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Summary: Shawn Wolfe saved my life
Review: I was unfullfilled until 'Uncanny' uncorked the ubiquitous, unheralded, un-cola-like creativity of Shawn Wolfe. Run, don't walk, and buy this book.
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Summary: "Uncanny" is an understatement...
Review: I wish I could give it 6 stars! "Uncanny" is a disputed understatement of the visual encounter found herein. I couldn't believe my eyes--it was like staring into the sun. The candid witicms offset by the terse sense of jaded sarcasm were unnerving. "Panic now" indeed!
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Summary: "Uncanny" is an understatement...
Review: I wish I could give it 6 stars! "Uncanny" is a disputed understatement of the visual encounter found herein. I couldn't believe my eyes--it was like staring into the sun. The candid witicms offset by the terse sense of jaded sarcasm were unnerving. "Panic now" indeed!
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Summary: Uncanny? It's ANTIcanny.
Review: I've been following the Beatkit/Wolfe saga with great interest for a couple of years, having discovered him through his work with the Vandalias. To crib a line once used to describe the music of the Shags: Wolfe's hallucinatory takes on the banal bring my mind to a complete halt. I've had "Uncanny" next to my bed for two weeks and my dreams have never been so entertaining.
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Summary: Uncanny: The Art & Design of Shawn Wolfe
Review: if i was invisible i would read this book. it is dangerously transperent: slides like hot butter at the reader.arm yourself! a polemic pistol loaded with absurd monkeys: who pulled the trigger? first shots are fired: chickens fried: a revolution vegetates around us. 4 you. 4 me. 4 everybody: Uncanny: The Art & Design of Shawn Wolfe
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Summary: If this book was a ball, it would bounce.
Review: If this book had corners, it would not be a sphere. If this book had wings, it'd surely fly. If this book could talk, that would be pretty funny. A talking book! If this book were a hammer, it'd hammer all over the land. If this book were a color, it would magically change its tone when it fell from fashion (right now it'd be trying to figure out what comes after bright orange: harvest gold, maybe?) If this book's hair was still curly and its eyes were still blue, why wouldn't you treat it like you used to do? If this book were an astrophysicist, I wouldn't understand much of what it said. If this book were a CD, it'd skip incessantly, repeating "your soul is real" over and over. If this book were an ice cream, it'd be Rocky Road. If this book was a personal lubricant, it'd be Astro-Glide.
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Summary: disruption, reconfiguration, and meaning
Review: In a genre often characterized by works so boundlessly eloquent as to say nothing, Wolfe explores the power of a carefully limited and restricted discourse to say *something* - ultimately, something very important.
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Summary: There should be one in every home.
Review: In a word: stunning. Shawn Wolfe's designs are so succinct, while at the same time unique, that all current and would-be design heads cannot help but bare witness to his work. Beatkit forever.
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Summary: A Guidebook for the information age
Review: It's this simple. Shawn Wolfe may be the most important artist of the 21st Century. He certainly represents what art and design needs to become. Here's why. The agricultural revolution lasted a few thousand years, the industrial revolution lasted for a few hundred, the information age is destined to last for a few decades. Over the horizon is the spiritual enlightenment where soul meets science. Shawn has the capacity through his extremely rich, beautiful, and seamless images to sort through the 'information superclutter' and decipher the pervasive lack of substance. It is as if he is using a current vocabulary to describe a kinder, gentler alien lifestyle 'someplace else' that lies 'somewhere up over that next hill.' Shawn creates imagery and icons that are shiny and desirable (he feeds the ego). Inside of Shawn's gloss and metaphor lies a message that is delivered in the true folk vernacular (in which he feeds the id). His message is simple and his delivery is not as abstract as you might believe. He is not showing us the way, but instead, revealing the truth behind our surface desires. Without a hint of smug posturing or preachin' Shawn gives us a visual relflection of why we sigh and squint under the bright blue flourescence of Walmart. But don't get me wrong, it's funny! It's funny because it IS us and it IS our creation and someday it will end. Shawn is much more than a 'cutting edge' designer and if you follow the messages touched upon in this book, we may all intuit why it is this blend of humor and introspection that will carry us through to the next age.
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Summary: A Guidebook for the information age
Review: It's this simple. Shawn Wolfe may be the most important artist of the 21st Century. He certainly represents what art and design needs to become. Here's why. The agricultural revolution lasted a few thousand years, the industrial revolution lasted for a few hundred, the information age is destined to last for a few decades. Over the horizon is the spiritual enlightenment where soul meets science. Shawn has the capacity through his extremely rich, beautiful, and seamless images to sort through the 'information superclutter' and decipher the pervasive lack of substance. It is as if he is using a current vocabulary to describe a kinder, gentler alien lifestyle 'someplace else' that lies 'somewhere up over that next hill.' Shawn creates imagery and icons that are shiny and desirable (he feeds the ego). Inside of Shawn's gloss and metaphor lies a message that is delivered in the true folk vernacular (in which he feeds the id). His message is simple and his delivery is not as abstract as you might believe. He is not showing us the way, but instead, revealing the truth behind our surface desires. Without a hint of smug posturing or preachin' Shawn gives us a visual relflection of why we sigh and squint under the bright blue flourescence of Walmart. But don't get me wrong, it's funny! It's funny because it IS us and it IS our creation and someday it will end. Shawn is much more than a 'cutting edge' designer and if you follow the messages touched upon in this book, we may all intuit why it is this blend of humor and introspection that will carry us through to the next age.
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