October 30th, 2009 by Sydney

Check out this awesome Vulcan Salute shaped USB-drive.  You can buy it here.

Suggested by mactonnies of Posthuman Blues, Link via nerdcore

October 29th, 2009 by Sydney

Super behind on my blogging but here are some links that I’ve been liking lately…

3D Glasses Dress/Fashionably Geek

Library Inspired Store Design/NOTCOT

Invisible/Visible People/designyoutrust

Short Film – Neo City/webomator

Science Labware Lamps/Mocoloco

How to make guts/make magazine

Spectacular Wood Carvings/beautifuldecay

Amazing Katamari Cosplay/Vassup!

Dexter Themed Interior Design/make magazine

Dissected Baby Heads?: Exquisite Bodies at the Wellcome Collection/wemakemoneynotart

Cloud-like Light Sculptures/atelier29

Giant Light Brite/geek dad

October 25th, 2009 by Senna

Deconstruct and reconstruct the old, the future of fashion lies in recycling. I’m in love with a Venice store called Madley, whose designer does just that. All one of a kind pieces with a nostalgia for the past and a futuristic edge, the aesthetics ring princess from a distant land or sea. Check it out.

October 17th, 2009 by Sydney

This is a series of photographs that I took this last spring.  The project was called Future-Speak, which is also the name of my other blog.  For this project, I conducted a number of shot interviews in the form of questionnaires that asked what people thought the future was going to be like.  From their answers, I gathered a general sense their kind of collective future and produced these seven photographs illustrating what I thought that future looked like.  To accompany the photographs, I made a sound piece which I thought further created a sort of futuristic environment in which the photos could be viewed.  Eventually these photos will be up on my personal website (the one that I never have time to make) as apart of my portfolio.

Listen to the sound here.

October 14th, 2009 by Amanda

Not sure what to do for your children, or pets this Halloween? Well fear not!! Here are some ideas!!

October 12th, 2009 by Amanda

Via The Vulcan & The Unicorn

Project ITSOK: by Sighn life’s focus is on a potentially impossible feat, a hand cut one million wooden cut outs simply reading “IT’S OK”. The end result of this 50 year venture will result in a piece entitled: one million times it’s ok. Every piece is numbered as a part of the “Limited” Edition of 1 Million. For every one bought, one tree will be planted through The Arbor Day Foundation.

View a short documentary of the process.

You can purchase them online here.

Or you can check them out at any of these locations.

I purchased mine [#1179] at the
Flock Shop
943 N. Broadway, #103
Los Angeles, CA 90012

October 12th, 2009 by Senna

Brody Condon is a local Los Angeles artist who combines LARPing, video games, and virtual realities and their surrounding cultures in his work.  And as you know images speak louder than words, so check out this video and his website.

Brandon Stosusy describes him: “Brody Condon affixes his own factual and revised history to games, creating a different, personalized sort of digital authoring. Rewriting and defamiliarizing
clichéd gaming tropes, he’s more interested in autobiographical overlaps, the
subsequent subversion of the impulse, and other forms of infestation than straight,
out-of-the-box play. Condon’s artistic universe centers on movements (using literal
game pieces) and the dialogue between Late Medieval radical Protestants, 60’s
and 70’s counterculture, contemporary/mid-century Fascism, and current pop
culture, while folding in roll (and role) playing, outsider Fantasy Art, astral projection,
and 80’s drug culture. It’s more about the spaces he colonizes than playing
the games; the potential violence and the aftermath of trauma rather than the
actual event. Condon’s symbolically and visually rich virtual locales offer an alternate
environment, a place where endless repetition (of death, spastic dancing, or
the most banal half memory) is easily attainable.”

He also works with c-level projects, which you can check out here.

Boy, would we like to collaborate with him!  Thanks Adam Overton (really cool sound artist) for the suggestion!

