'Steak Filter vo' by Noah Feehan/AKA

I can't begin to explain how much this piece moved me.
From the moment i started watching the video i was captivated and rendered speechless.

Noah Feehans video art project 'Steak Filter vo' is a masterpiece.
In this visually abstract work a signal is passed through a raw steak as it cooks, changing and deteriorating alongside the meat.
Of the project Noah says "I'm trying to get at the reflexivity of live video -the taut line between the space and the image that results. It's possible to think of almost anything that mediates as a filter of some kind, sort of a "the-map-is-not-the-territory" territory." OMG.
He goes on to say...
"Part of my interest in video lies in its exploded body; the signal is a ghost that resonates and deforms, trapped in our waveguides: when the system powers down the image fades into incoherence, leaving no corpse behind. Steak Filter gives body to this infinite recursion, making it real; incarnate. With this corporeality comes mortality: as the meat sputters and pops, we watch the cascade of images until finally, the steak is done."

Simply beautiful!

Steak Filter v0 - init from AKA MEDIA SYSTEM on Vimeo.

The piece is a study for a performance series due to take pace at the Harvard Museum of Natural History this spring.
GO. CHECK. IT. OUT.

'Penny Bridleless and Bareback (Gotta Lotta Pennies; Appaloosa - Mustang)' by Youtube Artist Jawbreaker90210

I can't believe i've only just come across this amazing video by Youtube Artist Jawbreaker90210.
I've been following her career now for sometime but somehow managed to miss this film made back in March 2008.
Titled 'Penny Bridleless and Bareback (Gotta Lotta Pennies; Appaloosa - Mustang)' the film piece is a 'physical expression of her rebellion against a system which enforces us to conform'. So powerful, so true, so epic.

Vertical Bed 'Temporary Territories'

To describe Designer Jamie O’shea as a genius simply doesn't do him justice.
His new Vertical Bed allows the user to sleeping standing up right.
The bed comes packaged in a neat briefcase and with accessories such as noise canceling headphones, opaque sunglasses and a free-standing umbrella.
To promote the Vertical Bed O’shea slept for 40 minutes in downtown New York at Broadway and 33rd Street, with each sleep repeated at four hour intervals in a polyphasic sleep schedule. During that time he states he could "Smell the cologne of passersby and dreamed of a subversive delivery van".
You MUST watch the video. It's simply breathtaking.

Work No. 990

Work No. 990 by the Artist Martin Creed is a curtain that opens and closes.
But what i love most about this piece is the speed at which the curtains open and close and open and close.
It couldn't be more perfect.

Watch the video here.

Daniel Eatock

When you land on London based artist Daniel Eatocks website you are greeted by his beautiful philosophy towards the work he produces...

Begin with ideas
Embrace chance
Celebrate coincidence
Ad-lib and make things up
Eliminate superfluous elements
Subvert expectation
Make something difficult look easy
Be first or last
Believe complex ideas can produce simple things
Trust the process
Allow concepts to determine form
Reduce material and production to their essence
Sustain the integrity of an idea
Propose honesty as a solution

...and you know what? He's sooooooo right.
Take a look for yourself. MINDBLOWING!

Title: Resting on Both Surfaces

one colored balloon (filled with helium) resting on the underneth surface of a glass top table, a second balloon of a different color filled with breath (exhaled by a member of the gallery staff) resting on the tables top surface.

Title: Closed Loops (scissors that need scissors to open)

Five examples (see artists website for more) that enact a form of circular, if not familiar frustration induced by the conflicting imperatives of consumer packaging and product safety.

And finally one to match my recently purchased set of gold plated staples.

Title: Gold Bic Pen Cap (solid gold, cast from the cap of a Bic pen)

By replacing the cap of a standard Bic pen with a cast gold replica, this ubiquitous, generic writing implement is aligned with aspirations of luxury and trophies of academic and corporate achievement. It transforms the Bic pen it covers from a disposable tool into a hybrid carrier of value its owner might not want to misplace.

Looovely.

Copy Sluts

OMG! Don't you just wish you were Swedish?
If i could die and be re-incarnated, it wouldn't be as a butterfly or something like that, it would be as a Swedish person. Then i would be able to join the Über cool collective COPY SLUTS.
Artist Bjorn Bergmanson (pictured right) says of their latest project "We had the idea one night to just get a load of friends around to the Doonke (Home of the Copy Sluts), dress them up in some American Apparel gear and then photocopy their body parts and ours on an old photocopier that we picked up from a flea market in Copenhagen."
Of the work he goes on to say "We wanted to highlight the economic struggles and strains brought on society by the corporate and political leaders of the world by showing how 'the machine' dictates and controls all our actions and defines us as mere replications and products of our own existence." Cool.