Category Archives: art
Friends, Lovers, And Family
After the low-brow posts below I guess I’ll put up something a little more high-brow. Lapham’s Quarterly has been kickin’ it hard online lately. In fact, nearly half of their latest issue is available free online. Good stuff in here folks, take some time to have a good look. I have been particularly entertained by [...]
Where Is My Mind
These scenes from Greta Garbo’s “The Mysterious Lady” (1928) seem to go just perfectly with the music from Maxence Cyrin’s cover of the Pixies‘ “Where Is My Mind”. [flashvideo file=/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/whereismymind.flv height=390 width=500 /] If you liked this, you can find some more of Maxence Cyrin’s music videos here
The World Is Not As Enchanting As It Once Was
I tried to brighten my alley with some oil paintings I inherited by hanging them on my fence posts for all to enjoy. They were painted by my Grandmother and recently taken out of storage. Unfortunately, they were gone the next day.
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Highest Highs And Lowest Lows
In his collection titled “High Altitude”, artist Michael Najjar has created beautiful semi-realistic images of mountain ranges out of photographs he took while in the Argentinean Mountains. Interestingly, the re-worked mountain ranges actually visualize the ups and downs of leading global stock indices over the past twenty to thirty years. Pictured above is a representation [...]
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The Only Difference Between Me And A Madman Is That I Am Not Mad.
A great collection of engravings, etchings, paintings and other art depicting madness.
Nickelback Is Cock Rock
Nickel back has already gotten way more time than they actually deserve on this blog, but I just couldn’t resist this one. Also, while you’re clicking on stupid Nickelback links you might as well check this one out www.isnickelbacktheworstbandever.com
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Hyper Space Is Trippy
[flashvideo file=/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/oktogo.flv height=390 width=500 /] Another cool project from Mike Merrill – this video titled “OK To Go” is a compilation of hyper space scenes from assorted movies. From the description: Part of the thing which is so appealing about Hyper Space scenes in films is the idea that something fantastic and unknown lies at [...]
Layers And Layers Of Oprah
Denty One aka Minikon aka James White created this photo. It’s an entire years worth of Oprah Magazine covers all layered together. He calls it “The Beast“
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Goldberg Variations Variations
Artist, John Menick, has created an album entitled “Goldberg Variations Variations or Music for Insomniacs”. The work simultaneously plays ten different synchronized recordings of of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations BMV 988“. All of the ten recordings are synced at the first note. But, because of the varying tempos of each of the ten different [...]
One Year’s Addictions
I love this project put together by Rollertrain. “One Year’s Addictions” is a collection of one entire years worth of “empty cigarette boxes, tubes of chapstick, beer bottle tops, empty bottles of lubricant, empty prescription pill bottles and broken ipod headphones.” I shutter to think of what my collection of addictions would look like – [...]
B Flat
Play any of these together, some or all. Start them at any time, in any order. Mix them with the individual volume sliders. Then sit back and get washed over by the B flat ambiance. This all taken from a collaborative music and spoken word project called Bp 2.0 conceived by Darren Solomon from Science [...]
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It’s All In The Ending
I really dug the video for Mat & Kim‘s song “Lessons Learned” (great song to boot). Not since The Prodigy‘s “Slap My Bitch Up” has the last 10 seconds of a music video made such an indelible impact on me. There is a decent interview with them on Pitchfork about the video. I posted both [...]
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Your Fragility In This Sharp World Is Paralyzing