now onto some screen printery action. i finally got the first pull of my skeleton, for the series – this poster sucks.
i am very happy with how it turned out. the pics of glow are about 10 seconds. you can see it easily in the dark after it charges during the day, but who knew photographing glow ink would be so hard!!!
screenprint by qwux
and in other screen print news, the cool kid zoltron, from sticker robot has recently screen printed their largest ever sticker! and you can buy one of a limited edition of 150!
zoltron x melvins screen printed sticker poster
see pics of the process and buy your own over at zoltron’s site – www.zoltron.com
ok, so the blog has come to a stand still while i have been sick. and there are still profiles to come from semipermanent. but i will only be posting the ones that pertain to me and my art making practice from now on.
but, here is some new work from me. i thought i would share some of my recent art with you all. while you can see a few things in the sidebar to the right, here is the latest offering. a poster design, hasnt been printed yet, but it will be glow in the dark.
qwux - this poster sucks
more art, and profiles as it comes. i am breaking away from the semipermanent format for a while to bring it back to the fun i had before. with profiles every so often, not every post. cos i now you guys get bored of too much writing from me!
I have been sitting on this one for a while, did a brief feature on him (click here), and now i finally get a chance to share it with you all.
I first came across Ryohei in a copy of Empty magazine (issue 14) sometime last year, when detail from his work “Go Forward and Forward” (above) graced the cover of the magazine. There was no text, just a close up of the image, and the magazine title in start white letters. This was when i fell in love with Ryhohei Hase.
So, i did a little digging. The works shown in side the magazine were amazing. It was hard to believe the level of detail and the amazingly surreal depictions that Ryohei had chosen to work with. People as animals, in their most raw moments, struggling, fighting, sad. This theme of sadness, the gloomy otherworld that comes from the artists own thoughts, projected onto scenes of everyday life in Tokyo city, where the people become the animals.
click image for large view
I don’t want to waffle on, as his image speak louder then my words, so be sure to check him out.
and, if you are interested, here is the pdf presentation i used today, which has some nice closeups of his repetition series, and and comparison between Ryohei and Zdzisław Beksiński – ryohei hase presentation
well, its seems me and my friends are in love with tentacles at the moment, and why the hell not? they are rad, look awesome in pink, and really do add the wow/creepy factor to a lot of things…
so i decided to finally finish my squid design for some pasties/stencils/toys etc…. and here he is
very simple so far, no shading, but i will be stencilling him this week!
australian ioshva is a rad artist, using futuristic tentacles and people that remind me of the old movie metropolis!!!! he also got an ARIA award for best album art in 2008, and has one of the best website interfaces i have seen in a while
very strange and sexual. i like it. see more at – www.ioshva.com
geemo is a freakish new toy, and i definately want it.. part magnetic, part flexible tentacle thing, this would make an awesome landscape for shooting photos, or posing toys, or just for making organic shapes!!! perhaps even to stick your kids drawings to the fridge!
and finally, my favourite musician mark hoppus is in the country! his twitter has kept me up to date with wot he is doing everyday, and i love it… but, he has got a prototype of a new toy he seems to have been developing.. and its a freaking octopus!! and i must have it!
so fucking awesome. cant wait to see the finished product. check it at – www.himynameismark.com
and while we are at it, twitter.. i have it, ronan has it.. all the cool kid have it, and so should you! you can follow me from the link at the top of the sidebar, which tells you my latest tweet!!
stay cool, and dont forget to subscribe if you want the awesome injected to your inbox, each and everyday!
baaaahahahhaha – dad jokes.. we all love them deep down, and i just made a doozy! but, i hope you get the gist of this post. i am focussing on works that involve light in one way or another, tho it seems to be mostly
one way. we had a unit on light last year at uni, and for it, my group made an installation using a few flourescent tubes that only lit up wen you touched them with your hands. how did we do this? witchcraft, plain and simple. but here is a small video, fairly shitty, to show you the basic idea.
as you can see, the lamp only illuminates where i am touching it. i thought it was a pretty rad installation, and it got a great mark, and lots of good feedback from the people who got to experience it installed.
but i digress, time to move onto other artists who are working with light in some amazing ways!
first up, roger borg, who makes awesome lamps from neon tubes that use light and colour to make some unusual, and amazing shapes!
thelermont hupton has made some freaking awesome blown glass floor standing lamps, for want of a better word. the fun designs combine the skills of a glass blower with the playfulness of a clown, creating balloon animals for children, and, well, hand grenades…
james clar has recently allowed a concept to be realised with his rat race works, a surreal poke at the social idea of the rat race. i see it as daft punk x kaws with some rad neon tubes thrown in for good measure, and a talented photographer to capture it all!
the rest of the set is definately worth checking out at – www.jamesclar.com
and finally, i have always been a fan of text based art. and the work of stefan brüggeman is no exception. his simple, highly quoteable typographic installations are both delightful and disconcerting at the same time. using a combination of vinyl and neon/flourescent tubes, they are definately something you want to take a second to read.
