Good news: it's sunny and hot again in New York! No more of that ridiculous, muggy rain today. Bad news: it may be a little too hot to have fun roaming around outside.
So why not stay in and peruse the newest edition of our weekly 9 links?
Good Mag (good.is) teamed up with Chow for a doodling contest in July, and the winners are in! Doodlers were asked to illustrate their favorite meal, and the winner received Good goodies and a smoker!
Cosmopolitan's new publication for men, Cosmo For Guys, will only be released on iPad. The best part about this venture, however, is the promo video. Cosmo teamed up with Thinkmodo to create iPad Head Girl: hilarious viral video marketing campaign:
More crafts? Or ridiculous paper manipulating skills. Designmilk featured Christina Lihan, a trained architect who creates absolutely amazing paper sculptures.
This year has been a pretty good year for Shepard Fairey: to kick August off he's got a show in Copenhagen that opened yesterday, but the best part is that in addition to the show, he's created 5 enormous new murals around the city.
30 Mosques in 30 States is well on it's way! The project began on August 1: it aims to visit 30 mosques in 30 states for the entire month of Ramadan. Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq's trip will span a 13,000 mile route that will eventually land them back at home in New York City; they aim to unveil Ramadan and Muslim culture in the US. They're documentng the project through videos, photos, and doodles!
Well, to start off, their website is absolutely amazing.
And for another thing, the project explores the usage of text, street art, and the Internet as artistic mediums in order to comment on personal artistic views or those that are ignored in the mass media. The project has been executed by Dopludo Collective from St. Petey's in Russia.
The public text posters have been collected in art spaces in Moscow and will reach Amsterdam later this month!
"Why Patterns" mixes dance and ping pong balls to create an arresting performance art piece. Debuting in the US in Brooklyn next week, the performance is a collaboration between choreographer Jonah Bokaer and Snarkitecture.
In hues of black and white, "Why Patterns" combines motion and suspense as dancers interact with ping pong balls on the stage, and those that are projected onto the stage from the air and perimeters. Bouncing white orbs, the ping pong balls surround the dancers, become dynamic constellations around stiff human figures, vacillating the performance between moments of intense action and anticipatory stillness.
This week, New York experienced a sickening heat wave--we're talking temperatures around 103. But of course we know how to keep it cool--with fresh links:
^ The artist of this work is the same person who designs those tops and jeans you've been coveting for ages: Helmut Lang. Check out the designer-turned-artist if you're rolling in the Hampton's this summer. Nowness asks Lang about his work, which is btw made out of archives of his old collections that have been shredded!
This week's dose of hope for humanity: ex-TV industry guy/ex-megachurch marketing director goes through massive ups and downs in his life, then decides to drop everything and start talking to homeless people, photographing and filming them along the way--giving them a voice.
Summer is the season of A) moving and B) redecorating: so check out these amazing beanbag chairs shaped like amps, cameras, and burgers! Just released by Woouf!
Cultural diplomacy: Main St. to bring in performers and artists from Pakistan, Indonesia and Haiti to perform across the US.
Another MoMA blockbuster?Talk to Me has just opened: an exhibition that explores communication between objects and people, and--of course--design. The show includes the story of Kacie Kinzer's unforgettable robots from 2 years ago!
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