Posts by Alice Yoo

Art
March 12, 2010

Breathtaking Oil Paintings by Christian Jequel (15 total)

French artist Christian Jequel uses a painting knife to create bright, colorful paintings that depict beautiful scenes of nature – a departure from what most of us are probably used to seeing. Each of his vibrant pieces are full of movement and celebrate the fact that we live on such a beautiful planet. “I was born with a gift,” Jequel says. “I became an autodidact (self-taught)

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Art
March 2, 2010

Brilliant Sun Poem by Jiyeon Song

What a clever and beautiful idea! Jiyeon Song created the One Day Poem Pavilion that uses light and shadow to reveal a poem. How does it work? “Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem.

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Street Art
February 25, 2010

Banksy’s Grungy-Great Pop-Up Theater

Leave it to Banksy to have the UK premiere of his film at a makeshift 150-seat cinema built under Waterloo train station. Lambeth Palace, as Banksy calls it, is an improvised film theater on Leake Street that will be holding special previews of Exit Through the Gift Shop until March 4th (in advance of the film's nationwide release on March 5th). The dungeon-like auditorium is described as London's “darkest and dirtiest cinema.

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Uncategorized
February 11, 2010

A Dashing Leonardo DiCaprio – Esquire March ’10 (5 pics)

What is it about Leonardo DiCaprio that makes thirty-something year old women scream in delight? Yes, we probably imagine a scruffy Jack Dawson getting all cleaned up in a nice tux, waiting for us at the bottom of a staircase. But more than that, it's watching Leo the actor come into himself, transforming from a boy to a man right in front of our very eyes. Promoting his new movie, Shutter Island (opening Feb 19)

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.