New York based visual artist Rosemarie Fiore created this time lapse photograph. It was taken one frame per second during gameplay of the 1980's arcade game Tempest. […]
I’m not quite sure what Stride Gum has to do with video games but they are the sponsor of “Save The Arcades” online contest to raise dollars to help support classic arcades. Steve Wiebe, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, shares an experience with early arcade culture to support the cause. Arcade UFO [...] […]
Check out the vintage vinyl inspired artwork of Jeff Klarin and Rebecca Johnson at Bughouse Art & Design. “Our creative role as artist-designers allows us to subvert the expectations placed on functional objects and bring the expressive singularity of fine art to a larger audience by producing limited edition prints and paintings. We mine the past […]
Records are popping up everywhere – even the MoMA! This piece by Jonathan Monk is part of a current exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Monk has matched a series of 12 album covers by The Smiths with a series of watercolor and pencil works on paper. Working within the realm [...] […]
Steve Wolfe meticulously re-creates everyday objects such as book covers and vinyl records to investigate the intersections among material culture, intellectual history, and personal and collective memory. Wolfe works in the tradition of trompe l’oeil and his pieces literally fool the eye on first inspection. The “Steve Wolfe On Paper” exhibit at […]
Vinyl records do seem to be back. They’re popping up everywhere! So far this year vinyl record sales have increased more than 35 percent, according to Nielsen Soundscan. Apparently the iPod generation is fueling the resurgence. A younger, new-to-vinyl audience has discovered vinyl records sound better than digital files. The full article may be found […]