I found all the layers of these pastels interesting and beautiful, from the old school example of good, simple box design, to the thin, foam, protective insert that got dusted with color, to the dinged up pastel sticks in their tray. I have no idea where I got them from or how long I’ve had [...]
I found this awesome desk for sale at a local Salvation Army. I’m not sure anyone shopping for a desk would want it, but in retrospect I should have bought it and mounted the surface on my wall as a piece of found art. Notice the date at the top, 1/7/99.
This highly inaccurate color chart must have been posted at least 10 different places in the clothing section at the Salvation Army. Red is actually purple, as are Burgundy and Pink. Meanwhile, Purple is actually split down the middle, half blue, and half green. Teal and Blue are actually both green, while Green is tan. [...]
Above, work by Kathleen Thum. Tough Cords, Gouache and Graphite on Rice Paper, 52″ x 17″, 2006. Detail of Nodes, Gouache and Graphite on Layers of Tracing Paper, 22 ft. x 3 ft., 2004. Bullseye, Gouache and Graphite on Rice Paper, 2006. Some of Kathleen’s new work, which she describes was made for a show [...]
I put out a request for people’s pictures of their TV’s, usually taken with cell phones (sometimes taken with other kinds of cameras). I also dug up a few of my own that I could find. So many awesome ones got sent in! I also had a few bookmarked that I had come across on [...]
You know, SPYROS HOREMIS?
This was “found” in the sense that it was “stolen from Brian and scanned”.
GEMSTONES – Tom Buckholz – 4 min 30 sec INSTANT RICE version from SUPERHITOPS on Vimeo. GEMSTONES is a short movie I’ve been working on. Here’s the full description from my Vimeo page. GEMSTONES is part of a larger found footage remixing project begun by Tom Buckholz in 2009. This extended, second version of GEMSTONES [...]
The first and last images of this post are frames of original VHS footage, with colors modified. The images in between are single frame captures taken of children’s educational videos, imported from a VCR with bad tracking.
