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If there was ever a day that could be considered an international documentary holiday, it would be whatever day a One Day on Earth collaboration takes place. For the third year in a row, a community of professional and amateur videographers film in EVERY country in the world on the same day, ‘capturing the joys and struggles of everyday life’. This year, get your cameras ready for 12/12/12 – completing a trilogy of films.

The trailer above sparks an interesting duo of questions: What do you have? What do you need?

The collaboration creates a yearly video time capsulate via a geotagged map and an annual feature film. Here is a link to the trailer for the first One Day on Earth film, which will be available on 12/12/12 digitally. Join the project and learn more about the collaboration via to project’s homepage: www.onedayonearth.org.

Dizbe.com is a new ‘Creative Marketplace’ that aims to spread and strengthen Internet art culture.  Using technology trends, Dizbe is building a rich community of artists and providing them with the tools they need to be successful selling work online.

Dizbe is currently searching for qualified artists, designers, and craftsmen to join the growing community of selling members.  Artists are given free on-site and social media promotion, a professional profile, referral rewards to cover commission, and Internet brand consulting. It is free to apply and list artwork for sale. You can find Dizbe on Facebook, Pinterest, and at www.Dizbe.com.

For more information and to apply to sell head to www.Dizbe.com.

In its twenty-third year as the anchor art fair of Miami, Art Miami will continue to present contemporary and modern artworks from over 125 of the world’s most prominent art galleries. This year marks the debut of its inaugural sister fair, CONTEXT Art Miami, which will highlight works by emerging and mid-career cutting-edge artists from 65 galleries.

A highlight of the inaugural CONTEXT Art Miami will be the unveiling of “BANKSY OUT OF CONTEXT,” which consists of five wall reliefs equaling six-and-a-half tons in weight. This showing will also feature a selection of the artist’s most iconic editioned works, including a rare “Kate Moss AP” and a hand-decorated example of the artist’s first ever “Rude Copper” print.

Art Miami and CONTEXT Art Miami will kick off Miami Art Week with an exclusive VIP Preview on Tuesday, Dec. 4 benefiting the Miami Art Museum and continue through Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, in the Wynwood Arts District.

We often don’t think of seniors as style icons, but Iris Apfel is a very flamboyant exception. The self-proclaimed “geriatric starlet” is a renowned designer, and the only living person to ever be honored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Fashion Institute with a solo show. She is renowned in New York and beyond for her distinctive glasses, colorful wardrobe, and outspoken love for the good things. What’s her drug of choice? You’ll have to watch this latest video from the Avant/Garde Diaries to find out.

A big thank you to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Art Sale (MCAD) for sponsoring the site this week.

Held every year the weekend before Thanksgiving, the MCAD Art Sale is the nation’s largest college art sale. The event has gained a tremendous reputation as a top destination for affordable, appreciable artwork by emerging artists — all MCAD students and recent alumni. Colossal readers will be familiar with MCAD alumni including Gregory Euclide and HOT TEA (1, 2).

More than 3,500 pieces will be sold in less than 14 hours. The MCAD Art Sale opens on Thursday, Nov. 15 and closes Saturday, Nov. 17. Ticket and travel information are available at mcad.edu/artsale.

In this latest video from The Avant/Garde Diaries, Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto (previously on Colossal) travels to the salt flats of Utah to discuss life, death, rebirth, and his labyrinthine poured salt installations. I have long been in complete awe of Yamamoto’s work. It’s remarkable to see how he synthesizes such simple organic materials though his complex internal process leaving behind patterns and abnormalities that so perfectly capture these unknown and mysterious aspects of the mind.

I’d like to take a brief moment to thank this month’s sponsors. These are the organizations and companies that Colossal going, so be sure to check them out!

• Guggenheim - Stillspotting: nyc was a two-year multidisciplinary project that takes the museum’s Architecture and Urban Studies programming out into the streets of the city’s five boroughs.
• Asia Society Museum - Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao represents the artist’s first major solo exhibition in the United States.
• NYU Steinhardt - Graduate art programs in Studio Art, Art Education, Art Therapy, Visual Culture: Costume Studies, and Visual Arts Administration. Admission Deadlines: January 6, 15 & February 1, 2013
• Creative Time - Creative Time Reports features Artists’ analysis of pressing news and events from around the world.
• International Center of Photography - The ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies offers a curriculum of professional and studio practice, critical study, and Resident Artist Projects.
• School of Visual Arts - Molecular Cuisine: The Politics of Taste is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on desire’s palette. Investigating the importance of taste from the perspectives of the culinary arts, sociology, art history and theory, anthropology, as well as the cognitive, material and biological sciences.
• Avant-Garde Diaries - a digital interview magazine that documents artists on the forefront of their creative field.

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In this latest video from The Avante/Garde Diaries, DJs Justin Cox, aka Kray, and Kenan Juska of Chances With Wolves discuss their self-described curatorial process of scouring thousands of R&B records virtually lost to history to discover some of the most obscure, strange, and ultimately wonderful tracks that are then played only a single time in their storefront studio at East Village Radio in New York. Cox and Juska are joined by artist Scott Campbell, proprietor of Saved Tattoo in Brooklyn, who is famous for his laser-cut artworks made from thick stacks of U.S. currency sheets. Definitely worth a watch and listen.