Street Skiing
From the movie All.I.Can by Sherpas Cinema, this is the JP Auclair Street Segment directed by Dave Mossop & JP Auclair and shot in the town of Nelson, B.C.
Christine Sun Kim
A terrific little short on artist Christine Sun Kim by Todd Selby
Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn
Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker is a very compelling video of knife maker Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn from Made by Hand.
Move
MOVE from Rick Mereki. And don’t miss the equally compelling LEARN and EAT
Two Giants
Two giants of painting have died within weeks of each other. First Cy Twombly at 83. And now Lucian Freud, dead at 88.
Wugazi
Wugazi • 13 Chambers by WUGAZI
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Gil Scott-Heron
Rest in Peace, Gil Scott-Heron.
Nikki Rosato
You’ll really like Nikki Rosato’s Cut Maps. The Boston artist has created lacy, ghost figures out of roadmaps.
The Final Edition
The New York Times: The Final Edition.
Meanwhile, in Williamsburg
At Ground Zero, the death of Osama bin Laden was greeted with great jingoistic fervor within hours. But the next morning underneath Williamsburg it was a different story.
The Character
The Character by Candice Breitz
Stars Have a Whiskey at Specs
Stars | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
The band Stars do a Takeaway Show in a San Francisco bar.
Spy Magazine
What the Internet is good for: Google has digitized every issue of Spy magazine.
The Google Art Project
It’s even better than you think. This week the Google Art Project debuted, giving anyone an inexhaustible, close-up view of the world’s top art museum collections. You can explore the galleries with a street-view like perspective and then zoom into each work of art, which are photographed at an average 7 billion pixels per image. Currently there are 17 museum collection available including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, the Frick Collection, National Gallery in London, Tate Britain, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Rijksmuseum, Palace of Versailles, and the Hermitage. Read more about the project here. And see a behind the scenes video of how it was done.