“Here’s a fine piece of downtown NYC avant-garde history. Performance artist Meredith Monk’s “16 Millimeter Earrings” for voice, guitar, and tapes, first performed in 1966 and recreated for the 1979 video above. Monk’s musical/theatrical/multimedia/film art has influenced everyone from Bruce Nauman to David Byrne to Bjork. “I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema,” Monk once said.” David Pescovitz (via BoingBoing)

It does drag in one or two places but there are some beautiful moments. Her voice is amazing.

Apparently Jean Giraud/ Moebius has lost his battle with cancer today. One of the best illustrators ever, he wrote graphic novels and did design work for films such Alien, Tron, and The Fifth Element. Here’s a video of him at work.

edit; Scrap apparently, I’ve seen enough articles to confirm it methinks.

Here’s io9’s - http://io9.com/5892148/legendary-french-artist-moebius-the-man-who-made-the-abyss-alien-and-tron-even-weirder-is-dead-at-74

Bleeding Cool’s - http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/03/10/remembering-moebius-through-his-art/

Neil Gaiman’s Tribute - http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/19058495584/this-was-the-cover-of-the-first-metal-hurlant-i

moebius angouleme2009 (by sibpascal)

Raku (by mickmorganpottery)

Mick Morgan. Teaches at Aberystwyth, and when I went to France with my Uni he was there and showed us some interesting techniques and such.

iheartchaos:

Awesome sculpture of the day: “Metalmorphosis” by David Cerny

“Metalmorphosis” is a large stainless steel kinetic sculpture located in Charlotte, NC. It’s 30 feet tall, weighing in at 14 tons and is composed of a number of steel slices that slowly rotate out of sync with each other, as you can see in the above video.

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Wits with Neil Gaiman: The Problem with Saints (by MPRdotOrg)

Gaiman is an awesome songwriter - on top of everything else!

Amanda Palmer’s rather funny inspirational advice.

“The Fraud Police” - AFP’s Commencement Speech to NEIA’s Class of 2011 (by amandapalmer)

Health with Little Red Riding Hood (Actually with subtitltes!) (by dustinalfonso)

Wonderfully insane Japanese cartoon about healthy living - starring Red Riding Hood and the Internal-Organ-Fairies.

(Source: fs39l)

Fried Fruits - Potter Jonathan Garett goes through digging and processing his own clay, throwing, wood-firing and such in his country pottery.  

(Dorset UK)

(Source: rompandwobble)

easworld:

I just love this intimate look at the artist’s process. The final product ain’t bad either!

Dutch Profiles: Hella Jongerius (by DutchProfiles)

designer

Fantasia in Clay - a Nebraska Story (by NETnebraska)

She has an interesting technique of making figures from thrown pieces. 

Unicorn vs. Narwhal (by adrianmolina)

Really funny/epic student cartoon!

Pottery Making in Rural India (by jdisnow)

oomwah:

Daniel Williams at New York Academy of Art builds Ecorche.