Above just updated his website with new work and some great photos from his latest travels.

I Just run across of some artwork by Matt Relkin and I was captivated by the simplicity and unexpected of his work. Read this interesting interview at Fecal Face and check his Flickr account to support this amazing emerging artist.

Hot Bread Kitchen is more than a bakery. It’s a business that enhances the future for immigrant women and preserves baking traditions. For your munching pleasure, they offer fresh breads baked with traditional recipes from around the world. They make it a priority to use local and organic ingredients.

Hot Bread Kitchen also honors the culinary traditions of peoples from all over the world. Preservation of diverse techniques and ingredients is crucial in the face of corporate globalization that tends to homogenize diversity. (Did you know, for example, that Maseca, a processed corn flour is now used widely in both tortillas in Central American and West African starches like kenkey?  Its too bad, but no one is grinding corn anymore.)

As part of their mandate to “Br-educate” New Yorkers, They’re creating a compelling record of the many diverse breads that are being baked here in the city. Looking for Ghanaian kenkey bread, Punjabi allo parantha, or lahoch flatbread baked by Yemeni Jews–all freshly baked within the five boroughs? Stay tuned and you’ll find out where!

Erin Morrison was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Attended Memphis College of Art and the California College of Art, San Francisco.
Graduated from MCA with BFA of high distinction.

Currently living in Seattle.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The intention of my work is to approach the differences between what has been identified in our culture as organic and inorganic, and to clarify the impression of empathy between viewer and object through the transforming qualities of photography.

As most of the plant and animal life seen today have evolved to their present state due to continual environmental changes. Lately the primary focus of my work has been to depict the adaptation of our landscape in conjunction with the changes we constantly make to the way we view ourselves. The most recent body of work primarily acts as a record of these continual changes. The scale, in both size and complexity, is intended to capture a diverse range of urban ecosystems, and is used simply as a photographic reference or transcription of seemingly common (although often uncommon) events.

The suggestion of photography has become a constant in my work. Since the pursuit of landscape transformation began by making direct reference to nature publications, I took a new interest in the interpretation of the image (from a second-hand perspective) by the substitution of alternative mediums. Although more apparent in the larger works, the attempt of creating this barrier through the once effective presence of a lens, invokes a feeling of detachment between the viewer and object; creating a contingency between what has been studied to the fullest extent and what we have yet to see.

With the motive of pulling away the extremities to reveal the structure, most of the subjects in these drawings appear to be at their most compromised points of existence. With these new images I hope to recover the empathy lost between viewer and object by developing an alternative way of seeing pictures.

Ponoko is an online marketplace for everyone to click to make real things.

It’s where creators, digital fabricators, materials suppliers and buyers meet to make (almost) anything. The core of its vision is the trade in product designs – kinda like the trade in music (iTunes), photos (Flickr), movies (YouTube) and software apps (iPhone).

They host tens of thousands of user generated product designs, ready to be customized and made into real things with the click of a mouse. But hosting designs is only a part of the puzzle. Importantly, they also provide the world’s first digital making system that means these product designs can be priced instantly online and made locally, as close to the point of consumption as possible.

Since 1999, Koz Archictects have been working on interesting projects, where color plays a major role on their approach and materiality is beautifully exposed. The firm was founded by Christophe Ouhayoun and Nicholas Ziesel, graduates of the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture.

In 2001, along with three other architectural studios, KOZ established a collaborative collective called Plan01

Netvibes lets individuals assemble their favorite widgets, websites, blogs, email accounts, social networks, search engines, instant messengers, photos, videos, podcasts, and everything else they enjoy on the web – all in one place. Now VIVA LA NETWORK has its own netvibes platform to connect with you.

Today, Netvibes is a global community of users who are taking control of their digital lives by personalizing their web experience. Netvibes is also a widget platform that is used by thousands of publishers around the world. Netvibes has offices in Paris, London and San Francisco.

Alfonso Nieto was born in 1969 in Santiago, Chile. He has been interested in art and sculpture since his early years. Traveling and moving experiences have formed his approach as an artist, constantly evolving and redefining himself.

Between 1990 and 1995, he studied Fine Arts at ARCIS University in Santiago, Chile. He works in a wide range of media, from video installations to paintings, etching and engraving, sculpture in fiberglass and plastic and architectural design. All of which unveils a certain parallelism that stands crucial in his work. On the one hand, his projects are “free artistic expression” and on the other they are “applied art”. In between he creates for himself a space for discourse on a wide variety of subjects.

In 2005 he founded Art Battery Group with his wife Claudia Sandoval. Since then they are being combining and complementing their thinking to build an open and resourceful art collective in Brooklyn, NY. During the last four years, Alfonso Nieto has perfectioned his work with syncronized flashes, lighting and his Nikon D200.

Alfonso specializes on portraits for artists, musicians and fashion. He is available for freelance and commission work.