street art
I’m working on a public art installation proposal for a non-profit organization so I’ve been scouring the internet reading about how art installations are set up, responded to, and documented. I’m remembering the life-size curiously painted plastic cows that showed up all over New York City and the orange gates in Central Park. So much paperwork and red-tape! It’s a lengthy but interesting process that I’m just starting to wade through though.
Some artists prefer to skip the paperwork ~ Jason Eppink is the guy behind Pixelator, transforming the flashing video billboard ads (that hover conspicuously and annoyingly over many of the subway entrances in New York City) into illuminated art pieces. I want to make one too! But I’d be too afraid of getting arrested to put it up.
Elsewhere, craft-related: a sneak peek of Faythe Levine’s handmade nation: a documentary about the rise of d.i.y., art, craft, and design. And Greenjeans‘ Amy and Jae talk about what it’s really like to own and run their Brooklyn retail store which carries some gorgeous handmade goods (my latest purchase is a pair of little yellow baby booties and a matching hat for my friend’s soon-to-be-born baby).
And for the designy folks: the NY Design Meetup, with the first meeting scheduled for May!
Just jotting this down in case you hadn’t already come across the rebar group . I think some of the public art they do is ‘guerilla style’… like (Park)ing day.