Raising Victor Vargas

I hadn't seen this movie in a while, so I just rewatched it and remembered how much I loved it.

funny.

I should seriously try this with my hair...haha

Ya no me mandes a más idiotas. Atte: El corazón

Gotye - "Easy Way Out"

Yuksek - "Off the Wall"

Lovin' this video.  Finally someone figured out how to use the mac symmetry camera mode the right way!

The Thinker of Tender Thoughts

Just found this and love it so much.  Please don't cut your flowers.

My New Work

My work explores selected memories made during my travels outside the U.S. the past four years. These memories whether embellished, diluted, or sincere remain as truths in a history. I’m interested the fine line between memory and imagination within our personal mythologies. My goal is to memorialize these events remembered. Check out my website here.

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The Missed Connections of Sophie Blackall

Handmade Portraits: Sophie Blackall from Etsy on Vimeo.

In the spirit of Valentine's day, I find Sophie Blackall's work so sweetly romantic.  You can find her work on Etsy.  Read more missed connections along with her illustrations on her blog.

Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami is a contemporary Japanese artist, well known in the art and fashion world.  He blends both high in low art in his pieces. His work can be viewed anywhere from Louis Vuitton bags to the Palace of Versailles.  I love what he has to say about his exhibition shown above:

 “For a Japanese like me, the Château de Versailles is one of the greatest symbols of Western history. It is the emblem of an ambition for elegance, sophistication and art that most of us can only dream of.
Of course, we are aware that the spark that set fire to the powder of the Revolution came directly from the centre of the building. But, in many respects, everything is transmitted to us as a fantastic tale coming from a very distant kingdom. Just as French people can find it hard to recreate in their minds an accurate image of the Samurai period, the history of this palace has become diminished for us in reality.  So it is probable that the Versailles of my imagination corresponds to an exaggeration and a transformation in my mind so that it has become a kind of completely separate and unreal world. That is what I have tried to depict in this exhibition.  I am the Cheshire cat that welcomes Alice in Wonderland with its diabolic smile, and chatters away as she wanders around the Château.  With a broad smile I invite you all to discover the wonderland of Versailles.”  Takashi Murakami

I love the contrast-yet similarity that is happening in this exhibit.  The bright colors and "pop"-iness of Murakami's work within French Baroque architecture, both so over the top some how they compliment each other.  The first photo within the Hall of Mirrors with all those crystal chandeliers surrounding his piece,  there is so much going on- it's overwelmingly good.

Sergui Isupov

Sergui Isupov is a really interesting ceramic artist.  I love his treatment of the surface, playing with the perspective and all the stories being told at the same time.  There is no limit to the figure for him.  His sculpture when blank starts one way and the surface design completely reinterprets the form.  It's like he divulges the figures secrets, turns them inside out so everything can be seen by the viewer. quite beautiful. 

Brendan Danielsson

Brendan Danielsson's drawings and paintings are so creepy!  It's hard for me to look at certain ones on his website- I was so disturbed.  ha.  But at the same time there is something in their eyes that captures you in your disgust that I strangely like.  They are so well done in their ugliness that they are really good...like it's an accomplished good kind of  "eewWWWww".

Patrick Krzyzanowski

Patrick Krzyzanowski's series The Smell of Blood are not your typical watercolors that's for sure!  He plays with the humor in the super exaggerated machoness you find in the WWF- in these beautifully rendered watercolor painting.  The whole idea seems quite laughable - I love his humor through it all.  I think it's really strong work!

we stay up all night...

studio rhythm.

adorable

This reminds me of all the little mice in Cinderella.

Beauty is Embarrassing

...a documentary about Wayne White. It looks really good!

color x pattern= love

 

  My hair was that color when I was 19.

Lovely.

Pool of tears

'I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. 'I shall be punished for it, now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.'

Kiki Smith: Pool of Tears 2 (After Lewis Carroll), 2000.

Cerca de ti es cerca de mí

Integraciones                                                                     Integrations

Después de todo te amaré                                                         After everything, I will love you

Como si fuera siempre antes                                                     As if it were always before

Como si de tanto esperar                                                           As if, after so much waiting,

Sin que te viera ni llegaras                                                       Not seeing you 

Estuvieras eternamente                                                             And you not coming,

Respirando cerca de mí.                                                           You were breathing close to me forever.

Cerca de mí con tus costumbres                                               Close to me with your habits,

Con tu color y tu guitarra                                                         With your color and your guitar

Como están juntos los países                                                    Just as countries unite

En las lecciones escolares                                                        In school room lectures,

Y dos comarcas se confunden                                                  And two regions become blurred

Y hay un río cerca de un río                                                     And there is a river near a river

Y dos volcanes crecen juntos.                                                  And two volcanoes grow together.

Cerca de ti es cerca de mí                                                        Close to you is close to me

Y lejos de todo es tu ausencia                                                 And your absence is far from everything

Y es color de arcilla la luna                                                     And the moon is the color of clay

En la noche del terremoto                                                        In the night of quaking earth

Cuando en el terror de la tierra                                                When, in terror of the earth,

Se juntan las raíces                                                                  All the roots join together

Y se oye sonar el silencio                                                        And silence is heard ringing

Con la música del espanto.                                                     With the music of fright

El miedo es también un camino.                                              Fear is also a street

Y entre sus piedras pavorosas                                                 And among its trembling stones

Puede marchar con cuatro pies                                               Tenderness somehow is able

Y cuatro labios, la ternura.                                                     To march with four feet and four lips

Porque sin salir del presente                                                   Since without leaving the present

Que es un anillo delicado                                                       That is a fragile thing

Tocamos la arena de ayer                                                       We touch the sand of yesterday

Y en el mar enseña el amor                                                    And in the sea

Un arrebato repetido.                                                              Love reveals a repeated fury

YES.YES.YES.Oh Pablo Neruda, you steal my heart every time.

Misery Guts

Misery Guts from Abbie stephens on Vimeo.

cute little short.

Daito Manabe

I found Daito Manabe a couple years ago and I thought his work was hilarious and odd. The first of his videos I saw was of himself with elecric stimulus on his face. This is of four of his friends. I love how the guy in the right hand corner keeps smiling.  He is a pretty amazing programmer.

Hand Shadow Graphy

Here is an oldie but goodie.

Mortal Engine by Chunky Move

wild

madly