Stuff We <3

Bruce Davidson is one of the most renowned photographers of our time. A box set of a large collection of his work was published this summer by Steidl, if you hurry quick they still have a few first edition copies left! Of course, our favorite series of his will be always be Brooklyn Gang <3

Seemingly quiet for most of 2010, B’L'ing is a traveling trading post that screens and exchanges bootleg video art and rare media. This is their “RGB Poster,” composed of several colorful film stills. Also love these BL’ing alternative movie posters by Amy Yao.

Yes. That is a real person.

Alexa Meade. Seriously.

This past weekend in NYC, as part of the Crossing the Line festival, the financial district was invaded by these colorful contortionist performers, led by choreographer Willi Dorner in a piece called “Bodies in Urban Spaces.” The results were hilarious. You can see more pics @ the Wall Street Journal.

The Flaming Lips have nothing to prove. If if they want to make every video from their latest album be the same thing: a naked girl in a blindfold with some psychedelic stuff going on, I guess we can’t complain. It’s not lazy. It’s thematic… right? Either way, click the picture above to watch the video for the floor-stomping “See the Leaves” (NSFW). | via Stereogum

We <3 NY. So does Mounir Fatmi, who has smartly recreated the New York skyline several times over for a series called “Save Manhattan,” using household objects and a well-placed light source. | via Rhizome

Yochai Matos, probably best known for his fluorescent light sculptures, has also been hitting the streets of Tel Aviv for years, using glitter, glue, and graffiti (and ceramic tiles?) to show us the stuff he <3s.

Os Gemeos have a new mural up in New York City, in collaboration with street artist Futura. This particular piece is a whopping 80 ft tall. The shorts are a patchwork of different flags from around the world. Definitely a representation of the diversity of this fine city. If you’re in the neighborhood, you should definitely check it out.

photo from: Brooklyn Street Art

found on: My Love For You Is A Stampede of Horses

8 bit art that will blow your mind.  More of him here and here

Noemie Lafrance is well-known for her site specific choreography pieces and for her work on Feist’s video “1234″. MELT, originally choreographed and performed in 2003 in Brooklyn, has been an evolving piece of hers, garnering more and more attention as it grows. It started as a 3 person performance, 12 minutes long, and has grown to 8 dancers and is 30 minutes long. Lafrance mentions the oppressive heat of summer in New York City as one of many inspirations (and we all know how true that is) in this interview at TONY. During the performance, dancers are draped in lanolin and then smothered in bees wax to give the appearance of them melting, as they are perched in various positions on a wall, writhing painfully. The new piece, being performed at the salt piles under the Manhattan Bridge, is closing September 12th.