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Fresh Stuff From Level in Brasilia DF

Wooster Collective - 12 hours 38 min ago

You can see more of Level's work here.

Fresh Stuff From Stinkfish in Guatemala City

Wooster Collective - Sat, 01/03/2009 - 21:42

More from stinkfish here.

Fresh Stuff From Dr. D in Hackney

Wooster Collective - Sat, 01/03/2009 - 21:38

(Thanks, Joe)

Shit We're Diggin': Stephanie Toppin's "Coloreruptions"

Wooster Collective - Fri, 01/02/2009 - 13:46

You can see more of the series here.

(Hat tip to Booooooom)

Franck Duval aka FKDL: The A's To Our Q's

Wooster Collective - Fri, 01/02/2009 - 13:32

Age: 45
Hometown: Paris
Where do you now live?: Paris, France
Where would you most like to live?: Where my heart leads me… maybe one day Brooklyn !
Who was your first "hero" in life?: A mix between Brian Jones, Bruce Lee, Marcello Mastrioani and Coluche
What is your favorite thing to do on your day off from work?: Stay with my 3 children
What is your favorite color?: Full color time
Who (or what) do you love?: People, Men, Women and Figures… (introduction to my booklet !!!)

Wooster: Who and/or what are some of your influences?

Jacques Villeglé

My first influence is all the paper with all that memories… but 25 years ago when I start to paint, I was influenced by the "Steamin Muslims", a french painting group from the eighties. After that I discover a lot of pasted up and collage from different time and different artist too. Fifteen years ago I discover the work of Jacques Villeglé… and my head was "Shake it out" !!! We have to dream in that life, so life is my influence everyday… I try it. Specifically about artist in disorder… I like Matisse, Chaissac, Giacometti, Man Ray, Warhol, Basquiat and more (so classical !)

Wooster: What other artists do you most admire?

M-City, Orticanoodles, FarkFK, Gaia, Swoon, Faile, Bast, Dain, Judith Supine, Matt Siren,
> Dan Witz, Revs, Pure Evil, Fairey, Blu, Banksy, Elbow Toe, Os Gemeos and Talking Mute but also all my french peers and there are many !

Wooster: How would you describe your art to someone who could not see it?

Think about a person, think about some colors, think about a movement, think about paper…old paper !!!

Wooster: What other talent would most like to have?

Art Scotch, my second life…

Wooster: What do you fear the most?

Losing my hands…I'd lose my head !

Wooster: What is your greatest ambition?

Always have the freedom to make street art throughout all the city and make people happy with my collages

You can see mote of FKDL's work here and here.

Wishing All Of You A Healthy And Happy New Year!

Wooster Collective - Wed, 12/31/2008 - 15:09

As we enter the final day of 2008, Sara and I want to wish all of you a very happy and healthy New Year.

For Sara and I, the "mission" of the website has never changed. The site has only one purpose:

To share with our friends those things that inspire us.

So as we end the year, we want to thank all of the artists and art lovers who have sent us incredible images over the last twelve months. On behalf of not only us, but also all of the readers of this blog, we can't thank you enough.

Here's to a wonderfully creative 2008 and what will surely be an incredibly inspiring 2009!

Warm Regards,

Marc, Sara (and of course Samantha and Hudson)

Seen On The Streets Of São Paulo

Wooster Collective - Tue, 12/30/2008 - 18:54



Artist: Mundano

Seen On The Steets Of Raleigh, NC

Wooster Collective - Tue, 12/30/2008 - 13:41

From cirka:

"I've been thinking a lot about public information vs. private information and why it's so fascinating to read about the mundane details of someone else's private life (like finding their grocery list that they dropped in the parking lot, for example). So, I decided to reverse this by choosing "declassify" some of my own personal documents: letters that, at a different time in my life, I would have been mortified for anyone else to see. All are letters that were written to me (except for one, which shows a short email correspondence). They span from a letter written by my pen pal when I was about 10 to a letter that I received last summer. I silk-screened all the letters in the original color that they were written in. The only things that I altered were the names of people mentioned in the letters, which I censored in black ink."


