animals, art
I just recently met Alix Soubiran and she’s not only a delightful person but she’s also a fantastic artist. Go check out all her patron saints and animal circus’s.
FYI, art, design, words
I was going to wait about a week to get to this, but I couldn’t wait.
Stephen Elliott’s been circulating pre-release copies of his new book, a true-crime memoir, as sort of a DIY marketing buzz generator. The gist is you email Stephen, ask him if you can read his book, convince him that you’re a real person, he mails you the book and you have a week to finish it, then you mail it to someone else. Sounds like a really cool idea, no? I thought so too, so I emailed him. He sent me the book and I’m reading it right now and I’m pretty blown away by it so far. But this isn’t a review of the contents inside the book.
(Disclaimer: This is kind of a soft edge image that’s supposed to be used for wheat pasting I think. It was the highest res image I could find. You get the idea. I’ll post a sharper one next week.)
The cover graphic for The Adderall Diaries has all the elements that make a stop-you-in-your-tracks image. Loss, abandonment and confusion are conveyed with a few colors, a few layers and a healthy dose of taste. What else do you need to know? Simple, beautiful, creative. Well done.
P.S. The project is still going on if you want to read the book. Click the link above or right here if you’re lazy. Highly recommended.
Fun, Tunage, art, holy shit
Mexico City recording artist Natalia Lafourcade just release her latest album entitled Hu Hu Hu. Dear friend Cara made the masks and the dress Lafourcade wears on the cover. Cara worked really hard on these and I’m very proud of her!
The masks are also featured in the video Azul (dudes won’t let me embed). The video is kinda whack (why are these twentysomethings acting like seven-year-olds?), but I think the masks are cool, they show up at the end. Congrats Cara!
FYI, Fun, Orlando, Tunage, art
Sometimes you’re jsut sitting at your desk thinking, “WTF am I gonna blog about today? What’s interesting about reading a bunch of submissions? Aquiring content for the new website launch?” And then this little gem just falls right into your lap.
The triumphant return of DJ Dream Titty is happening tomorrow night at the Cornell Museum of Art as part of their current weekly series Warhol Wednesdays. Come out and look at some Warhol photos, bring some cash for the bar and get lost in the mammary jams the DJ will be spinning.
Fun, art, photography
Instructions for weekend activities.
Do like JustinSpace:
1. Find an abandoned house.
2. Go inside.
3. Take a bunch of pictures.
4. Make up the history of how this place came to be.
5. Try not to scare the shit out of yourself.
6. End up scaring the shit out of yourself.
animals, art, photography
Photographer Liz Wolfe’s world is one filled with delightfully horrific confections and sequined tampons. If I had a nickle for every time I typed that sentance…
Check out her collections of sugar and creatures here.
art, design
After a couple weeks of dipping deeply into the nostalgia pool for BBCDW I figured it’d be a good idea to bring it back to now-times. But not too now-times.
David Carr’s mem-wuah The Night of the Gun chronicles the depths of his many, many years of substance abuse. Sounded like a pretty good book when it came out in hardcover about a year ago. But I didn’t buy it back then cause of a personal rule of mine that might get me into trouble with most book aficionados: I can’t stand hard cover books. They’re cumbersome, you can’t fold them back and hold them with one hand, they’re unecessarily heavy, and if you get upset or dissapointed with the contents therin and decide to whip the thing across the room in a little baby tantrum you’re more likely to break something valuable. Plus this one’s hardcover design left a lot to be desired. It kind of smacked of a little too much effort, “It looks like a gun but it also represents drugs. Get it? Get it?!” Yeah, yeah, we get it, we get it. You enjoying your first year at art school?
Something about contrast of the photos on the cover of paperback just struck me as a little more genuine and haunting. They kept the same hand-scrawled chalk font which was working well for them the first time around. And they even managed to tastefully work in a cover blurb by a insanely popular author, which, in my eyes, is often a no-no. Well done, nameless Simon & Schuster paperback designer.
art, design, words
May 15th’s entry of BBCDW got me digging through all sorts of Flickr pools in search of the perfect cover. I’ve yet to find it, but in the meantime there’s some pretty stellar gems laying around.
Check out this paperback pool I found this morning that seems to be loosely centered around Penguin and Pelican releases from the 60’s and 70’s. Must’ve been nice to be around in a time when people were a little more artful in their decisions for reprints seeing as it’s mostly a snooze-fest now.
art, holy shit
The news came down the pike this afternoon that Al Pacino is playing Dr. Jack Kevorkian in an upcoming Showtime movie. The vid in the post showed Kevorkian talking about his artwork at a gallery opening. First off, I had no idea the guy painted. Second off, I had no idea he would be my favorite painter of all time. I would pay a VERY large amount of money to have one of these nightmare-inducing, psyche-scarring masterpieces in my possession. These were the highest res versions I could find. You still get the hellish idea.
I really only knew Kevorkian from the image he held in the media as a silver-haired, murderous, demon doctor. After watching this video, he seems like kind of an awesome guy.
Annalemma