Archive for June, 2008

3D Miro? Philly’s ‘MetaphorM’ artists talk 6/7 at Suyama Space

Carolyn Healy and John Phillips, collaborative artists based in Philadelphia, work with light and complex “drawings” made of interlocking rods, cables, ropes, pulleys, minimal sound and video.
Constructivist geometry of both the sculptural elements and the movement of projected light shapes will create a sense of visual acrobatics. —SuyamaPetersonDeguchi.com/Art
“Visual acrobatics?”
Granted this is artspeak. But […]

Capitol Hill Community Council Election is Tomorrow

Capitol Hill Community Council is re-forming.
No one can tell you why, but it was dormant for years. Now, a group of folks is organizing an election to kick-start it again. It’s tomorrow evening, at CHAC.
If you live in the area, here’s your chance: there are six people running for various officer positions, they will […]

Dream Kitchen: Drunkards’ Walk and Other Random Artistic Pursuits

This Friday, we are hosting another co-working day with special guest Mark VonRosenstiel.

Mark is a graphic artist, a sculptor, a furniture designer, an avid soccer and basketball player, a street-art educator, a web development wizard, and a high-math theorist.

Drunkard's Walk

Dunkin’ Donuts: Bad donuts, worse coffee

All right, all you fellow East Coast transplants in Seattle.
Hear me out on this one: Dunkin Donuts is just plain untasty.
Yes! I was one of you!
I used to make my regular run to Dunkin’ Donuts in Brooklyn, NYC, and did not even know that what I was consuming was the stuff of […]

Rachel Ray’s scarf, or Dunkin Donuts’ coffee?

Lotta controversy right now on the Internet surrounding the Dunkin Donuts ad with the woman wearing a “jihadi chic” scarf.
What?
Yes! People writing furiously on the Internet want to know if Donuts will survive the viral uproar about the ad with a “kaffiyeh”-looking thing draped around a woman smiling with her cup of Dunkin’ Donuts […]

On Deck: June Korner

Design Kompany hosts Designers Korner tomorrow, Monday, June 2 at Stumbling Monk in Capitol Hill.
If you’re into design, art, architecture, DNA, video animation, Flash, Ticket to Ride, or anything else related to making things and being creative, stop on by.
By far our favorite DK event, Korner has become something of a regular monthly “zoning […]

“Could you also make me a drawing book?” Epilogue

Japanese manga artist Marita Morita heard about the plea for Naruto drawing book, and the pathetic efforts some imbibed, so-called “designers” were making. Naturally, he had to step in.

… Yeah, it’s my brother, and I put him to it. The drawing was transmitted to us via his cell phone camera, so the masterly details […]




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