Tom Marioni
Via Bryce at Bad at Sports.
The Act of Drinking Beer With Friends is the Highest Form of Art, 2008.
Allan Fisher Drinks a Case of Beer, 1972
From China to Czechoslovakia, 1976
Zak Kitnick
Totally love this project by Zak Kitnick, “COMPENDIUM.” The campy (but, admittedly delicious looking) gourmet posters can be seen as a sort of anachronistic Google image search page. Seeing them assembled together removes them yet another degree from their native habitats of suburban kitchens and dining rooms. Once (and I’m just talking about 10 or 15 years ago), a cornucopia of exotic fruits and mushrooms like these would have been hard to imagine together in one spread. I like how these posters – assembled together – subtly suggest a similar absurdity to the endless selection of foodstuffs we can find at any Whole Foods today.
Stamps from the Memory of the Netherlands Archives
I’ve been finding amazing things on the “Geheugen van Nederland” (Memory of the Netherlands). Their collection of stamps in itself is noteworthy. Hi-res scans of original art and more.
Here are a few I chose for the crypt.
Sharon Core
What do you think of these photographs? Several mimic Wayne Thiebaud paintings – technically really impressive, but I don’t know how interesting that is beyond the wit. It makes you wonder if there was any food styling (painting on blemishes or spraying on moisture, for example) done to her other photographs. Perhaps the real interest to me is that the objects and the light cast on them in each image receive the bulk (or all) of the manipulation – rather than food photography that is doctored in post.
