Olivia Bee

19 year old Olivia Bolles (Olivia Bee) is a photographer living in in Portland, Oregon. She expresses herself creatively through photography. She has shot add campaigns for Nike, Adidas, Hermes, Fiat, and Converse. She directed her first commercial shoot for Converse when she was only 15. Olivia draws inspiration from the people and relationships around her.

Willard Wigan

Willard Wigan creates microscopic sculptures that sit within the eye of a needle or pin head. Creating these sculptures is a long and painstaking process. Wigan literally works in between his heartbeat (while holding his breath), and has accidentally inhaled or blew his work away. He started his career in microscopic art when he built houses for ants as a child. Wigan is completely self taught and uses materials such as stray fibers, and the hair off a dead fly to create his art.

Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood, from the UK, revolutionized the fashion industry with her style. She controversially wore and created “rebellious” clothes for the time period, as the hippie movement was in full swing in the late 1960’s. She designed clothing with zips and black leather, inspired by bikers. I have loved her style since I saw images of her 1977 punk collection. Her clothing was crazy and different, which is what made her such a great designer and fashion icon. 

some really rad photography by Nick Veasey (definitely worth the time to check him out completely) http://www.nickveasey.com/#

I discovered Nick's work through my physics class last week. We are learning about light and waves so it is relevant because this guy takes photography with X-Ray light rather than the normal visible light that standard cameras use. Crazy right. Like I said, its definitely worth checking out all of his work (I only included 1 piece per project of his ----> http://www.nickveasey.com/#) and also read about how its done. I personally enjoy it because the images are so much richer, perplexing, intriguing, surreal..etc from the vantage point that X-Ray light adds.

Street Art

I have always been fascinated by street art, but have only recently developed an obsession with it. I am most inspired by the diversity of mediums, scale, color, and mystique emanating from the street art underworld.
The line between graffiti and street art is a topic of constant debate. Some say that graffiti is limited to ugly, brutally simplistic, monochromatic tags, while others say that graffiti and street art are virtually synonymous. The oldest example of something being scrawled on the side of a building was found in Pompeii, in Italy, and dates back to roughly to the First Century AD. People hated politicians even then.

Other ancient vulgar slogans have been found at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and elsewhere. The origin of contemporary street art as we know it, while also debated, is usually credited to Brooklyn, New York. From this epicenter, street art and graffiti spread to major cities in the U.S. and Europe and, more recently, Asia, Africa, Australia, and South America.
I was in London over Spring break, widely considered to be the location of one of the biggest and richest street art cultures in the world. Walking around the Shoreditch area, I saw works by more famous artists like Banksy and Shepard Fairy of OBEY, along with the work of lesser-known artists like Thierry Noir, Stik, ROA, and Mighty Mo. All of it was new, and all of it was good.

Wall with various artists (Mom for scale)

Child Soldier by Endless Street Art Collective

Normski and Ronnie Biggs by Paul Don Smith

Mona Lisa with London and Paris, For Blek-Le-Rat by Paul Don Smith

Rodent by ROA

Hog by ROA

East London by James Cochran (AKA Jimmy C)

Close up - peep the brushstrokes!!

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Penny Byrne

Penny Byrne uses found toys and porcelain figurines to make playful sculptures with deeply political messages.

http://www.saatchiart.com/profiles/portfolio/id/56775