Lady Aiko, Sweetheart Bunny 3, 2016

I admire the work of Lady Aiko The name of this street artist means ‘love’ in Japanese and that’s exactly what she is intend to give us via her art, and this, anywhere she works, from Tokyo to New York passing by the poor quarter of Kliptown in South Africa. Her varied artworks (in the street, but also in prints, canvases, videos…) are beautifully colourful, a sort of mix of eastern and western pop culture with sometimes traditional Japanese prints with a feminist twist. And how not to fall for her rabbits holding an aerosol paint ???

If in London, you may see some of her work on sale at the excellent Lazarides Gallery until the 24th March!!

http://www.ladyaiko.com/ Pictures from Arsty and here also… and Kumi Contemporary

Lady Aiko, Girl With Bow In Hair, 2015

Lady Aiko, Pin-up 1, 2014

Lady Aiko, Sweetheart Bunny 3, 2016

Lady Aiko, Kliptown, South Africa 2013 – (Photographed by Martha Cooper and AIKO)

Lady Aiko, The Bowery Wall. New York 2012

Lady Aiko, Time Changes Canvas, 2008

#LadyAiko #LazaridesGallery #love #StreetArt

Trevor Paglen, Reaper in the Sun, 2013

With spring on its way, I wanted to share few pictures of the sun which was so shining all yesterday in London, and while researching, I found the picture ‘Reaper in the Sun’ terribly attractive.

Its author is Trevor Paglen, and to be honest I knew nothing about him… and what a loss it was!

This talented photographer is also a geographer and a writer using his works (books, photography, video, sculptures) to question our society about various subjects, such as the place of surveillance in our world, the power of American military, what sort of landscapes (both terrestrial and in the space) we going to have in the future…

All his projects, or the ones he participates, seem to be always well documented, with the contributions of leading scientists, philosophers, anthropologists… his work is not simple and or just pretty pictures, it raises issues with a investigate journalist spectrum. Plus, on a technical and visual point of view, this is also very well done.

For more details about his complex works, I encourage to visit his website here, and bonus if you are in London, some of his pieces are currently showed at the Whitechapel Gallery, Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966) , until the 15 May 2016!

Trevor Paglen, NSA Surveillance Base, Egelsbach, Germany, 2015

Trevor Paglen, Overhead of NSA, 2013

Trevor Paglen, Reaper in the Sun, 2013

Trevor Paglen, The Last Pictures (An Entangled Bank), 2012

Trevor Paglen, Keyhole improved crystal from Glacier Point

Trevor Paglen,Trinity Cube, 2015

Pictures from Artsy and Trevog Paglen website.

#politic #sun #TrevorPaglen

Lisa Larsen, Models playing leapfrog on the beach, Miami, Florida, 1956

Because… this is Friday, Barcelona is booked and confirmed, I definitely have the best friends in the world and there is no need to worry, let’s just go with the flow ! 😉

Lisa Larsen, Models playing leapfrog on the beach, Miami, Florida, 1956

Picture from The Red List

#moodoftheday #LisaLarsen #because #Photography #holidays #lazypost #blackandwhite #beach