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"OLEK, 100% Acrylic 11.07.09” (after Jan van Eyck) www.agataolek.com Saturday November 7, 4pm & 6pm Location: Performers will wander the streets of Chelsea starting at 4pm and will culminatewith a performance at SOHO20 Gallery Chelsea at 6pm. 1 In Olek's100% Acrylic 11.07.09” (after Jan van Eyck) the characters from Jan Van Eyck's “The Arnolfini Portrait” (1434) come to life and wander the streets of Chelsea. Adorned in Olek's crocheted replicas of the costume in the painting, the performers mingle with gallery goers as they slowly unravel their handmade costumes. As their walk leads back to SOHO20 Gallery Chelsea it will culminate with a performance by Olek in the gallery at 6pm. Olek was born Agata Oleksiak in Poland and graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with a degree in cultural studies. In New York, she rediscovered her ability to crochet and since then she has started her crocheted journey/madness. She received the Ruth Mellon Award for Sculpture,was selected... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

They're fun. Just remember: #crazyisgood. And thanks for your gentle rub! #smlthankyou - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

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Ayah Bdeir Les Années Lumière 22 x 30 inches Electronics on Canvas produced June 2008 in collaboration with Rouba Khalil A bird’s eye view of a little over 3 years of violence, strife, and very bright lights rocking Lebanon, remembered and replayed in 45 minutes of proportionally timed light display. http://www.ayahbdeir.com/categor... Biography Ayah Bdeir is an artist, engineer and interaction designer. She graduated from the MIT Media Lab with a Masters of Media Arts and Sciences after studying Computer & Communication Engineering and Sociology in the American University of Beirut. With an upbringing between Lebanon, Canada and the United States, Ayah’s work uses technology to look at cross cultural dialogue and media representation of the Middle East and its identities. Her work spans a range of mediums including interactive installations, electronic fashion, gadgets, reactive furniture, and has been published and exhibited in conferences, festivals and... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese chat with See-ming Lee regarding their new collectible sculptures limited-edition series Deadly Sins. The set of snowglobes are available individually, each of which contain one word from the seven deadly sins: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride - and represented by a unique color. Interviewed and photographed during Eyebeam Open Studios Fall 2009, a biennial event celebrating the synergy of art, design and technology in New York City. SML 720p HD Simulcast + Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos... + Vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/7325235 + YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch...." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Deadly Sins #1 A new collectible, slated to set the mark as an icon for the 22nd Century - collect all Seven Deadly Sins. Due out by December in an exclusive limited edition set. Pure Products USA | Ligorano/Reese Collaboration in Art Towards a Surreal Politik… In 1992, we began Pure Products of America as a series of multiple editions focusing on the impact of marketing on politics. Over the past 17 years, the series has expanded and now includes 14 pieces running the gamut from snow globes to underwear (our underwear was the first to pack a political message), to happy meals. Each object is signed and numbered in various sized editions. When we introduce Pure Products, we send some of them as gifts to government officials. Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton, members of the Supreme Court and various Senators and Congressional representatives have all received a pure product at one time or another. Pure Products also function as discreet elements in installations. The installations... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Maya Nayak talks to See-ming Lee about how Window Farms work during the Eyebeam Open Studios in Fall 2009, a biennial events showcasing artists who explore art using traditional medium as well as technology. == Window Farms == Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials. == The Beach The Pier == Goal 1: to start a Windowfarming craze in New York City and other dense urban areas, helping people grow some of their food year-round in their apartment windows. Goal 2: give ordinary folks a means to collaborate on research and development at http://our.windowfarms.org == History == In February 2009, through a residency at Eyebeam, Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray began to build and test the first Window Farms prototype. Growing food inside NY apartments is a challenge, but within reach. The foundational knowledge base is emerging through working with agricultural, architectural and other... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"The Gallery is empty, and the gallery needs your clothes and materials! I am not inviting you to come to the opening reception, I am inviting you to be part of my new performance/installation entitled "Just Bring Your Clothes". Your donation is destroyed as the artwork is created. Static and metamorphosing, old and new, unique and fleeting, public and private, hidden and exposed, performer and creator, traditional and innovative, decay and renewal, are all interchangeable. Actions: To enter the gallery on Oct 28th, 29th, 30th and November 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 9th, you must bring a donation of clothes, fabric, sheets etc., etc. or small objects to be utilized in the piece. You can silently choose the placement of your donated materials. I will cut them into small strips and recycle them through artistic transformation into new objects. If you wish to come back to purchase the new items, pick up the "receipt" stating that you are a certified donor. Please, don't talk to the working... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Matthew Borgatti talks to See-ming Lee about his concept, idea and inspiration behind his Spaceman Lamp project. Filmed during the Eyebeam Open Studios Fall 2009, a biennial event in New York City that showcases artists who work with both art and technology. Matthew Borgatti was born with a painfully overactive imagination, grew up a perfectionist and will probably die on a runaway carnival ride. He went to the Rhode Island School of Design and took summers off to build movie monsters in Burbank beginning with Snakes on a Plane and working his way through Aliens VS Predator II: Requiem. After graduating with his degree in Industrial design he moved out to California to make his fortune. Although this didn't exactly work out he spent his time there interning at Instructables, building boats for Makani Power, publishing a book called Show Me How, running industrial robots for a show called Prototype This! and helping everyone from independent inventors developing their first product to... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Diana Eng: As a fashion designer who works with science and technology, I've learned about some really amazing things. I've had some great experiences as a designer: sitting front row at fashion week, working at various fashion companies, researching at the University of Bath Mechanical Engineering Dept., being a designer on Project Runway, working in Victoriai's Secret Research and Development department, and co-founding NYC Resistor hacker group. When I was a little girl, I wish that my friends and I knew about some of the things I know today. We would have loved to play with them. Dress-up with super sparkling LED's. Imagining worlds made of deployable structures. I want to share all of the neat things I've learned, because no matter what your age, science and technology are always fun to play with. You may not be able to sew or solder or draft a pattern or program a microcontroller. But that's okay because Fairytale Fashion is about imagining the possibilities. I will be trying my best to make them happen. Fairytale Fashion is produced with the support of Eyebeam. http://fairytalefashion.org" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

