Data + Design Project

Look Out NYFD! There’s A New Sexy Calendar In Town

Thursday 07.12.2012 , Posted by

Who needs jewelry from Tiffany’s and flowers when you can get a sexy calendar of your man for Valentine’s Day? One lucky lady received this tantalizing twelve month spread from her boyfriend, redditor ill_take_two. As a woman who has ended relationships based on the thoughtlessness of birthday and Valentine’s Day gifts, I think that men should take a lesson from this hilarious guy. The thought and planning behind this one would score some major magic brownie points in my book! Ill_take_two has set a high bar that I hope the rest of the men out there can live up to!
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Caulking Gun Painting with Tramaine de Senna

Monday 11.01.2010 , Posted by

Contemporary artist Tramaine de Senna creates sexy and sometimes shocking work. Here she shows off her skills painting all night with a caulking gun, applying layer after layer in intricate patterns, “like buttercream frosting.”

Her other work includes performance art, paintings of meat and in her Repulsion Decoration series, artsy hair-adorned wall hangings. In her Speed Bump Mannequins, a recent drawing series, time exists like a filmstrip — mirror-like images of the same person are drawn in altering chronological sequences.  Body Building Bunnies Series 1 and 2, her recent investigations, show juxtaposed images of the same person, as if they were double exposed film. They exist simultaneously, drawn atop each other in the same dimension, defying linear time.
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