What inspires us: Art
The ideas that have grabbed our attention today

if you’re around this weekend, check out the show from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Lots of bleeding edge ideas about, well…interactive technology.

Extra bonus: you can see Danny Rosen’s “Wooden Mirror” in the upstairs lobby, one of the coolest high/low tech interactive sculptures I’ve ever seen:

http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirror.html

Also, if you want to see some cool ideas about tech (and you should), check out the student projects pages: http://itp.nyu.edu/itp/gallery/

Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker from Made by Hand on Vimeo.

This website tells inspiring stories about interesting people pursuing atypical interests and hand-crafting beautiful products.   Love it!

Fashion designer and king of the international avant-garde offers a narrative into his process from early beginning to cult following.

He has an almost religious absence of a palette enhanced by sublime drapery and elongated silhouettes.

His empire is now complimented by his recent venture into furniture (think ton-and-a-half alabaster bed).

This anthology written by Owens himself includes contributions by such key players as Olivier Zahm co-founded Purple magazine, as well as others.

Can’t wait for Journey to be released for PS3. I love experimental video games, and this one’s gorgeous to boot.

This year is the 15^th anniversary of the A.G.A.S.T. Open Studio tour, and I’ve had the pleasure of helping to organize it and keep it going. I will be opening up my doors and showing some new work on Saturday and Sunday, October 15^th and 16^th from 12-6pm both days. My studio is located at 94 9^th Street in Brooklyn, between 2^nd avenue and Smith Street, 4^th floor, #22.

There’s 131 other artists in the neighborhood participating as well, and you can preview most of the artists and get all the information here. You can check my work out here.

David A Smith — Sign Artist on Vimeo on Vimeo

Vasco Mourão is the artist currently sating my appetite for intricately detailed line drawings.

Vasco Mourao | Colossal.

Each month, a bottle of coloured ink spreads across a sheet of paper embossed with numbers, colouring them in as it goes.

via Dezeen

The Daphne Guinness collection now on display at The Museum at FIT. An Awe inspiring  glimpse into the wardrobe of what some consider clothes horse, others a première fashion icon.

Daphne Guinness Collection @ FIT

My friend Mac Premo’s exhibition, The Dumpster Project, is opening tonight. His work is amazing!

THE DUMPSTER PROJECT.