About the work: http://www.joannemattera.com/pages... "Two concerns have engaged me throughout my career: color and geometric order. The grid is the underpinning of these concerns. Within its rigor I organize repeated elements—usually a stripe or square—painting them with a succulent brush that is at odds with the reductivism of the composition. I have long referred to my work as lush minimalism, a term that’s as tongue in cheek as it is true. The saturated color I use, influenced by Siennese paintings and Indian miniatures, is nevertheless of its own time. A 21st-century palette embodies different intensities, transparencies and chromatic relationships. The encaustic paint I use for much of my work brings a differently refractive quality to the color than other mediums, as well as optical depth and substantive texture. I work in series, often on a small scale, because my chromatic concerns—subtle shifts in hue, texture and depth—require intimate viewing. I often install these... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

http://eyebeam.org/events... Eyebeam is pleased to host Open Studios for its 2009 Senior Fellows, Resident Artists, and Student Residents at Eyebeam’s state-of-the-art design, research, and fabrication studio; showcasing video performance, wearable technologies, code and humor, party technology, and sustainablity design. /////////////// Eyebeam 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 then, Eyebeam has supported more than 130 fellowships and residencies for artists and creative technologists; we've run an active education program for youth, artists' professional development and community outreach; and have mounted an extensive... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"By ANDY GRUNDBERG see for a slideshow ... Irving Penn, one of the 20th century’s most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous, whose signature blend of classical elegance and cool minimalism was recognizable to magazine readers and museumgoers worldwide, died Wednesday morning at his home in Manhattan. He was 92. His death was announced by Peter MacGill, his friend and representative. Mr. Penn’s talent for picturing his subjects with compositional clarity and economy earned him the widespread admiration of readers of Vogue during his long association with the magazine, beginning in 1943. It also brought him recognition in the art world; his photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries and are prized by collectors. Lees verder ... His long career at Vogue spanned a number of radical transformations in fashion and its depiction, but his style remained remarkably constant. Imbued with calm and decorum, his photographs often seemed intent on defying... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

