Aurora Robson, The Fontanel; made from plastic recycled bottles)

Aurora Robson transforms the negative into positive: thoughts, energy, matter. This Brooklyn-based artist defines herself as an eco-activist, rescuing plastic bottles from landfills. She is conscious of the large amounts of plastic bottles used and sent to the trash, as we are mostly unconscious of the hundreds or maybe thousands of years it would take the environment to degrade just one of them. Her source of inspiration for the beautiful shapes she creates are images she had seen in her nightmares as a child. She integrates the two experiences (her unpleasant dreams and the plastic trash that surrounds us) and transfigures both to conceive pleasant sculptures.

The lines and forms with organic flow, in almost chaotic compositions and the effects of color and light are the most important elements in her work. It is amazing to see sculptures that at first glance would never be associated with mundane objects as simple as water bottles.

by: Ada Cintrón-Cintrón

We would love to be the medium you chose to express these ideas, for expressing an idea is not as simple as it sounds.

There are as many problems to solve, as there are people in this world. Solutions, on the other hand, are not so easy to come by. The Universe naturally moves toward chaos, and our individual lives are no exception.

Although chaos comes so easily, it is not hopeless to look forward to a better life. It takes a strong person to follow through on an idea, yet they are the most important resource we have.

We were inspired by the Louisiana oil spill to embark upon the search for the most inventive work surrounding the man-made disaster, the current global energy crisis, and the interactions between man and nature. If you would like to submit your ideas, opinions, visual work, or writing for our next issue, feel free to email us at polar@polarmagazine.net.

For more information about us and what we do, visit us at polarmagazine.net.

The Feeding, by Mimi Kim

Mimi Kim’s works have sharp tone towards human condition. When she introduced me to her mostly 5 by 4 feet paintings they distressed me. It was long ago since a painter took my breath away as she did. Of course, her work made me think about Francisco de Goya y Lucientes Dark Paintings, which some of them I had the fortune to appreciate in person at El Museo del Prado. Although she is not making a direct reference to his work, nor in technique neither in the message, she takes the same path as him regarding conditions of human existence: struggle, fight, supremacy over the others, vexation. Her work is worth looking at, and needless to say profoundly intriguing.

Check her work out at her website www.mimikim.com

-Ada C.

Robinho, Ronaldo, Cannavaro, Rooney, Drogba, and Ribery

You can check out more of this series, from the artist herself at her blog, or more about Diem Chau at her website.

Erin Yoshi @ Fiesta de Locos

RIMX @ Fiesta de Locos

RIMX and Polar Magazine contributor, Nick Perlman @ Fiesta de Locos

Cern @ Fiesta de Locos

Miguel Bounce Perez @ Fiesta de Locos

Sofia Maldonado @ Fiesta de Locos

Mikey 1Soul, aka Conscious Hustler, of 1Soul Designs, was on hand live screen printing limited edition Fiesta Del Locos shirts

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Holiday, showing some love for the crew...

Friends stop by to show support

Esteban Dávila

Of Montreal

Wraith Pined to the Mist

Thursday, April 15, 2010!!!!

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center 7:30 pm

Polar Magazine would like to give you sneak peak at Holly Overton. We will be featuring her drawings in an upcoming issue, but for now, you will have to settle for some of her photographs. Which is really not settling at all.

Now.. Holly Overton.

He’s the latest contributor to the Polar Blog. Check him out here.

Or click on the Now… page right above this post!

The article is in Spanish… but fear not, his images can be appreciated in any language.

His featured work includes images from legendary Argentinean band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs.  You should really check them out on if you have not…