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Friday the 15th: “Crash” the Art of Bethany Shorb and Cyberoptix Tielab 2010
Here’s to a lady who multi-faceted talent and dedication have inspired me to re-create myself several times over. Her works an exhibition of grace in the realms of business and pleasure. Come celebrate the success and bask in the fellowship of Bethany Shorb and birthday bud Michael Doyle on this wonderful evening.
Are you fucking dumb get a map
ps check out these beauties:
sexy photo
hex tie
Don’t forget to buy something, you ought to to look this good.
Original Article:
Bethany Shorb’s Cyberoptix Tielab 2010 Preview and Photography Exhibition:
Special Musical Performance by Justin Carver from “Something Cold” and Deth Lab
Friday Jan, 15th 2010 6pm @ 323East in Royal Oak, MI.
These are not your father’s ties – let’s make that clear first. Cyberoptix? Right – and with a fresh bottle of Old Spice wrapped up with it. Knot quite.
These are the works of an imaginative artist and photographer named Bethany Shorb who took the mundane reality of neckwear and proceeded to give it a twist or two in new directions – with bold color, bolder materials, and the novel idea that a traditional symbol of subservience could be transformed into “a subversive object of desire.”
Reaching that goal was aided immeasurably by Shorb’s other talents; besides photography, she is trained in sculpture, costume design, and prop construction. And THOSE accomplishments, we hasten to add, are complemented nicely by her brutally direct understanding of what see sees or what she wants us to see. Shorb has tackled a variety of subjects and (as evidenced by a recent exhibit inspired by J.G. Ballard’s novel CRASH) her “eye” is not a blinking one by any stretch. Something is heated to an almost unbearable degree in her works. And if you can’t stand the heat … well, best you seek out an environment where the climate is more controlled.
But you don’t want to do that. What you want to do is to see the latest creations by this intriguing talent – the ones that 323 East will unveil on January 15. The cravats are cool. The pix are pulsating. Nice way to make a knot in our opinion.
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Schooled in both sculpture and photography, Bethany Shorb creates elaborate prop, costume and set constructions that blur the line between both editorial fashion photography and performance art documentation. Her recent Crash series refers to J.G. Ballard’s novel of the same name with scenes titled by the lyrics of The Normal’s song of similar influence, “Warm Leatherette.” Technology, celebrity, sex, and death are perversely glamorized and fetishised in unison in a single explosion of red Swarovski crystals and inflated black latex rubber. Models, wardrobe and set decoration all retain the same visual and emotional weight, a hyper-saturated amalgamation exploring the interstitial space between the alluring and repulsive; hedonism and restraint; the seductive speed of expressways and the still finality of Last Rights.
Bethany Shorb was born in Boston, MA in 1976. She received her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture, with an elective in Photography, from Cranbrook Academy of Art and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from Boston University with minors in Art History and Photography. Her photography and product design work have been widely published in the United States and abroad; her visual art and product work has been exhibited throughout the United States and is included in numerous private collections. This past summer she taught several printing workshops in her Detroit studio and was recently reviewed in the New York Times and Wired. Her dj alter-ego has performed as half of “Dethlab” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Shorb also founded The Cyberoptix Tie Lab in 2006. As a designer of witty hand printed neckwear, she has applied her experience as a sculptor, couture, costume and graphic designer to transform a much maligned business necessity into a subversive object of desire. Cyberoptix ties and scarves are represented by more than 150 stores in a dozen countries: from Fred Segal in Los Angeles to Libertine in Western Australia. A paradox for the times, Cyberoptix Tie Lab operates one of the largest eco-friendly, solvent-free print shops in the country in Downtown Detroit, while providing a seditious, punky fashion statement for executives bound to the neck noose, and a sharply styled alternative for those who don’t need to wear a tie, but choose to do so.
cyberoptix.com
toybreaker.etsy.com
trunkt.org/cyberoptix
toybreaker.net/blog
dethlab.net
myspace.com/teamdethlab
323East.com
Original Metrotimes article via Facebook
DetroitExposure.com S2UDIO NIGHT Tonight at The Bankle
2944 Woodward, Detroit
Our Gallery Showing is Tonight, Starts at 10, goes till about 4 I think.