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Hmm... I don't remember that in the original Hebrew!?! - Mark Jepsen

haha :) - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"Date: Fri., October 23 + Sat., October 24, 2009 | 3–6PM Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC http://eyebeam.org/events... Eyebeam is pleased to host Open Studios for its 2009 Senior Fellows, Resident Artists, and Student Residents at Eyebeam’s state-of-the-art design, research, and fabrication studio; showcasing video performance, wearable technologies, code and humor, party technology, and sustainablity design. This two-day presentation at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center will allow a rare, inside look at current research. Guided tours of artists’ work will be given every hour from 3–6PM." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

Address: 1063 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10028 http://google.com/maps... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"Dean Russo (Etsy / Facebook / SML Flickr / Twitter) is an American pop-artist based in Brooklyn. I paid his studio a visit during the 13th Annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival in NYC in 2009. Here are some photographs and interview videos shot that day. 1. Process + Methodology. Dean Russo chats with See-ming Lee (SML) and Mac Farr (MMF) about the process and methodology in creating his mixed media paintings. The artist also mentioned interesting aspects of how the economy fundamentally changes the way he works. SML 720 HD Simulcast: Facebook / Flickr / Vimeo / YouTube 2. Subject Matters. Dean Russo talks about how he picks his subject matters for his mixed media paintings. SML 720p HD Simulcast: Facebook / Flickr / Vimeo / YouTube 3. Source of Inspiration. Dean Russo chats with Mac Farr about where he gets his inspiration — graffiti in Brooklyn apparently! SML 720p HD Simulcast: Facebook / Flickr / Vimeo / YouTube 4. Artist Toolbox. Touring Dean Russo's artist studio was an... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Installation view of Sol LeWitt’s ‘Forms Derived from a Cube’ via PaceWildenstein Currently on view at PaceWildenstein’s East 57th Street location is Sol LeWitt’s ‘Forms Derived from a Cube,’ an exhibition featuring wall drawings, gouaches, and sculptures from the 1980s. LeWitt used the form of the cube to create a vocabulary that formed the basis of his practice throughout his career. As a universal form, the cube requires no interpretation on the part of the viewer and allowed the artist to create a multitude of figures and images using only an essential idea. Sol LeWitt: Forms Derived from a Cube [PaceWildenstein] Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective [MASS MoCA] Sol LeWitt Forms Derived from a Cube Installation view of Sol LeWitt’s ‘Forms Derived from a Cube’ via PaceWildenstein Sol LeWitt Form Derived from a Cube Sol LeWitt’s ‘Form Derived from a Cube’ via PaceWildenstein The exhibition includes nine colorful wall drawings in which LeWitt played with ink washes and color... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"From Baghdad—frightening reports of gay pogroms, where homosexual men are targeted, tortured, slayed. From New York—a scurry to find those same men before they are killed, and shepherd them to safety" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

No, post away. It just saddens me deeply that this happens. Better to know about it and be sad than fully unaware. - Sparky Crocker

