CRAFT- O - TRON !!!!!!!

Check this out!!!!!


“THE REBIRTH OF THE VENDING MACHINE! The Travelling Pittsburgh Craft-O-Tron gets plugged into a new purpose!!"

Steel Town's Etsy's new marvel: "Tronny" the retired cigarette vending machine turned Craft Vending Machine has completed its makeover and has been stocked with a dazzling variety of some of the best handmade items in the 'Burg!! Check out the progress and get a sneak peek of the crafts here: http://artist.to/pghcraftmachine/

The lights will be turned on and the Craft-O-Tron will begin its new mission: to spread the news of the handmade scene in Pittsburgh and begin its journey through the city's cultural events, hot spots, and beyond! This craftstoric event will take place at the machine's temporary home: Wildcard in Lawrenceville.

It will be caught on video and posted on the facebook page.

Be sure to become a friend of the machine and follow it's trek and message: Buy local! Buy handmade!

Art THIS!

Seunghee Park. She's korean and colorfully touching new levels. Check her awesome out.

THINK TANK!!!

I want to just make sure you know that Jenna Kappelt and I are starting Awesome Gallery and Awesome Studio. The studio can also work as a think tank.. but we plan on having alot of sexy ideas.... and well... idea's that have SEX!!!!

info systsems...

David McCandless makes infographics. These simple, elegant ways to see information boil down the too complex or too big, small, abstract or scattered to otherwise be grasped by most ( at least while just looking at it with out being bias or being in an information overload). Also his topics are sometimes quite comical. McCandless's work is if the Processing diagrams of Casey Reas and Ben Fry where frozen in space and time.

presto chango

This awesome project by Gary Chang, a Hong Kong architect, is quite insperational. He transformed his pint-sized living space —a typical Hong Kong cramped 330-square foot apartment— into a super-efficient, super awesome 24-room bachelor pad with the help of an ingenious system of sliding walls, panels, and gizmos.

Recently, the New York Times profiled Chang and his amazing mini-mansion. Great way of downsizing! When Chang talks about the living conditions of the apartment when he was a child is quite shocking in comparison to his home now.

Via YahooGreen.

um.. sustainable?

other spaces....

Hello Heterotopia.. Jackie Tileston is one trippy painter. She mixes
Chinese and Tibetan landscape motifs in a flux of empty and full, atmospheric and graphic, abstract and figurative, quiet and psychedelic.
I really enjoy this part of her statement.... " A recent rereading of Foucault's' 1967 "Of Other Spaces - Heterotopias" essay was an inspiration since it perfectly defined the intent of much of this work - to create paintings in which several different locations or spaces are made to coexist within one space. In some ways, any of my paintings could be called heterotopic - "juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are themselves incompatible." Ideas of how we construct our realities and selves through language, social structure, geography, etc. offers a seemingly endless band of possibilities - my work as a painter is knitting the world together in a kind of visual globalism."