5 bones after 11pm
Call if you are confused. 248722.1682.
My friend Jeff is actually picking up David Blane from the airport right now so that’s a given guest appearance. He’s doing a practice run for some trick on his tour.
No commentsS2DIO NIGHT JAN 23RD: DetroitExposure.com release party @ the Bankle
This is the first gallery showing of 2009. The event is being throw in collaboration with DetroitByDesign.org to celebrate the founding and development of DetroitExposure.com. Come join us, drink be merry, and buy some of my limited edition works.
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[GrimIndustries.com]
[DetroitByDesign.org]
Shots from NEXTAID Benefit + Cliff Bell’s Fashion Show, 12.14.08?
park bar + cluff bells. Andrew you are a good man, stacey pullen you are also good. i was trashed while shooting these as well as exporting them to the web gallery, let me know if the links are broken as i am too tired to check myself. if you wanna see a better version of this evening, head over to grimindustries.com. xoxox christos. omg hernanxorz omg
Detroit By Design Fashion Show, Bankle Building 12.06.08
been uber busy, I might put up the shots from motorcity if a few more people mail me.
[cyberoptix.com] clothing by Bethany Shorb
No commentsThe Bassment Presents May 23rd Demf afterparty: McCarthy’s Pub “Skymall, Heartworm, Xrin Arm..”
Just a reminder, this is going down on friday the 23rd around the same time is demf, will be going until 5am whereas they’re ending demf at like 11pm this year. so you know where you’re gonna be to get your after hours bidnass. this will be a techno blood orgy.
Brief Description:
This DEMF Pre-Party will be monumental and unlike any other. We will be showcasing Michigan’s most talented and cutting edge underground electronic artists as well as special guests Skymall (Addict/Distort) and Heartworm (Digital Hardcore Recordings/ Teen Suicide). There will be non-stop electronic mayhem from 9p.m. until 5a.m. with music ranging from Breakcore, Gabber, Jungle, Industrial, Noise, Gabber, Techno, Ghettotech, Downtempo, Ambient, Hip-Hop, Happy Hardcore, Grindcore, and many other types of electronic madness.
fri, chi, mia, ana
we stayed at the hyatt this week, i dont know what jena and aimee said to the concierge, but they gave us the top floor next to the conference suite and the view was pretty tight, not to mention we ate for free cause they keep the conference suite stocked. did some clubbing. happy birthday jillian. got drunk ended up at some kind of a drag queen rave, with bongos. stumbled to a taxi, ended up at the wrong hyatt hotel, peed on some pedestrians. overall alright tuesday night. paul rodrigeuz, if you’re reading this, your friends at the green dolphin were very hospitable, sorry we missed each other.
weekend affairs
before the weekend:
mia made the fox smile… kinda. it’s true, the most beautiful people in the US come from detroit.
and technically it’s friday over herr, so here’s your independent film friday.
music by Andrea Martignoni
produced by Mercurio Film
assistant: Sibe
[blublu.org]
i’m crashing an employer’s house tonight, they got this fat ass cat that’s so starved for attention, it reminds me of an ex.
ana you’re good people. scott, thank you for the wine. here’s some sexy for your high class ass. No comments
AIbert Einstein, is a physicist
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With all of our recent technological advancements, we’ve collected our greatest minds for the ultimate goal, allowing our god complex to dictate over our honed morality twisting it into ungodly reason. Without government restrictions, a scientific task force in a South Korean lab has executed their reprehensible agenda, and spawned the abominable cybernetic organism that is…
Humanoid Robot, Albert Hubo v1.0.
Abilities:
1.) Live Speech Recognition and excellent pronunciation.
2.) Can wiggles his ears (just like Albert Einstein would if he were here today).
3.) First jewish robot (unless i missed something from spaceballs).
4.) It’s a god damned android with Albert Einstein’s head.
5.) Is a physicist.
At the beginning of the video it looks like it’s suffering, so lifelike i actually feel a bit bad. If you’d like to see more of Albert Hubo‘s impressive expressions [click here]
Arnold will be president, and these bad boys are going to be at your door collecting the census and gunning down your children.
face was designed by [Hanson Robotics]
post by Christos
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