So touchpuppet crowd, what do you think? I will probably make an order for these shirts before I leave for Tokyo on August 2. Would you rock our t-shirts? Lets us know! If everyone hates them I will be more than happy to go back and design something else.

19 Jul 09  /  Touchpuppet  /  7 Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

This is one of three viral films created by Mainframe to promote Tomas, the new book by Ministry of Sound co-founder James Palumbo.
Mainframe has animated three virals to promote Tomas, a book written by Ministry of Sound co-founder James Palumbo that offers an aggressive challenge to the present financial turmoil’s moral corruption. The virals — Champagne Jungle, Hank, and Cocks Away — bring the book to life by animating its controversial illustrations. – Digital Arts
View the other two videos after the jump.

19 Jul 09  /  Campaigns, Video  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

Love these shots of Anna Selezneva by Hedi Slimane.

19 Jul 09  /  Photography  /  2 Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

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18 Jul 09  /  Photography  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

The New York times has a nice write up and walk through of Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman’s collaborative “Black Acid Co-Op” exhibit at the Deitch gallery.
Deitch’s latest foray into the noncommercial is “Black Acid Co-op,” an immense, labor-intensive, maniacally contrived walk-through environment. A warren of some dozen rooms, interiors and passageways, it includes a burned-out home methamphetamine lab, a red-carpeted gallery of pseudo-artworks and a hippie haven.
More images after the jump.

18 Jul 09  /  Art  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

Photographers Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader shoot some very entertaining animated portraits of Paul Pavlovska for Spiral Magazine.

18 Jul 09  /  Photography  /  7 Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

For those of you unfamiliar with the work of the recently deceased Dash Snow, here is a gigantic look back at some of his Polaroid work.

18 Jul 09  /  Art  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

I’m a little late with this, but I just found out that Dash Snow died of a heroin overdose earlier this week. I am confounded by his death because although its tragic, it was almost too predictable to even be bothered by. The art world fueled his death with praise and recognition for living a lifestyle they deemed worthy of a true artistic genius (note: he wasn’t), and in the end got exactly what they wanted, another very young and very dead artist to auction off.
Hard-living, cop-dodging New York collage artist, photographer, and graffiti writer Dash Snow has [...]

18 Jul 09  /  Art  /  1 Comment  /  Zachary Hayes