PostSecret is an ongoing (by now international) community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. I have posted about PostSecret before here and here… the clandestine collective catharsis continues with gusto.
Tehran, Iran
An exhibition of posters and other works by the talented Iranian graphic designer (and mother) Parisa Tashakori is currently on display at VitrinRooz. Keep up the good work…
Images: Untitled; Peace; Khoramshahr.
Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba
Best wishes to dear friends around the world on this momentous date—those of us in the Northern Hemisphere are celebrating the longest day of the year (as measured by how long the sun graces our position). Best wishes for Father’s Day as well—Dad, and all others in that paternal demographic…
New York, New York
Some great photographs of legendary U.S. climbers in a flickr set, shot by Jim Herrington. Shown above: Doug Robinson on a first ascent on Temple Crag in the Sierra Nevada, California; Glenn Exum strums in Colorado.
(Thanks to Winnipeg photographer friend Ian McCausland for the link).
Hartford, Connecticut
That’s a parental dictate that Kevin Van Aelst obviously never took to heart… see more of the man’s quirky (and often edible) oeuvre here. Shown above: Apple Globe (2007); Oreo Yin Yang (2005).
(Thanks for the link, Gerald).
Madrid, Spain
Touted in the media as “Madrid’s Banksy,” the artist SpY’s work primarily consists of “the playful re-appropriation of urban elements that he replicates or transforms” as street art installations. His underlying attempt is to “break the automaton-like inertia of the urban dweller” by means of surprise, irony, and humour. Lots more here…
Images, from top: Cow; Lazyman’s Rubic Cube (available in six colours); Street Wars; Gardening. (Thanks to Raquel Rivera [who I recently met at OFFF 2009 Oieras] for the introduction to SpY).
(Thanks David Ronnie… via Swissmiss).
Wherever…
A nice collection of quirky signs from around the globe here, submitted by readers of the UK’s Telegraph… a sampling above from Paris, the UK, India, USA, and South Africa.
(thanks to Gerald Brandt for the link)
