Twirk Ethic

Dark Night of The Soul, an upcoming collaboration from David Lynch, Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys, Iggy Pop, Suzanne Vega, Black Francis, Vic Chesnutt, Julian Casablancas, Jason Lyttle, Nina Persson, and James Mercer, is set to release this summer. The album will be accompanied by a book, featuring 100 photos by Director David Lynch.

*5/15/09 – The entire album is now streaming on NPR Music.

Via Pitchfork.

Micah Lidberg has a wonderful artist portfolio, full of illustrations, patterns, and hand-rendered type. The artist uses a variety of media, including digital, to produce these incredibly detailed works.

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If you haven’t heard about Aaron Noble yet, he’s got some incredible work that’s definitely worth viewing. His style has been described as “comics in a blender”, and once you see it, you’ll see why. Beautiful/Decay recently posted some artist profile footage featuring Aaron Noble and revealing some of the processes involved in the production of his works. Click through the link below to watch the video and view more of the artist’s work.

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On March 25, 2009, a collection of BMW Art Cars will be displayed in New York’s Grand Central Terminal. The exhibition will feature customized BMW’s by Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition will also feature a short film about Robin Rhode’s Expression of Joy project.

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Ron van der Ende’s work in bas relief is astounding. Each of the flat pieces takes on a three dimensional appearance while exhibiting van der Ende’s pieced-together painting style.  The subjects are often physical representations of obsolescence and it makes sense that they are created using reclaimed timber.

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Andrew Holder has great body of work, and these trophy deer heads are an incredible concept. The heads address two opposing perspectives on the outdoors, with beautiful results.

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Phil Yamada created an entire alphabet by painting directly on top of printed newspapers. The result is stunning, due to the variety of innovative letterforms that Yamada presents, some of which are a nod to pop culture (Pac-Man and A Clockwork Orange). The way that the newsprint contracted from the moisture of the paint also gives the pieces an attractive texture.

Via Ffffound.

New York’s subway riders will be treated to printed selections from the Museum of Modern Art’s collection from February 10th to March 15th. The prints will be displayed in the place of advertisements in Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street subway station. It looks to be an inspiring addition to everyone’s daily commute.

Via Design is Kinky.

I’m a huge fan of Kofie’s illustration style. It’s obvious that he has a background in graffiti when you look at his line quality and the way he adds highlights to shapes. It looks like there’s some new work coming out that demonstrates the same style using 3-dimensional objects.

Via Booooooooom!

I know that there are a ton of social image bookmarking sites on the web, but Dropular appeals to me more than any that I’ve seen. The overall design is minimal and clean, and there are several really nice UI features. The ability to drop an image into your pool without up/downloading anything or losing your place on a particular site is wonderful. Also, the arrow-key navigation is genius. They’re using a javascript that allows the user to jump from post to post and page to page smoothly using only the arrows on your keyboard, which saves my wrist from a world of hurt when I’m using the trackpad on my laptop at home.

I don’t have much in my image pool right now, but you can view my drops here.