Photographer of the Day
We haven’t posted a “Photographer of the Day” in a while, so it’s about time…
Michele Abeles’ work is a sultry, yet unnerving mixture of monumental nature, empty scenes and portraits. The Yale alum has been praised in recent years for incredible emerging works. The images leave you feeling like you’ve witness memories or echos of what has been, nostalgic and a little forlorn.
Snowboard video premieres @ StudioNemo Nov 15th
Come check out the new shred Releases this Friday @ StudioNemo! Make sure to RSVP to:
Austinw@nemodesign.com
NEMO FIRST FRIDAY ART SHOW “THANKSGIVING”
Thanksgiving
A GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT AND SILENT AUCTION
Thanksgiving is a group photography exhibit/silent auction. The exhibit is a free form salon style show. The photographers’ only direction was to photograph something or someone they are grateful for. Nemo is excited to welcome some incredible photographers who are donating their work in an effort to raise money for the Oregon Food Bank
Please join us for the silent auction, opening night, Friday, November 7th from 6-10pm. Every piece will be auctioned off at affordable prices, allowing people to own a piece of art and raise funds for a great cause at the same time.
Smashed for a good cause…. Bid on Ebay
We are selling off TG’s masterpiece, the hammered G10 on Ebay. All proceeds go to Boarding for Breast Cancer. Own a piece of history! click here
Go check out “Wild Beauty” at the Portland Art Museum
Boring poster I know, but if your in the PDX area you should go check out “Wild Beauty” at the Portland Art Museum. Its put together by the Northwest Photography Archive. It’s a collection of photos from various photographers such as Carleton Watkins, Lily White and Sarah Ladd. Its a look in to Oregon’s past and growth during the post industrial revolution era, pristine scenery captured on film at a time when people were just beginning to harness the Columbia for economic growth through trade/fishing, power etc… A definite must see.
Banksy new work
When I was in NY last, I picked up a book for TG on Banksy’s art. His street art is really amazing, but this newest venture may take the cake. It’s so bizarre!!! The “Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill” is a tiny storefront that opened without notice or fanfare in NY. It has drawn confused crowed to its “animals” displays such as chicken mcnuggets, drinking from a communal bbq sauce, hot dogs under heat lamps in aquariums, and a leopard in a tree. Read more about it at the Wooster Collective or check out the photos and video below…
Happy Birthday Universal Declaration of Human Rights
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Cool Hunting’s Seth Brau recently brought the words to life with motion graphics. The Declaration was written by Eleanor Roosevelt 60 years ago. It’s nice to see such an important piece of work reinvigorated by technology. And it’s a nice reminder that leaders of our country were once useful and smart.
Kenny Bloggins is back!
Josh Letchworth has recently revived his blog and it’s worth a read. He also has a great photo submission thing going. Check it out here…
Badass Portrait photo of the day…
A photo of one of my favorite people by one of my favorite photographers, Cass Bird. The bird is the word!
Older than My Little Pony…
Both My Little Pony and I celebrated our birthdays this past weekend. She hasn’t aged a bit, just more stylish (wish I could say that about myself)!
In honor of her 25th birthday, the Chelsea Art Museum held The My Little Pony Project:25 Ponies for 25 Years.
My favorite of the show was a Pony designed by Catalina Estrada , who is a Columbian artist out of Spain.
An Art Retrospective by Nubby Twiglet @ StudioNemo
Nubby Twiglet Art Show @ Nemo Design from Austin Will on Vimeo.
On 10/3 StudioNemo was proud to host the fantastic work of Nemo Employee, Nubby Twiglet, AKA Shauna Haider. Nubby’s pop style art consists of stripes, shoes, and letterforms collaged on wood and ceramic, sealed in epoxy resin. The 30 pieces on display are compiled from three series and span over three years. We are ecstatic to have her work on our walls. Come in and check out Nubby’s art all month!!
Great First Thursday Show
Upper Playground is hosting Travis Millard and Mel Kadel for First Thursday this month. They’re work is incredible. This town is really stepping it up in terms of art! Check it out at 23 NW 5th Ave. tonight. Check out more about them on Fecal Face.
Untitled by Travis Millard
Foot Bath by Mel Kadel
StudioNemo visits the Innovative+Functional Furniture Show 2008 at PSU
Inovative+Functional Furniture Show 2008 from alex mertz on Vimeo.
