Swallow the sun and breathe in the evil

14isarbitrary: Screw it. New painting.

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:22:16 -0400

14isarbitrary:

Screw it. New painting.

Photo

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:38:55 -0400

birdtooth: I dunno I was hungry lay off Shucks, she is just...

Sun, 05 May 2013 21:14:51 -0400

birdtooth:

I dunno I was hungry lay off

Shucks, she is just the cutest :)

I don’t know if my moods are caused by being a woman or by greater, inner forces Wish there...

Sun, 05 May 2013 21:00:23 -0400

I don’t know if my moods are caused by being a woman or by greater, inner forces

Wish there was a way to get my parents medical records…

Onward

There is not a day where I don’t think about all of the times I have fucked up

How do I compensate for each and every one of those times?

Have not a clue so they continue to lay there as they slowly consume me

I’m not religious but from time to time I wish there were guidelines to follow in order to atone from my sins

Update: Going to read the Torah more often and in doing so, follow it

artsinbushwick: Art is Music is Art: Andrew Chan and LCD Sound...

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:16:25 -0400

artsinbushwick:

Art is Music is Art: Andrew Chan and LCD Sound System

By Sarah H Reynolds

The relationship between art and music runs deep. As Wassily Kandinsky, who famously compared the act of painting to the process of composition, put it, “Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings.” Continuing this tradition, each week AiB Blog will periodically share an insight from a BOS ‘13 artist on how an auditory experience has influenced their visual practice by featuring an artwork and a song of the artist’s choosing, along with a short explanation.

Featured Artwork: ”Hip-topia,” 18” x 24,” acrylic on paper

Artist: Andrew Chan

Song: ’North American Scum’ by LCD Sound System

Connection: In my drawings human figures are set in urban landscapes and either toil like medieval serfs or become giant bloated caricatures of themselves. My style is expressive created with an edgy line, splats of color along with diluted watery paints. Although the title of LCD Sound System’s song ‘North American Scum,” seems to say it all, I like its irreverent tongue in cheek take on American hipster culture attitudes and life styles. I quite relate to it in that way!

Embroidered Newspapers (by Lauren Dicioccio)

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:04:30 -0400

Embroidered Newspapers (by Lauren Dicioccio)

mydarkenedeyes: Guy Denning Wow-za!

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:02:39 -0400

mydarkenedeyes:

Guy Denning

Wow-za!

Portraits Using Kitchen Strainers (by Isaac Cordal) Found Here

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:01:46 -0400

Portraits Using Kitchen Strainers (by Isaac Cordal)

Found Here

reanimatorlab: a moment from Don Hertzfeldt’s “Rejected”, made...

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:01:11 -0400

reanimatorlab:

a moment from Don Hertzfeldt’s “Rejected”, made at IDEAS CITY

doloresdepalabra: Philip Karlberg, whose stylish and immaculate...

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:58:17 -0400

doloresdepalabra:

Philip Karlberg, whose stylish and immaculate photography has charmed us in past with work like Pin Art Portraits, got a little fruity for his latest work. Shot with stylist Mattias Nyhlin for the current, May edition of Plaza Magazine, take a look at these sunny, tasty fruity faces. They may appear restrained, but are as always effortless, light hearted, and just a little tongue-in-cheek.

(Trendland)

Fresh

theartofanimation: Ejiwa Ebenebe Awesomesauceeeee

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:57:49 -0400

theartofanimation:

Ejiwa Ebenebe

Awesomesauceeeee

Actually very excited for prom :-)

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:57:21 -0400

Actually very excited for prom :-)

svdp: self Portrait - acrylic on canvas painting by Chuck...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:46:39 -0400

svdp:

self Portrait - acrylic on canvas painting by Chuck Close

myampgoesto11: Hand-cut Chinese xuan (rice) paper art by Bovey...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:38:39 -0400

myampgoesto11:

Hand-cut Chinese xuan (rice) paper art by Bovey Lee

myampgoesto11: Robin Meier & Ali Momeni: The Tragedy of the...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:27:27 -0400

myampgoesto11:

Robin Meier & Ali Momeni: The Tragedy of the Commons (2011)

The Tragedy of the Commons consists of a live experiment in the form of an installation, in which thousands of Atta ants – commonly known as leafcutter ants – create a choreography while reacting to certain flavours and smells expertly selected by Robin Meier and Ali Momeni with the help of the Laboratory of Comparative and Experimental Ethology of Paris 13 University. The installation is structured via three circular boards, all connected to one another either directly or through video surveillance and sound. The first of these, at the show’s entrance, is occupied by the ant colony and is physically linked to a second and central board through a long transparent tube; the insects move back and forth through this, accessing goods and bringing them to their nest. In this instance, the goods (or ‘commons’) are a mix of privet and rose leaves and petals, discharged daily onto the central ‘platter’. Contact microphones and cameras, set up on its entire surface, amplify the sound of the ants’ stridulation and offer live playback of their gleaning on a couple of monitors, installed – for closer observation – on the third and last board at the back of the room.

In other words, Meier and Momeni have created a metaphoric ‘food stock market’ for the ants, since every smell or flavour available becomes merchandise capable of affecting their collective behaviour. Accordingly the two artists, who share a background in electronic and experimental music, here manage to make audible and visible a mechanism of social manipulation. On the sonic level, the amplified sound within the installation space corresponds to the ants’ more or less sustained activity – which is particularly effective, grating and loud when, for example, rose petals and leaves are ‘served’ on the central ‘platter’; for, logically enough, the more the ants are fond of a certain flavour, the more greedily they cut that certain plant within their mandibles and, accordingly, the more noise they make. On the visual level, when the central board is flooded with goods – and the insects’ gleaning drastically intensified – quite stunning traffic jams occur in the tube that the ants use to bring food back to the colony.

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