a collection of fake road signs created by artists and installed on real streets! neato!

Siobhan on 08/26/05#

Venus Magazine is holding a contest to find "the best, most creative, most fantabulous DIY gift creations imaginable." One key stipulation is your creation must cost less than $25 to make. Submit your DIY gift idea by the Oct. 1 deadline. The winners and their craft submissions will be featured in the winter 2005 issue of Venus. Click here for more contest details.

Yamaguchi on 08/24/05#

Very easy to follow instructions here, with lots and lots of pictures!

http://www.fecalface.com/open.html (It's at the top of the page)

Holly on 08/23/05#

"Carry On" at Feigen Contemporary Gallery. This exhibition, a huge group show which includes artist Deanne Cheuk (of Tokion and Neomu), Ray Johnson, Daniel Higgs, and Richard Crawford, focuses on psychedelic artwork over the last 45 yrs.

"Moving beyond the more common nostalgic reception of this period, the artists in Carry On touch on a particular side of psychedelia that is more subtle and represents a broader definition of the psychedelic, which is to make visible that which is manifested from the mind."

Definitely worth a look.

Feigen Contemporary
535 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011

September 8 - October 1, 2005
Preview Reception : Thursday, September 8, 6:00-8:00 PM

Holly on 08/22/05#

In the tradition Schiaparelli's shoe hat is this novelty. Via Flypaper and Boing Boing.

Scott on 08/19/05#

This is a school in San Francisco which is the brainchild of artist Jon Rubin. Myself and 20 other students participate in critiques and public events lead by Jon and Bob Linder, another Bay Area artist who is also teaching at ISA. The website is new and still being developed but it's worth taking a look at to see what we've been doing and what is coming up.www.independentschoolofart.org

helena on 08/18/05#

Last night, as I strolled through the empty August streets of Brooklyn enjoying the unusually mild weather, I stopped at the City Reliquary, a 24-hour window museum of collections displayed at street level and complete with audio narration. The City Reliquary is a labor of love devoted to intensely odd collections, including ET toys, fragments of bridges, pens, Mr T memorabilia, and items derived from NASA experiments. It is located on Grand Street and Havemayer in Williamsburg just across the street from Cinders Gallery, an artist-run gallery space and store devoted to handmade art, clothes, books, and other objects. Both of these spots put on community events regularly (like Bicycle Fetish Day and The Porch Show), are run by good people, bring free weird delight to the neighborhood, and are well worth checking out every few months or if you're visiting New York.

Holly on 08/18/05#

The brilliant designer provocateur James Victore has been pirating dinner plates and drawing on them for god knows how long. He makes them for friends, lovers, waiters, and now you. See 100 acts of dining disobedience, a dinner plate oeuvre, at Instigator - 220 North 8th Street, Williamsburg, NY (Between Driggs and Roebling).

Doug on 08/18/05#

Finally a fiber based way to experience life in someone else's body. Or you can join my pals Mike and Amanda in seeing the silence of the lambs musical.

Scott on 08/18/05#

Betsy Greer of Craftivism.com is putting together a crafters documentary project, featuring "crafters/artists/makers who create with DIY ethics in mind, and either sell their wares or participate in political/ethical projects with them." The project will feature photos of crafters (one self-portrait, one of workspace/creations). Greer is inviting people to participate, so consider submitting -- full details can be found here. (Found this via LuxLotus.com).

Yamaguchi on 08/15/05#