antonio martinez

Martinez will be showing a 6.5-minute film entitled Near The Egress, which is a compiled stop-motion animation using a series of black-and-white film prints.

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jim vecchi

Jim Vecchi creates conceptual photographic images which focus on minute details; his latest series — and the series on display at Blue Sky Photography Gallery — is entitled so much depends… and revolves around the poetry of American poet William Carlos Williams whose “poems centered on the quotidian aspects of life.” Read Vecchi’s notes behind the series here.

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lori waselchuk

Grace Before Dying is a series of black-and-white wide-format images photo-documenting a maximum-security prison in Louisiana. The series was created over the period of three years, focusing on a prisoner-run hospice program at the penitentiary.

Enveloping oil paintings and stop-motion videos constitute the bulk of Ben Weiner’s current solo show at Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles. Entitled Material And Illusion, the show is only running through July 3rd, 2010, so please catch this minimalistic, abstract breath of fresh air while you still can.

(Note of interest: rather than writing out his materials in layman’s terms, Weiner opts to use chemical names, adding to the whole illusion for the show. An example of materials used in his work: C3H8O2, H2O, NaC18H36O2, C9H10O2, C28H20N2Na2O8S2.)

Below are screen shots from his video clips:

Multi-talented musician/artist/everything Sebastian Blanck has some pretty cool time-lapse collage portraits posted on his Vimeo. Check out this one of Chris Keating of Yeasayer:

Chris Keating from sebastianblanck on Vimeo.

And this one of Hisham Bharoocha from Soft Circle:

Hisham Bharoocha from sebastianblanck on Vimeo.

A documentary started by artist and art promoter Mark Murphy of Murphy Design, Scribble.08 follows the Los Angeles art scene by honing in on the works of artists like the Clayton Brothers, Camille Rose Garcia, Jeff Soto, Kevin Christy, Martha Rich, Tim Biskup, and Joe Sorren (pictured above). Newly edited and reworked, the film features interviews and takes a look into the creative process of these individuals. You can read more about the documentary on Murphy Design’s Blog.

www.murphydesign.com
www.claytonbrothers.com
www.camillerosegarcia.com
www.jeffsoto.com
www.kevinsayshi.com
www.martharich.com
www.timbiskup.com
www.joesorren.com
murphydesign1.blogspot.com

Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.

Nuformer, a Dutch multimedia agency, has come out with an interesting video showcasing images projected onto building facades to create the illusion of random events happening, from buildings crumpling to bouncy balls falling from rooftops. An interesting watch, and although everything happening in this video is probably being achieved with special effects, it could be a marker of something exciting that’s to come. (That being said, don’t go to their website expecting other exciting things, because their website is pretty poor, and their other projects pretty boring.)

www.nufromer.nl/en/

Because m’girl, Swoon is in it.
And because artists are people, too. Sort of, not really.

Laemmle Music Hall 3
9036 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211

www.ourcitydreams.com

This isn’t usually the type of art we’d cover in this blog, but this is just too simultaneously interesting and cruel to leave out!

Bad ass.
Who’s as excited as I am?