Art/Pop Culture: Japanese manga controversy hits Versailles
Takashi Murakami’s show at the Versailles Château seems to be stirring up some controversy - Ah, hello! What’d you expect. Did anyone really think that Murakami’s “boy spinning sperm lasso” sculpture wouldn’t go unnoticed?
Viva la old school French aristocrats!
Prince Charles-Emmanuel de Bourbon-Parme, an heir of Louis XIV, tried to get it banned, saying it dishonoured his family’s past, but the courts dismissed his bid.
“My erotic pieces are very few,” he says. “My main theme is the social monster, and sometimes the social monster has an erotic appearance … but don’t push me to be too much an erotic artist, I’m just a normal artist.”
/via smh.com
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Website: Don Draper in Downtown LA
Don Draper goes to California on a business trip and then decides to bail on everyone and everything back home to start a new life. But where will he live? Downtown Los Angeles of course! <— insert Mad Men theme music here.
A blog about a 1960s advertising executive checking out the scene and looking for an apartment, live-work loft, or condo conversion among the hipsters of Downtown Los Angeles.
/via dondraperindowntownla
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Advertising/Technology: Minority Report has Arrived
Using facial recognition technology, the Japanese are testing new digital advertising billboards that’s straight out of Minority Report. These billboards are fitted with cameras that capture your image, detects your gender and age; creating a tailored made advertisement on the fly. As the ad rolls, the computer then determines how interested you are and how long you’ve watched and then submits the captured data to the company - effin BANANAS right! Actually, not really…
Tokyo, Japan – There’s a scene in Steven Spielberg’s 2002 movie “Minority Report” that’s stuck with me, even many years after I initially saw the film. As Tom Cruise walks through a mall, cameras lining the ceilings and walls scan his retinas and advertisements custom-made for him pop up. He enjoys beer, so up pops a Guinness ad. But the electronic tracking becomes problematic when Cruise is trying to hide from the authorities, realizing that it’s impossible in his futuristic world.
/via business.blogs.cnn
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Design: Mad Men Posters
The minimalist yet sophisticated style to these illustrations really exemplify everything I love about Mad Men. I can’t wait for season 4 - it should be a doozy!
Posters for the television series Mad Men. Each character is represented through their unique pocket square fold.
/via hellochristina
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Art: THE RECORD: CONTEMPORARY ART AND VINYL
“The Record” is the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art. Bringing together artists from around the world who have worked with records as their subject or medium, this groundbreaking exhibition examines the record’s transformative power, from the 1960s to the present. Through sound work, sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, video and performance, “The Record” combines contemporary art with outsider art, audio with visual, fine art with popular culture, and established artists with those who will be exhibiting in a U.S. museum for the first time.
The exhibition is organized by Trevor Schoonmaker, the Nasher Museum’s curator of contemporary art
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