A few of us here at StudioNemo took a trip this evening to PSU campus in Portland,OR to check out the Innovative+Functional Funiture Show 2008. Our good friend Dave Seoane was on hand exhibiting his work (killer table Dave.) among 40 other artists. AND HE WON 1ST PLACE!!! There were some very beautiful pieces, some odd, some just weird, but held their own, in their funky little ways. Be sure to check out the show all month long at the Shattuck Bldg. (3rd floor) on the PSU campus. Thanks to all the artists involved! Great work!
What is it?!?! StudioNemo recives a surprise from Nate Silverstein.
Nate Silverstein is a Nemo alum and was an assistant to Trevor Graves back in the day. While I have met him once before when he visited nemo, I don’t really know Nate well enough to tell you something interesting about him. So I enlisted the help of my co-worker Kari Rowe who has known and worked with Nate since Nemo’s early days, this is what she had to say. ” Nate? He is a crazy motherf*#@*r. He’s one of the most creative people I’ve met. He recently moved back to Portland from NY with his girlfriend… Oh! I guess when he was in NY he took a break from photography and started taping pens to the bottoms of canes and would draw pictures with it. (uncontrollable laughter)” With that being said, Nate dropped off a surprise the other day. He gave Nemo a copy of three photo books that he published. Very interesting imagery and original presentation for each series. The books include: Deep Freeze, Mary Please, and Polaroid IV.
p.s. Along with the packaging looking like Nate skinned a muppet, one of the books comes packaged in a faux bag of grass… Genius!
Nate Silverstein from alex mertz on Vimeo.
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First Friday Nemo Art Show
We are so excited to have Nemo’s own Shauna Haider showing this month. Her blog Nubbytwiglet.com says it all. She’s sleek, smart, talented, dark and driven. You’ll love her and her work. Come by and check her out this Friday, October 3rd, at 1875 SE Belmont from 6pm to 10pm.
Photo Diary…
Photographer Theodora Allen does interesting photo diaries of people she knows and places she visits. It’s a great way to document feelings and experiences beyond words. They’re quite beautiful. Enjoy!
photo of the day
StudioNemo’s friend Cel Jarvis sent us some eye candy today of her latest work for hawks by Geren Ford for Urban Outfitters. YEAH CEL! Your work is awesome. Check out more here
Great curation…
The Ones We Love is a project highlighting young and talented photographers from around the world. Each artist contributed six photographs of the person(s) who is most important to them, taken outdoors in a natural setting. The goal of the website is to portray the people who are loved, cherished, and inspirational to these artists, and also showcase the differences and similarities in the photographs each of them took within the same guidelines.
I love the idea of a relational art and making biographical art through the places and people nearest to you.
And some video for your pleasure…
I was able to sneak a little video in. Enjoy! -hh
THE WEEPING SONG from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
Love Letter by Nick Cave from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
A dream come true!!!
Last night I was privileged to see the great Nick Cave in concert. It was his 51st birthday and he put on an amazing show. It was crowded and I couldn’t get very close for photos. I want to go again!!!
Talk about location!!!!
Aren’t we lucky here in the great NW to have the locations that we have. I am so happy to see that someone is using it well…Check out the beautiful photos that Raymond Meier took for New York Times T Magazine in the Olympic National Forest.
Goldmine Shithouse in SF
A good friend of Nemo’s, Mr. Jonny Fenix, is a part time collaborator in the art collective Goldmine Shithouse. They get together once in a while and spend a week or two in a debaucherous art-making mode, then have an exhibit. Their latest exhibit, Russian Reduction, happened last week in SF and it sounds like it went very well. Enjoy the pictures and watch the making of Carny Hands.
The Continental Crawler… part 3
They’re almost here….
The Continental Crawler: Episode Three from Michael Cogliantry on Vimeo.
I love, love, love, the cheese curd taste test!
Photographer of the day….
Ofer Wolberger is a photographer out of New York and a great blogger (read Horses Think). I really like his work. He has beautiful cityscapes, but I mostly like his work because of his portrayal of spacial relations. Hi work interestingly portrays an object in relation to another object, or in relation to its particular placement, and occasionally he will encorporate a person into his work and the gesticulate towards their place within a space. The work goes beyond place though, it’s a portrayal of the object or person in relation to nature, power, etc. Not necessarily as a dichotomy, but showing multiple relations that exist within one frame. Check him out here….
