The message!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Art Corner and Lava collective presents:

THE MESSAGE MANCHESTER // ASHES57

Opening Exhibition Party
Thursday 18th November 2010 | 6PM-11PM
MUSIC FROM JEHST (DJ set) + Format residents: Braille.

An exhibition of illustration and photographic portraits by Ashes 57
featuring exclusive shots of:
Shepard Fairey, Cope2,
Public Enemy, Madlib, Rza, Ghostface Killah, Jehst,
Loefah, Mala, Coki, Sgt Pokes, Skream, Benga, Silkie, Quest + more.
Photos, posters and original prints for sale.

PRESS RELEASE

www.ashes57.com/THE_ART_CORNER_Ashes57.pdf

FACEBOOK EVENT

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The Art Corner
2a Landcross Road, Fallowfield, M4 6NA
Manchester, United Kingdom

www.theartcorner.wordpress.com

For more information please contact:

The Art Corner theartcornermanc@gmail.com

Paddy Walsh paddy@lavacollective.com

                          
                            Ramadanman,2010

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Tim Bret-Day

Image and text source:LifeLounge




Tim Bret-Day is pretty much the shit when it comes to creating images of fantasy, desire and the somewhat ludicrous scenes that high fashion editorial commands. He's essentially the opposite of a point and shoot kind of photographer, constructing elaborate scenes of nauseating gloss, depth and glamour finished within an inch of its life. So its really no surprise that brands like Agent Provocateur, Harvey Nichols, Adidas, Mercedes and Smirnoff have all come knocking on his door to make them look good. His images have graced the pages of magazine heavyweights such as Harpers and Queen, The Face, Marie Claire, Flaunt... I can actually go on forever.

Pictured to the right of this post is some of his amazing work and for more please visit TimBretDay.com

Lobulo CASIO G-SHOCK GA-011

Lobulo Design pay homage to CASIO G-SHOCK with an interesting rendition of one of CASIO’s newer models, the GA-011. The watch is surprisingly accurate despite being made out of paper. The GA-011 is the same version albeit in an inline colorway of the Dee & Rickey version seen earlier this year.

Julia Underwood

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Frank Kozik

Frank Kozik was born in Madrid, Spain in 1962. At the age of 14 he moved to the United States and settled in Austin, Texas. Credited with single handedly reviving the “lost” art of the concert poster, his creative career rose largely out of his enthusiasm for Austin’s growing underground punk rock scene in the mid-eighties. Starting with black and white flyers for friends’ bands posted on telephone poles, his reputation grew as an artist whose work was graphically compelling as well as culturally gripping.

Kozik is based in San Francisco, California, where he produces artwork, toys and graphic design. He formerly managed his own record label, Man’s Ruin Records (1995-2001). Under which, he released over 220 singles and full length albums including the first Queens of the Stone Age single.

He has produced artwork for a diverse range of musicians such as Pearl Jam, the Butthole Surfers, Green Day, Neil Young, Sonic Youth, the Melvins and many more. In 1996, he directed Soundgarden’s “Pretty Noose” music video.

Kozik’s commercial clients include Nike, Gatorade, Absolute Vodka, Oakley, Harley Davidson, and Spike TV.

In 2001 Kozik left the music business and devoted himself full time to fine art and the newly emerging Vinyl Art Toy movement. Since 2001 he has designed over 300 separate toys and art multiples.

Teaming up with such entities as Kid Robot, Toy2R and others, he has created many collectible characters such as the Smorkin’ Labbit series, the Hate Dunny and Dr. Bomb. He is also known for producing hand painted, one of a kind custom toys and Kaiju figures.

In 2007, he started his own brand, Ultraviolence™, under which he produces limited edition art toys and bronze sculptures.

Click Here to buy Kozik Toys

ronnnn

Ron English’s interactive “Status Factory” exhibition makes its way to Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. Attendees can expect English’s signature collection of surreal artwork that spans across a variety of mediums. The free exhibit begins November 12, 2010 from 6PM to 10PM, and will continue running until December 17, 2010.

Photography: Brandon Shigeta

  I have been a fan of Ron for a few years now, I am fascinated by his art using popular branded imagery and advertisements we see and use on a daily basis. Ron is also popular in the graff world, He has created illegal murals and billboards that blend stunning visuals with biting political, consumerist and surrealist statements, hijacking public space worldwide for the sake of art since the 1980s.

