There’s an article in this week’s New Yorker (link) that i found on Caterina.net about the painter Luc Tuymans, who describes how he creates his work: “It’s like I don’t know what I’m doing but I know how to do it.” The article’s author, notes that “uncertain ends, confident means is about as good a [...]
This is pretty cool. A Danish photographer, Peter Funch, who lives and works in New York City has created a photo series called “Babel Tales” which consists of pictures of people passing New York City street corners.
Every photo is an edit of several photo’s he took at exactly the same spot in a period of [...]
Everyone’s a pioneer in their own way. This is from a quote i picked up in this month’s Wired Magazine. In 1973 Grandmaster Flash invented Turntablism:
The DJ’s at the time were picking up the arm and dropping it down exactly on the break of the song. But i was dancing, and i noticed everybody’s head [...]
In the latest copy of The Week, i read a great article about boredom. My favorite lines:
To be bored is to stop reacting to the external world, and to explore the internal one. It is in reflection that people often discover something new, whether it is an epiphany about a relationship or a new theory [...]
Here it is for your viewing pleasure – some muppets that were on display at the Photoshop contest at worth1000. Check ‘em out:
I read this post on Caterina Flake’s blog. I thought it was worth a repost. I love the concept of looking vs. eating. I believe we live in a culture that is consistently eating rather than appreciating.
“Beauty is the only finality here below. As Kant said very aptly, it is a finality which [...]
I love this. Some high-school kid built a wooden bike. Everything is wood – even the chain. Pretty sweet (from Gizmodo)
Finally, a truly modern sculptor.
Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Australia to parents who were toy makers, he labored on children’s television shows for 15 years (like Fraggle Rock) before working in special effects for such films as Labyrinth, a 1986 fantasy epic starring David Bowie.
Eventually Mueck concluded that photography destroys [...]
