With a little help from our friends at No Favorite, The Bear Cave is proud to announce the launch of a shiny new website for branded content company Manifesto NYC. In addition to featuring the company’s stellar collection of new projects (Heineken) as well as film shorts (Vignettes), there are tons of engaging and interactive [...]
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Introducing by Gestalten
The Bear Cave was lucky enough to be featured in German publishing house Die Gestalten’s beautiful new book, Introducing: Visual Identities for Small Businesses. Gestalten’s publications are well-known for their expertly curated books on visual culture, one of my favorites being the retrospective book on art collective Faile. Introducing profiles three of The Bear Cave’s [...]
North Carolina trippin’
Over the summer, I took a trip to the lushness that is North Carolina. I went with a bunch of fine folks and we had a great time exhausting ourselves climbing up and down big rocks to get to all the massive waterfalls, just to jump off them. I only jumped off one. Here are [...]
Toshio Saeki
Japanese art has always been a huge inspiration in my work, ever since my father first showed me a giant book on Hokusai when I was just a wee little runt. I remember it quite clearly – I was immediately awestruck by the way the Edo artist would pare down the elements to their simplest [...]
The Legacy of Alex Steinweiss
Last Week, the Design world lost an important icon and innovator. Alex Steinweiss was the inventor of the modern day album cover. In 1939, at the age of 23, Alex Steinweiss became the first art director of the recently formed Columbia Records. That year he proposed to Columbia to make a change in the presentation [...]
Robin Schwartz
In her series of photographs, Robin Schwartz documents domesticated primates living in their ‘unnatural’ habitats. Rather than attempting to address the political ramifications of humans keeping wild animals in their homes, Schwartz focuses on capturing the unique and very diverse personalities of these primates in simple black and white on-flash photography.
ACNE Denim Film by Andreas Larsson (encore)
I remember watching this exactly a year ago and feeling like I had just done something very naughty. ACNE (Ambition to Create Novel Expressions) continues to deliver some of most supreme offerings in fashion, design, and publishing today. In this case, Acne Film and Andreas Larsson created a short film, which purely exemplifies the collective. It’s extremely understated and minimal (which I love) but still has the ability to have a cultish allure. The last fashion film I posted was Kenneth Anger for Missoni—ACNE’s comes in second, most of the other fashion ‘films’ are not as amusing. The Swedes have done it again.
The Magical World of Pen & Pixel
Houston, Texas-based graphic design firm Pen and Pixel are in a class of their own. Founded by Shawn Brauch and his brother in 1992, Pen and Pixel Graphics began by providing rappers from the south with very little budget the ability to create glamorous looking album covers that would stand out on record store shelves.
The Work of Tim Lahan
Tim Lahan is a New York-based illustrator whose work I’ve followed and admired over the years. Needless to say, I was both thrilled and flattered to receive a message in my inbox from him complementing our work here at The Bear Cave. Tim’s work is bright, playful, and smart, and I see great potential for a Tim Lahan/Bear Cave collaboration in the near future.
The Fly (1986)
Countless times, more so in my youth(5-16), I was fascinated by the concept of Teleportation. So much so—that when kids asked me what super power I’d want, that would be my reply.
David Cronenberg’s The Fly is a perfect union of science fiction and horror, at least in my mind. To be fair, I’m partial to anything eighties. While watching The Fly, I felt gut wrenching compassion and complete repulsion, all at the same time—this went on through more than half the film. The film is also comical, in a subtle-mega-geek-lacking social grace, kind of way. Jeff Goldblum plays Seth Brundle, the wild haired scientist. It’s a far departure from his brief appearance in a certain Woody Allen film, where his only line is: “I forgot my Mantra.”
The color, janktified technology, hamburgers, barfing donuts, synthetic steaks, Geena Davis, gene splicing and Brudlefly are just a few of the highlights. Some *hot stills* after the jump.