Daniele Buetti

Daniele Buetti was born in 1955 in Fribourg, Switzerland, and now is based in Zürich.  He is a professor at Kunstakademie Münster.  Buetti is interested in the function of our emotions.  He uses the pop culture icons, super models and turns them into shrines with pin hole tears streaming down their faces lit up by fluorescent lights from behind.

Moonwalk

Beautiful and insane.

Holy Mountain

Holy Mountain is one of the most visually overwhelming movies I've ever seen!  It's directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and produced by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1973.  Jodorowsky also directed Santa Sangre, which to me is a lot more plot driven but equally as bizarre.

Sam Falls

I wasn't familiar with Sam Falls until I read about him in Forbes Art and Style article of "30 under 30".  He is known for his photographs that he Photoshops and/or paints into pretty cool pieces.  When I went to look up his work I was surprised to find these because I didn't recognize they were photographs at first until I looked a couple of them.  I love his color choices.

Maciek Jasik

Maciek Jasik is Polish-born, Brooklyn-based photographer, whose portraits appear as if the subjects are within a rainbow fog.  Jasik states he is "seeking to reach a balance between aesthetic, emotional, subtextual and more mysterious concerns."

Lola Guerrera

 

Lola Guerrera, Spanish photographer, traveled to the desert of Mexico in order to create her series 'nebula humilis'. I love the top orange photo.

Cai Guo-qiang

Cai Guo-qiang's work are like paintings with explosives.

you are my piece of the sun

    olafur eliasson.

hide and go seek

Fantastic Planet

Fantastic Planet is one of my favorite movies. It's a 1973 hand drawn French film directed by René Laloux. Though the trailer could be a million times better the movie is worth watching! Extremely trippy.

" The film depicts a future in which human beings, known as "Oms" (a homonym of the French-language word hommes, meaning men), are creatures on the Draags' home planet, where they are seen as pests and sometimes kept as pets (with collars). The Draags are an alien species which is humanoid in shape but a hundred times larger than humans, with blue skin, fan-like earlobes and huge, protruding red eyes. The Draags also live much longer than human beings – one Draag week equals a human year. Some Oms are domesticated as pets, but others run wild, and are periodically exterminated. The Draags' treatment of the Oms is ironically contrasted with their high level of technological and spiritual development." wiki

The Deep End by Jake Fried

Jake Fried's hand-drawn animation with ink, white-out and coffee is completely mesmerizing. wow.

JR & Liu Bolin

Liu Bolin

"When the police destroyed the artists’ village where Liu Bolin resided in 2005, he created a photograph of himself standing in front of his demolished studio with his face and clothing painted in a manner that blended into the shattered remains of his former home. This started his signature line of work; since he has integrated himself into hundreds of backgrounds worldwide, earning him the nickname “Invisible Man.” Liu’s work, a mix of photography, sculpture, and painting, illustrates the tension between society and the individual, and his images have symbolized various messages including repression and suffering. Two years ago one of Liu’s most famous images, which depicted the artist disappearing into a magazine rack in New York, sold for $18,000. It was recently resold on the secondary market for $46,000. And his art continues to rise in value—one edition showing Liu hiding in a mural of Chinese dragons is set at $250,000." The Daily Beast

Michael Wolf

 Michael Wolf's series of "Real Fake Art" of knock off painters in China standing next to their paintings is hilarious and pretty incredible. From Francis Bacon, David Hockney, to a painting from Today Series by On Kawara.  funny.

Alejandro Cartagena

"A bridge is situated on a highway that goes from the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo — across the United States border in Laredo, Tex. — due south to Monterrey. In the early-morning hours last winter, Alejandro Cartagena stood there, pointing his lens down at the passing cars, like a distracted spy.
He was peeking into the backs of the pickup trucks, where construction workers pile together on their way to earn an honest living. His photo series, “Car Poolers,” is an effort to peer inside these tiny worlds that straddle public and private.
'When I started to take the pictures from that point of view, that just made a whole different thing open up, because there’s issues of intimacy or privacy being expressed in a public space,' said Mr. Cartagena, 35. 'There’s a sense of the invisibility of the reality of so many people in Mexico that is popping out because of the images.'" NYTimes