Trenton Doyle Hancock

 

tUnE-yArDs - Water Fountain

I love the Pee-Wee's play house feel.

Henry Darger

 A friend of mine just recently reminded me of Henry Darger, the outsider artist.  He worked as a custodian in my home town, Chicago.  He kept to himself and dedicated all of his free time to writing and drawing his stories about "The Vivian Girls," all of which were discovered after his death in 1973.  In 2004, they created a documentary about of his life and art titled The Realms of the Unreal.  I was able to find this wild story on youtube.

Winston Chmielinski

 

 Winston Chmielinski is an American artist who mostly works with the exploration of color and abstraction through the figure.  I admire his looseness paired with at times tight details.

Gabriele Galimberti

 "Gabriele Galimberti pays homage to all the grandmothers in the world and to their love for good cooking, starting from his own grandma Marisa who, before the departure for his tour around the world by couchsurfing, took care to prepare her renowned ravioli. She was not so concerned about the possible risks or mishaps her grandson might face in his adventurous traveling worldwide, but her major worry was, “what will he eat?”. That is because only at home you can eat well and healthily. And above all, only your grandma (and sometimes mum) knows what is best for you.  With the taste of his grandma’s ravioli in his mouth, Gabriele traveled around the world and, next to thousands of other adventures, turned into a curious and hungry grandson for the grannies of all the countries he visited.  Appealing to their natural cooking care and their inevitable pride in their best recipe, common factors to all grandmothers in the world, Gabriele persuaded them to do their best in the kitchen."Arianna Rinaldo

Same But Different “Theo’s Story”

Love this.

“The Man Behind The Mountain” – An Intimate Look at American Folk Artist Leonard Knight

The video is a beautiful tribute to Leonard's life.
I've always wanted to visit this place.  It looks incredible.

So satisfying...

London based designer Tom Williams caught these city workers in action.  So good.  I always thought it was stenciled... mesmerizing.

Trifling Habits

I can't even begin to explain how much I love this.

THE GAP by Ira Glass

YES.

One of those days

Mickalene Thomas

Symmetry and Color pallete of Wes Anderson's Films

A new video celebrating the composition style of director Wes Anderson is currently making the rounds on the Internet: a beautiful ode to the power of symmetry and Anderson’s ability to use it better than just about anybody in cinema.Petapixel

Designer Beth Mathews created the Wes Anderson Film Color Palette, a chart of the color treatments used in Anderson’s past six films.

The Ross Sisters - Solid Potato Salad

Watch this all the way through...they are amazing back bend queens!

Lauren Satlowski

 

 

"Rich with associative qualities, the common figurine evokes connotations both personal and collective. In her work, Lauren Satlowski adopts the figurine as a cultural norm that can be dismantled and reconstructed. Satlowski’s paintings and objects aim to suspend the viewer in a state of uncertainty. Unable to reconcile their own attraction/repulsion toward the subject, viewers find themselves experiencing a cyclical interaction with the painted image or inanimate object." Wassermanprojects

Michelle Matson

  Michelle Matson is an artist from Bravo's 2011 reality TV show Work of Art-- but don't judge her solely on on that.  Her life size paper creations have an amazing sense of humor about them.  They are bizarre, vibrant, and most of all fun.  I really enjoy her work and style.

peacock butterfly

“The Puppetman” by Ema Ryan Yamazaki

I wish this was longer. I want to know more.

Shura - Touch

First Kiss

TED Talk: Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend

super interesting.

Das Triadische Ballet

"Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet) is a ballet developed by Oskar Schlemmer. It premiered in Stuttgart, on 30 September 1922, with music composed by Paul Hindemith, after formative performances dating back to 1916, with the performers Elsa Hotzel and Albert Burger. The ballet became the most widely performed avant-garde artistic dance and while Schlemmer was at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1929, the ballet toured, helping to spread the ethos of the Bauhaus. "Wiki

very trippy.

pretty pretty

If she's amazing, she won't be easy....

Project 562: Changing the way we see Native America

Such a beautiful project!  Find out more and support this initiative here!

Ally White

 Georgia based artist, Ally White's work is so vibrant!  

My paintings are a re-imagined portrayal of living in contemporary southern suburbia. They are intuitive responses to everyday surroundings that are transformed into unfamiliar and fictional situations. The image emerges through a process of erasure, mending, and embellishment of paint and collage. The use of collage as a preconceived “mark” forces the image and materials to interact with one another. Raised in a house in which the interior was a monochromatic brown, I now indulge in ebullient color. An inclination to fantasize and exaggerate the ordinary offers me a way to reshape what I see, think, and feel into something tangible. New American Painting

Kirsten Lepore - Move Mountain

Another amazing video by Kirsten Lepore.  I loved her older piece "bottle." So good!

Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham

!!!

Proud to be

handsy