Dan Witz - In Plain View

Wooster Collective - Tue, 12/30/2008 - 01:58

Seen On The Steets Of Newcastle

Wooster Collective - Mon, 12/29/2008 - 14:15

Artist: Mobster

Mark Jenkins: The A's To Our Q's

Wooster Collective - Mon, 12/29/2008 - 13:41

Age: 38
Hometown: Fairfax VA
Where do you now live?: Washington DC
Where would you most like to live?: Canary Islands
Who was your first "hero" in life?: Speed Racer
What is your favorite thing to do on your day off from work?: I quit my day job
What is your favorite color?: Clear
Who (or what) do you love?: Anything with alcohol in it (including people)

Wooster: Who and/or what are some of your influences?

Classical music this week, natural landscapes, watching animals--especially albinos

Wooster: What other artists do you most admire?

EvanRoth(fi5e), BLU, Jorge Rodriguez, Anthony Micallef, CON, Truth, TILT, Eric il Cane, Leon Reid, Brad Downey, Slinkachu, Judge Judy and dead, Juan Munoz

How would you describe your art to someone who could not see it? That it can be hard to identify as art

Wooster: What other talent would most like to have?

The ability to be 10 years younger

Wooster: What do you fear the most?

Dying in my sleep so that I miss the experience of it

Wooster: What is your greatest ambition?

Right now to write different words on the sidewalk with popcorn and watch the birds eat it, but they're mostly south right now so I'm going to wait until spring.

You can see more of Mark's work here.

man wit webcam

Rhizome - Sun, 12/28/2008 - 17:44
Inspired by Lev Kuleshov's film editing experiment in which he spliced footage of an expressionless man with other, presumably emotive vignettes. Audiences believed that the man's expression changed when he "saw" the edited vignettes- although his expression stayed the same. It is believed that the viewers relate their own feelings to the images and then attribute it to the actor. This is called the "Kuleshov Effect." "man wit web cam" examines the Kuleshov effect as it relates to internet video, webcam aesthetics, and memes.

Wayward Dream

Rhizome - Sun, 12/28/2008 - 17:38
Wayard-Dream is an interactive Installation, developed from Internet-sourced material. It fictionalizes the participant's display field, invites them to share their dreams. People may freely fictionalize in this space, share their dream with individual dreamland content they create. They create from the index, and remix their creation, and then it can be released back into the program. In the bodily space, the body constructs a phantom that affects the participant's body. Who is dreaming? The user, or the internet itself? In a certain way, both. The program generates a personal moving picture, unique, unpredictable, and forever gone when it is finished, just like dreams. But that dream is made out of pieces taken form the subconscious of the whole net, gathered by some words of the user and the obscure logic of searching algorithms. The work presents a constructed model of an ever-changing cityscape underscored by electronic music. Participants are invited to alter certain parameters within the model city by changing and controlling the shape of Wayward-Dream's music. The model’s outline, texture, color, and movement directly influence the type of sounds used in the music. They are mixed with sounds of the city of. The model interface plays with the idea of how a landscape and sound are directly related. More Information Please check on URL:

Cody on Cage on Joyce

Rhizome - Sun, 12/28/2008 - 17:07
This is a writing through a writing of a text that is largely considered unreadable. This text is a random regeneration of John Cage’s Fourth Writing through Finnegans Wake. To create the original text, Cage applied a system of complex rules to James Joyce’s seminal text, Finnegans Wake, to write a series of mesostics spelling “JAMES JOYCE” repeatedly down the page in capital letters. (A mesostic is a poem where a vertical phrase intersects lines of horizontal text). Cage used the same concepts of chance operations and systems based production that he applied to his music compositions, creating a writing free of intention.

Where's Wooster?

Wooster Collective - Fri, 12/26/2008 - 14:33

We're taking a few days off to celebrate the holidays. Back with some new posts on Monday.

Hope everyone had a terrific Christmas!

Marc and Sara

Where's Wooster?

Wooster Collective - Fri, 12/26/2008 - 14:32
We're taking a few days off to celebrate the holidays. Back with some new posts on Monday. Hope everyone had a terrific Christmas! Marc and Sara...

Sensity World – X-Tasy in Paradise

lastFM - Fri, 12/26/2008 - 08:37
http://www.last.fm/music/Sensity+World
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