A Friday round up of links and other lovely internet things. This ones a bit of a lazy edition as I’ve posted a lot of these on my Twitter recently.
++ The image above is from the incredible Car Crash Study series by Nicolai Howalt. His close ups of dents and scratches, studies of spent airbags and shots of destroyed and shattered windscreens turn the violence of a car crash into something still and quite beautiful
++ Bunnylicious – A blog that solely displays pictures of bunnies, and I don’t mean CuteOverload style pictures of rabbits being adorable, I mean Bunnylicious finds surreal, disturbing, cute and sexy artwork with one thing in common – it features bunnies.
++ A rare fashion-related link, I’m not usually a fan of personal style blogs but I do think that fetish model/artist/stylist Sohui has crazyhot style and I’m into her white-blonde har and lack of eyebrows. Her blog – Filth in the Beauty – is pretty new but I think, worth following.
++ Interview with the legendary Marina Abramovic regarding her recent endurance piece ‘The Artist Is Present’ in New York.
++ Piece by one of the artists who recreated Marina’s work during her retrospective at MOMA: The Artist Laid Bare. The idea of recreating other peoples performances is strange and fascinating to me. Want to explore my thoughts on it all.
Finally, another edition of the infrequent but delicious Mixtape. My grand plans of making it happen weekly didn’t exactly get off the ground but hopefully there’s a few dirty, arty treats here that should make the wait worthwhile.
++ The J.G Ballard inspired Crash exhibition at the Gagosian gallery has now ended (boo!) but there’s a great selection of images online here
++ Untitled Hardcore Zombie Project is probably the greatest name for an exhibition I’ve ever heard and there’s some very cool photos from this exhibition, of a project in progress by Bruce LeBruce, which was held in LA and is related to his upcoming film LA Zombie. I love the blood smears surrounding the photos! As the title suggests, the images are hardcore, meaning you can see cock in them, so be careful clicking that link. As an aside, I saw Bruce working on part of this project at an event in London, I was totally in lust with his naked, bloody zombie guys.
++ Glass shells for hermit crabs! I found this strange, beautiful picture and had no idea really where it came from or what it was about, after a bit of research I discovered that some marine biologists in New Zealand created glass shells so they could study the crabs better by seeing inside their homes. More information can be found here. Fascinating.
++ IArtist kits allow you to make recreations of well known modern art works, from Hirst’s diamond skull to Emin’s tent.The one that caught my eye though was the Mark Quinn kit – your very own blood head sculpture for £20 – I have no idea if this is a spoof site or a genuine product, but it amuses me.
[Image = Crashed by Richard Prince. As seen at the Gagosian Crash exhibition]
Things that I am fully in love with this week include:
++ Wallpaper* Magazine’s recent sex issue featured these incredible typography tart cards, I find it hard to resist anything that mixes sex & good design and this excellent gallery is well worth a browse.
++ Zak Smith is basically my favorite mad hot porn star slash mindblowingly talented artist on the internet, so I was thrilled to discover Road Of Knives, an ongoing project of his with fellow artists Shawn Cheng, and Nicholas Di Genova. It’s like an artistic game of Exquisite Corpse which the site sums up as ‘Zak Smith, Shawn Cheng, and Nicholas Di Genova take turns drawing monsters fighting each other…’ [found via Burnlab]
++ Bethany Shorb gets everything right in her ‘Black Tie Red Car’ series. A Ballard/Cronenberg inspired set of photos featuring broken glass, stylish ties and blood red jewels.
++ I’m amazed that I’ve only just discovered the Street Anatomy blog, but it’s awesome. Anatomy in art & design – perfect!
++ My love/hate relationship with Lady Gaga leaps back to LOVE due to the blinged-up neck brace, wheelchair striptease and crutch-supported dance routine that feature in the Paparazzi video. Total medical fetish gone pop. Check it out below:
