some amusing neon installation pieces from american artist ‘steve lambert’
via new art blog art.sy (mail me if you would like an invite; i have a few to give away)
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for the benefit of mr. kite
…as the story goes, when John Lennon was writing “I Am the Walrus,” he received a letter from a student at his former primary school explaining that the English teacher there had given his pupils the task of decoding and analyzing Beatles lyrics. So, in true Lennon fashion, he resolved to make his new song as inscrutable as possible, including nonsensical lines about yellow custard and dead dog eyes adapted from a nursery rhyme he sang as a child…
…the song… might seem like a similarly obtuse flight of fancy, but it was actually inspired by -and, in many cases, lifted wholesale from–a Victorian circus poster Lennon had picked up at an antiques shop some time earlier…
serious beatles fan peter dean recreates the poster in question in the most painstaking fashion possible… great story
(many thanks to ‘el generalissimo’ jean-louis denis)
n8 12
the new ‘museum nacht’ (n8) campaign from the festina lente collective, currently around town… very nice, a big improvement on the previous one
by festina members: design ‘baster’ photography ‘léon hendrickx’
naarden 2013
the first few pieces for our new identity for open-air photo festival ‘fotofestival naarden’ due to open in late spring 2013, the images are from a series of vagrants shot by ‘jan banning’ in the united states which will be featured in naarden
see the previous identity work for the 2011 edition here and here, the new work is based on the same (scanned) plastic template letters used in the previous edition, which was the intention to provide some form of continuity across the range