I read this article by Robin Sloan last Spring and really enjoyed it, and is SUPER on point as far as our next section (scanning and printing).  Robin Sloan is an writer, not an artist by trade, but he has done some interesting things digitally, such as being the first person ever to integrate twitter into a live TV broadcast (during the 2008 presidential campaign), or releasing a “tappable essay” as an ipad app.  I highly encourage you to read the article because it’s the bomb.com.  His work often comments on trends in digital and popular culture.

www.robinsloan.com/note/flip-flop/

Quoteable quotes:

“the flip-flop (n.) the process of pushing a work of art or craft from the physical world to the digital world and back again—maybe more than once”

“It is probably the fate of most fruits of the flip-flop, indeed most works of art, in the early 21st century to end up as animated GIFs.”

The team of Sheila Munro and Matthew J. Chin of “Dropping Form Designs” create jewelry as well as sculptures, and even cell phone cases. Their work is very intricately detailed, and seems to follow a pattern throughout the various pieces.

www.geomatrixstudio.com/

I’ve been working a lot recently with fashion and wearables as interactive performance, and right now I’m drawing inspiration from some molded/cast clothing.  Alexander McQueen and Jean-Paul Gaultier have done some great stuff with molding stiff fabrics and leather, as well as a few cast pieces.  (List of designers who have done molded pieces is pretty long, considering almost every leather piece is molded somehow).

I wanted to post up some work by one of my favorite designers, Iris Van Herpen, from her Spring/Summer ’11 collection, which was themed around the crystallization of water.  Most critics consider it her best work.  The collection features a lot of cast transparent resins, designed to look like exploding water frozen in time, as well as 3d printed pieces and a variety of really great uses of leather.

I can put up images of her work all day, but I think this is enough to give you a good general idea.  Also Google exists.

Her Website: www.irisvanherpen.com/

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Jonathan

Mold Making: Sonya Vasquez Wax Artist

Sonya Vasquez is an artist that makes wax figures of real people.  She works with the Wax Museum to amaze replicas of famous people.  She begins by taking a mold of the person.  She takes different molds of each part of the body.  She then fills in the molds with wax.  She pays such close attention to detail, and the figures look very life-like.

Went on a little street-art expedition with help from Max Gonzales in New York City.
We wheatpasted my Danlars on a few spots in New York.