Anne Kyle- painter

Our friend, Anne Kyle is amazing painter and we just wanted to do a little post on her work. She's probably the daintiest lady you'll ever meet and when she's not painting, you can probably find her roller skating around the city. We actually named our Anne top after her (spring 08) and our Dainty dress (fall 09) in her honor.

We used a couple of her paintings in our fall 09 shoot and you couldn't see them that well, so we thought we'd put up a couple pics of her work. If you're looking for something special to hang on your walls, Anne paints on commission. From her bird series:

Parsons MFA photography exhibit

Last night we went to Parsons MFA photography exhibit to support one of our very talented models Sam, who we shot for our upcoming spring 09 collection. It's always exciting to see work from young artists, whose names you'll hopefully be hearing more of in the next few years.

Be sure to check out Sam's site. Parsons chose her photograph as the front image for the exhibit, which you can see why below. Also, check out some more talented artists below, whose work is pretty inspiring.

Invite:


Sam with her work:


Other amazing up and coming artists that caught our eye.

Keith Telfeyan




Sandra Elkind


Sally Dennison

Building a website?

The ultimate resource for people wanting to build their own website- the Agency Tool. It's the "definitive resource list for designing, developing, marketing & maintaining websites." Look up everything from web safe colors, to picking a domain name to SEO optimization. via Swiss Miss

We didn't exactly use this because a) we didn't know about the Agency Tool and b) if you don't have the time to do it well, hire someone talented to help out.. so we had two amazing graphic designers (*plug)- Jared Stone and Christopher King build and develop ours.

Kenneth Snelson- sculptor

We love art and nature inspired and informed by mathematical principles. American artist Kenneth Snelson's sculptures are some of the most inspiring works based on this idea.

Using the concept of tensegrity- his sculptures' structural integrity is based on the simultaneous pushing and pulling of components- creating a strong but flexible form. If a wire is cut, it will cause a major deformation or collapse of the sculpture entirely.

See other works via Treehugger and Inhabitat based on the same principle. Check out Richard Buckminster's table via Treehugger (which you can also create a DIY version here) or new forms in architecture that uses tensegrity to flexible, dynamic buildings via Inhabitat.

Artist Chris Jordan's Ted.com talk

Ever since we saw his work featured in GOOD magazine, we've been fans of artist Chris Jordan's photography. Since then, we've had the pleasure of seeing his pieces in person and we just found his talk on Ted.com where he gives insight into his work. Enjoy!

p.s. Ted.com is pretty amazing in its own right!