Off Center

Outside Ideas from Inside the Walker Art Center

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by Paul Schmelzer at 10:53 am 2007-01-08
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• Geek Love: The much-blogged story of the Super Mario wedding cake, a custom design for the marriage of New Media’s Brent, keeps going and going. This weekend, the St. Paul Pioneer Press talked with the bride and groom about how the self-described “Web geeks” met and how the cake came to be.

• Anime-tion: The Simpsons and Futurama characters, as if drawn by an anime artist.

• Graffvertising: Does the rise of graffiti art, in the ad mecca of New York, have anything to do with a supersaturation of advertising? In his Design master’s thesis at St. Martin’s in London, Alex Kataras concludes that “graffiti art is the logical progression of art. A combination of art, popular culture and the guiding principle of advertising which is omnipresent.” While calling the thesis “a bit of a stretch,” folks over at Fallon ponder other parallels, those of advertising and graffiti, brands and the graf writer’s tag. (Thanks, Justin.)

• Promising podcasts: Haven’t listened yet, but MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies has a compelling lineup of audioblog features with artists, including Harrell Fletcher, Vito Acconci, and Simon Starling.


 

3 Comments

  1. Here’s the link for the Pioneer Press article. http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/living/16386525.htm

    Comment by Justin — 1/8/2007 @ 11:52 am

  2. Thanks, Justin.

    Comment by Paul Schmelzer — 1/8/2007 @ 12:10 pm

  3. […] back we linked to an anime artist’s rendering of The Simpson’s. Now here’s the Peanuts gang, […]

    Pingback by Off Center » Manga Peanuts — 9/3/2007 @ 8:06 am

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