New York – Wednesday, January 22, 2014

A beauty, and powered much like the Flintstone’s vehicle which gained mobility “courtesy of Fred’s two feet” this will be going nowhere fast if you haven’t eaten your Wheaties.  German artist Hannes Langeder, 45, spent six months and 1,000 hours constructing the life-sized pedal-powered eco-friendly car, which cost €13,000 (£11,000) to build.  A real Porsche GT3 RS runs about £130,000, and also runs on gas.

Let’s look to high end structural engineering and design to see how to modify a recumbent bike into a smoking hot Porsche.  Why would you do this?  You have to really love the look of a Porsche from the outside, yet not give a microcosm of a shit about any other attribute a Porsche might possess.

If you do like Porsche’s this badly,  you must next ask yourself “Can I afford an actual  Porsche?” It the answer is yes, you may want to, buy the Porsche.

I guess there are only a few reasons why you would want to devote countless hours and money to design and craft a prototype bike/Porsche.  Reason number one would be that  you care extremely for the environment.  Your level of care has to be directly proportional to your shallowness towards outwardly  looking good on a surface level.  This would make you a good candidate to want to construct the bike/Porsche.

Reason number two would be if you are part of a Porsche enthusiasts club, but have had your license suspended for DUI.

If either of the above apply, then this may calm down that Porsche hard-on you’ve been tucking behind your waistband since puberty.

***Attn: If you’ve built something this cool, let me know so we can show it off for you.

Written by Cojo “Art Juggernaut”

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Michael Anderson, the 45-year-old legendary NYC collage artist and White Hot Magazine art world photographer who is noted for designing the graffiti sticker lobby at the Ace Hotel, and the Eco-Friendly Times Square billboard for Target was admitted to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on Saturday after having fallen off a building, breaking his back.

UPDATE: Still hospitalized, he is in the early stages of his recovery process.  He is lucid and has been able to get online and respond to concerned posts.   He is positive about his injuries and has messaged me through facebook that he ” will make a complete recovery.”

Michael Anderson’s friends have just setup an indiegogo account in his name to try to help out with his medical expenses (which most likely will be substantial) Michael Anderson Recovery Project.

Since 1997 Anderson’s collage work has appeared in over 50 group shows, he’s designed large scale theatrical sets for half a dozen plays, and been featured in about a dozen solo exhibits. (Here is another video interview with the artist about his work – for French website arte.tv)

This is the same artist who WAS ONE OF THE TWO WINNERS from last week’s Red Bull Curates Cooler Art Project.  Scoring free trip to Miami, and a show at Scope.  I would have photographed him at the event but he was in Stockholm, Sweden shooting the Absolut Art Awards for White Hot.

His girlfriend attended the Red Bull Curates in his stead wearing his clothes!

Michael Anderson’s work can bee seen on his website ChamuconeGro.com

Written by Cojo “Art Juggernaut”

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New York, NY – Thursday, June 20, 2013

Miniature art is impressive, especially when it involves objects you can easily identify or have handled first hand.  Seattle artist Diem Chau carved the alphabet, as well as corresponding animals who’s first letters begin with the letters of the alphabet out of what appears to be a 64 pack of Crayola.  Rather than clay, rock, or bronze, her sculpting medium crayons and graphite pencils.

Zebra is a cheat, where did you get the black?  C’mon!  Oh, and the Z is backwards.

This should be her theme song… never realized how much of that song is instrumental…

To see more of her A-Z series, check out her Flickr and you can read her blog.

Written by Cojo “Art Juggernaut”

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In another creative version of artistic upcycling, artist Long-Bin Chen represented by Frederieke Taylor Gallery at Armory Show offshoot fair Volta NY had on display a group of impressive larger than life human busts carved from old books and periodicals.  In this show he presented some Renaissance era art masters in carved paper form, including DaVinci &  Michelangelo (tough luck for the other ninja turtles).

I was wondering if there was any correlation between the person sculpted and the materials used to sculpt them.  The artist wasn’t there but I talked to the women minding the booth.  One told me that the one I was looking at was made with travel magazines.

This was disappointing.  Maybe if it was a sculpture of Lewis & Clark, Marco Polo, or Magellian that would make sense, but a renaissance painter could have been made out of something more relevant, or at least something contrary to the person being sculpted.

Darwin out of bibles for example.  I have a problem with always trying to improve the concept on conceptual art.  Beyond drawing &  painting, in me beats a heart of a conceptualist.

These are pretty cool sculptures though I must say, most busts don’t look this interesting from behind.

Written & Photographed by Cojo “Art Juggernaut”

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The Scope Art Fair has always been a good dowsing rod for what’s going to be hot and popular if not for the art world as a whole, at least it at all of the other art fairs this week.  I had fun roaming around Scope during the private press and VIP viewing.  Based on Scope here are 10 TRENDS you will likely be able to expect from the other fairs in the days to come.

TREND NUMBER 1: Assemblage Faces

I have a feeling assemblage will be the keyword of the 2013 Armory Week trends.  Other names I’ve come up with for this are Army of One.. One of many, The Big Picture.  The gist of an assemblage, as humans we have a instinctive ability to search for patterns and try to recognize a human face and facial features even in objects.  Throughout the history of human experience it has been important to recognize in real time the slightest facial movements and gesture and be able to respond accordingly with the appropriate reactions, we can blame the human eye + brain for this.   The eye will not only cheat reality to fill in the gaps, but also blur the obviously inhuman incongruities of oddly shaped items, or tiny uniform patterns, grids, or dot matrixes touching one another, or arranged next to or above one another, and visually merge them to see one image.

TREND NUMBER 2: Lincoln, the Dollar sign, and or The 5 Dollar bill

How could this be a trend?  Black President, and two Lincoln movies in the same year  that’s how.   Lincoln is part of the collective unconscious this year.  There were a few other Lincoln pieces I didn’t photograph at Scope because I didn’t think about the trend until I was already on my way out the door, but I can see the pattern.  Money is always a good topic, because it’s one of the only pieces of art we carry around in our pockets all the time, and even people who don’t collect art want to have more of those portraits.

TREND NUMBER 3: Corrupted Disney & Classic Cartoon Characters

Disney has spent literally HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS branding these time tested characters and putting them into your brain as a child, and your parent’s brain as a child, and your grandparent’s brain as a child.  You want to take an unproven artist and have his work be instantly recognizable by the masses, have them redraw characters they already know, in poses they already know, but slightly altered and maybe in a different color scheme…

TREND NUMBER 4: Upcycling

Art using found objects which could be of no good use and “recycling them into art.”

TREND NUMBER 5: Sugar Skulls

Sounds a little out there for a trend, but I actually painted a sugar skull into a painting this year, and then I see about 4 of them at Scope.  The voodoo is in the air this year my friend.

TREND NUMBER 6: Objects Encased In Lucite Or Resin

Things look cool suspended in the middle of a clear box, just ask Damien Hirst.

TREND NUMBER 7: Art Which Appears To Be Melting

For some reason Jackson Pollock splatter is the end result of all this melt, let’s try to catch the paint in suspended animation before it hits the canvas!

TREND NUMBER 8: Art Made To Have The Illusion Of Depth – Using Mirrors

This art is amusing as it initially tricks your eye.  It is an optical illusion, more magic trick than art.  That box is only 3 feet deep, how come it looks as though it Is a mile deep.  Magic?  Or Art?

TREND NUMBER 9: Neon

You can’t escape it, there is always a ton of it.

TREND NUMBER 10: Glitter

See #9.

BONUS TREND: RADIAL BURSTS

Written  by Cojo “Art Juggernaut”

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