Washington, D.C. artist Dean Kessmann makes some beautiful images out of very mundane things. He’s taken the best photos of plastic shopping bags you’ve ever seen. And stacks of magazines never looked as good before. See more of his work at Conner Contemporary Art in Washington.
A couple of guys found a sketchbook from 1913 in a box of trash at a flea market. It’s in perfect shape.
Dallas artist Erick Swenson makes weird haunting tableaux of animals frozen in place. See more at the James Cohan Gallery in New York.
Interesting projects are coming out of the Institute for the Future of the Book. I especially like Brooklyn artist Alex Itin’s IT IN place and the Institute’s if:book project.
Installing the Ron Mueck Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. It opens November 3rd. More info.
Swiss graphic design firm Atelier V. has posted a great collection of everyday household object that are hacked into fun new objects.
I’m just saying there might be a resemblance.
Henceforth, it’s called the Google.
Delve more deeply into the assignments of Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July’s learningtoloveyoumore.com.
Cat Power’s Lived in Bars video has a cameo by photographer William Eggelston. He kisses her ear.
Check out the work of Dutch photographer Ellen Kooi. More of her work is on view at the PPOW Gallery in New York.
Here’s a Flickr group of photos that are all taken from kites.
Inspired by the book Penguin by Design, Los Angeles art director/graphic designer Joe Kral has started collecting vintage Penguin paperback book covers and putting them in a Flickr set. His Found Type set is nice too.
Photos of a caterpillars invasion in Sweden.
Nice photo portfolio from Brooklyn photographer Benjamin Donaldson. All the sets on his site are great, but I especially like Terrain, Siberia and Portraits. He’s also got a set examining the life and accumulations of a 96 year old bachelor.
A new line of electric bikes are coming from your old friend Schwinn. This 2007 Streamline is not bad looking.
Finnish photographer Tiina Itkonen has travelled to the northernmost part of Greenland four times to take photos and enjoy the lack of haste, the friendliness of the people, the silence of the glaciers and the peace of the landscape. And she’s taken some great photos there. Here everything happens immaqa agaqu
San Francisco artist Beth Alice Cook has made some cool and hilarious charts to define and understand relationships, emotions and decisions in her life. I especially like the elegantly succinct Hamburger Theory of Love and the dryly honest Sex History. But all her charts are great.
Bitchin’ stitchin from San Francisco artist Steve MacDonald. With a Singer sewing machine, thread and big canvases, MacDonald makes some really cool art. He’s also made some messenger bags and hoodies. See more work here.
How does one drink a cup o’ joe on the way to work when you commute by bike? Bicycle Coffee Systems, the Earth’s Leading Authority on Conveying Coffee by Bicycle–Since 1996, has answers.