This video comes from Frank Warren over at the one of the best sites on the web, PostSecret. It's bright, hopeful, lonely, dark and even a little disturbing. Everything that you've come to expect each Sunday from PostSecret.
Aside from being a font, Trebuchet is a rather fascinating cousin to the catapult. Unlike the aforementioned device which relies on wound up tension being sudden released, the Trebuchet employs a massive counterweight system to hurl it's payload skyward.
The footage is from the infamous Burning Man Festival. BTW, I am not the one who censored the topless woman on stilts at the beginning of the video. I wanted to see that as much as you did. Thanks to Noel for leading me to this one.
Last month I took a little trip down to South America. It was mainly a vacation, but as an art adventurer I felt that I had to bring back a report. I also knew that there's a pretty great street art scene down there, and it was my goal to meet some of the artists and see what they're up to.
I ended up meeting one of the members of the DOMA crew, a group of four guys who have been doing art in Buenos Aires for about a decade. They have a bunch of other friends that paint with them and they're doing some terrific murals around the city. They also get visitors from around the world who come to paint with them. London Police have done collaborations, German artist BLU and Shark from Zurich.
In the video I talk with Julian(Chu) of the DOMA crew and visit NASA in his shop in Buenos Aires.
Brazilian artist Alexandre Orion began his pursuits as a teenage graffiti artist in the streets of Sao Paulo City. Now, in his late twenties, Orion experiments with combining his street art and his fascination with photography... a process he calls Metabiotica. He expresses his stencil style art on the walls of the city and then incorporates interaction with live subjects to create a new photographic image... some staged, some merely recorded. You can see a film of his work on YouTube below, although he is speaking Portugese and the subtitles seem to be Icelandic (or something). An extensive catalog of his images can be found at his official website.
Since April of this year (2007) I have taken something of a vacaton from this blog. Upon revisiting, I found that several of my favorite videos (namely Amy Sedaris' appearance on Letterman and her voiceover for the demented cartoon "Puberty Pals") had been pulled due that pesky issue of copyright. So I have (sadly) dleted those here. I'm hoping to now start to post more regularly.
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