Paint Club

The conscious and determined competition with an opponent has urged people for ages. Who ever has fought or acquired a victory turns into hero, idol, audience favourite, pioneer or captain. This urge to win and to go down in history as a glorious victor has always spawned creative and surprising peak-performances. So many times the winners of tomorrow are the most auspicious talents of today. Exactly this is the stuff dreams are made of.

Even amongst illustrators, designers, comic artists and street artists, there are a plethora of undiscovered or even discovered talents, only waiting to prove and to compete their skills, their creativity and their virtuosity. Unfortunately there is no appropriate platform for the creative contest of the global urban art movement. The time has come for the PAINT CLUB.

128 artists forming 64 teams are going to join this year in eight European countries the creative, interactive competition having the aim to win the national champion title. The winner teams from each country compete then against each other in order to define the international champion. Coloured paint markers and white canvases are the general basics of every tournament. The decision over victory or defeat will be made by the audience together with the judges.

The fascination of the PAINT CLUB arises through the interaction with the audience, the battle between the different teams and through the cooperation and the strategy within the singular teams.

Manjari Sharma

Following the success of her 'Shower' series, (where she asked people back to her apartment and then photgraphed them taking a shower) Manjari Sharma has recently presented a great set of street portraits shot in her native India.

Previously working with India’s premier publications The Times Of India and Better Photography, image making is what brought Manjari Sharma to the United States in 2001.

In 2004 she graduated from Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus Ohio, her first home in the US. In Columbus Manjari assisted many respected commercial shooters building her own portfolio along the way .

Manjari then moved to India to travel through her homeland for 6 months. Here she covered an extensive part of her country and "reconnected with her roots", before moving to New York City in late 2007.

Manjari currently freelances in New York City, her recent achievements include eight honorable mentions in the IPA Lucie Awards, she has worked for well known clients such as AOL, American baby, and Penguin Books.
http://www.manjarisharma.com/

I Love Dust

Nike chase from ilovedust on Vimeo.


I Love Dust are a creative agency, with offices in London and Southsea, that specialise in illustration, animation and design. We saw the Nike Chase video online and decided to investigate further and found that the same company was responsible for lots of other things that had caught our eye recently.

They ply their trade in 2 contrasting studio spaces; one located in the heart of East London, the other on the tip of the south coast. Just a short stroll from the ocean and surrounded by the rolling Hampshire countryside, the south coast team enjoy a distinct vantage point working in a former butcher’s workshop. Conversely rooted in the heart of creative hub Shoreditch, the London studio thrive on the buzz and energy of the city in a converted tool-maker’s foundry.

So what can we say apart from we love I Love Dust.
http://www.ilovedust.com/ild

Philip-Lorca diCorcia - Hustlers

‘Brent Booth, 21 years old, Des Moines, Iowa $30'

'Ike Cole, 38 years old, Los Angeles, CA, $25’

'Mike Miller, 24 years, Allentown, PA, $25'

'William Charles Everlove; 26 years old; Stockholm, Sweden, via Arizona; $40,'

“Ralph Smith; 21 years old; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; $25.”

'It might be said that twilight is a muddled form of clarity. The warm glow that suffuses the ' golden hour' in Los Angeles acts to filter the grim realities, the outright lies, the self-deceptions, which allow Hollywood, and by extension, America to flourish. 'Twilight' provides the rose-coloured glasses that make it possible to see out but not see in.'
Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1951) is an American photographer. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Afterwards diCorcia attended Yale University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in 1979. He now lives and works in New York, and teaches at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

"Hustlers," his best-known series, contains shots of  young men strutting their stuff along Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood. Made from 1990 to 1992 and funded with a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (which led to a governmental complaint), diCorcia's breakout series features men posing for their portraits in motel rooms, parking lots and laundromats, outside fast-food restaurants, gas stations and boarded-up buildings, and simply sitting at bus stops or on street corners, usually at dusk.

The guys are fantastic for their individuality. Although many are clearly pretending to be someone they've seen in the movies, most can't be bothered with such silly fantasies and stand, matter-of-factly, for the camera. Not one elicits pity. Or begs for sympathy. Or for anything at all. A here-I-stand, this-is-it groundedness suffuses the strongest. It's an attractive quality.

diCorcia has labeled each portrait with the man's name and age, the city he came to L.A. from and the amount of money he would charge for his time an therefore was paid for the picture (from $20 to $50). The bare-bones info speaks volumes, but it's no match for the riveting intensity and haunting complexity of the pictures.

Patrick Jean - Pixels

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
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New York invaded by 8-bit creatures! Retro Gamer's delight.

PIXELS is Patrick Jean' latest short film, shot on location in New York.

Roswell Angier

Roswell Angier was born in 1940 and has taught photography for over 35 years; he currently heads the photography course at Tufts University.

‘A Kind of Life’ is a photo essay of strippers and strip clubs documented over a period of two and a half years in the early 1970’s in Boston’s Combat Zone.

Andrew Rae

Andrew Rae is an illustrator and member of the Illustration collective Peepshow. He has worked for many worldwide clients in advertising, print, publishing and animation. London based Rae has worked as Art Director on the BBC 3 show Monkey Dust, directing the on-air identity for MTV Asia and illustrating the identity for The V Festival. His short film the Stunt was screened on Channel 4 in 2007 and his postcard book and flyers book are available through Concrete Hermit.

Further clients include: Cancer Research, DC Shoes, E4, Esquire, Faber & Faber, The Culture Show, Sony Playstation, The Guardian, The Mighty Boosh, Mojo Magazine, MTV, The New York Times, NHS, Orange, Penguin, Perrier, Puma, Talkback Thames (Monkey Dust), Random House and The V Festival. He has exhibited not only in the UK but also in Tokyo and New York amongst others.

Prints of Andrew Rae’s great personal work (including 'the Ghost in the Machine' above) are available from his blog.
http://listen-with-your-eyes.blogspot.com/
The Copyright for all the work above belongs to Andrew Rae.