jin yung yu

 Jin Young Yu's work is haunting. Her sculpture fightback tears and are half invisible and at times wear masks.   I love the way they tell a story about relationships the second they are in a group or family.  Really interesting work...she uses ceramic and PVC to build these sculptures her process seems very detailed.

Kirsty Whiten

UK based artist Kirsty Whiten describes her work below with Hi*Fructose:

My new work is really personal. It’s been brewing in me for several years now, during which time I’ve had two babies, and been through the raw and brilliant process of forming a family. It has taken me a long time to get to it, and to know what I wanted to describe, but all along I’ve been collecting material from friends and co-mothers and slowly gathering. Now I am beginning a series of post-apocalyptic, naked families in psychedelic woodlands.

I really love the pinks she uses with the neon greens- fleshy nature.

Robin Schwartz

FADER Magazine, May 2006

Amelia's World: Animal Affinity
contact for more images on private galleries

My photographs are drawn from real journeys undertaken with my daughter, Amelia. I am driven to depict relationships with animals but the photographs are not documents; they are evidence of the invented worlds that we explore and the fables we enact together. Photography gives us the opportunity to access our dreams, to discover the extraordinary.

Animals and interspecies relationships have always been an important part of my work. Animals in my photographs are not represented as beastly or noble, or as props to illustrate human life but as part of our everyday world.

My daughter and I share an affinity with the animal kingdom and we play out our fantasies and explore our eccentricities by creating a cultural space where animals not only co-exist with humans, but also interact as full partners. The animals in the photographs are living creatures, participants in the dramas that the photographs capture. The world that my daughter and I explore is one where the line between human and animal overlaps or is blurred, where animals are part of our world and humans are part of theirs.

Robin Schwartz

Day of birth.

It's a good day.

truth.

JR x Inside Out x La Fuerza Silenciosa// The Silent Strength

Please check out the video above! It is a project I am doing along with my friend Kat Burdine in El Progreso, Honduras in collaboration with JR's Inside Out Project. Please support and share the video.  Thanks!

Ana Teresa Fernandez

I love the simple poetry of this piece by Ana Teresa Fernandez, "Borrando La Barda" in Tiajuana, Mexico.  Fernandez is originally from Tampico, Mexico and has completed her BFA and MFA at San Francisco Art Institute.  Her work explores stereotypes of over-sexualized Latina women, but also exploitation of manual labor connected with Mexican immigration to the US. 

"For a woman born in Mexico, the border is a powerful symbol. Projecting a future in the north, Ana Teresa Fernández’s own journey—crossing the Tijuana-San Diego border to study and build her career— mirrors the route north taken by millions of women who have come from southern and central Mexico to work in the maquiladoras and make a better life for themselves and their families. Thus, the border is a site of utopian possibility. Yet, at the same time the border wall is an aggressive reminder of the violent subjugation of Mexico through the instruments of NAFTA and the Merida Initiative and resulting drug war

Erasing the border, then, reminds us of the power of utopian visions, of dreams and the imagination.

I was delighted when, late in the afternoon, a jogger came running from far down the beach and told us that he thought for a moment that part of the wall had come down.

The twinkle in his eye said it all. Someday this wall will fall." - Jill Holslin

Latinoamérica x Calle 13

This video is just as beautiful as the rhymes!

Soy,
Soy lo que dejaron,
soy toda la sobra de lo que se robaron.
Un pueblo escondido en la cima,
mi piel es de cuero por eso aguanta cualquier clima.
Soy una fábrica de humo,
mano de obra campesina para tu consumo
Frente de frio en el medio del verano,
el amor en los tiempos del cólera, mi hermano.
El sol que nace y el día que muere,
con los mejores atardeceres.
Soy el desarrollo en carne viva,
un discurso político sin saliva.
Las caras más bonitas que he conocido,
soy la fotografía de un desaparecido.
Soy la sangre dentro de tus venas,
soy un pedazo de tierra que vale la pena.
soy una canasta con frijoles ,
soy Maradona contra Inglaterra anotándote dos goles.
Soy lo que sostiene mi bandera,
la espina dorsal del planeta es mi cordillera.
Soy lo que me enseño mi padre,
el que no quiere a su patria no quiere a su madre.
Soy América latina,
un pueblo sin piernas pero que camina.

Tú no puedes comprar al viento.
Tú no puedes comprar al sol.
Tú no puedes comprar la lluvia.
Tú no puedes comprar el calor.
Tú no puedes comprar las nubes.
Tú no puedes comprar los colores.
Tú no puedes comprar mi alegría.
Tú no puedes comprar mis dolores.

