Internet As Canvas

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Net artist Rafaël Rozendaal is someone that could easily be considered an icon, if not, a visionary.  Rozendaal makes websites as artworks + sells the domain name.  With web pages full of repetition + motion, often using geometrical shapes, Rozendaal creates portable works of art, with exclusive ownership, that still belong to everyone with access to the web.image

With his radical BYOB project which revived interest in projected-video art, Rozendaal gained a lot more recognition.  Amazingly, Rozendaal was able to sell one of these websites at an art auction.  Rozendaal’s Ifnoyes.com was purchased by Benjamin Palmer, for $3,500 at Phillips de Pury auction house in New York, known for selling works of art for many more zeros.  ’Ifnoyes.com’ is a website made up of geometric shapes that change with the click of a mouse.image

As there was no precedence for such a sale let alone recognition of websites as art, Rozendaal created an ‘Artist Website Sales Contract’, that protected both the buyer + seller’s domain name + the art contained within.  One art buyer really loved the idea of having a piece of art he could show anyone anywhere, instead of inviting them into his living room, to view a painting.  

(via Société Perrier)

Line Drawing Furniture By Jinil Park

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How cool is this?  At plain sight, this furniture looks like 2D line drawings, but, they come to life, thanks to the ingenuity of South Korean designer Jinil Park.  

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By taking steel interspersed wires, Park’s ‘Drawing Series’ of roughly drawn furniture, jumps from the page, to create two chairs, a table + a lamp.  ”The key point of my work is the moments where the line is distorted,” said Jinil Park. “They express the designer’s feeling, status, + emotion.”

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Wires of different thicknesses were hammered by Park to distort the lines, recreating variations in the lines drawn with a pen. Park then intersected the wires + welded them together, until a strong enough structure was achieved.

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I love the juxtaposition at play here.  The furniture’s simple yet complex construction, especially the chairs, with the ability to hold a person’s weight, would just make me want to touch one + stare at it for hours. 

(via dezeen)

The Avant Garde Diaries presents fashion film ‘Rising + Falling’, featuring Bliss Lau, the brilliant + beautiful body jewelry designer, discussing her inspiration for her Spring/Summer 2014 ‘Fibonacci’ collection.  Of course, it wouldn’t be a Bliss Lau piece of art, without a deep intellectual narrative.  The 13-piece collection, comprised of onyx + freshwater pearls, is all about the affinity in duality-Onyx is formed in the gas cavities in lava + pearls come from water + of course, the black + white colorway.  Additionally, duality exists in the Fibonacci mathematical sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 (also known as the ‘Divine Proportion’), used by Bliss as the design basis for this collection, of the same name. 

Here are some of Lau’s pearl pieces.  I especially love the use of different sized pearls that compose some of the pieces.

(via NJAL)

WANTED: Grey Sweet Summer Sunglasses By Andy Wolf

I soooo need these sunnies in my life!

Sporting cat-eye shaped ‘Grey Sweet Summer Sunglasses’ By Andy Wolf, is a perfect way to get you noticed, this new year.  Part of Wolf’s new collection, with a grey acetate frame + gold mirrored lenses, these sunglasses will definitely compliment the color ‘Radiant Orchid’, Pantone’s ‘It Color’ for 2014. 

These sunglasses are available at Avenue 32.

For Spring, Make A Bold Statement In Diamond Shaped Heels Or In Lots Of Color

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In these shoes, you’re guaranteed stares + a bit of crushing.  

Part of the Shoes #4 Collection by CHIYO, a new diamond-inspired heel shape was created for sandals.  Bright colorways were applied to their signature ‘Beatnik’ heels for that extra pop.  I especially love the colorway of the sandals above.

Available for purchase at cityblis.