Jean Jullien, a French artist based in London and an old friend of TFIB, has a new exhibit at the Kemistry Gallery called Allo? The show is filled with observational pieces, works that find humor and sadness in our everyday life. His ability to bring a wit to the ordinary is brought to life thanks to his signature style of art, slightly sketch and slightly cartoon-ish which encapsulates the idea of our lives. He also worked with Ana Tiquia to create a series of augemented reality posters.
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March 1, 2013 - See more posts by Bobby
“The Pub” is a wonderful short animation written and directed by Joseph Pierce. After picking up a slew of awards at the festival circuit it has finally made it’s way onto Vimeo and it was certainly worth the wait. Produced by Fifty Nine Productions, the film captures a day in the life of a barmaid who works at a murky North London pub.
Created using rotoscope animation, Pierce’s work has a wonderfully distinctive style to it. His characters warp and disform as they jitter on the screen and I feel that the technique works particularly well here. With every changing frame of animation we get to see these characters morph and jitter about as they occasionally reveal their suppressed emotions. It’s a great approach to the technique and it’s executed brilliantly here. “The Pub” is at times an unsettling watch but there’s beauty to be found in both its honesty and despair.
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March 1, 2013 - See more posts by Philip
It’s that time of year when folks start to guess about who might be awarded this year’s Pritzker Prize, the annual that “honors a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision, and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.” I’m not going to make a guess this year, mostly because I don’t want to be wrong for the third year in a row, but partly because the recents laureates have not be very well known and it’s quite possible that the committee will one-up themselves this year and I’ll have no idea who the laureate is.
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February 28, 2013 - See more posts by Alex
If You’re Feeling Sinister will always be one of my favorite albums. Released in 1996, it wasn’t until college that I was finally introduced to it. Although unknown to me at the time, my introduction to the band couldn’t have been more aptly clichéd; a mixtape from a girl far hipper then me, the backdrop of an art-school, a heavy helping of introspection and countless trips on city buses. In truth, there was no way that this album wasn’t going to play an important role in my developmental years.
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February 25, 2013 - See more posts by Philip
The Academy Awards are airing this Sunday, and in anticipation of the event, Vanity Fair has dedicated its March issue to all things Hollywood. To be fair, they do this every March, but this year’s issue sees Tinseltown through an illustration made popular 80 years ago. In 1933, caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias illustrated the brightest stars of the time against a Malibu beach backdrop. This year, artist André Carrilho riffs on the theme but takes it a step further by filming his entire process—from freehand drawing to Photoshop rendering.
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February 22, 2013 - See more posts by Andi