Tengo los lagos, tengo los ríos.
Tengo mis dientes pa` cuando me sonrío.
La nieve que maquilla mis montañas.
Tengo el sol que me seca  y la lluvia que me baña.
Un desierto embriagado con bellos de un trago de pulque.
Para cantar con los coyotes, todo lo que necesito.
Tengo mis pulmones respirando azul clarito.
La altura que sofoca.
Soy las muelas de mi boca mascando coca.
El otoño con sus hojas desmalladas.
Los versos escritos bajo la noche estrellada.
Una viña repleta de uvas.
Un cañaveral bajo el sol en cuba.
Soy el mar Caribe que vigila las casitas,
Haciendo rituales de agua bendita.
El viento que peina mi cabello.
Soy todos los santos que cuelgan de mi cuello.
El jugo de mi lucha no es artificial,
Porque el abono de mi tierra es natural.

Tú no puedes comprar al viento.
Tú no puedes comprar al sol.
Tú no puedes comprar la lluvia.
Tú no puedes comprar el calor.
Tú no puedes comprar las nubes.
Tú no puedes comprar los colores.
Tú no puedes comprar mi alegría.
Tú no puedes comprar mis dolores.

Você não pode comprar o vento
Você não pode comprar o sol
Você não pode comprar chuva
Você não pode comprar o calor
Você não pode comprar as nuvens
Você não pode comprar as cores
Você não pode comprar minha felicidade
Você não pode comprar minha tristeza

Tú no puedes comprar al sol.
Tú no puedes comprar la lluvia.
(Vamos dibujando el camino,
vamos caminando)
No puedes comprar mi vida.
MI TIERRA NO SE VENDE.

Trabajo en bruto pero con orgullo,
Aquí se comparte, lo mío es tuyo.
Este pueblo no se ahoga con marullos,
Y si se derrumba yo lo reconstruyo.
Tampoco pestañeo cuando te miro,
Para q te acuerdes de mi apellido.
La operación cóndor invadiendo mi nido,
¡Perdono pero nunca olvido!

(Vamos caminando)
Aquí se respira lucha.
(Vamos caminando)
Yo canto porque se escucha.

Aquí estamos de pie
¡Que viva Latinoamérica!

No puedes comprar mi vida.

Las Malas Intenciones Trailer

I want to see this so badly...

Ohio - Robin Bacior

A History of the Sky

A History of the Sky from Ken Murphy on Vimeo.

Ken Murphy made a compilation of time-lapse videos each recorded a single day of the year from the roof of the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco.

Murmuration

This has been making its rounds, but it is super beautifully done... I posted videos of these wild birds before check them here swarms of birds. amazing.

Lovely BIrd

sweetness.

Otters holding hands

wait for it... just wanted to put some extra love out there.

Squeeze Me - Kraak & Smaak

cause you are all I want...

PUMA L.I.F.T.

If I had the chance to make a commercial it would be just like this.  1 minute of YES!

Alex Da Corte

Alex DaCorte graduated with his MFA at Yale in Sculpture.  I don't like everything he does, but I adore the first image above "Modern Girl."  I love that piece! Gooey drippy saturated color! 

Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan's retrospective titled "all" at the Guggenheim looks incredible.  It is a collection of his work since 1989. He really topped himself by turning his show into a piece in and of itself.  "Whoa"  was probably my first reaction to it and it still is.  Though some critics seem to be reading into it as a hanging or death to all of his work.  I find it quite humorous in the most shocking way. Either way you look at it, its a good example of a simple idea that is well executed that can drop jaws.  Wish I had the chance to see this show in person.

grooves

in Honduras...groovein' to Calle 13 con la familia!

Yeondoo Jung

Yeondoo Jung's photography is pretty amazing.  He takes the surreal quality of any child's drawing and runs with it.  The fact that he is inspired by something that most people would look over to me is like finding unlimited hidden treasure.  The idea of encountering a spectacle and magic in the mundane while really taking advantage of composition/perspective in these photographs really makes them strong.  And because the medium is photography it is as if he's giving validity to these drawings and expressing that all that comes from a child's imagination can exist and be just as alive as they believe it to be.

Re- Imagine Childhood Drawings

 

I thought this was a great idea for a show...

My Favourite Animal by Lara Lee

My Favourite Animal (5 min. version) from Lara Lee on Vimeo.

sweet little animation.  love the way they make the voices come to life...

Polarity Song - Seventeen Evergreen

Seventeen Evergreen - Polarity Song from Lucky Number Music on Vimeo.

It's like a Nick Cave nightmare... ( the artist not the musician)

Gary Schott

Wonder Object from Mark & Angela Walley on Vimeo.

I really like Gary Schott's wonder objects! There is something hilarious about a machine being tender with you when you turn a little crank. ...very Arthur Ganson but much more on the emoter side.

para ti.

The next song I write for you, they will accompany me...

sculpture by Robert Gligorov

one of those days...