This Wednesday, February 1st, Van Gogh Up Close will be opening at the Philadelphia Art Museum. I’m really excited for it as I love Van Gogh’s work. I just purchased my ticket for the guided tour Friday morning and can’t wait! Below is an overview of the exhibit from visitphilly.com
Philadelphia will be the only place in the United States to see the incredible collection of works by Vincent van Gogh that helped change the course of modern painting. Created between 1886-1890, these paintings captured the final tumultuous years of van Gogh’s life and his feverish artistic experimentation up until his death.
Radically altering and often outright abandoning traditional painting techniques, van Gogh shunned conventional still life and landscape methods and experimented with depth of field and focus. Familiar subjects were brought “up close” into the extreme foreground or were focused on in unprecedented ways.
Van Gogh Up Close highlights his shift in tradition with more than 40 masterpieces borrowed from collections around the world. Pieces of fruit threaten to roll out of the picture, tree trunks dominate the frame and the intricate patterning of an Emperor moth are just a few scenes to explore during the exhibition.
Into the Void
Posted by Alex.Guenst on January 13th, 2012
Void Skateboards is a local brand created and operated out of Philly that’s spreading the good vibes of shredding some wicked looking wood. It’s almost been a year since the ground cracked open and revealed this eldritch creation and as feedback of its products spreads, so does its influence. The boards come in larger sizes, about 8.0-8.5, are made from quality wood and keep their shape throughout the onslaught of gnardom.
Celebrating Friday the 13th, as well as the new year, Void is launching a sale where you can pick any of these up for $40 a deck at any of these fine shops: Reign, Exit, Homebase, Kinetic, and Black Diamond. The sale runs until the end of the month so support this local brand, local shops, and for god’s sake don’t let the winter stifle that burning desire to ride.
I dont even know how to understand this let alone try to describe it but here i go. Cornell and DARPA have come together to stop events from happening!! Well not stop but just mask them from us knowing it is happening or has happened, basically stopping events.
Now the event they have masking is 40 trillionth of a second long, but its a really thing happened in reality, CRAZY!!! I need to go back to my quantum beam ray clocking klingon physics. If you too want to try and understand this start with this Huff post article.
For the past eight months, I’ve been working with a team of friends across the country on a uniquely collaborative project, which combines my hand-painted artwork with mobile entertainment to create an iPhone game called Catball Eats It All. I’m excited to announce today that it is now available in the App Store!
Catball Eats It All features one of my original characters, a fuzzy Catball, whose sole goal is to eat everything in sight. It eats to grow big, with an insatiable desire for more food, more of everything, eating it all until you have eaten the entire level itself. However, there is a catch; each level you explore has a timer, which you must beat (by Eating It All) before it runs out; if you don’t, a large dog, named Dogwall, will devour you.
The controls are deceptively simple; you need to navigate using a Sleek mode to zip along quickly, and a Puff mode to puff up to the hard-to-reach areas, all while orienting yourself with a source of gravity that shifts constantly, depending on your orientation to the center of the map.
One of the things that makes this game different is immediately apparent when you see pick it up – everything in-game, from levels, to characters, to food items and powerups, to even menu screens and buttons, has a very different look and feel; it’s all hand-painted! You can see a time-lapse of our process here:
It’s available as a free download in the App Store, and you can purchase full level packs and Catball character skins within the App. If you like it please be sure to give us a good rating.
Ever since NASA announced that the last maned shuttle was going into space i have been a bit sad. I know that people going into space isn’t actually over, its actually becoming possible for normal people to go into space now which is great. I just will miss the pageantry, the less then 1% idea and the sci-fi aspect.
The reason why i just rambled about that was because i just came across this rad photographer by the name of Vincent Fournier who has a fantastic body of work all about OUTER SPACE!
An amazing show went down last night at THE MID. If you missed the sets by KID KOALA or DJ QBERT you can see only some of what happened last night in the gallery. If you want to see what these to DJ juggernauts are capable of you are either going to have to check out videos on youtube, buy there music or go out and watch them live. If I were you I would go with option three, it is by far the best. Until that happens enjoy the few photos we have.