October 10th, 2009 by Sydney

I actually never really liked going to playgrounds when I was little.  Bad things would always happen to me at them.  One time I stepped on a piece of glass.  Another time someone tried to steal me.  And another time I broke my leg.  And this other time I sprained my tailbone.  And another time I got the biggest splinter of my life.  It was like… two inches wide.  But I bet if playgrounds were as cool as these ones from the 70′s, I probably would have been more motivated to climb the shit out of those jungle gyms.  But they weren’t.  So I wasn’t.

(via design you trust via divine caroline)

October 10th, 2009 by Amanda

Via: Steapunk Fashion

“These are pictures from the Fresh Fruits Basket fashion show that kicks off SGMS every year. You may click here for a short video from last year’s show. The headliners of the show were from The Libertine Asylum You can read what they are all about here if you would like.

All Photos are taken and edited by Drayke Larson of Photosynthetique Imaging His LJ is rez_olution feel free to check him out too!

The pictures are from steampunk designer Heather Luca of SCOUNDRELLES KEEP. Her corsets are THE BEST!!!

Hope you enjoy!”

October 9th, 2009 by Sydney

I recently helped Fantasy IRL blogger Amanda shoot photos for her makeup artist portfolio (website coming soon).   For this particular series, we were going for a sort of android/retro/Stepford wife kinda thing.  Since I was actually in these photos, we had our friend Justin (also known as sunnyheadcase on this blog) shoot them on my Nikon D90.  They were shot at Amanda’s house, which was built in the 1950′s, the perfect location for such a shoot.

The concept was pretty simple.  I’m an android women that lonely men can buy and take as their wife.  When you first buy me, I come naked and without hair.  I also come with a set of three wigs that you can switch in and out at your leisure.  The creepy husband/Italian Futurist-looking guy is played by my boyfriend, Joey.  Thank to Joey and Justin for helping us out!

October 9th, 2009 by Amanda

I do love the weird animals, and thanks to Webecoist there are 15 even crazier ones to blog about. These are my favorites. You can view them all here.

Giant Isopod:

Cloverfield anyone? “If you’re afraid of bugs, you’re really not going to like the Giant Isopod. It resembles nothing so much as a cockroach the size of a guinea pig, but it’s actually a crustacean related to shrimp and crabs. These scavengers roam the cold, dark sea floor from 560ft to 7,000ft below the surface of the ocean, eating mostly dead whales, fish, and squid.” DEAD WHALES?!

Yeti Crab:

I’m sure our friends at Ilovetheyeti would like this. “With its long, furry appendages, the newly-discovered Yeti Crab looks like some kind of sea sloth. It was discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean during a deep-sea diving expedition in 2006 and is so unusual that a new taxonomic family had to be invented for it. The Yeti Crab is blind and white, with fur that supports colonies of bacteria. It lives near hydrothermal vents 7,540 feet under the surface.”

Horror Frog:

It may not look that creepy, but looks can be misleading. This little guy has the ability to break its bones so that they puncture its toe pads, producing extendable claws on demand when threatened. It was only discovered in 2008.

Dumbo Octopus:

It’s kinda cute. “Strange as the Dumbo Octopus may be, some people actually think it’s pretty cute” Hey that’s what I said!! “‘Dumbo’ can be found in the dark depths of any ocean on Earth and grows up to 20cm in length. It swallows its prey, made up of mostly worms and crustaceans, whole.”

October 4th, 2009 by Sydney

We’ve taken a break from the convention circuit and are trying to focus on making work for the exhibitions we’re set to be in over the next year. (There are three of them so far!)

Right now, as research for my latest project, I’m looking for internet/cyber cafes and arcades in Los Angeles. I’m having a hard time finding ones that I don’t already know about and I actually haven’t been able to find out about many news ones through the internet. Does anyone have any suggestions? As far as the aesthetic, think dark, grungy, punky looking cafes and bright, sensory-overloading arcades.  If you know of any, let me know at sydney@fantasyirl.net. Thanks!