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KAWS Coming to the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

This is pretty cool, KAWS has an upcoming exhibit slated for June at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT just a bit of a train ride away. You’d probably recognize KAWS iconic skull-and-crossbones in his work ranging from graffiti, paintings, toys, clothing, statues, accessories, footwear, etc. etc. I’m hoping there’ll be some KAWS merch here, because for anyone that knows anything about KAWS, the minute something is released on his website it is almost always instantly sold out. I hope I make it out to this when it happens!

via Highsnobiety via Arrested Motion with photo via DDJ

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ALIVESHOES = Fashion + Art + Sustainability

Here is an awesome project called ALIVESHOES (not to be confused with ALIFE) that brings together ideas of high fashion, sustainability and artistic expression. Each shoe is beautifully hand-crafted and numbered in Italy with sustainable materials like untreated and organic natural cotton, leather and cork, ecologically scented foam rubber and fully biodegradable TPU polyurethane. Each shoe is also individually hand-colored. These shoes also feature the original sketch of the installment stitched into the tongue. As ALIVESHOES says on their own site, “wearing ALIVESHOES is like wearing nature itself.”

These shoes are then used as the medium to create sculptures and art installations. Above is a photo from Steve Siegel’s Beach Blocks, an installation of a large number of shoes on a beautiful landscape in Srolo, Italy. The shoes used in the installation are now available for purchase for a base level of 150 EUROS, which covers the material costs, and the option to build up your contribution to charitable partners and future art projects. The purchase page is super cool as well and let’s you pick the individual shoe you want. Tons of monochrome color options!

These are some seriously beautiful shoes and I am yearning for a pair myself. You can tell a lot of love went into each shoe. There are more projects to come from ALIVESHOES and they look awesome so I recommend you go check them out. The price is a bit steep but hopefully, one day I’ll get my hands on a pair! My birthday is coming up, friends & family… I would like light blue.. size 43….

Check out ALIVESHOES (via Thrillist)

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Alex Roman’s The Third & The Seventh

This is perhaps one of the most beautiful short films I have ever seen. Oh, and the entire thing is animated. Alex Roman’s animated piece “tries to illustrate architecture across a photographic point of view.” The Third & The Seventh is super surreal and I suggest you click through to watch the video in full-screen. This channels a similar vibe as Ron Fricke’s non-narrative movie Baraka. It’s not just a cool idea that everything here is animated, the actual movie is pretty captivating, with amazing directing and great music (sequenced, orchestrated, mixed by Roman but based on original scores by Michael Nyman and Camille Saint-Saëns).

**oops correction, some non-animated elements. Explained in the comments: “I think i must make it clear. There are a few non-CG elements in the shortfilm: photographer (shot on greenscreen), pigeons, timelapsed growing flowers, flying airplane and sky backgrounds.”

Made using 3dsmax, VRay, AfterEffects and Premiere. Heads up to Eileen for showing me this!

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman

thirdseventh.com/