'To Be or Not to Be' Series: Min Kyaw Khine
Here is the final installment of our week long vlog series of four Burmese artists who will be headlining our first ever art show "To Be or Not to Be" at Gallery35 in New York. Below is a profile of Min Kyaw Khine which I chef-ed up. Check it out and if you're in the NYC area, feel free to swing by and experience their work first hand.
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'To Be or Not to Be' Series: KST
Here is the third installment in our week long vlog series of four Burmese artists who will be headlining our first ever art show "To Be or Not to Be" at Gallery35 in New York. Below is a quick profile of Kyawswar Thant (also known as KST) which I strung together. If you look closely you can even spot a cameo by Mantle head chief Shaun Randol striking his art pose. Check it out and if you're in the NYC area, come by and support these great artists and their work.
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'To Be or Not to Be' Series: Chaw Ei Thein
Here is the second installment of The Mantle's week long vlog series of four Burmese artists featured this weekend in our first ever art show "To Be or Not to Be" at Gallery35 in New York.
Below is a quick profile of Chaw Ei Thein. Check out her work and if you're in the NYC area, come by and support the other great artists on this bill.
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'To Be or Not to Be' Series: Aung Zaw Tun
Here is the first installment of The Mantle's week long vlog series of four Burmese artists featured this weekend in our first ever art show "To Be or Not to Be" at Gallery35 in New York. Below is a quick profile of Aung Zaw Tun which I shot and edited (co-interview creds of course aided by Mantle cheif Shaun Randol).
Check it out and if you're in the NYC area, please come by and support these great artists and their work.
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From Belgium to the Motherland: ROA in Gambia
Known for his distinct style of creating humungous life size murals of animals, Belgian street artist ROA recently took his talents to Gambia this summer, where he wowed villagers and children with his work.
Below is a video of ROA's inspirations and the process behind his animalistic selection of subjects.
Via Unurth
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R.I.P. Steve Jobs
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Photo: via Mashable
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Twin Tower Film Cameos
Good in a Crisis
Beautifully shot piece by the Monocle's Gabriel Leigh on how even in the midst of a global recession, places such as Greece are finding ways to use art and innovation to boost national morale and articulate the zeitgeist of protest.
PRESS PLAY to check out the full mini-doc.
110 Stories: 9/11 App
Hard to believe that in only a few short weeks, it will have been 10 years since the events of 9/11. As a pet project, life long New Yorker Brian August took to Kickstarter several months back and proposed creating an iPhone app called "110 Stories" which could visually recreate the towers from every vantage point in the city, so that New Yorkers and visitors alike could once again reimagine the iconic beauty of the buildings.
The video above is August's pitch and his concept behind the app, which in only a few short weeks received enough financial backing to go into production. Some sites such as Gizmodo have criticized the app as a shameless and crass way to relive what will surely be a painful and tearful day for all New Yorkers.
Do you agree with the critics or are August's efforts coming from a good place?
Bathroom Wizards
I do not have any actual statistical or factual evidence of this, but at least through my personal experiences, I've found that European countries have always been farther along than us when it comes to b-room design, particulary in the field of urinals.
(If you've traveled overseas at all in recent years, you don't need me to enlighten you on the greatness of the imprinted insect).
I bring this up because I can't help but be both amused and amazed at Europe's next great contribution: the P-Tree, an invention released by the Dutch design team AANDEBOOM.
Strap it onto any tree or shrubbery at a summer concert or weekend festival and voila: instant access at your disposal (pun intended).
No more Porta-potties, no more Shawshank renditions, no more claustrophobia. Just a simple, yet genius way to let yourself go.
Word to that and your Glastonbury beer belly.
ADDITIONAL READING: check out "The Human Factor" by Kim Vicente if you want to know more about why whizzing on bugs satiates a natural human need.
