art uses the postal service as a creative medium.
“Going postal” gets a new connotation with the collaborative art project, the brainchild of Darren Di Lieto — founder and co-editor of illustration-news portal Little Chimp Society. Though most of the participants are amateur enthusiasts, career illustrators including Michael Slack, Jon Burgerman, Catalina Estrada, Dan May, and Jeff Miracola have all joined in with their own mail art. Read More »
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