ABOUT

notes.mtung.info is a repository of ideas and inspiration, as well as occasional news for Brooklyn based artist Matthew Trygve Tung.

portfolio: mtung.info.

Illustration of Ian Dingman

lg-village

Illustration and original works for sale at www.iandingman.com.

Views of Times Square

1942

Images of Times Square through the years.

Video Box: Forty Deuce, nevermore

(Watch the rest of Steve Siegel’s videos, they are great!)

Meet Your Printmaker

slugfest01

Meet Your Printmaker is a growing directory of print/printmaking shops around the world with a focus on the independent, the non-profit, the handmade and the unique.

Illustration of Natsko Seki

italy

Illustrator Natsko Seki (via visualingual).

Allan Tannenbaum: From the Burnt-Out Bronx to Swinger Parties at Plato’s Retreat

Allan Tannenbaum of the SoHo Weekley News seems to have been everywhere in New York with his camara in the 1970s.

ford-to-city_std

ta_cops_-k-9_-patrol_std

See the rest at SoHo Blues/Fotomundo, especially Mondo Art and Soho and Man and God and Law.

Militant Modernism

From Building Design Online: A Modern Way to Think About the Modernists.

Class and politics are inextricably bound up with how a modernist building is perceived. There is a general conviction that the working class were slotted into a world of concrete walkways and towers when all we ever wanted was the old back-to-backs, with perhaps a little more space, more gardens, maybe without the damp and the dysentery. What can’t be imagined is a context in which we might have welcomed modernism, and in fact approached it as part of a specific collective project. The pervasive class hatred only slightly below the surface of British life (what else does the word “chav” signify?) centres on the feared or ridiculed estate dweller. Yet this decline works both ways. Modernist urban planning could be seen as one of those moments where the workers — the Labour movement — got ideas above its station, the period where, as per Bevan or Lubetkin, nothing was too good for ordinary people.

Evan Gruzis layered ink paintings

gruzis_anonymousenergy3

Evan Gruzis at Deitch Projects, at DUVE Berlin, and  interviewed at Fecal Face.

Garden Cities and More

London School of Economics Social Policy pamphlet collection on housing:

The pamphlet collection at the Library contains items on different aspects of housing including housing conditions in the 19th and early 20th centuries, housing policy and finance, the garden cities, urban reconstruction after the two World Wars, city and town planning and rent protest movements.

(via things magazine)

Reece Jones Charcoal Drawings

reecejones

Reece Jones 2008 Exhibition, Fatal Attempts at Re-Entry, at Simon Dickinson.

Reece Jones at re-title.com.

Reece Jones featured on Matthews The Younger.