Staying with Color

Staying on the topic of coloring your home, check out the art of Indian artist Ketna Patel.
The Singapore-based artist /designer utilizes a combination of different materials and techniques, ranging from traditional painting to multi-media interfaces. Her current collection Asia Pop is inspired by Asian street culture and its loud electric colors.

Blue Bananas

The best thing for our planet is to stop consuming. Start bringing back the colour in your life. Ban the whites and the sleek Scandinavian design, because let's be honest: we secretly love these Moroccan plates, the Indian sari, the Austrian apron, the airline ashtray and all the other little flea market finds we have collected on our travels, the grandmothers blanket, the community centre knits. Call it vintage, retro or anything you like, but colour is definitely ok!

Grafitti : Art or Vandalism

Six months in prison, five years of probation, a mental health evaluation and restitution payments is what graffiti writer Danielle Brember a.k.a. UTAH was sentenced to a few days ago by a Boston court. Six months ago another American graffiti artist Shepard Fairey was told to serve two years probation during which time he can’t possess posters, paint, paste, stickers or other tools of the trade unless he is working on a permission piece.
So how to classify graffiti ? As art or vandalism?

I thought we had positively ended this debate in the 80s but times have changed. Many people consider it the latter. Even well adjusted New Yorkers. I tend to think that what distinguishes a city from a suburb is the acceptance of graffiti as an art form.
Last summer I spotted some great examples in NY city's Lower East Side. Judge for yourself: