Outré Gallery’s Mid-Century Soirée at the Robin Boyd House
September 11, 2010 at 1:28 am | Posted in art, events | 1 CommentTags: Outré Gallery, robin boyd house, Shag, walsh street house
Before it becomes a distant memory I want to put up some photos from the ‘Mid-Century Soirée’ that I attended last month. Held at the famous Walsh Street House in South Yarra, the cocktail party was organised by Outré Gallery to coincide with US artist Shag’s ‘Inscrutable Mystery Guide’ exhibition.
The Walsh Street House was designed in 1958 by the architect Robin Boyd and is featured in two of Shag’s paintings, one of which was the centrepiece for the evening.
Shag and his painting ‘Dickie Bird’ at the Walsh Street House Photo: John Raptis
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Shag Exhibition – Inscrutable Mystery Guide
August 31, 2010 at 1:25 am | Posted in art, events | Leave a commentTags: Exhibition, Josh Agle, Outré Gallery, Shag
Shag currently has an exhibition touring Australia titled ‘Inscrutable Mystery Guide’. The Melbourne opening night was held at Outré Gallery on Friday, August 14 with a cocktail party at the Walsh Street House by Robin Boyd on the Saturday night. With Shag also flying over from Los Angeles for the exhibition it seemed like the perfect excuse to fly over to Melbourne for the weekend. Below are some photo’s I took at the exhibition:
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Camera Tattoo Filmed in Stop-Motion (Part 3)
July 11, 2010 at 4:50 pm | Posted in art, film, photography | Leave a commentTags: camera, stop-motion, tattoo
For those of you that have been following the progress of Dabe Alan’s camera tattoo sleeve things start to get a bit digital in Part 3…
“So for this video the main two things that you’ll see are my very own Canon 5d Mark ii, and my favorite mouse I’ve ever owned, the Logitech MX518 (I TOLD you this was gonna get nerdier). With the addition of the glowing mouse, all the green that was glowing on the other cameras makes sense. You’ll also notice the 35mm film turning into pixels as it gets higher. Oh but it’s not gonna stop just there…” – Dabe Alan
For more info on the tattoo and stop motion film check out Dabe Alan’s flickr page here. His website is also looking pretty cool these days – www.dabealan.com
For more great work and other impressive nerd sleeves check out Tony Touch’s flickr page here
If you haven’t seen the previous parts of this stop-motion film check out Part 1 here and Part 2 here
Audrey Kawasaki
May 25, 2010 at 12:24 am | Posted in art | 3 CommentsTags: audrey kawasaki, painting, wood
Audrey Kawasaki is a painter and illustrator based in Los Angeles who works primarily with oil and graphite on wood panels. Each piece of timber is carefully selected and in some cases it almost looks as if the painting is dictating the wood grain itself.
“The themes in Audrey Kawasaki’s work are contradictions within themselves. Her work is both innocent and erotic. Each subject is attractive yet disturbing. Audrey’s precise technical style is at once influenced by both manga comics and Art Nouveau. Her sharp graphic imagery is combined with the natural grain of the wood panels she paints on, bringing an unexpected warmth to enigmatic subject matter.
The figures she paints are seductive and contain an air of melancholy. They exist in their own sensually esoteric realm, yet at the same time present a sense of accessibility that draws the observer to them. These mysterious young women captivate with the direct stare of their bedroom eyes.” audrey-kawasaki.com
Hit the jump below for more images and check out Audrey’s blog Okonomide for more photos of her process and close-ups of her latest work.
The Art of Keith Weesner
March 8, 2010 at 12:28 pm | Posted in art | Leave a commentTags: art, car culture, hot rods, lowbrow, pinups, vintage
Keith Weesner is an artist and hotrodder from Los Angeles, California who is best known for his paintings depicting vintage car culture and pin up illustration.
Keith studied automotive design at the Art Center in Pasadena and has worked in the animation industry creating background designs for the likes of Bruce Timm’s Batman, Superman and Justice League as well as Power Puff Girls and Gary Baseman’s Teacher’s Pet.
I really love the attention to detail and the texture that is created in his paintings from the reflections in the car bodies to the mid-century modern architecture, décor and signage.
To check out more of Keith Weesner’s work visit his website and myspace page.
For the Australian readers – his artwork is also available at Outré Gallery in Melbourne and Sydney.
Camera Tattoo Filmed in Stop-Motion (Part 2)
January 19, 2010 at 8:09 pm | Posted in art, film, photography | Leave a commentTags: camera, sleeve, stop-motion, tattoo
If you haven’t seen Part 1 check it out here.
Part 2 – The Sleeve Continues… the follow up to the extremely popular stop-motion film by Dabe Alan, which he filmed while getting his camera tattoo sleeve by Tony Touch.
For more info on the tattoo check out Dabe Alan’s flickr page here
For more great work by Tony Touch check out his flickr page here
Check out Part 3 of Dabe Alan’s tattoo in stop-motion here
Pop Art by Joey Maas
December 8, 2009 at 10:03 pm | Posted in art | 2 CommentsTags: acrylic, pop art
Joey Maas is a musician and pop artist hailing from Portland, Oregon.
Following a blog entry I did back in October on Sam Haskins’ 1962 photographic book ‘Five Girls’ I received a comment from Joey, letting me know that he was inspired to do a painting of Gill, one of the Five Girls.
I was pretty stoked to find out that My Design Fix played a small role in bringing this painting to life so I wanted to put it on here to share.
The image to the the right is the finished painting:
Notice it’s been done on laminate flooring rather than canvas which is pretty cool (I imagine it must take a bit longer to complete).
Below is some of Joey’s other work that I quite like as well.
To see more of Joey’s paintings (some of which are available to buy) check out his blog here.
Camera Tattoo Filmed in Stop-Motion
November 4, 2009 at 10:12 pm | Posted in art, film, photography | 24 CommentsTags: camera, stop-motion, tattoo
Here’s an awesome video by Dabe Alan that he filmed in stop-motion while being tattooed by Tony Touch.
This is cool on so many levels so I couldn’t help but post it onto My Design Fix. I love the vintage cameras, the cool tattoo, the insight into the detail and seeing the process from start to finish. The effect of the stop-motion looks awesome in its own right too.
For more info on the tattoo check out Dabe Alan’s flickr page here (Be sure to check out some of his other photos – he’s a great photographer)
For more great work by Tony Touch check out his flickr page here and his website pitheory.com.
Check out Part 2 of Dabe Alan’s tattoo in stop-motion here and Part 3 here
A Kiss From Tokyo
September 18, 2009 at 10:18 pm | Posted in art, film | 2 CommentsTags: film, retro, trailer, vintage
Following the movie posters and book, Kevin Dart has further brought to life the world of Yuki 7 via a theatrical trailer for ‘A Kiss From Tokyo’.
Made in collaboration with animator Stephane Coedel and music composer Cyrille Marchesseau the resulting animation (set in 1964) is every bit the vintage spy film complete with faded logo, film grain and audio pops.
Video via Stephane Coedel’s Vimeo page.
For a really insightful interview looking into this collaboration process check out artofthetitle.com here.
Seductive Espionage: The World of Yuki 7
September 18, 2009 at 10:15 pm | Posted in art, books | Leave a commentTags: kevin dart, seductive espionage, spy, Yuki-7
To accompany the Yuki 7 film posters (check them out here) Kevin Dart has produced a very slick looking book titled Seductive Espionage: The World of Yuki 7.
The book contains artwork by Kevin Dart along with contributions from a number of his friends and colleagues to create a pseudo “Art of” book with production artwork, movie stills, posters, and behind-the-scenes stories about the making of the Yuki 7 movies.
Seductive Espionage: The World of Yuki 7 is available at Kevin Dart’s online store here.
Also click here to check out the third element to this cool project: the theatrical trailer to ‘A Kiss From Tokyo’ .
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