Kylie Minogue: "Slow" + Stereolab: "Contranatura" + Mr. Oizo: "Calculatrix" plus scene from "Airplane" (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker). Mix and Edit: Okarola, Berlin 2012. Download MP3 on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/okarola/slow-okarola-mix
In “Unreal Estate,” Doyle explores locations found throughout popular culture in a variety of limited-edition hand-printed screen prints and original art."From Moe’s Tavern to the Bluth Banana Stand, Doyle’s realistic and illustrative reinterpretations of television’s most iconic places is a captivating voyage. In the artists words, “Unreal Estate’ is a collection of locations that many of us know and have been to on a weekly basis at times, but can never actually visit. These places are in our memories transmitted and entrenched there through a cathode-ray tube. Some of us have been going to these places for decades, some of these places were taken from us, way too soon ...Noch mehr Unreal Estate nach dem Klick – entgegen der sonst hier üblichen Praxis, weil es kein Portfolio zum Verlinken gibt ...
"As traditional church windows show the iconography of saints, through representations of events in their lives, instruments of martyrdom and iconic motifs, Fox plays with the symbolism of each character’s cult of personality; Albert Hoffman takes a psychedelic bicycle ride above the LSD molecule, J G Ballard dissects the world, surrounded by 20th Century imagery and the eroticism of the car crash, and Johnny Cash holds his inner demon in chains after a religious experience in Nickerjack cave. One quality in particular binds these characters and the others together; a refusal to conform and conviction in their own ideology. Working with traditional methods ... Fox is producing a set of twelve 2.5 metre high stained-glass windows; exhibited in a single room – an alternative church of alternative saints ..."(via Animal)
Stuttgart 21 "South Park 21" Legetrickfilm / Ein Projekt von Studenten der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
"Like Star Trek’s universal translator, the Babel fish is a simple plot device used to avoid the obvious obstacle of an interstellar language barrier. But like all good science fiction, the story and the characters here exist as vehicles for larger ideas. And with the Babel fish Douglas Adams, a self-described radical atheist, dismisses both Intelligent Design and the circular logic of religious extremism in one fell swoop..." The Galaxy’s a fun place. You’ll need to have this fish in your ear.
"Walking through The Vader Project exhibit at Celebration IV is like taking a stroll through a Darth Vader tribute done by the coolest lowbrow and urban artists on the planet. Frank Kozik, Paul Frank Sunich, Marc Ecko and Urban Medium (among numerous others) gave Darth Vader’s helmet a hipster makeover. As fans walk through the exhibit they can see the artist’s own unique style featured on each helmet." Offical Star Wars Blog: Taking a Tour of The Vader Project
Picture Book Report: It begins with a house: "Once I had decided to interpret The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I knew that this scene would be my first illustration. [...] It’s the opening scene in the text adventure game version, as well, which I never had the patience to conquer, and always found myself, in the role of Arthur Dent, dead before ever leaving the house."
"Quite awhile back I spent a huge deal of time drawing this thing pretty much pixel by pixel. [ ... ] Be warned, it’s kind of long." Ultimate MS Paint(via my modern MET)
