Monster Pod

Posted on January 4, 2007 Under Design

Who wouldn't want a Viscoelastic Polymer-based tripod that sticks to anything? The Monster Pod sticks to trees, brick walls, marble, cement, sheet rock, wire fences, metal poles, in the cold, in the heat, upside down, wet or dry-- you get…

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Alexandre Orion Metabolics Project: Photo Miami

Posted on December 15, 2006 Under Art

The origin of the word 'Metabolics' comes from the word Metabiosis, meaning intermediary symbiosis: a more indirect dependency in which the second organism uses something the first created, however after the death of the first. Alexandre Orion's work ingeniously captures…

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Lois Renner: Scope Miami

Posted on December 13, 2006 Under Art

While visiting the Scope Miami show last weekend, we had the pleasure of seeing some of Austrian Lois Renner's artistic photography. Lois tries to hurdle the limitations of media with his large format photographs, and breathes a mysterious living quality…

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Dionisio Gonzalez Photography

Posted on December 11, 2006 Under Art

Some of the most impressive photography work we saw at Photo Miami came from Dionisio Gonzalez, who deftly documents the architectural disarrangement of shanty towns in Sao Paolo, Brazil by piecing together photos of the shanty towns themselves with photos…

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Gregory Cohen: The Mobile Gallery

Posted on December 11, 2006 Under Art

I really need to give a nod for the ingenuity (not to mention the photographs) of Gregory Cohen-- this weekend we viewed his mobile photography exhibit literally across the street from Pulse Miami, running out of a souped up U-Haul…

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Starn Studio: Snow Study V

Posted on December 11, 2006 Under Art

We hope you have been enjoying our 'wrap-ups' of Art Basel Miami events we've been posting. The wrap-up format has its advantages-- it allows us to bring a large amount and broad range of content to your attention all at…

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Photo Miami: The Wrapup

Posted on December 10, 2006 Under Life

Fair stop 2 of 3 in our art-packed day was to Photo Miami, and I have to say we were thoroughly impressed with the majority of the 43 exhibitors at the show. The overall theme to the fair was international…

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Meg Pukel: Street Life Miami

Posted on December 8, 2006 Under Art

We stopped by Meg Pukel's latest exhibit here in miami last night, entitled 'Street Life'. The photos help illustrate the transition of urban Miami over the last several years. Pukel, a Miami native focuses on capturing the imposition that once…

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Boogie: It’s All Good In Vancouver

Posted on November 14, 2006 Under Books

Boogie, the infamous street-photographer has a show coming up on November 17th, 2006 at 36 Powell Street in Vancouver. Boogie originally born in Serbia migrated to the US in '98. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vice, among many…

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Leif Parsons

Posted on November 1, 2006 Under Design

Brooklyn-based Leif Parsons is talented, creative, fresh, and has a great sense of humor-- and his illustrations and photography reflect his personal attributes. Leif's creativity led him to create a brand around his own identity-- not uncommon these days, but…

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