PINA- a film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders

The movie PINA looks AMAZING. I am of huge fan of her work. When she passed away around two years ago I went though all her perfomences on YouTube I could find. Wim Wenders, also known for Buena Vista Social Club, had a long friendship with the artist and had talked about doing some kind of collaboration before she passed but he couldn't figure out the right way to honor her art. The idea of it being in 3D finally struck them and they finally started production when Pina died unexpectedly in 2009. After some time of mourning he realized this was even more important than before, to share her art with a broader audience.

Sergei Parajanov - The Color of Pomegranates

I was just put on to this beautiful movie The Color of Pomegranates by Arminian director, Sergei Parajanov.

A biography of the Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova (King of Song) reveals the poet's life more through his poetry than a conventional narration of important events in Sayat Nova's life. We see the poet grow up, fall in love, enter a monastery and die, but these incidents are depicted in the context of what are images from Sergei Parajanov's imagination and Sayat Nova's poems, poems that are seen and rarely heard. IMDb

I found the trailer and the full version on youtube but it's impossible to embed. Check. the. links. The movie is visually stunning but a bit hard to get through at first because it's one beautiful image after another so it can be extremely overwhelming (the same way Matthew Barney or Alejandro Jodorowsky would be)...but totally inspiring and worth the time to get through it.

From time to time...

Black Forest by Charles Huettner

I tripped on to Charles Huettner's loop animation. I love how the bugs come crawling out and how he separates into three balls and they go rolling away. The little details really make it for me. so good.

The Future- Miranda July

...I want to see this.

The rapture...

Bertozzi and Casoni

Bertozzi and Casoni are an Italian ceramic artist duo who caught my eye years ago. They met while studying at Gaetano Ballardini Ceramic Art Institute of Faenza, Italy. I recently was able to see one of their installations up close at the Venice Biennale in 2009. They definately have the "wow" factor. I love their egg peices! They play with the ideas of over indulgence and decay in the most hyper realistic techniques of glazed ceramic I've ever seen. They are real craftsmen which allows them to make some seriously beautiful profound art.

Good Morning

BSS | Breakfast Interrupted

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Sooyeon Lee: Grand Slam

Sooyeon Lee: Grand Slam on Nowness.com.

...fringe and tassels should be required when playing ping pong.

David Lachapelle

David Lachapelle is one of my favorite photographers, known for his surreal over extravagant images of pop icons and super models. The highly saturated colors ooze out of his photos cluttered with excess goodness for your eyes to feast on. I saw his documentary Rize years ago and have never had a movie theatre experience quite like it. Everyone who was watching became so animated by the energy conveyed in the movie that they cheered, clapped, and got up out of their seats for the dancers in the movie. It was in Oakland where I saw it ...but still that kind of good.

Eric Yahnker

Eric Yahnker's work has an amazing sick twisted style that makes me laugh out loud. Before he started this new series of pencil drawings he worked in comedy and animation for South Park, MADtv, and Seinfeld. In a recent interview with Fecal Face he was asked:

Something I am always hearing in the art world is the phrase "one liners". Your work is definitely humorous, do you think the pieces transcend being "one liners"? What are your thoughts on the whole "one liner" issue?

Guilty as charged. But, I can also draw a straight philosophical line from Confucius to Rodney Dangerfield. I don't know how clarity got such a bum rap, but I personally get a kick out of the cable guy who can appreciate my work on his own terms, while the academic art critic can excavate further and appreciate it on theirs.

Albert Reyes

Albert Reyes is mostly known for his pencil drawings that re-contextualize religion, Chicano barrio (neighborhood) culture, and the celebrity. I love the last images I posted it totally reminds me of high school.

I follow you...

Lykke Li performs “I Follow Rivers”

So Yoon Lym

I am loving these braid paintings by So Yoon Lym. There is something so mesmerizing by the patterns in their hair. I also really like these because of their focus on the craft- this "low art" form of haur braiding can become something of higher value when you just take a minute to really look. Hair is also something that reflects someone's identity whether it is culturally, socially,and/or ethnically. There is a lot going on in these peice I really enjoy.

ĭn | tər | ĭm

Makes me miss Chicago... even though this is Toronto based--I'm all about Chicago thrift stores. I totally identify with that addiction to finding that "treasure."

home...

so adorable...

The Bicycle City

...a simple beautiful idea makes all the difference.

Vincent Hui

I love Vincent Hui's top piece I posted... so strange and creepy. An odd monster man eats a sandwich of little red babies that try to escape while bigger cherub like babies comb through his hair...and that's just a small piece of it. haha. awesome.