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Since his early drawings, Chinese artist Xia Xiaowan has restlessly been pushing the boundaries of Western traditional realistic painting. His goal, in all of this, has been to explore, by means of expanded and diffracted viewpoints, a new and ‘true vision’ which goes beyond the principles of physics.

Using special pencils, paints and glass panes, he creates 3D, spatial artworks which often feel to me like a trip to the anatomy museum. They remind me of Damien Hirst’s pickled animals, or that horse scene from the movie The Cell – but there’s something more ethereal or spiritual about them. MORE

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Bomb the Bass feat. Fujiya & Miyagi: Butterfingers.

This film clip was so simple and effective that it didn’t really bother me that I hadn’t properly heard the music before I decided that I liked it (for about a week). The Perish Factory created this synth puppet that no one with a heart couldn’t help but love.

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It is with great pride and a whole load of relief that we can happily report that The Groop’s submission for the Extra Cheese exhibition, “Zoetron” – a modern take on the zoetrope – was a success amongst the gallery goers at the Saatchi Gallery in The Rocks, last Thursday. Enjoy the pictures. It’s like you were almost there. MORE

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Print magazine cover making of from Julien Vallée on Vimeo.

I could of created a long descriptive but informative paragraph explaining why this particular designer stimulated my outlook or line of thought which is better known and associated with something that directly relates to graphic design, but instead I’ve summarised what could have been into two dot points as noted below. Enjoy.

1. Innovation: “Creating something brilliant in such a way that it takes twice as long and costs three times as much as the old fashioned way of doing the same thing”.

2. Julien Vallee: A Graphic designer whom employs the use of innovation.

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Phoenix at the Enmore last Wednesday was my favourite moment in live music from the past year. Not even a hard call, they absolutely nailed the whole experience, but I couldn’t find much in the way of an inspiring film clip to put up here as a testament to their awesomeness.

What I did find was an interesting link between the French artists Phoenix, Kavinsky and Sebastien Tellier – they all have clips that remind me in a more colourful and abstract way of the movie ‘Tron’.

To illustrate the point here is Sebastien Tellier’s amazing clip for ‘Sexual Sportswear’ and a link to Phoenix’s ‘Run, Run, Run’ (they disabled embedding)

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For the past two years Extra Cheese has aimed to integrate and encourage re-use within Australia’s emerging creative practice.

This years show requires contributors to include ‘retired’ art and/or design materials. Lots of creatives love to forage, collect and hoard, filling their studio corners and cupboards up with various creative materials that never again see the light of day. It’s time to dig some up again and put them to good use!

The horsehair of old paintbrushes. Perhaps some forgotten canvas frames. Maybe even a defunct computer mouse. Whatever the medium of choice, you will be sure to see some interesting outcomes from some of Sydney’s best emerging creative talent.

With each submission consisting of one emerging Australian artist and one emerging Australian designer, the artwork/design on display will be a unique marker of the thoughts and expressions that Australia’s next creative generation have to say about re-use within creative practice.

FEATURING COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN
Adam Paquette + Dave Foster – Alexandra de Bonis + Ezequiel Cortez
Amanda Cutlack + Fiona Yap – Beastman + Steve Tierney
Daryl Prondoso + Sean Batchelor – Del Lumanta + Tulsi Cutajar
Elliott Bryce + Nikki Dorey – Emily Parsons-Lord + Jo Shin
James Harney + Luke Storrier – James Jirat Patradoon + Kim-Anh Ho
Jin Hien Lau + Victoria Garcia – Jordan Clarke + Nicholas H Pike
Kate Ferguson + Natalie McWilliam – Katherine White + Will Loeng
Laura McKellar + Laura Morgan – Lucas Tipene + Tina Salama
The Groop – TheRipeCollective – Tully Arnot + Various Artists

And after numerous weeks of researching, adding, subtracting, drawing, hording, printing and painting, here is a sneek peek at our submission….
Opening Night is this Thursday August 6, from 6.30. Saatchi Gallery, The Rocks. We hope to see you there!
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Nick Meek, is a photographer and by this, I mean he works for Kodak (or at least he should). His work deliberates a tasteful perfection which in my mind compliments that tacky bi-line (yet another Kodak moment) to a point of stronger accomplishment. His photos aren’t just encapsulating short periods of time, better an extensive period which summarizes more than a just moment.

So too recap in plain English… His photos are good and make me want to become a photographer, you should check his shit out. MORE

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Wu-Tang Clan – Gravel Pit
Directed by Joseph Khan
Remember this one? This is what Wu-tang was doing on the weekend while Fred Flinstone was mowing the law – complete with a casino, prehistoric booty dancers and a minute-and-a-half long fight scene at the end that culminates in a ninja getting snatched by a T-rex.

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remixes http://bit.ly/8JtU6 2009-11-17

RT @modularpeople: Circa 1979: Signal to Noise just got Facebooked - http://bit.ly/L42VT - check it! 2009-11-04

RT @modularpeople: Modular presents Circa 1979: Signal to Noise as part of the @Sydney_Festival: http://is.gd/4NvnF 2009-11-04

Can you hear the whispers? http://bit.ly/11ZlNe 2009-10-21

The groop whisper http://bit.ly/45IgRg 2009-10-20

a short film http://bit.ly/39px6Q 2009-10-18

Australian Edge interview with great photographer Carine Thevenau http://bit.ly/DBAd8 2009-10-05

The Groop's own @littlegonzales in the Mona Vale Attic http://bit.ly/9Q3xH 2009-09-30

A sneak peek at what we are up to http://bit.ly/1MKlTS 2009-09-25

What were you doing on Saturday night? http://bit.ly/l566r 2009-09-23

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