Osaka-based duo Tochka is pretty much responsible for the worldwide interest in flashlight animation aka Lightning Doodle Project aka the inspiration for the latest Sprint commercials.

On my recent visit to Seoul, I was intrigued by this installation outside of a gallery…

[ 20 Apr 2008; ] “Take your time: Olafur Eliasson” is the first comprehensive survey in the United States of works by Olafur Eliasson, whose large-scale immersive environments, installations, sculptures, and photographs elegantly recreate the extremes of landscape and atmosphere in his native Iceland.

[ 5 Apr 2008; ]
CC photo by Brandon Shigeta© MURAKAMI as seen at the show’s debut at the MoCA in Los Angeles.
After its debut at MoCA in Los Angeles, the most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami comes to the Brooklyn Museum. The show includes more than ninety works in various […]

[ 8 May 2008 to 10 May 2008. ] OFFF festival brings together the artists that are breaking ground and shaping new standards in media and design, becoming the essential meeting point for the international scene of digital creation.

[ 4 Apr 2008 to 5 Apr 2008. ] One of the world’s top independent design conferences, Semi-Permanent features a diverse range of topics including graphic design, illustration, filmmaking, photography, street art, visual effects, motion graphics, fine art, web design, advertising and more.

“I didn’t think I was going to like this show,” artist Bill Viola told me at Thursday night’s opening reception for California Video, the Getty Center’s major exhibition celebrating California artists’ important role in video art which opens today.

Aaron Rose’s bio reads like a creative person’s dream–artist, writer, independent curator, publisher, editor, musician and now accomplished filmmaker. In the 1990s, Aaron founded the highly influential Alleged Gallery in New York…

Björk was there. When I tell people where I went last night, that’s the first thing they ask me: “Was Björk there?” The next question is, “What was she wearing?” Nobody asks about the buffalo.

I can’t recall the last time Spike Jonze and his entire creative team–Vince Landay (producer), Lance Acord (cinematographer), KK Barrett (production designer) and Eric Zumbrunnen (editor)–got together for a public two hour talk. But tonight it happened.