Due to popular demand I’m releasing a new version of the Business/Personal print this week with Poster Child Prints. This version is hand screened on black archival paper, and comes in a limited edition of only 90 prints.

One of my favorite things about the internets is the rise of edutainment podcasts.  This American Life, RadioLab, TED, 99% Invisible, and of course The Moth.  This Moth episode with double amputee Aimee Mullins is amazing.  She chronicles her struggles and triumphs as a pioneer in the world of prosthetic legs – including becoming the fastest woman in the world as well as a muse for Alexander McQueen.  Truely inspiring, educational and very entertaining.

I just posted up two new 80 minute DJ mixtapes.  Most of the tracks are 90′s trip-hop, like Massive Attack, Portishead, Air, DJ Shadow, Unkle, Dr. Octagon, Del, Automator, etc…  I’d been wanting to make a mix with this type of music for a long time, and I finally did, so hope you enjoy!

False Future : Synesthesia Vol.I

False Future : Synesthesia Vol.II

CS Editions is having a Holiday Sale on our notebooks, t-shirts and artist prints.  Save 20% for a short time only!  Grab some pocket notebooks for stocking-stuffers, or pick out an art print for someone special.  Use this coupon code when checking out for a 20% discount: CYMATICS

It’s a shame America’s playgrounds are filled with cookie-cutter, “safety plastic” McJunglegyms.  I can’t help but feel that our children’s creativity would be sparked to a much higher degree climbing and sliding on these amorphous, play sculptures from the Eastern Block.  Their shapes remind me of a Miró painting or a Saul Bass illustration.  Hey playground architects, please take notice.

On the back of the dollar bill there is a pyramid, which when you think about it is a very fitting symbol to have there.  In ancient Egypt, the pharaohs were buried inside of pyramids (and later deep, underground chambers) with vast quantities of wealth…not to mention the huge amount of money, labor and resources that went into the construction and decoration of these tombs.  And, for all intents and purposes, it was all locked up forever.  Forever the property of the pharaoh.  Forever the property of the elite.  Forever the property of the powerful.  Just like today.

I also tried to look up some other art to see what it would come up with.  Again, the results were unexpected and intersting.

This is a pic I found of a work in progress by Joseph Albers.  You can see he was trying to figure out the color order for this print by taping pieces of colored paper together.  I thought it was interesting to see an artifact like this which documents his working method.  Anyway, here’s what I found when I plugged it in:

I found it strange that it didn’t find this photo, which seems much more similar than any that it did find.  It’s interesting how intelligence works, and how we see connections that are so clear and simple, yet to get a computer to do the same trick is so very difficult.

Then I plugged in a photo of one of my own paintings just to see what might come up:

And one last image.  I was trying to find out who this photograph was by.  It turned out to be a source photo used by Vija Celmins for one of her paintings (although Google did not help me out on this one either).

This could be an interesting avenue to explore artistically.

Vintage Revs/Cost along the High Line

Miró

Matisse

Detail 1: I love the layers and layers of paint – the documentation of his exploration of ideas.  And notice how the white area is actually scraped out of the canvas.

Detail 2

Matisse again

Detail 1: Look how abstract this is.  So advanced for the time.

Robert Rauschenberg

Detail

Jasper Johns

Hans Arp

More Arp

Detail of Cy Twombly

Stuart Davis

Picasso’s “Demoiselles d’Avignon”

Detail

I love dioramas

We’ve got some new shirts in stock!  We re-ran the “Business/Personal” shirt that was sold out, and added a new one – “Ghandi Black Metal Rockers!”  These are great shirts to put on your body and help keep you warm, or keep the sun off your back, or cover up your fat stomach, or just to look cool in!  They are light-weight, 100% cotton, in a slim fashion fit, available in CS Editions store.