How do you like them apples?

This is the Fruit Wall. Isn't it pretty?

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Storing your fruit in a bowl is so last century. Carmina Mahugo and Diego Polognioli, the designers behind Fruit Wall, have set up a Kickstarter campaign to bring their creation to the mass market, and into mass production.

I really like this idea of hanging your fruit & veg on the wall, like a constantly changing interactive art piece.

Could be the future of fruit.

DRN

(via Design Fetish)

Marina, and the diamond ideas!

Last night Ciara and I were lucky enough to catch Marina Abramovic; The Artist is Present, at The Lighthouse, Dublin.

The documentary follows Marina as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at the World famous MoMA, New York. Along with 5 of her most famous performance pieces being recreated by young artist, she is also unveiling a new piece, The Artist is Present. Put simple, The Artist is Present states that along as the exhibition is running, the artist will be present, meaning that for 6 days a week, from opening to closing, Marina will be there, and it invites members of the public to sit across from her as long as they wish, with harrowing results.

I really cannot recommend the film enough. Marina is the star, obviously, it is her film after all, but she has a monumental gravitational pull, even through the screen, to the audience, her charisma and passion shines through.

 As a short side note, can you believe Marina is sixty three? Yes, 63! Just goes to prove that art is not only good for the mind, but also for the body too!

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Lana Del Radio1

Lana gets a lot of shit, mostly from Music Critics who are pissed that she reinvented her, but I for one Love her. Born To Die is one of my favourite albums that has come out this year, and her videos are always beautifully shot!

Above is a watercolour by my amazingly talent friend, Vincent Devine, and Below is her cover of Kasabian's Goodbye Kiss for the Radio One Live Lounge, and its stunning. 


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Cows & Cowboys!

Black Herds Of The Rain from Andrew Telling on Vimeo.

Black Herds of The Rain is a film documenting Conor Harrington's trip home to Ireland in the summer of 2011 to paint 3 walls. The journey and subsequent paintings are inspired by Austin Clarke's poem The Lost Heifer. 2 of the new wall pieces were in my hometown of Ennis.

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I Throw Myself At Men

I Throw Myself At Men is a fascinating project by performance artist Lilly McElroy, in which she literally throws herself at men. Its a really interesting comment on our society and dating.

in her own words:

For this project I went to a lot of bars and I literally threw myself at men who I didn't know. I used my body as a projectile, hurling myself toward strong, vulnerable men who were waiting to catch me. Poised in a perpetual state of social awkwardness and in full possession of the ability to subvert stereotypical gender roles, the photographs pose questions concerning relationships, social connection, sex, gender, and the desire to form relationships quickly that are both intense and long lasting. The project initially started after I placed ads on Craigslist.org looking for men who would meet me blind date style in bars and allow me to throw myself at them. This project comes from a place where the desire to make a positive connection with another person is coupled with the knowledge that a connection might not be possible, that the person might not catch me.

You can see more of Lilly's work at her WEBSITE

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Float like a butterfly!

I love this instillation, Pas de Deux by Daniel Wurtzel, simple, yet so beautiful!

Music is Starálfur, by Sigur Ros too...

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via Less Than Three

He Loves Doodle!

Lim Heng Swee is an illustrator and visual artist living and working in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He sells his fantastic doodles and illustrations via his ETSY SITE.

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THE NAKED PROJECT

Annalaura Masciavè, 21, freelance photographer from Rome, Italy.


Annalaura's talent for capturing a mood, and feeling, a sensuality is like no other. THE NAKED PROJECT sees her first exploration into nude photography and portrait.

More of Annalaura's stunning work can been seen on her website, ANNALAURA MASCIAVE.

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Good Enough to Eat!

Haute-Food, the recreation of iconic dresses in ... food for the next issue of Garage magazine. The series is a collaboration by artist Fulvio Bonavia and former Vogue editor Giovanna Battaglia.

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A Visit to the Dublin Contemporary

Last Saturday I was lucky enough to be invited to a talk by Irish Art Directer, Aoife Wasser (more on that later), held at the Dublin Contemporary. After the facinating talk, my mate, and fellow blogger, Joey (THE BUBBLE BOY) and I checked out the space.

I have to say I was more than impressed, and pleasantly surprised by the quality of work on display at the Dublin Contemporary. The building itself adds to the character of the space, and the varies mediums of work fill the building with a new lease of life.

It really does have everything. From photography, to instillation work, performance art, and some interactive art too, it really is a great collection, a solid and compressive body of Contemporary art.

The Dublin Contemporary runs until the end of this month, October 31st, so if you have not already been, I highly recommend a visit.


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Alice In Shape...

How great is this? I would be a lot more motivated to visit my gym if they had climbing walls like these...

Inspired by Alice in Wonderland, its an interesting collaboration between art, design and exercise, 3 areas which are not usually brought together, at least not in such an effective way like this.

The climbing wall was designed and developed by the renowned design studio Nendo Japanese architecture and equipped for one of the rooms in Tokyo fitness club Omotesando ILLOIHA.

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New Living Art II

At the weekend I was lucky enough to see The Irish Museum of Contemporary Art's New Living Art Exhibition held at Moxie Studios (Lad's Lane, off Baggot St.) The Show run until the 30th of October, and opens daily, 12-5pm.


My amazingly talented friend, Ciara Killalea, had two fabulous prints in the exhibition. They are part of her Inhabiting Space series. Ciara is one of those fabulous photographers that is able to capture a story, every time she clicks her camera, a true talent. And not to be bias, but she had the best work of the exhibition...

I highly recommend the exhibition, it has a rich and diverse collection of instillations, photography, moving imagery and some taxidermy. What more could you want from an exhibition?


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Fit like a Glove!

When two creatives collide, it usually results in a stunning piece of work, and the glove above is no exception. The collaboration between legendary style icon Daphne Guinness and fine jeweller Shaun Leane took over four years to be realized. Named Contra Mundum (translated as Against the World), the armour-inspired gauntlet is made up of more than a thousand grams of gold and is set with over 5,000 pavé white diamonds.


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For The Record!

So I brought this is some second hand shop years ago for my Mam, only to find out that the record player I thought we had actually didn't exist. So it sat in the cupboard for years, until I stumbled across it, and thought it would make a cool wall hanging. Which it did, but you know me and my notions. I figured I could find a better use for it...


and since making my new chair in an effort to keep my room clean, I figured Id continue on with my new easy breezy beautiful lifestyle. Clear space, clear space and all that jazz. Mostly my work desk needed to be sorted out. Like most,(I hope) I do very little work on my work desk. Its more of a storage/junk space. Where I can empty my pockets, and keep the stuff that I have no use for as of yet, but always have that feeling, that maybe I might need it some day..


So I decided that all it would take to sort of my desk/life, was a bowl. I could have used one of the cereal bowls from the kitchen, but you know, why have a plain white bowl, when you can do something a little different?


So if you would like your very own Vinyl Bowl, all you need is an old record, doesn't have to be ABBA, and large oven safe bowl. Place the record above the bowl like so...


place a tinned can on top of the record. Like so...


put the bowl, the record and the can in the oven. Like so...


leave for about 5 minutes, then take it out and finish shaping, whilst still hot, and bendy. Like so...


Let it cool and harder for then minutes. Like so...


And finally, sort you work space out, and get you life in order! Like so... (this last part is easier said than done, but hey, its a start)

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