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Post by sleepboy on Jun 23, 2010 17:46:46 GMT -8
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Post by COOPER COLE on Jun 24, 2010 9:35:28 GMT -8
this was awesome! i believe that it was their biggest installation to date. super nice guys.
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Post by svenman on Jun 24, 2010 13:28:50 GMT -8
this looks amazing. i love art that engages kids of all ages.
toronto got a real treat with these installations.
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Post by gildoinc on Sept 12, 2010 22:43:41 GMT -8
Don't know if anyone watched the MTV Video Music Awards tonight but I saw a performance that had a Friends With You video playing in the background and huge Friends With You inflated balloons on the side of the stage. Looked great.
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Post by lowpro on Sept 13, 2010 5:10:27 GMT -8
Don't know if anyone watched the MTV Video Music Awards tonight but I saw a performance that had a Friends With You video playing in the background and huge Friends With You inflated balloons on the side of the stage. Looked great. In case you haven't seen the original video, Friends With You were given artistic license to produce the visuals. Amazing video..and solid pop track too. Pharrell gets down with the good art..and the fly women. |
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Post by hellosir on Sept 15, 2010 3:02:24 GMT -8
thanks lowpro. Nice clip, but I wonder if they painted that car as well? If so, that was the most impressive contribution to me that and the clothes styling strangely syncing with the visuals.
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Post by sleepboy on Dec 3, 2010 19:23:05 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 25, 2011 18:05:49 GMT -8
A nice interview by Amanda with the duo. www.erraticphenomena.com/2011/03/friendswithyous-mischievious.htmlAn excerpt. Erratic Phenomena: Sam, you grew up in Plantation, Florida, and Tury, you're from Havana, Cuba. Tell me about your experiences of growing up. As boys, were you outgoing adventurers, or did you pursue a quiet life of the imagination? Tury Sandoval: Growing up in Cuba was about the best thing that has happened in my life. I can't tell you enough about it, it shapes every day of my life. Growing up without the commercial B.S. that kids are exposed to in first-world countries is just the best thing for the imagination. I was a wild little street kid. My parents would let me roam the city on the weekends and after school. Most weekends I would go to the country, where I'm originally from, and run around in sugarcane fields and hunt jutias, a small ratlike creature. It was pure magic, climbing giant trees in the countryside. You know that comic book Black & White? It was like that, and I was like the character Black. Sam Borkson: I was a ball of fire. Exploring everything, living like a little grownup, and dreaming my own realities for as long as I can remember. I read comic books, loved cartoons like Ren & Stimpy, and being from south Florida, I was a professional tree climber and pool warrior. I was creating and performing whenever I wasn’t causing trouble in one way or another, and even though I was nicknamed “El Diablo” by my family, I was a lightning storm of love just waiting to share my love with the universe. EP: Were there any artists in your families, or people who nurtured your creative impulses? Tury: I come from a family of artists. My dad — a musician — is an anomaly of nature, the most talented person I know. My mom is just an amazing craft powerhouse and my brother is an accomplished painter. Even though they are all artists, it was not forced upon me, it was something that was rather natural. Sam: My family was crazy, and I was a tornado. Coming from different walks of life, they were creative with how they lived their lives — mostly independently, or outside of societal norms, trying to build something for themselves. I was a potpourri of many ideas, which I mostly formulated on my own. EP: Did you have a special relationship with any of your toys when you were kids? Sam: I mostly liked comic books, and some toys — but more than playing with toys, I liked hanging with actual people and making up games and interacting. I never got swept up in that societal pressure to get everything. I used to destroy G.I. Joes with a bat for hours, and that was the most fun I had with them. I would then piece them back together to make blobular hunks of melty plastic. I would experiment with a light bulb — heating them up, watching them drip and recombining them. This violent destruction wasn’t looked upon positively, for sure. Tury: I used to make some of my toys. The ones that I remember the best and loved the most were las carriolas. This was a contraption that we used to make out of wood and industrial ball bearings — like a stripped-down version of a scooter, but they were fast as hell… we used to race them downhill in Havana. I left all my skin on those streets. |
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Post by commandax on Mar 25, 2011 18:28:35 GMT -8
Thanks, Hung-Hei!
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Post by sleepboy on Jun 2, 2011 19:40:46 GMT -8
FWY will be bringing their "Rainbow City" to New York next week. More info here. |
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Post by sleepboy on Jun 11, 2011 8:19:32 GMT -8
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Post by goldenrose on Jun 11, 2011 10:20:09 GMT -8
Looks like a lot of fun. Those mushroom/umbrella's look much safer than Christo's.
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Post by sleepboy on Jun 13, 2011 14:46:41 GMT -8
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Post by lowpro on Jun 13, 2011 16:12:52 GMT -8
Love everything about what these guys do. Wish I could get a response from Kathy about the show. Would be interested to get some prices on the gallery work.
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Post by solar77 on Jun 14, 2011 15:20:49 GMT -8
I think it sold out, per Kathy's post on Twitter.
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Post by sleepboy on Sept 23, 2011 15:27:11 GMT -8
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Post by lowpro on Dec 6, 2011 22:08:15 GMT -8
Nice to see they reprised the Plasma God in Miami. Really enjoy the more geometric work they do.  And in a similar vein, thought this "diamond" sculpture was pretty sweat.  |
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Post by sleepboy on Dec 11, 2011 14:49:36 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Jul 19, 2012 7:35:05 GMT -8
Bringing their large scale installations to Hong Kong soon.  |
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Post by sleepboy on Jul 23, 2012 22:10:57 GMT -8
A new short animated feature.
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Post by sleepboy on Jul 29, 2012 11:23:31 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Nov 15, 2012 11:15:45 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Dec 2, 2012 18:41:57 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Jul 19, 2013 15:08:48 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Aug 21, 2013 13:01:53 GMT -8
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