Joe Song

I just finished the new StevenLang.net site. Tricksy and cool together in one.

Steve’s been developing this particular style of collage where he attaches small clips of color or photos using tiny tailors’ pins. A quarter size piece might have six or eight pins holding in down and some of the works have hundreds of pieces. time intensive, I hear, but the results are amazing.

And, besides the process the work itself is very interesting especially around other, more traditional, artworks. He had a piece, Terremoto, hung in the MIA for a little while and the bright white background together with the determined geometric foreground was striking against others’ paintings and sculptures. I’ll post it when he’s having a showing. Until then check in at his newly redesigned site, stevenlang.net, and have a look around.

The site itself uses a content management system I’ve been developing (this site runs on a copy, too) that allows Steve to add content and news. For you nerds, the design is table-less (again like this one) and uses some fairly clever CSS tricks to display the content across browsers. My favorite trick, however, is that the display images on the individual pages (like, say, the collage page) size themselves to fit the browser window. It uses a cookie so those have to be enabled on your browser to see it.