I tried to brighten my alley with some oil paintings I inherited by hanging them on my fence posts for all to enjoy. They were painted by my Grandmother and recently taken out of storage.
Unfortunately, they were gone the next day.
In his collection titled “High Altitudeâ€, artist Michael Najjar has created beautiful semi-realistic images of mountain ranges out of photographs he took while in the Argentinean Mountains. Interestingly, the re-worked mountain ranges actually visualize the ups and downs of leading global stock indices over the past twenty to thirty years. Pictured above is a representation of
“The virtual data mountains of the stock market charts are sublimated in the materiality of the Argentinean mountainscape. The jagged rock formations act as a symbol of the thin edge between reality and simulation.â€
More of Michael’s photos are below the fold.
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A great collection of engravings, etchings, paintings and other art depicting madness.
Nickel back has already gotten way more time than they actually deserve on this blog, but I just couldn’t resist this one. Also, while you’re clicking on stupid Nickelback links you might as well check this one out www.isnickelbacktheworstbandever.com
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Another cool project from Mike Merrill – this video titled “OK To Go” is a compilation of hyper space scenes from assorted movies.
From the description:
Part of the thing which is so appealing about Hyper Space scenes in films is the idea that something fantastic and unknown lies at the end of them. In fact, here are the primary uses of Warp Speed/ Hyper Space as plot device:
A) Tunnel to unknown.
B) Escape from danger via total oblivion.
Both represent a kind of inversion, or temporary lifting, of the accepted order.
Denty One aka Minikon aka James White created this photo. It’s an entire years worth of Oprah Magazine covers all layered together. He calls it “The Beast“
Artist, John Menick, has created an album entitled “Goldberg Variations Variations or Music for Insomniacs”. The work simultaneously plays ten different synchronized recordings of of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations BMV 988“. All of the ten recordings are synced at the first note. But, because of the varying tempos of each of the ten different recordings, they quickly fall out of step with each other and dissolve into a beautiful chaos and eventually end with the quiet, final notes of the slowest paced recording of the Variation.
The CD contains all thirty of the Bach’s Variations, including the Aria and Aria da Capo. Below, you can listen to the first track.
I love this project put together by Rollertrain. “One Year’s Addictions” is a collection of one entire years worth of “empty cigarette boxes, tubes of chapstick, beer bottle tops, empty bottles of lubricant, empty prescription pill bottles and broken ipod headphones.” I shutter to think of what my collection of addictions would look like – it would be very different, no doubt, but no less sinister.
Photo courtesy of Libby Lynn.
Play any of these together, some or all. Start them at any time, in any order. Mix them with the individual volume sliders. Then sit back and get washed over by the B flat ambiance.
I really dug the video for Mat & Kim‘s song “Lessons Learned” (great song to boot). Not since The Prodigy‘s “Slap My Bitch Up” has the last 10 seconds of a music video made such an indelible impact on me. There is a decent interview with them on Pitchfork about the video.
I posted both of the videos below. It’s important to watch the last ten seconds of each video. It should also be noted that both videos are NSFW.
Smack My Bitch Up by The Prodigy
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Lessons Learned by Matt & Kim – This one is in HD so watch it full-screen
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