Top 10 July 10

Here are yet another top 10 list.
I like and hope you do to.
Take care.
/J

1. Christa Palazzolo

Christa Palazzolo received her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin, with a study in
Painting and Printmaking. Currently focused on using portraiture as a vehicle of mockery,
isolation, discomfort, and objectification, she strives to confront formal aspects of
painting with a contemporary voice and commentary.

Check out more work HERE

2. HP - Invent

HP - invent from Tom and Matt on Vimeo.

Response to D&AD Student Awards brief set by Hewlett Packard.

"Present an idea which promotes HP Workstations ability to bring to life anything the creative mind can conceive."

Filmed, edited and directed by Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth
matthewrobinson.co.uk
tomwrigglesworth.com

Music: Hold Me Back by Round Table Knights

3. Claire Morgan

Claire Morgan was born in Belfast. She attended University of Ulster and Northumbria University where she achieved a first class degree in Sculpture. She is now based in London.

Since graduating she has pursued a career solely as a visual artist. She has exhibited internationally, with solo shows, residencies and commissions across the UK, as well as group exhibitions in Europe. At an early stage she developed a strong interest in the organic, in natural processes, and in the bodily connotations of natural materials. This formed the basis for her practice as an artist creating sculptural installations and continues to influence her work at present.

In 2004 Claire was awarded the Royal British Society of Sculptors Annual Bursary and Roy Noakes Awards for Come Fly With Me, a work that involved painstakingly repetitive and precise processes. She has continued to explore this way of working, and the challenges presented by her chosen materials and techniques have become an important part of her practice.

In 2006 she was awarded first prize for Red or Dead in the Premio Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, International Competition for Young Sculptors, Milan (for artists under the age of 40), and in 2007 she was selected as one of the Courvoisier Future 500 (top 10 art and design), featured in The Observer.

In 2008, a new body of work entitled Periphery formed a major solo exhibition at the James Hockey and Foyer Galleries, UCA Farnham, and Gone With The Wind, a commission for the Great North Run Cultural Programme exhibited at the Laing Gallery, Newcastle, received great acclaim.

Claire is currently working on temporary and permanent commissions for public spaces, as well as installations for private collections. She is also preparing for international group and solo exhibitions that will include new installations and drawings.

Installations and drawings are in international private collections.

Check out more work by Claire HERE

4. Nearest Tube

Nearest Tube, one of the first augmented reality apps to go live in the iPhone AppStore. Forget boring 2D tube maps! Try this amazing new application that tells Londoners where their nearest tube station is via their iPhones video function.

When you load the app, holding it flat, all 13 lines of the London underground are displayed in coloured arrows. By tilting the phone upwards, you will see the nearest stations: what direction they are in relation to your location, how many kilometres and miles away they are and what tube lines they are on. If you continue to tilt the phone upwards, you will see stations further away, as stacked icons. Only available to Apple iPhone 3GS users.

5. Daryl Banks

Daryl Banks is a photographer based in Toronto, Canada. Working in areas such as fashion, advertising and fine art.

Check out his portfolio HERE

6. The Economist - Think Space

The Economist campaign site "Think Space" It’s a featurette of people’s creative workspaces. Stylish, smart and very interesting.

Check out the site HERE

7. Self-Portrait Machine

Jen Hui Liao's Self-Portrait Machine is a device that takes a picture of the sitter and draws it but with the model's help. The wrists of the individual are tied to the machine and it is his or her hands that are guided to draw the lines that will eventually form the portrait.

The project started with the observation that nearly everything that surrounds us has been created by machines. Our personal identities are represented by the products of the man-machine relationship. The Self-Portrait Machine encapsulates this man-machine relationship. By co-operating with the machine, a self-portrait is generated. It is self-drawn but from an external viewpoint through controlled movement and limited possibility. Our choice of how we are represented is limited to what the machine will allow.

The project aims to explore the cooperation process of human & machine. The designer explains: I found some the relationship between human and machine are amazing and could be horrible (like this one that shows how we human invent machines then put human inside to it to manufacture goods), The final object - A machine is a miniature of what I understand through the process of research, and the aim of the machine is to let people have a chance to feel the condensed process of how we generate our self identity from external point of view as from the society, which is a big machine we all in.

(Apple C'ed Apple V'ed from: www.we-make-money-not-art.com)

8. Interview with AJ Fosik

So we are back to AJ again, check out the interview below.

AJ Fosik Artist Profile from Kwality Media on Vimeo.

9. Little Aphex Twin Girl

Sweet little girl goes Aphex Twin weird, not really sure who she is or who made the remix, still pretty awesome.

10. SOUR '日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro)'

This music video was shot for Sour's 'Hibi no Neiro' (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album 'Water Flavor EP'. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.

Director: Masashi Kawamura + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura + Masayoshi Nakamura
SOUR official site: http://sour-web.com