March 17th, 2010
A 16 year-old photographer from Portland, Oregon, Olivia Bee focuses on the confusion and chaos of high school life. Whether turning her camera on her world or herself, her images capture the raw honesty of youth along with an uncanny wisdom far beyond her years. “I’m really driven to capture the moments of teenage life,” explains Olivia. “All that emotion can be poured into an image.” From a homemade darkroom in her basement, Olivia develops inspired images of her friends, family and Oregonian surroundings. She took up drawing at a young age, which led her to attend more of an art-based middle school. According to Olivia, “I signed up for video production, but they gave me photography.” Since then her work has been featured in a variety of publications and journals including Seventeen, American Photo, ink and frankie magazine.
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www.oliviabee.com
March 17th, 2010
Adrian Jones has done it all. He balled in college. He took his game to the next level in the US and overseas. And now he is giving something back by coaching in Atlanta. A low post bruiser with a soft touch, Adrian’s buckets never come easy, but his game does.
March 17th, 2010
Mentalgassi is a Berlin-based art collective consisting of three coremembers who set out to do surprising and beautiful things to common urban objects. Using wheat-pastes and vivid photographic images, the group transforms street signs, recycling bins and ticket-validating machines into humorous and emotion-evoking element to city staples. Their inspiration comes from each other, constantly feeding off each other. “We come up with ideas together,” Mentalgassi explains. “One of us has a spark and as a group we continue to develop it.” And the result: street art that opens your eyes. “It’s completely our own thing. We do things as we want to.” Most recently, Mentalgassi wheatpasted an amazing structure in Miami during Art Basel.
http://mentalgassi.blogspot.com/
March 17th, 2010
Using a mix of traditional instruments and miscellaneous everyday items, Felix builds complex sculptures that turn his electronic compositions into acoustic sounds, reinventing what it means to make music. It all began with his parent’s piano. “I built a mechanism that allowed it to draw,” Felix explains. “Playing it would produce a graphic recording, a kind of reverse score.” And it went on from there. Felix’s machines are now musical sculptures that are all about aesthetic and sensory pleasure. Constructed in his bedroom, the countless abstractions act as blueprints that, as Felix says “create a space where artificial and dream-like environments can become a reality.”
www.felixsmachines.com
March 17th, 2010
God Shammgod Wells
Shamgod brings the game to the streets, and the people to the game.
A creative spirit known as one of the greatest handlers of all time, Shammgod is recognized worldwide for his low dribbling style and signature move “The Shammgod,” a patented stutterstep that has never been properly deconstructed. Whenever the streets hear that Shammgod is playing, people show up. The crowd holds their breath whenever he touches the ball. And even if he missed every shot, he’d still hold everyone’s attention.
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March 17th, 2010
Ulises Zarazua Munoz is a composer. His music bears a worldly, inspired feel that brings the edge of Rock & Roll to traditional Mexican song. The son of Mexican parents born in Maryland, Ulises, himself, spent his childhood in the states, but currently lives in Coacalco, Mexico. During his time in the states, Ulises picked up the English language and sees it as a beneficial to his music, allowing his lyrics to be original, clever and without boundaries. Musically multi-talented and influenced by the likes of a variety of artists from all over the world, Ulises music reflects the intersection of cultures he has known.
http://www.myspace.com/thestupidsrocknroll
March 17th, 2010
Growing up in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Talita is inspired by her environments and finds her ideas in the things she encounters there: situations, people, nature, behavior. “My ideas come from the things I see and keep with me,” Talita explains. And although she draws at home most of the time, she always carries a sketchbook when she travels. Learning to paint when she was only a child, Talita now works primarily in acrylic on large canvasses. Her creations depict magical worlds populated by colorful and creatively abstract characters. “I design to transmit the universe I have created,” says Talita.
http://suppaduppa.com/eles.php?id=223
March 17th, 2010
Bruno’s work is bright and brilliant, transferring the shapes and colors of his world onto familiar fixtures in this world. The 25 year-old artist from Sao Paulo, Brazil draws his influences from the environments around him, creating works of art that search for the answer to the meaning of creation, as well as to gain knowledge of himself. “Drawing forces you to find the truth inside yourself,” he explains. In this way, Bruno draws and paints to be in touch with his soul. Inspired by his local community where he is heavily involved in skate culture, Bruno begins with a blank canvas–whether it be a piece of paper, a canvas, or a wall. He then imagines a situation and begins to create with pen or brush. When things pop up in front of him he expresses them through his art, reflecting on himself and the world around him.
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www.brunokurru.com
March 17th, 2010
Louis was 7 years old when he received his first robot. A gift from his father, Louis was fascinated by the liberty at which the toy moved on its own. But it wasn’t until Louis broke the robot that he found his artistry. The 19 year-old now creates short circuits in electronic toys, finding hidden things inside them and creating sounds that have never been heard by anyone. “By circuit bending, fiddling and tampering, it’s as if I am allowing luck to take its revenge on logic,” explains Louis. Louis then takes these toys to a place where they can be seen and heard in context, letting their sounds resonate until they run out of batteries. “Sometimes I wonder if it lasted, if someone head it” he says, “But, after all, what matters is that it existed.”
