Pictures of Junk
Vik Muniz took Titian's 1549 painting of Sisyphus:
And recreated it using found objects of 'junk':
Juxtaposition, subversion.
God I love found objects.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Long overdue for a post- Vik Muniz
Sisyphus, After Titian
Pictures of Junk
Vik Muniz took Titian's 1549 painting of Sisyphus:
And recreated it using found objects of 'junk':
Juxtaposition, subversion.
God I love found objects.
Pictures of Junk
Vik Muniz took Titian's 1549 painting of Sisyphus:
And recreated it using found objects of 'junk':
Juxtaposition, subversion.
God I love found objects.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Blow Job and Eat
Sooo...for some strange reason I've been on the huge Andy Warhol obsession kick. In 1964, he made a short film called Blow Job, which shows DeVeren Bookwalter receiving fellatio reportedly from 5 different men. I was completely thrilled when I saw that youtube had a clip of it, but then again, youtube has almost everything. The film only shows Bookwalter's face and allows the viewer to assume what's going on that the camera does not show. The question remains, is this film pornography, erotica, or high fucking art. To me, it alludes to Nia's sound art piece 'Phone Jacker ding ding", in which you can hear the sounds of masturbation, but can't see anything. In Blow Job, you can see the mans face, but can't see the sexual act occuring. So if Warhol's Blow Job could be considered pornography, is 'Phone Jacker Ding Ding' pornography as well based on its broad definition? Here is the clip of Blow Job. Enjoy
Here is the follow up film called 'Eat'. Subliminal message central.
Here is the follow up film called 'Eat'. Subliminal message central.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Adventures in RVA Land
High Art is truthful. Its fucking honest. Its beautiful. Truth and beauty means making your own t-shirts.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Some of my stuff
These are 2 new pieces of mine.
One an animation with a singing vagina. The other is a sound piece cleverly titled Phone Jacker Ding Ding.
In the piece titled Call, i did a drawing and stamped out the phrase "oh Lord, when is it my turn to be a star" and animated it in After Effects. The score was all the doing of my friend Jennida.
In Phone Jacker Ding Ding i did a collage of found sound from both the internet and extracted audio from cell phone videos of this guy sent me of himself masturbating. I thought this too much of a gem to just ignore.
Im really interested in the effects/events of this life that surrounds me. I want to use every bit of it.
High Art, to say the least.
One an animation with a singing vagina. The other is a sound piece cleverly titled Phone Jacker Ding Ding.
In the piece titled Call, i did a drawing and stamped out the phrase "oh Lord, when is it my turn to be a star" and animated it in After Effects. The score was all the doing of my friend Jennida.
In Phone Jacker Ding Ding i did a collage of found sound from both the internet and extracted audio from cell phone videos of this guy sent me of himself masturbating. I thought this too much of a gem to just ignore.
Im really interested in the effects/events of this life that surrounds me. I want to use every bit of it.
High Art, to say the least.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Monday, March 3, 2008
More Fabulousity!
Since I'm already kicking it old school, I decided to post this fabulous Dal/Philippe Halsman picture. In Volupate Mors.
Anita Berber - Fabulousity!
Anita Berber (1899-1928)
Anita Berber was pretty boss, and I've been obsessed with her for a few years. She was a German actress, prostitute, and expressionist dancer, who was probably one of the first real nude dancers. Androgynous and overtly sexual, Anita was often spotted half naked in a hotel lobby, sipping a dranky drank, with a pet monkey on her shoulder and a canister of cocaine. Wizard. She was also married to two gay men (at two separate times of course).
The people could never really figure out if they wanted to put her in the high art category, or cast her off as a crazy dancer. Her acts were often a mix of dancing in the nude combined with a macabre feel. She so embodies freedom of the body and spirit and straddled the fence of high and low art. I love the straddlers. Straddle on Straddlers. Enjoy a few pictures of her, which I also find quiet lovely.
Anita Berber was pretty boss, and I've been obsessed with her for a few years. She was a German actress, prostitute, and expressionist dancer, who was probably one of the first real nude dancers. Androgynous and overtly sexual, Anita was often spotted half naked in a hotel lobby, sipping a dranky drank, with a pet monkey on her shoulder and a canister of cocaine. Wizard. She was also married to two gay men (at two separate times of course).
The people could never really figure out if they wanted to put her in the high art category, or cast her off as a crazy dancer. Her acts were often a mix of dancing in the nude combined with a macabre feel. She so embodies freedom of the body and spirit and straddled the fence of high and low art. I love the straddlers. Straddle on Straddlers. Enjoy a few pictures of her, which I also find quiet lovely.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Vidiot Shit
a few weeks back i posted some video/photography of the artist Charlie White (maker of Joshua and AdiColor Pink). Well, apparently, he has used his puppet glory to collaborate with Interpol to make this video:
also, if you need more vidiot, this video was directed by Elias Merhige. its beautiful:
He has also done work for Aphex Twin and Marilyn Manson.
also, if you need more vidiot, this video was directed by Elias Merhige. its beautiful:
He has also done work for Aphex Twin and Marilyn Manson.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Anthony Micallef
"My work is like watching a Disney movie which slowly turns into violent pornograpy." -Anthony Micallef
Anthony Micallef is an artist that i ran into while browsing images of Ashley Olsen, who i am obsessed with. I saw this on peopledotcom and needed to do further research:
Upon further research, i discovered the following, which makes him my boyfriend, instantly:
Micallef's work illustrates many contemporary cultural aspects and connects them with the human experience. His use of neutral colors and depictions of the human form in a Frances Bacon like manner in his paintings delve beyond pop culture and bring to the surface many of the things that operate underneath the cultural construct.
He moved away from strict portraiture preferring to combine his exquisite draughtsmanship with a dark and passionate exploration of colour and contemporary expressionism as a means of dissecting what he sees as the frivolities of pop culture. He says; “The trouble with pop imagery is that it doesn’t really go deeper than the surface, you have to drag it down and challenge it to make it interesting. When you put two contrasting images together it causes friction and that is the bit I’m interested in.” In the present work, the dark, Bacon-esque smears to the face conjure unlooked for associations when combined with the delicately alluring roses, the juxtaposition revealing at once the saccharine seduction of colourful pop imagery and consumerism alongside its dark and troubling underbelly. This complexity and brutal beauty explain why Anthony Micallef has become one of the most promising young artists working in Britain today.
Words such as "Oh Lord, when is it my turn to be a star" depict such honest thoughts of a pop culture junkie.
Here are a few images from his website, which i recommend all of you look at:
Anthony Micallef is an artist that i ran into while browsing images of Ashley Olsen, who i am obsessed with. I saw this on peopledotcom and needed to do further research:
Upon further research, i discovered the following, which makes him my boyfriend, instantly:
Micallef's work illustrates many contemporary cultural aspects and connects them with the human experience. His use of neutral colors and depictions of the human form in a Frances Bacon like manner in his paintings delve beyond pop culture and bring to the surface many of the things that operate underneath the cultural construct.
He moved away from strict portraiture preferring to combine his exquisite draughtsmanship with a dark and passionate exploration of colour and contemporary expressionism as a means of dissecting what he sees as the frivolities of pop culture. He says; “The trouble with pop imagery is that it doesn’t really go deeper than the surface, you have to drag it down and challenge it to make it interesting. When you put two contrasting images together it causes friction and that is the bit I’m interested in.” In the present work, the dark, Bacon-esque smears to the face conjure unlooked for associations when combined with the delicately alluring roses, the juxtaposition revealing at once the saccharine seduction of colourful pop imagery and consumerism alongside its dark and troubling underbelly. This complexity and brutal beauty explain why Anthony Micallef has become one of the most promising young artists working in Britain today.
Words such as "Oh Lord, when is it my turn to be a star" depict such honest thoughts of a pop culture junkie.
Here are a few images from his website, which i recommend all of you look at:
Trophy
ill write about these more later tonight or tomorrow, but for now, i just wanted to post them. these are only a few from an ongoing series of about 11 photos so far. the working title is "trophy". Check my blog for more images.
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