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Video: Birds Playing Electric Guitars

Published on February 15, 2010 in Art, Art Film, Detritus, Installation, Performance Art, Video and animals. 0 Comments Tags: bird guitar, bird playing guitar, birds, Boursier, Celeste Boursier-Mougenot, Mougenot, zebra finch.

French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot has created a living work of art here which includes: zebra finches, electric guitars, and an avian friendly space and time. As the birds go about their daily routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape. One even takes to the guitar with a stick. -A lil winged shredder.

Boursier-Mougenot’s installation will be up through:
27 February 2010 - 23 May 2010
The Curve, Barbican, London

Music Video: Grizzly Bear - “Ready, Able”

Published on December 4, 2009 in Art, Art Film, Bands, Blog, Music, animation and music video. 0 Comments Tags: Allison Schulnik, amazing video, beauty, grizzly bear, Helder King Sun, ready able, stop animation, veckatimest.

Magical.
Beautiful.
Stunning.

-I mean what else can one say after seeing/hearing a piece of music and accompanying visuals of this magnitude?

Film: Allison Schulnik
Lighting: Helder King Sun

Music: Grizzly Bear - “ready, able”
Off of their 2009 album: “Veckatimest“

“Creature Of Habit” | gART Show @ Taste | Nov 13th

Published on October 23, 2009 in Art, Artists, Culture, gar and painting. 0 Comments Tags: apartment e, creature of habit, gar, gar bailey, gar's art, gART, maximalism, neo-dada, neo-dada maximalism, outsider art, taste art.

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Thanks to the Apartment E crew, Taste Art, and especially Nyahzul..
I/Gar BaiLey am gonna be showcasing somewhere between like 15 - 25 of my newest, most spectacular paintings this November. The w3rk will be up for almost a month from November 13th - December 8th, 2009 at TASTE in College Park, FL. -It’s just outside of downtown Orlando. This particular show is entitled: “Creature Of Habit“.

*There will be an opening night party on Nov. 13th from 7 - 9PM. Taste is not only a music venue, an art gallery, & a fully stocked bar, but it’s also a quality Tapas restaurant for those looking to get their grub on.

eYe will definitely be on hand during the opening night festivities to mingle, celebrate, take photos, answer any questions about the w3rk, & I’ll also be DJing some of my favorite music to further enhance the visual impact of my paintings. So if you’re interested in my w3rk at all, and can make it out to see some of my more recent paintings in the “FLESH“, then please don’t miss this opening of my first art show back in Orlando in a quite a few years.

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Opening Night Information:
When: Friday evening | November 13th, 2009
Time: 7 - 9PM
Where: TASTE in Orlando/College Park
Address: 717 West Smith Street, Orlando, Florida 32804
Phone: 407-835-0646
Cost: Free

Be there or be square.

The Books -”Group Autogenics” | Live Video

Published on October 11, 2009 in Art, Art Film, Artists, Bands, Music, Musicians, Performance Art, Performances, Projectorism, Video and music video. 0 Comments Tags: books, enlightenment, group autogenics, sound collage, the books.

I don’t throw the term “genius” around lightly, but the musically-oriented video/sound collage duo of “The Books” are about “there” in my humble opinion. See for yourself in this “altered” bootleg of a recent performance they did at the St. Louis’ Luminary Center for the Arts. Continuing in a similar subliminal, transcendentally-laced A/V sample-based artfoRm as that as the godfather’s of the genre “Negativland” or as the marvelously mischievous masters from down under “The Avalanches”. No mistaking them for either of those outfits though, “The Books” are most certainly their own entity, and do “it” with their own unique brand of subtlety, grace, & musicianship. Which coincidentally is right up my proverbial artistic alley.

The Books ~ Group Autogenics from Ciao Music on Vimeo.

“FLESH” by: Gar BaiLey | Oil On Canvas

Published on September 15, 2009 in Art and painting. 2 Comments Tags: flesh, gar, gar bailey, gar lives, maximalism, neo-dada maximalism, oil on canvas.

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Oil On Canvas
36″ x 48″
April - August 2009

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Smaller view:

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Here Gar Bailey is standing with one of his 2009 painted masterpieces at his home in (n)Osteen, FL. Hopefully this image helps to illustrate the scale and immense detail involved with this particular w3rk of gART. Painted in the Summer of 2009, this piece took Gar a considerable amount of time to complete, working non-stop for like 4-6 days a week from April - August of 2009.

Click here to view larger and different sized images of this painting - “FLESH”

*Post/Images updated with on: 10/24/09

Video: Kseniya Simonova | Ukrainian artist at w3rk

Published on August 14, 2009 in Art, Artists, Culture, In Memoriam, Performance Art, Performances and Video. 0 Comments Tags: Kseniya Simonova, perfomance art, sand art, Ukrainian art.

With mere sand and light as the only tools/medium. 24 year old Ukrainian artist, Kseniya Simonova, creates a striking portrayal and interpretation of the German invasion into Ukraine during WWII. That is some pretty damn impressive artistry in my humble opinion.

Spreading love through art and understanding.