The Tesla Roadster 100

0 to 60 in 4 seconds, on BATTERIES. The new Tesla Roadster is 100% electric, traveling up to 400 km per charge and topping out at 210 km/hour. And it's pretty. Finally, an environmentally friendly car you can take on a date! Now if only Bush would sign the Kyoto Accord...

Su Blackwell

"I undergo repetitive labour-intensive processes that often involve sewing, knotting, folding and cutting, intimate actions that reveal the hand at work. My methods of working are a meditative process, which can develop into an intrinsic type of ritual, whereby I take the familiar and by a matter-of-fact manner move it towards the fantastic."

Delightful and delicate, yet astonishing in impact and profundity, Su Blackwell’s intricate work towers above the imagination as flowering flights of fantasy spun from our favorite bedtime stories. From the visual feast that is Alice’s paper tea party, to the ethereal flight of butterflies from apparel to air, Su’s choice and manipulation of each medium reveals her exceptional capability as an artist and, more significantly, her rare understanding of the organic potential of the most common materials.

Hera

"In my pieces I show the other side of being a woman. So sometimes they really are sexy, but most of the time they are just beautiful mommies pushing their shopping trolleys, with small breasts and chunky thighs."

Cautiously optimistic dystopian in approach, street-smart proletarian in execution, the stylized work of Hera—half of the street art duo Herakut—silently and provocatively beckons your attention from the walls of Wiesbaden, Germany. I came across Hera in my new favorite book, Graffiti Woman (by Nicholas Ganz, a.k.a. Keinom, of Graffiti World fame)—precursor/sister to Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents. Swoon's words lend additional street cred to both projects.

Swoon

Dynamic yet fragile, haunting yet ephemeral, Swoon's street art—intricate, life-sized paper cutouts of both everyday and unusual people—wallpapers the most unlikely corners of New York City.

"To me the beauty with street art has a lot to do with the openness in the spaces in which it is created, in the random elements it is subject to, the decay and the change and impermanence." (Swoon, as interviewed in spectraz.com)



You can read about Swoon and see more of her work at:
* Gammablog (extensive photo collection of Swoon's work)
* Layers of Meaning (short post/article)
* Spectraz (interview)
* KultureFlash (exhibit photos)
* Wikipedia (basic information on the artist)

PHOTOS FROM GAMMABLOG & RES MAGAZINE

Impressionists Revisited

Up for auction at Sotheby's in New York on the 6th of November: charcoal and pastel Quatre danseuses by Edgar Degas, Les deux bouquets by Marc Chagall, and Nature morte aux fruits et pot de gingembre by Paul Cezanne. The Degas is expected to go for $250,000 to $350,000, the Chagall for between $1,400,000 to $1,800,000, and the Cezanne for a whopping $28,000,000 to $35,000,000. Wow.