With delicate lines, dots, and geometric patterns, L.A. tattoo artist Dr. Woo creates some of the coolest tattoos ever. The 33-year-old artist first started experimenting with tattoos when he was only 13 and would later work as a fashion buyer and designer before he apprenticed with Mark Mahoney at the Shamrock Social Club where he’s now based.
Woo is now one of the most in-demand tattoo artists in L.A. with a waitlist well over six months. There’s often a line out the door of people just making appointments in-person (a professor recently showed up with an entire class in tow). You can join a half million others and follow him on Instagram. All photos courtesy the artist. (via Quipsologies, My Modern Met, The New York Times)
Wonderhood is a social discovery marketplace where people looking for novel things to do can connect with everyday people offering up their unique knowledge and resources for a small price. It’s about inventing and reinventing fun stuff to do by empowering people to share their awesome passions, ideas and access with people looking to be inspired and entertained.
Finding truly fun and interesting stuff to do is difficult. It takes time and creativity which are often in short supply when our minds are so busy with work and general life admin. So we end up defaulting to the things we know, and too often those things are corporatized encounters – like you visit the zoo but you get the sense that the animals aren’t the only ones who are trapped in some kind of prescribed destiny.
The wonderhood team thought it’d be great if there was a place you could go to easily find authentic, original and fun things to do in your city or in a city you’re visiting. And they built this idea on the assumption that the person who can teach you to cook the best palak paneer in town isn’t necessarily a chef. No, it’s Praveen Gupta the hilarious historian from Heidelberg (Australia) who has a lovely home kitchen and would get pure joy out of using it on weekends to show paying people the culinary secrets that have passed down through generations of her North Indian family.
The power of Wonderhood is the power of unlocking the dormant creative potential held in every city’s minds and resources.
The Museum of Old and New Art’s (MONA) winter festival Dark Mofo (12—22 June 2015) attracts more than 120,000 people to Hobart, over 10 days each June, to celebrate the dark through large-scale public art, food, film, music, light and noise.
This year, in addition to an extended City of Hobart Dark Mofo Winter Feast, there is the new industrial harbourside festival precinct Dark Park packed with public art, a ‘late-night ceremonial death dance’ called Blacklist, a dark Nordic and Antipodean mix in the Dark Mofo Films program, a 72-hour ideas Hothouse in a large-scale temporary bamboo shelter at Salamanca, and much more.
To entice you further into the night, Mona offers its latest major exhibition, Private Archaeology by Marina Abramović (13 June—5 October).
Curated by Nicole Durling and Olivier Varenne, Private Archaeology explores how Abramović—the world’s most recognised performance artist—has refined her creativity over her 40-year career to focus on her ideology ‘the art of the immaterial’. The exhibition includes more than 40 works: sound pieces, videoworks, photographs, sculptures and interactive works which showcase Abramović’s early foundational work with former lover and collaborative partner Ulay, as well as more recent and solo work.
Hasan Novrozi, a talented sculptor trained in Iran, has created a wonderful collection of steampunk animals sculptures that are full of life and emotion – despite being painstakingly assembled from thousands of metal tools, automotive components, and other pieces of scrap metal.
In addition to his epic Pegasus statue, he has also created other creatures in a variety of styles, all of which are stunning!
Since the earliest days of Winamp and other media players with vizualization software that transformed our favorite songs into pulsing animations, we’ve all grown accustomed to “seeing” music on a computer screen. A new company called Reify aims to put those same sound wave interpretations in your hands, as 3d-printed sculptures. Lead by founder and CEO Allison Wood, the team is creating software that turns any snippet of audio—from rock music to spoken poetry—into curious objects 3d-printed from bronze, plastic, or even coconut husk.
You can’t be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you’re thinking that
you’re leaving there too soon #makeitreal #neilyoung #sugarmountian (at REIFY HQ)
Reify is also creating software that allows you to ‘scan’ the sculptures with your phone to interpret them back into audio. It’s not clear from their concept video if the music is recognizable, but that’s probably not the point. These sound sculptures seem to be more about visual presentation than media like vinyl or a phonograph
