Humana Festival of New American Plays

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The Humana Festival of New American Plays is the annual festival in Louisville, Kentucky produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville. The festival showcases new theatrical works and draws producers, playwrights, critics, and theatre lovers from around the world. Three plays that have been showcased at the festival have won Pulitzers.

The design for the year's festival was illustrated by Tomer Hanuka. Tomer, along with his twin brother Asaf, is one of my favorite commercial illustrator working today. The poster contains a simple design of a playwright sitting behind typewriter, with the piece of paper he's using doubles as the slit between the curtain. The tan and red composition makes for a nice simplicity.

Previous designers for the festival included Brian Cronin, Chip Kidd, Wiktor Sadowski , Rafal Oblinski, and Stasys Eidrigevicius.

Tropical Toxic


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Happy Tree Friends

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This is probably my favorite cartoon series on the Internet. It's Looney Tunes gone wrong.

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Coca Cola "What Goes Around Comes Around"

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Coca Cola commercial with music by Jack White, directed by Nagi Noda

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Nagi Noda "Yuki-Sentimental Journey"

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Artshare on Facebook

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One of the problems I have with being on Facebook is the amount of requests I get for me to add one application or another. It is the most annoying thing, and I constantly have to decline the invitation. But the application Artshare that was recently created by the Brooklyn Museum is something I can go for.

The application allows you to select images from the collections of several museums from around the world and share them in rotation on your profile. The institutions that have signed on to Artshare include:

Brooklyn Museum
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Picture Australia
Powerhouse Museum
Victoria & Albert
Walker Art Center
Walters Art Museum

Currently most works uploaded by these institutions consist of pieces that I would consider to be historical. The only museum that contributed works by 20th Century and contemporary artists in large number is the Walker.

But once more institutions are added to the list, and when they can secure the rights to post contemporary works, this should be an interesting application to look out for.

Artshare

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Stephen Tompkins @ Found Gallery

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I am currently finalizing a show that I was asked to co-curate for the Cypress College Art Gallery titled Intersections. One of the artists I secured for the show is Stephen Tompkins. Tompkins works across different disciplines, producing paintings, drawings, sculptures, animations, and computer based illustrations. Tompkins currently has a solo show up at Found Gallery in Los Angeles.












Stephen Tompkins
Transmogrifications
February 8 - 28, 2008
Found Gallery
1903 Hyperion Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323.669.1247

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Happy Valentine's Day

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Year Of A Million Dreams

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We have all seen the new Disney campaign using images by the photographer Annie Leibovitz starring big name actors and sports stars hovering over billboards around town. I have to say I have not really made up my mind in regard to these images. I personally do not care all that much for Annie Leibovitz's work. But I also know that she has been an icon in the photography world. When I was a young student at SFAI, I had a photography history teacher, who, on day one, made it a point to ask the students whether or not they had decided to go to that particular school because Annie Leibovitz had gone there. He said every year he always get one or two students who said that it was indeed the reason they had chosen the school.

When I look at these images, I do have to contend that they are extremely well done. I also very much noticed how the images seemed a cross between the staged psychology of Gregory Crewdson and the fantasies of Charlie White. Of course you will never get the sexualized undertones of many of White's photographs. This is the Disneyfied version of reality.

This of course is not entirely the case. Disney had for years attempted to create safe and clean versions of many fairy tale stories, most that dealt directly with the rites of passage, sexuality, and death. In recent years they seemed to have been marketing the teen bodies to their target demographics. Think of all the Disney Channels stars who have become famous, whose target audience are adolescents. The wife of a friend told me in a discussion about this particular campaign that her problem with it is Disney's use of the sexualized female bodies in the images. She was uncomfortable of her young daughter looking at the images and attempt to identify with them. What I think will be interesting are all the reactions people will have with this campaign beyond the fact that these are Disney-created images, featuring beloved Disney characters.

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