"From October to December 2009, I will be making magical clothes for Fairytale Fashion. These might be clothes that have blooming flowers, living clothes that breathe, change color, transform. And guess what, YOU will be leading the design! Fairytale Fashion depends on your participation. How do you participate? Each Monday, FairytaleFashion.org will have a new video that introduces a technology like inflatables, deployable structures, muscle wire and microcontrollers. At the end of each video is a design question. Answer the weekly design questions on our website. I will use your answers to create the Fairytale Fashion. Finally, the finished garments will be presented in a fashion show in early 2010. As a fashion designer who works with science and technology, I've learned about some really amazing things. I've had some great experiences as a designer: sitting front row at fashion week, working at various fashion companies, researching at the University of Bath Mechanical Engineering... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos... Description: Thank you for Your Visit, Have a Nice Day is a performance piece by Agata Olek created for Art in Odd Places:SIGN, an annual festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life. Curated by Erin Donnelly and Radhika Subramaniam Director of AIOP: Ed Woodham + Artist Statement: "Inspired by a uniformed attendant holding the sign Hold the Handrail in a Taipei metro station, I've created this moving installation/performance piece. In wearable sculptures of multicolored crocheted camouflage, my performers appear in various sites on 14th Street, displaying photographs of signs I've collected from different countries that are in emphatic, ironic or amused dialogue with their location." See also video by Technology Artist filmed on the same day at http://www.youtube.com/watch... More information about the festival + http://www.artinoddplaces.org/ Press + Timeout New... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"I met J. F. Bautista (BAP) towards the end of my tour of the Brooklyn Art Project headquarter. J. F. Bautista, Brooklyn Art Project HQ / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 20090926.10D.54672.P1.L2.SQ.BW / SML (by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML) Three of his paintings from the series Mutant Organic Architecture were seen at the office (the three black and white paintings on the left): Paintings by J. F. Bautista (jfbart) at Brooklyn Art Project HQ / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 20090926.10D.54671.P1.L2 / SML (by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML) So what are they? Artist description: this project is about the absolute mutation of our metropolis, reversing the process of evolution and turning things inside out. The end result is the unfolding of fantastic new architecture, and it draws whomever into the depths of a gigantic, dark, strange and absurd morphed grimy variegated skeletal, organic living reptilian defined as Organic Mutant Architecture or New York... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Im having serious trouble getting everything to work.......... this laptop needs some serious love......... luckily here is another image I prepared earlier.......... Maybe its because Im a European hanging out in the States....... I seemed to have missed old buildings, art and architecture.......the presence of living history.......the stuff you just take for granted when you live in England or France.........stuff you weren\'t aware you were missing at all.... until you see it again..........so it seems that old churches and cathedrals and castles seemed to have filled my spare time in France. This is taken in the Norman Collegiate church in the small ancient City of Vernon in Normandy itself about 50 miles outside of Paris. The image is of an ancient painting of Jesus lit by light streaming through a beautiful stained glass window. I shot this on a little Cannon SD550 which is a great little pocket camera. For what looks like....... and is really....... a tiny point and shoot... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Surveillance video has been released of the savage anti-gay hate crime that happened in Queens early Friday morning. Jack Price, 49, is in a medically-induced coma on a respirator at New York Hospital as a result of a brutal attack by two men who yelled anti-gay slurs at him after he visited a corner deli. Price sustained a fractured jaw, ribs and a lacerated spleen 26-year-old Daniel Aleman has been charged with assault and aggravated assault as a hate crime. the second suspect, Daniel Rodiguez, is still at large. Aleman's attorney insists he was fighting in self-defense. Right. Watch the video, AFTER THE JUMP..." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

Ugh - sofarsoShawn

"The Brooklyn Art Project HQ doubles as James Cospito's studio, so naturally I get to do some interviews with him at the same location. James Cospito, Brooklyn Art Project HQ / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / 20090926.10D.54642.P1.L2.SQ.BW / SML (by See-ming Lee 李思明 SML) James Cospito (BAP / Facebook / Flickr / LinkedIn / SML Flickr / Twitter) is an artist, painter, photographer, illustrator, designer in New York City. He is also the Co-Founder / Creative Director at StrutNYC and BrooklynArtProject. In this short video interview, James Cospito talks about his process in creating his NYC Subway series: Artists on Art: James Cospito talks about his NYC Subway series / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / SML from See-ming Lee 李思明 SML on Vimeo. SML 720p HD Simulcast: Facebook / Flickr / YouTube And photography shot during that day: 1. James carries a Moleskine with him and does quick ink drawings on the notebooks as he rides the subway. He... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Our second stop: Brooklyn Art Project HQ (SML Pro Blog / SML Wiki). Brooklyn Art Project is a free social network for artists, collectors, and art enthusiasts. Since its launch in 2007, it has had 5500+ members from over 44 countries featuring over 44,000 artworks and 800+ short films and videos. James Cospito, founder of BAP, talks about the site and the art seen at their office in this mini video interview: Brooklyn Art Project / Dumbo Arts Center: Art Under the Bridge Festival 2009 / SML from See-ming Lee 李思明 SML on Vimeo SML 720p HD Simulcast: Facebok / Flickr / YouTube And here are some photographs seen that day: 1. River City Ransom Street Fight 18" x 24" (457mm x 610mm) by Adam Shub (Facebook / SML Flickr). Adam is an artist in New York. He is currently working on a series of paintings on arcade video games. This painting is available for sale at $350 USD. To purchase it, visit the artist's portfolio site at artbreak.com/squarepainter. Painting: River City Ransom Street Fight... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet