Last weekend, Coco and I headed to Miami to attend what is known as ‘the Olympics of the art world’, Art Basel.
Mr. Brainwash aka Thierry Guetta took over a massive empty retail space on Collins in South Beach. You couldn’t miss the big Mr. Potato Head and the many Darth Vaders peaking out from the building’s balconies. He was there signing free posters of his artwork. Pretty awesome!
Then we headed over to the Wynwood Arts District where graffiti artists took to the streets and made Miami a little more colourful. There was even a pop-up spray paint shop where anyone could buy paint, head outside and find a wall to tag.
Some other cool pieces we saw:
Check out our photostream below and if you want more info on Art Basel, go to:
A while back we featured two brothers who broke into a TIFF party, made some contacts and ended up selling their small budget film to Hollywood for over a quarter of a million dollars. One of the brothers, Jeff Campagna, has since been busy writing a blog which he explains as an, “expressive outlet [with] quite the motley farrago of entries here; Poems, Thoughts, Insights, Ideas, Short Fiction, Rants, Complaints and Selfish Promotion.”
Each year Jeff publishes the entries from his blog in book form found HERE and has recently started taking excerpts from his poetry and creating visual art pieces which can be previewed HERE. His ability to tie in every medium of self-expression makes him a true artist.
Jeff will be featuring his art at GalleryWest so make sure to go check it out!
I’ve been saying this for months now, but I want an iPhone. I know I’m not the only one who would get separation anxiety from BBM for laying my Blackberry to rest but after seeing this, I’m borderlineready.
We’ve all seen some of Coco’s amazing pics that she’s taken with instagram but now you can create your very own coffee table book or wedding album with Blurb, a site that helps you select your instagram pics and organize them into a book!
I heard about this on 13thWitness, an amazing photographer friend from NY who has created a 150 page book with all of his favorite photos. Blurb is like a pop-up publisher for pros or amateurs.
Being here only increased the romance in a city dripping with it, so I hope couples keep coming here to declare their love!
On a sign post on 20th Street by an entrance to the High Line in NYC people doing another form of proclamation by sharing their hopes and dreams. Â Under a homemade sign that reads HOPE and a bunch of now dying flowers there are tags for people passing by to write their hopes – and look how many have!
On a recent trip to Paris one of the most beautiful things I saw were the flowers in the George V. Â Every morning when we came down to the lobby they were absolutely perfect. Â I believe I took more pictures of them than I did of the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe and The Louvre combined. Â They were the perfect example of how flowers can single handedly change a room.
The arrangements are designed by famed florist/artistic director Jeff Leatham -who you may remember from an episode of Oprah about Dream Jobs or his show Flowers Uncut on TLC. Â Not only is Jeff’s work inspirational, he is! Â Not professionally trained, Leatham is not only a natural, but a master, winning countless awards giving us yet another reminder to go out and reach for your dreams!
