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Art, editions and art books: outsider, streetsy, clubby.

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Clare Crespo Crochet Watches

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There's almost too much people making ironic crochet design, but this is irresistible. Crochet artist Clare Crespo has branched out from food pieces into humorous knitted watches. Each one is unique. (via Yummie Fun)

Updated Jun 25, 2008

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7 Minds T-shirts

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Singapore-based 7Minds t-shirts bring out well designed limited edition t-shirts.
Nicely packaged, they are limited to 100 copies only. The designs are fresh and subcultural, with positive messages. A new design is added every month, and you can become a member to get discounts.

Updated Sep 21, 2007

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Charles Krafft's Villa Delirium

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Villa Delirium: a wonderful catalogue of the ceramic "Disasterware" (TM) made by artist Charles Krafft.

Apart from commemorative plates of disasters, it documents "life-size ceramic weaponry so gorgeous and patently functionless that it will bedazzle and confound everyone who sees it." (description by the artist)

Absolutely original and provocative, the porcelain art pieces by Charles Krafft are shocking and darkly funny at the same time. Krafft, at 60 "the oldest promising young artist in the Pacific Northwest", has his roots in the 60's counter culture and 80's industrial scene.

Ironically, globalization has us not living in a Global Village, but a "Villa Delirium": a resurgence of regionalism, tribalism, ethnicity and religion, and a willingness to go to extremes for them. Many art pieces from this book were copied in Delft Blauw porcelain after rifles borrowed from Ljubljana arms dealers in 1995, and painted in the inglaze technique a circle of old blue-haired ladies had taught Krafft. "While his jocular explorations of human catastrophe may make those who share his dusky sense of humor chortle, they also force the viewer to look at mankind's cruelest, most absurd behavior in a way that penetrates the numbness induced by media overload." the Salon wrote.

The book brilliantly proves why unacademic art can be so great and surprising. (via Salon: Been There, Smashed That)

Updated Sep 19, 2007

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