The multimedia campaign for Halo 3 ate lunch and dinner at the 87th Annual Art Directors Club Awards, taking home 5 Gold Awards in Broadcast Advertising, Broadcast Art Direction and Integrated Advertising. It is one of the most decorated art projects in history.
For the launch the third game in the Halo series Bungie and Microsoft assembled a truly breathtaking breadth of diorama, video and audio that takes viewers through the Battle for New Mombasa where Earth’s forces clashed with the invading Covenant alien fleet.
The story of battle is…
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Our friends at The Night Agency delivered Darren a massive Blackberry birthday cake for his 30th birthday.
We don’t know about you, but sometimes our DEVICES can feel this big - the weight of connectivity - Inbox Anchors, tethered to a crowded, noisy shore.
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The Aztecs thought life was a dream: death was waking to reality - something truly joyous. We like that blur.
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Last weekend the Miami Herald profiled Columbian artist Yazmany Arboleda.
You might know him from his recent New York solo shows, “The Assassination of Barack Obama” and “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton,” both of which were pulled from Chelsea galleries after extensive pressure from “outside sources.”
Yazmany is currently looking for another venue to house the exhibits; we’ll keep you updated on his progress. You should expect nothing less than greatness from the man whose mantra is, “I want to be the most influential artist of the 21st Century.”
Yazmany…
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In anticipation of Nick Weist’s upcoming curatorial art opening/dance party spectacular, If I told you you were beautiful, would you date me on the regular?, The Sean Bailey (ARCH DL IV) sat down with him (remotely) to discuss his views on art, JT, and the media public.
So tell us a bit about yourself.
I’m a kid from Brooklyn that works at Creative Time. I put shows together and I do some writing on the side. I don’t like the word “curator” yet, maybe because I haven’t grown into it, but also…
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Amelie Chabannes’ My Portrait of Your Identity opens Friday, March 21st with a reception at LUXE Gallery.
“My Portrait consists of thirty small self-portraits painted in slight relief in which smoke and flames articulate breath and gestures, armies of dots dance to form paisley patterns and then quickly dissolve in to a swirl and flourish of flesh. These dimensional paintings presciently lead into full small-scale sculptures of the artist’s head rendered in various incarnations which elude to different biological substances.”
Part of the exhibit includes a collaboration with Brazilian video artist, Antonia…
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The bleeding edge of electronic music is not for the fearful.
Josh Boughey has been experimenting with alternate strumming methods and firmware versions for a long time.
His newest experimental instrument, The Stribe is an 8-channel multi-touch controller for music or video software inspired by the Monome 40h.
The Stribe is an open source project with lots of documentation and it’s own forum, so break out your soldering iron and get blinking.
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Due to extreme legal pressures on the Leah Keller and Naomi Gates galleries, Yazmany Arboleda’s “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton” and “The Assassination of Barack Obama” have been closed indefinitely.
Arboleda’s had quite a bit of media attention for the exhibits, so much so, that he seems to have angered the right people.
Here is an excerpt from a letter he sent LVHRD:
“Thank you for all of the support you have shown for the exhibitions I recently launched. Your interest in my work is greatly appreciated, especially your encouraging…
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Beginning Thursday, March 6th and running through June 1st, The Whitney’s 2008 Biennial takes over 4 of the museum’s 5 floors.
From the announcement:
“There is an evident trend toward creating work of an ephemeral, event-based character, in the form of music and other performance, movement workshops, radio broadcasts, publishing projects, community-based activities, film screenings, culinary gatherings, or lectures. Such projects do not stand in opposition to institutions; rather, considering each of these multiple platforms equally important, artists show objects in the museum or gallery even as they seek ways…
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Clicking through Yazmany Arboleda’s installation, The Assassination of Barack Obama, I came across what looked like the base of a giant black penis mounted on the gallery wall; the following wide-angle shot of the room confirmed that, yes, a monster dong is indeed snaking through the Naomi Gates Gallery, right now in Chelsea.
I was extremely pleased to see that it was a penis. It is an incredibly obvious statement to make about our notions of blackness–the legend of the BIG BLACK COCK, negro virility etc etc. And if you’re going…
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It’s a thin line between sleep and death.
These life & death masks are part of Edinburgh photographer Joanna Kane’s book, The Somnambulists.
Keats, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge–the tragic and the inward-honed, lips pursed and eyes closed, absorbing the internal monologue.
The sole comment on the post from Creative Review notes that the post should be removed from the internet since, “it’s bad luck to shoot people with their eyes closed.”
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Cai Guo-Qiang’s latest installation “I Want to Believe” opens Friday at the Guggenheim.
Composed of three parts, Borrowing Your Enemy’s Arrows, Head On, and Inopportune: Stage One, the exhibition combines some of Guo-Qiang’s most ambitious works, including 8 mid-size sedans suspended from the museum rotunda and a wave-crash arc of 99 wolves.
Advance tickets are on sale now. Some of you might remember Cai Guo-Qiang’s scissor-skewered crocodile and black smoke poofs from the roof of the Met a couple years back.
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