Moronic insecure jackass alert! Don’t waste your time watching all 14 minutes, just skip around.

09 Apr 09  /  Uncategorized  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

Great gallery of Matthew Laskowski’s work over at flylyf. His work has a very distinct Japanese inspired anime style, reminiscent of the work Japanese animation studio Madhouse did on the Paranoia Agent series.
Even more distinctly, his work reminds me of Koji Morimoto. The female character in Matt’s work even resembles the character Yoko from Beyond.

06 Apr 09  /  Uncategorized  /  2 Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

Reuben Margolin, a Bay Area visionary and longtime maker, creates totally singular techno-kinetic wave sculptures. Using everything from wood to cardboard to found and salvaged objects, Reubens artwork is diverse, with sculptures ranging from tiny to looming, motorized to hand-cranked. Focusing on natural elements like a discrete water droplet or a powerful ocean eddy, his work is elegant and hypnotic. Learn more about Reuben at http://www.reubenmargolin.com.

06 Apr 09  /  Art  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

The latest short film from London Squared Productions.
Urban Anthropologists, Andy and Carolyn London interview some of New York City’s more overlooked citizens.

05 Apr 09  /  Video  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

According to New York Magazine and anyone who desires to suckle from the tit of Charles Saatchi, “video game artist” Mark Essen (whose games include such masterpieces as PUNISHMENT, wherein you “try to climb to the top of the screen while the game tries to confuse you.”) is the next big thing and there is nothing you or your so-yesterday’s aesthetic can do about it.
At 22, Essen is about to erupt on the art scene. He is the youngest of the 50 artists [...]

02 Apr 09  /  Art  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

Paintings by Canadian-based Genevieve Simms.
Via: PICDIT

02 Apr 09  /  Art  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

Love it, love it as though you had four days left until you flew off to India to follow up on those two people who said they’d write back, but didn’t.

02 Apr 09  /  Uncategorized  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

Today I finally had enough of the way iTunes handles files (and by handle, I mean duplicating and mysteriously losing large groups of files at random), so I did a quick search for an alternative and came across Songbird. It’s touted as the Firefox for music, and so far it’s been pretty pleasant. My favorite feature, by far, is it’s built in Last.fm functionality. I’m going to spend the next few weeks with Songbird, and hopefully it will be the end to all of [...]

01 Apr 09  /  Uncategorized  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes