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Broken City Lab’s Cross-Border Communication

Broken City Lab is a group of artists and social researchers in Windsor. Over the past few nights, they’ve been sending messages to Detroit. By projecting very large Helvetica text onto the sides of buildings in Canada, they’re making phrases like “WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER” visible from across the river.

I think this project is so amazing. I know some might not agree with calling text projected on a wall “street art”, but I think it is. Anything that causes people to change the way they interact with their surroundings or even think about them differently is street art to me. Friend request accepted!!

Weekends in Detroit #1

Dennis and I try our best to be productive newlyweds on the weekends. We always plan to do design work and spiff up our little home together, but you see, we get distracted. This weekend was no exception. Saturday started off with good intentions as we bought some photo emulsion for screen printing. But it went downhill from there after we (…ok, I) really wanted nutella and banana crepes for breakfast. And the gorgeous weather made it hard to get back on track after that.

At some point, we decided to document our diversions for the blog. We’re planning to make Weekends in Detroit a reoccuring column…but hopefully we can get some work done in between!

Our search for nutella crepes led us to the new indoor location of Good Girls Go To Paris. Right next door is a new independent bookstore called Leopold’s, which I’d read about recently on The Night Train. (If you’re into Detroit history or just appreciate good writing, it’s definitely a good local blog to check out.) It was a pleasant surprise to find it there. This place has a ton of art and design books and a pretty good selection of handmade zines.

I wavered between buying a Quimby the Mouse book; Arboretum, which is a compendium of various penciled diagrams; and a zine from Grass Hut gallery in Portland. Since Carson Ellis had done an interview and the cover art, I ended up with the zine.

While inside Leopold’s, my camera died, postponing our visit to the Dequindre Cut until Sunday. But make it there we did! Click below to read about the rest of our adventure…

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Big Payback Art Auction Presented by Juxtapoz

Juxatopz Magazine is holding an online art auction to support the Power House Project of Detroit. The roster 140+ artists who contributed artwork is incredible; including the likes of Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Albert Reyes, Jeremy Fish, Josh Keyes, and WK Interact. The auction runs through November 20th, 2009 and is hosted on Charity Buzz, bid here.

Shepard Fairey
Close Knit HPM

Swoon
Untitled

Josh Keyes
Swarm

Albert Reyes
Untitled

Starred #18

I did a lot of catching up on blog reading this week. My Google Reader has been 1000+ for weeks! I made a good dent in it, but I’m pretty sure I have no hope of being 100% caught up. I’m thinking anything older than a month should get the dreaded Mark All As Read button. How long do you guys leave posts in your reader before you decide they’re too old? 

Faux photos for scrapbooking (by A Beautiful Mess)

 

Print by Hello Handmade (via SeeSaw Designs)

 

I LOVE!! Amanda Johnson‘s Beatles wall hanging (via Darling Dexter)
“I bought a thin piece of plywood and covered it with vinyl letter stickers.  Then, I simply spray painted it black, removed the letters, and voila!” 

 

20 Years of French Paper Promotions.
At 2:35, mourn with me for my Smart White girl poster that was rolled up, forgotten about and crushed behind the futon last week. Sadness.

 

Block printed wedding invite (via FPO)

 

Someone got married in a black dress with black calla lillies! I wish I could see the pictures from this wedding.
(cake topper via The Small Object)

 

Candy corn street art (via Wooster Collective)
Happy halloween! 

Named after the Add Star feature in Google Reader, “Starred” is a column about things that catch my eye as I peruse the blogs I subscribe to. If you’d like to subscribe to Perfect Laughter, here’s a link to our RSS Feed.

Luke Dolkas Art & Framing

While in Portland this last week we had the pleasure of meeting Luke Dolkas at his gallery/framing shop. What initailly had brought us to the gallery was his current consisting of work by Logan Hicks, Tristan Eaton, DFace, Flying Fortress, Mear One, The London Police, amongst others. All of the work was stunning, especially the pieces by DFace, Logan Hicks, and Tristan Eaton.

DFace

Tristan Eaton

Logan Hicks

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