1. We started a little Tumblr thing. 2. All the end of year lists can be annoying, but sometimes it’s worth reflecting on who we lost. Somehow Family Circus cartoonist Bil Keane’s passing went somewhat unnoticed. 3. Haroshi made a giant EFF YOU out of compressed skateboards. 4. Nowness has a list of wintry drinks. [...]
Well, peace out to 2011. Like a stiff old teabag, its time is over. I don’t know about you, but for us here at Thumbtack Press, the past 363 days or so have been quite a trip. I mean let’s get real for a second. There was a time when I felt a little [...]
Pawn Works here in Chicago put up their 2011 sticker review recently. Stickers have always been around, but with the installation of sticker vending machines around the city and heightened awareness towards them, they’re picking up some serious momentum as a go-to medium. Also go check out their sticker club.
The Thumbtack Kickback works like this: Every month we give away a print from our collection. Entering is as simple as following Thumbtack Press on Twitter and then clicking here to tweet the giveaway. Boom. We’ll randomly pick a winning tweeter on December 30, and s/he can pick any one of the four prints above. Entries [...]
The Thumbtack Kickback works like this: every month we give away a print from our collection. Entering is as simple as following Thumbtack Press on Twitter and then clicking here to tweet the giveaway. Boom. We’ll randomly pick a winning tweeter on December 30, and s/he can pick any one of the four prints above. Entries [...]
LOOK AT THE DETAIL!!!! Insane. Just insane. (I wanna go to BIDAI ![Hermes], 2011, by Sagaki Keita.)
1. The actual ads from the Mad Men era. Not that much has changed, has it. 2. R. Kelly says he wrote 32 more chapters to his “Trapped in the Closet” R&B opera, or whatever it is. 3. The delicious (looking) work of Mary Ellen Johnson. 4. “Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990,” is showing [...]
We know you’ve been sitting there thinking, “Gosh, I wonder what Thumbtack Press has in common with a Panda.” Well, it just so happens that because of their scientifically proven cuteness and fuzziness*, Pandas are one of humanity’s favorite things to draw and bring to life through animatronics, animation, and big scary suits at amusement parks. [...]
To which we say, all together now: “Mmmmmmmmmhmmmmmm.”
Lilli Carré is all over the place. She’s got films, drawings, comics, and other work like the organizing the Eyeworks Festival. She’s one of those people whose names you just remember, and it’s amazing to see her style transposed on various mediums, from experimental animation to comic storytelling. Her The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn cover is unreal.
Oobject‘s a site with lists of human-made things, like this list of 15 Dieter Rams classic designs. Dieter Rams’s influence is too big to put in a blog post, but just for one example you can see that the LE1 Electrostatic speaker from 1959 (above) was a major inspiration for Apple computer screen displays. [...]
1. Just to nerd out for a second: These PBS Keeping Score specials with Michael Tilson Thomas are unreal. They make me feel like I could actually get classical music. Here’s one about Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony aka the Eroica aka wow. 2. Is art labor? 3. New York Magazine‘s top 10 art shows of the year. 4. [...]
If there’s one thing you should know about Rick Beerhorst, it’s that – well wait, there are a bunch of holy-what-the-that’s-awesome things about Rick and his family. Like how Rick, his wife, and six children all make art together as the Beerhorst Studio. They’re an art collective, a family art collective, an urban family [...]
Australian artist Anthony Lister was commissioned to do a mural in West Hollywood to help promote the DVD release of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The layering and scope of the thing – which looks so small until you actually walk up to it – is nuts. You can find more [...]
Cristian Grossi’s work in the TTP collection is distinctive because of its fashion influences. The two new works above, Insekta Fashion Aestethic and Insekta Model A are, in particular, influenced by the designs of Erté. It’s hard to just sum up Erté’s impact, but you can’t miss his Art Deco style (and, in turn, Cristian’s [...]
Oh that? That’s a preview of the 1973 surreal film La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet), directed by René Laloux. It was animated at the Jiří Trnka Studio, and is totally packed with crazy otherworldy symbols, allegories, and fantastical whatevers. You can take it politically and look at it in a Cold War context, or just enjoy the story [...]
1. The Walker Art Center has a new website. It’s the kind of website that you hope every art museum will envy and try to replicate. It’s next level. WAC Executive Director Olga Viso wrote about it here. (Also, re. art museums and 2011 era technology, the Tate put out an app for iPhone [...]
Ken Keirns’s work is absolutely stuffed with stories. His women carry clues in their eyes, postures, and mouths. The settings, too, with their shadows or windowpanes, hint that the scene we’re seeing is not a static break in time but a glimpse of a moment. And whether it’s a dinosaur in the background or [...]
Yes it’s a few years old now, but it might be the best thing on the Best of Wholphin Vol. 1 that we just got our hands on in the TTP offices. The illustrations of the “zoo” are great. There’s a good Q and A here. Carson Mell’s website is here.