I really love his Hulkboy and Abraham Obama

Tasty!!!

Image Source: LifeLounge

These images from Brandon Showers are eye catching, thought provoking and suggestive.

LadyLuck

Brandon Showers’ is a food, beauty and fashion photographer. The artist has an impressive client list and a conspicuous portfolio that includes dramatic and delicious images of erotic eating.
Growing up on a farm in Ohio, Brandon Showers was influenced by that very atmosphere and the working-class heroes who surrounded him.

Client List

• On Makeup Magazine
• Teen Magazine
• Zink
• Little Rooms Jewelry
• Inked Magazine
• St. John
• Mickey's Malt Liquor
• Budweiser
• LA Kings

• Vampd Magazine
• Harper Collins Publishing
• Barracuda Magazine
• PDN Magazine
• Filter Magazine
• Blackbook
• Splat XD
• Tippmann Pneumatics
• Hydrotec

Nike “Harajuku 1st Anniversary” Air Magma ND Pack

source : hypebeast

In celebration of their 1st anniversary, Nike Harajuku is releasing this set of limited edition shoes. In addition to the beige, yellow and pink versions, the Nike Air Magma ND will release in two new exclusive, bold colorways of blue and orange. As with the other editions each boot is fastened with starkly contrasting laces and black detailing. The blue and orange versions will release exclusively at Nike Harajuku alongside the rest of the set, in restricted numbers on November 13 and 14.

Admittedly these are not the nicest kicks around, slippers and rambling springs to mind but the tee's are fresh!!!!

LadyLuck

In my dreams!!!!!!!!!!

Since I was a kid I have always had recurring dreams about futuristic architecture, often they would be giant structures made from glass with vines and roots. These dreams were a combination of my love for Aldous Huxley books and films like Laputa (castle in the sky) and Labyrinth. I came across the Portugese architect Álvaro Leite Siza Vieira's dream home Casa fez. 

words:LadyLuck

We have all seen more than enough of the stacked-boxes genre of architecture. Boring, cold, uninviting, uninhabitable and so last decade.

Yet, once in a while, a set of images crosses our desks of a project that could potentially fall into the has-been category but doesn’t, and instead makes us look again and ponder the beauty of great architecture.

This is the case with Casa Fez, a new house in Porto, Portugal, designed by Álvaro Leite Siza Vieira.

 From some angles, we see glimpses of Tomorrowland, but we are willing to overlook that because from so many other viewpoints, the statuesque poise of the structure and the stark clarity of lines brings back memories of Alvar Aalto. One can almost imagine this house in the birch forests of Finland.

 Architect Álvaro Leite Siza Vieira, who was born in 1962 in Porto, graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Escola do Porto in 1994. He has an impressive pedigree that includes touches of Finland, and that which perhaps explains the Aalto-like feel of this house.

He is the son of one of the best-known Portuguese architects, Álvaro Siza Vieira www.alvarosizavieira.com, winner of the 1992 Pritzker Prize and the 1988 Alvar Aalto Medal, among many other accolades.

 Father and son collaborated in the creation of their competition entry for the Museum of Contemporary Art, KIASMA, in Helsinki in 1992 (won by American architect Steven Holl.)

 Natural light, wooden floors, unadorned windows all add up to a simplicity that resembles a gallery, museum or concert hall. Casa Fez does not pretend to be a cozy home, but is instead a statement residence that fits the owners’ lifestyle. - Tuija Seipell

Toyz Toyz Toyz

Robert Bradford creates his life-size and larger-than-life sculptures of humans and animals from discarded plastic items, mainly toys but also other colorful plastic bits and pieces, such as combs and buttons, brushes and parts of clothes pegs.

Contrary to some reports, he’s not a self-taught artist who tinkered in his shed one day and suddenly decided to create something out of his kids’ discarded toys. He is a London-born and U.K. and U.S.-trained visual artist who, like many artists, also had another career on the side. His was that of a psychotherapist.

In 2002, he started to consider the possibilities that his children’s forgotten toys could have as part of something bigger. Bradford says he likes the idea that the plastic pieces have a history, some unknown past, and that they also pass on a “cultural” history as each of the pieces represents a point in time. Recycling is not his primary concern, but each sculpture certainly keeps quite a few pieces from becoming landfill. Some of the sculptures contain pieces from up to 3,000 toys and sell for £12,000 (US$19,000). - words :Tuija Seipell