3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Chris Rivera is a Los Angeles, California based photographer focusing on conceptual image creation. His editing options are as varied as his motives. Some of the photos were processed with professional photo editing software, while others were shot and directed directly on his iPhone.
Michael Carson’s glamorous scenes, set in bars, clubs, cafés, and dance studios, are marked by a hazy realism reminiscent of French impressionist and post-impressionist works by artists such as Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Carson, who was formally trained in design, brings elements of fashion and architecture into his work, but his foremost commitment is to the art of painting. “I love the ways that a single brushstroke can create such subtleties in facial expression,” he has remarked. “I spend most of my time on the face and hands. They tell the story.”
Minimalistic tactile photography by Clayton Cotterell from "Arrangements" series coming out as a book few years ago
Submitted by Bennett Johnson via DCN Platform
Director Bennett Johnson, along with the support of production company All:Expanded, has found yet another captivating story to tell. In “Coach Pamz”, which will be available on Bennett Johnson’s Vimeo channel on August 29, 2016, the director travelled with Cinematographer David Kruta to the Bronx and Spanish Harlem to document the turbulent yet triumphant life of street football legend Coach Pamz and his notorious team, Carver Mobb.
Shortlisted for the Young Director's Award at Cannes, “Coach Pamz” is a fiveminute account of the life and struggles of Paul “Pamz” Rivera – a coach in the world of New York street football, a tough, innercity sport that sprang out of the South Bronx and various other Latin and African-American neighborhoods 40 years ago.
CREDITS
Director: Bennett Johnson
Producer: Gregory Horoupian
DP: David Kruta
1st AC: Andi Romansky
2nd AC: Chad Young
PA: Rosalie Visceglia
Editor: Jeremy Huff
Colorist: Ashley Ayarza
Color Production Coordinator: Jamie Noto
Color Prod Co: Nice Shoes
Sound Designer: Kirk Pearson
Production Company: All:Expanded
After a rewarding decade as an art historian at the Getty Museum studying and teaching art history and technique, LA-based Naomi Yamada decided to actively participate in the art making process as she followed her love for photography and painting by launching own studio.
Ventricle is a two-part installation created by SOFTlab that was commissioned by the Southbank Centre in London for the Festival of Love. The installations recall the heart, a symbol that has been used for many centuries and in many cultures to represent love. Along with the chambers of the heart, the installations are a modern interpretation of the hanging gardens of Babylon, a place of many cultures and languages, and also of Eden, a place of free knowledge and expression.
Alexander Chapelin creates magical coffee tables by using stone and resin where you have full illusion you own a piece of ocean floor in your house. Some of his tables have night feature that can amaze you during long dark season.
A selection of work by New York illustrator Kevin Hong. His latest illustrations has been done for upcoming game Miyamori
“My paintings incorporate elements of both fiction and reality, and are brought to fruition through a varied means of production. I draw from a pool of collected images that are then digitally edited, and serve as a starting point for a process-based practice.
The paintings lend themselves to a simulation of reality, presenting a hyperreal aesthetic that is heightened by the screen-like finish of the work. Perspectival planes are shifted, flattened or extended, warping the notion of depth within the image, presenting a simultaneous distancing and magnification that offers multiple readings of the work. Although the aesthetic of the work suggests a digitally mediated experience of the urban environment, broken and dripped paint ground the work in a more traditional notion of materiality.”
Josh Sperling is a young contemporary artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Sperling’s works on canvas waver between wall sculptures and paintings. Building layered plywood structures by hand, the artist stretches canvas over these forms to create a subtle relief.
Permanent contemporary tattoo is nothing new since Tattly project run by famous design tank Tina Roth Eisenberg but Taiwan-raised US based artist John Yuyi taking it to the new level. "FACE POST is the artist’s three-part series and a nod to social media via her aforementioned, now-signature transfer stickers. The stickers are reminiscent of the superhero tattoos you’d get in those packets of “cigarette” sweets, applied with a modest dunk of water but maintained the staying power of super-glue – it’s this use of familiar objects in a witty way that gives her work its relatability." says Dazed Digital
Filmmaker Zach Both got creative when it was time for him to hit the road for work last year. Needing to hit various locations around the U.S., 23-year old Both bought a 10-year old Chevy cargo van off of Craigslist and converted it into a mobile studio. This gave him complete freedom to work wherever the project took him, while giving him a comfortable place to live and work.
via Design Milk
Cristina Cordova is a sculptor currently based in Penland, North Carolina. She now works with ceramics to create powerful, reflective figures which create an emotional entrypoint for those experiencing her work. She often jumpstarts her work with a specific notion: what is important to her culture or her family. She envisions herself primarily as a growing artist; though her identity now includes being a partner and a mother.
We are the lucky species of mankind to live in the era of space exploration. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter system shots hi-res photographs of Mars surface since 2006, not long ago they setup a special website where you can find a lot of them. Pure inspiration and meditative source for digital artists and everyone interested in far far away...
Well-known motion and digital creative director GMUNK has a hook on making awesome photographs with a strong selective vision. Beside shooting urban patterns he recently encountered into infrared photography delivering amazing shots of nature shot as seemed it is from another dimension.
"Baugh’s work can be described as narrative impressionistic realism. Specializing in oil paint and charcoal, he began painting at the age of 13 and began selling professionally at age 17. When he was only 21 years old, Baugh began showing in galleries and after four years of studying with artist Richard Schmid, he had his first solo show at age 25. He has made several television appearances and has been featured on the covers of many publications, including The Artist’s Magazine,American Artist’s Magazine, and American Art Collector."
Young visual artist Javier Martin has developed most of his works in painting & in sculpture. He uses fashion portraits often taken by him to compose his artwork. Martin also uses a mixture of techniques that involve digital prints as part of his trademark. Below we share his latest series of "Blindness Light" where he combines neon lamps with fashion photography
New York based fashion photographer Kristina Varaksina explores the topic of extreme beauty in her recent photo shoot session "Porcelain Beauty" (that just got 1st place in Beauty category at International Photography Awards)
Kristina’s focus is to capture human emotion and the psychological impressions of her subjects' mind – permitting the characters to project their internal reality. Works undertaken are keen to explore a female and child perspective, evoking their thoughts, dreams and hopes.
Russian product and motion designer based in New York - Pavel Golovkin released a concept of minimal-looking pocket synthesizer ZONT built for sound geeks and electronic music composers. We are not sure if he is going to run a crowdfunding campaign but it can be worth of it.
“The Zont synth is the kind of product that is so beautiful that you want to believe it would help you immediately lay down a killer beat upon picking it up. I know I’m dying to try it, and I am about as confident in my music-making prowess as I am in my ability to do rocket science.”
“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped, and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it. The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; the sculptor’s hand can only break the spell to free the figures slumbering in the stone. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
In Spring 2016 Quayola presented solo exhibition Laocoön at One Canada Square in London. The exhibition was a continuation of the artist’s ongoing research into iconography, whereby he abstracts classical sculptures using digital rendering and production techniques. In so doing, Quayola creates new spaces in which relationships between classical and contemporary art forms and themes can be re-thought.
