Art for Art's Sake !!

"Eyebeam (http://eyebeam.org) is the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States. Founded in 1996 and incorporated in 1997, Eyebeam was conceived as a non-profit art and technology center dedicated to exposing broad and diverse audiences to new technologies and media arts, while simultaneously establishing and demonstrating new media as a significant genre of cultural production. Since its founding, Eyebeam has supported more than 130 fellowships and residencies for artists and creative technologists. Eyebeam organizes open studios twice a year, and I had the pleasure to visit one of them by invitation of Matthew Borgatti, a designer + technologist I met on Flickr a few weeks before the opening. Here are some highlights from my collection of photographs and video interviews conducted during the show. Because of this very long post, I have created jump links here: +1 Sculpture: OMG LOL +2 Electronics on Canvas: Les Années Lumière by Ayah Bdeir +3 Fairytale... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Any kind of crap I found while wasting my time online you will find it here. †links, pIctures, videos, websites, links, more pictures, nasty stuff, funny stuff, funkay stuff, weird stuff, nasty stuff again, art, music, lots of music, nonsense stuff, etc† Anything to delight your little cute pupils God blessed you for what you are about to see... Stay Tuned. Sincerely Yours: Carlos Naude well... You can call me: MISTER Carlos Naude" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"The starships of the future exploring the high frontier of the unknown will be syntactical — the engineers of the future will be poets. This is what virtual reality holds out to us — the possibility of walking in to the constructs of the imagination Generative artworks by Natan Sinigaglia. Folkert  filed under natan sinigaglia, generative art, vvvv, terence mckenna" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"87 videos / 73 subscribers Projects from the fellows and residents at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York City. http://eyebeam.org" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

From my collection of found object robots and my night watchmen series. ***Oct. 14th 2009 - Has this page been linked to from somewhere recently? - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Revolution Deformation is an exhibition of 20 original paintings, alongside prints and animation. A 32-page exhibition catalog further explores the visual theme of the work. Revolution Deformation November 6 – December 21 Concrete Hermit 5a Club Row London, UK" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"The physically divided are also the conquered and the controlled. Atley  filed under becca mann, oil painting, drawing, hakim bey" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

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amazing!!! - deborah hustic

awesome - em

"Atley  filed under mark warren jacques, painting" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"The No Pants! Subway Ride is annual event staged by Improv Everywhere every January in New York City. Here is an overview of the history of No Pants from its inception in 2002 to today. No Pants 2002 The first ride included 7 participants, all male. One participant entered the train pantless for 7 consecutive stops. They pretended not to notice each other, and if asked claimed that they “just forgot” their pants. On the 8th stop, someone came through with a duffle bag selling pants for $1. No photographs were taken, but the above video was captured with our single a hidden camera." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

2009 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"No Pants" is a great trend - LarchOye

"フランス、パリ近郊のMontreuil（モントルイユ）で活動するデザイナーのCedric Ragot 。 彼は、ENSCI-Les Ateliersでデザインを学び、1999年に同校を卒業した後、2002年に自身のスタジオを設立しました。スタジオは、家具や照明のほかにもパッケージングデザイン、スポーツギアや携帯電話などのインダストリアルデザインまで幅広い分野で作品を発表しています。 アワード受賞作品も多く輩出しており、近年では、USBやSATAなど様々なインターフェースの対応したフラットケーブルシリーズ Lacieでred dot Design Award 2009 を受賞しています。 Silly Catは、フランスの家具メーカー Roche-Bobois から2009年に発表された新作のテーブルシリーズです。脚とテーブルトップの組み合わせ次第でダイニングテーブルやサイドテーブルなど様々なバリエーションをセットすることができます。脚部は自立するので、一本で使用することも可能です。トップ、脚ともに素材に色ガラスが使われており、透明感がありライトな印象を与えます。 Ladiesもまた、Roche-Bobisからリリースされた作品です。マイクロファイバーのシェードには、レーザーによる複雑なカットをが施されています。ブラックアウトの本体と赤いコードが鮮明なコントラストを生み出しています。シリーズにはテーブルライトのほかにスタンドライトやペンダントがあります。 Flight 815は、リミテッドエディションとして製作されたライティングです。複雑なラインが渦巻く細いパイプ状のシェードは焼結技術を用いて作成されており、そのパイプの末端にバルブを取り付けることで蛍が闇夜に描く残光のようなあかりを灯します。 Hyper Fastは、2006年にパリのギャラリー YMER&MALTA から発表された花瓶です。Cedric Ragotは、後の2007年Rosendahlから同様に片面のみが突起した陶製のFastという花瓶シリーズを発表し、同年にGood Design Awardを受賞しています。また、2009年には、 YMER&MALTAからシルバーやゴールド、ルビー色のクローム処理を施したHyper Fastを発表しています。" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

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via Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

http://www.flickr.com/photos... "Parce que c'est la base de ma culture et que je suis libre d'en faire ce que je veux." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Art Director Jopsu Ramu from Musuta Ltd. (a multidisciplinary design agency based in Helsinki & Tokyo) has created together with Shun Kawakami (artless Inc) an artist and designer from Tokyo - a piece titled Urban Abstract. This digital art piece is being shown as the November break bumpers on one of the biggest commercial TV channels in Finland: TV Nelonen. Urban Abstract -piece was born in Tokyo during 2009. It consists of 40 X five second clips or it can be viewed as a one 200 second journey. Urban Abstract is a first piece created in collaboration with Ramu and Kawakami. The artists have plans for new pieces and are currently looking for interesting projects to work on and to continue this Helsinki - Tokyo collaboration. The website urban-abstract.com works as a part of the piece and creates an extra dimension for the clips shown on TV. URBAN ABSTRACT - About the concept: Urban Abstract is a journey across urban space that unfolds in forty, 5 second parts. The journey, in one,... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

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"a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis year 2009 http://www.blublu.org http://www.davidellis.org produced by studio cromie http://www.studiocromie.org music by Roberto Lange http://www.robertolange.com made at Fame festival 2009 http://www.famefestival.it Category:  Film & Animation Tags:  combo  muto  fantoche  blu  not  notblu  david  ellis  wall  painted  animation  stop  motion  blublu  graffiti  street  art  grottaglie  fame  festival  2009  studiocromie" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

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Shockingly amazing!!! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"http://www.laikingland.co.uk/. A creative collaboration based in both the UK and The Netherlands, whose intention is to design and manufacture beautifully crafted kinetic objects that engage and evoke a sense of play and nostalgia. The company is built upon a life long friendship between british artist, Martin Smith and engineer, Nick Regan. In order to create all those fine kinetic objects d'art a number of people are involved; Louise Haley, Thomas Jennings, Samantha Bryan, Jim Bond, Ivan Black, Nik Ramage, John Lumbus, Jim Lockwood, Sofiane Zain and Guust Smits are members of the Laikingland family. Title: Applause Machine Designer: Martin Smith Manufacturer: Laikingland Description: Push the button and the Applause Machine claps it's hands for you. Materials: Powder coated steel, brass, Walnut wood, plastic and motor. Height: 45cm Power: 2 x AAA Batteries (included) Edition: Limited to 250 in each colour. Colors: Currant Red, Graphite Black, Signal Green, Traffic Orange, Chalk... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet