Art
Häppy Samhain Morrigan Day!
Oct 31st
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Arthur Tress
Oct 19th
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Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images. Through my camera I try to clarify and edit the innumerable flow of moments that constantly parades and invades my senses. My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for self-preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive. – Arthur Tress
Will McBride ~ Part 1
Sep 27th
The male youth in the photography of Will McBride
"I am very interested in boys. Let there be no doubt about that. But I do not meet them in train stations nor in the men’s lavatories. I do not go to places where I expect to see boys. I do not ask boys to come home with me for pay. But when I see a good looking boy, or what I think is a good looking boy: thin and with good bones and muscles, an intelligent face with clear eyes and a full mouth, high cheekbones, a not too large nose, a flat stomach, a full butt and long legs, big feet and big hands, then there I am charged with a lot of excitement. It is this excitement that makes me work. I do not make love to boys. I make pictures and sculptures of them – my expression of loving" — Will McBride
My Lonesome Cowboy
Sep 23rd
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Of the many happy campers at the record-demolishing (and economy-confounding) Sotheby’s auction last night, Takashi Murakami may have been the happiest. Drawing stares from art-world veterans — one told us she’d never seen an artist show up to watch his own work on the block — the Japanese Pop maestro sat in the back of the room with a serene smile as My Lonesome Cowboy, his larger-than-life sculpture of a boy waving an ejaculate lasso, brought in $15.2 million.
Thanks for the hint Ray :)
Seven Deadly Sins
Aug 14th
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ENVY
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
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GLUTTONY
Can I eat all of the dead people?
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GREED
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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LUST
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
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SLOTH
Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
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VANITY
The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
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WRATH
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Photos by Devon Terrance. Quotes in order of appearance: William Shakespeare, Fullmetal Alchemist, Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde (yeah, again), Friedrich Nietzsche, Ambrose Bierce.
Life?
Aug 8th
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The World Ends With You
Aug 7th
The World Ends with You, released in Japan as It’s a Wonderful World (すばらしきこのせかい), is an action role-playing game developed by the team behind Kingdom Hearts for the Nintendo DS handheld. Set in the modern-day Shibuya shopping district of Tokyo, Japan, The World Ends with You features a distinctive art style inspired by the aesthetics of Shibuya and its youth culture.
The story begins with the main playable character, Neku Sakuraba, finding himself an unwilling participant in a mysterious game. Neku, with an eclectic group of allies, must complete assigned missions within a seven-day time limit, or be erased from existence. The battle system uses several features of the Nintendo DS, including combat that takes place on both screens, and attacks performed by certain motions on the touchscreen, or by shouting into the microphone. Elements of the Japanese youth culture, including fashion, food and cell phones, also form key aspects of gameplay.
Even more interesting than the game is the fanart ;) In this case made by CrystalDragon.
The Garden
Aug 3rd
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These photos where published in a series of photo books called “Boy Photo”
You can find a lot more of them in these albums made by chipai at imgsrc.
Please ask him for the password, I’m not allowed to make it public.
Bernard Faucon
Jul 16th
Born in 1950, Bernard Faucon created his photographic oeuvre between 1976 and 1995. It is one of the most original and important bodies of work of the late 20th century. Often exhibited, reproduced, borrowed, and collected, Faucon’s work, paradoxically, remains little known, and its place in contemporary creation is still ill defined. This is due as much to its singularity, it is a poetic, metaphysical, highly personal body of work, as to the diverse group inspired by it, from the most classic and orthodox in the photographic world to avant-garde artists, as well as novelist, directors, psychoanalysts, Japanese fashion designers.
Over the past 25 years, Bernard Faucon has shown in nearly 250 solo exhibitions and as many group shows, from Leo Castelli in New York City to Yvon Lambert in Paris, in large museums as well as small institutions, because Bernard Faucon says "yes" more easily than "no". It seems important today, ten years after the voluntary interruption of his work, to present it in its entirety, to reveal the rigor and logic behind the surprising innovation of his metamorphoses. His themes and obsessions evolve with an economy of means that increases up until the last series, entitled La fin de l’image (The end of the image): an intentional and decisive closure from which Bernard Faucon has not returned
