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From the Something Else Yearbook 1974 (via)

Eric White: The idea that there are things that exist beyond our perception is fascinating to me. It is something that I think about a lot, and it is not necessarily clear in most of my paintings, but I think it’s the foundation of pretty much all of it.

Read an interview with the artist on fecal face,
and have a look at Eric White’s Eclecticism: Virtue or Defect?

Ashley Reaks: it seemed a good idea when i started it…

see also: Reasons to Live, Rasons to Die by Ashley Reaks

Illustrations and paintings by Collin van der Sluijs more works on flickr

Roger Ballen: My photographs comment on the complex word that we loosely term as reality. Reality is ultimatley impossible to define with words, perhaps images will provide some clarity. It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative . My images symbolize the chaos around us and our inability to ultimately control our fate. In contrast to this world, my aesthetic is expressed in a very formalistic manner. (via)

Find Interviews to read or watch on Lensculture and Euroalter

史黛普．王 on flickr

see also: Lies between Lines 史黛普．王

Brendan Danielsson: My work isn’t conceptual, personal, spiritual or political. And there’s no secret underlying message or point I’m trying to get across. I’m not trying to say much with it….at all. I simply create art that I would like to see if I were not the one making it. The process, as I develop a piece, is little more than a stream of consciousness without much forethought to what the end result will be. But I do try to incorporate a few elements of conflict to create a narrative for interest. These usually deal with man vs. beast, beauty vs. ugly, sensuality vs. violence, etc. Believe it or not, I don’t enjoy much of the actual process of creating art. It’s a contant struggle for me and I’m my harshest critic, but the end result is what keeps me going. When I create something that I actually like, I’m a happy man. (via)

New works by streetartist ARK. !
featuring parts of the project with Giannis Skourletis , participating in 2nd Athens Biennale, in How many Angels can Dance on the Head of a Pin?

see also: Sketchbook by ARK.

Mark Story: There have always been individuals who have lived into old age, but few have lived near the limits of the human lifespan. Currently, there are about 250,000 centenarians living in the world.
With so many people now living longer, a new demographic label has been created for those who have reached 110: supercentenarian. (read more)

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know why I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren’t paved.
— Will Rogers

agraphie: faces keep changing, people keep talking…

view Full Set on flickr

Jenny Morgan: “I manipulate the figure to expose the individual’s idiosyncrasies and create a physiological portrait. Working with people from my own life as subject matter allows me to hone in on specifics of their character and present their personalities as I experience them.” (via)

Randolph Harmes, Born Omaha, Nebraska, 1944. Served in Vietnam, Army.

My masks mark a change in my interest from the appearance of Indian art to the purposes for which it was used. They show little physical resemblence to Indian masks, but they represent, to a degree, the assimilation of Indian liturgical mask-making traditions. They deal more with feelings than with specific experiences. Dulce Bellum Inexpertis translates as “war is sweet to those who have not experienced it.” the title is taken directly from a sixteenth-century poem by George Gascoigne. It compares the realities of war with the myths of war. I also think of Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decoru, Est“. It is concerned with anger and rage: anger at being used, lied to, and manipulated for the benefit of Litton Industries, Honeywell, and Bankamerica.

The Ritual Suicide Mask deals more woth guilt: guilt over surviving, guilt over having participated, in any manner, in the war. Making the masks was a way for me to put some of this behind me—kind of primal screams whose purpose is to expose, examine, and then expunge or exorcize these old ghosts. A focus these works share with traditional masks is transformation: transformation of the maker/wearer, transformation of the mundane to the mystical and vice versa.

We love our shapeshifters - as long as they stay trapped in that box.

When Madame Tutli-Putli was first being discussed as a concept for an animated short film, one of the most important creative issues was how to bring human emotion and expressiveness to stop-motion puppets.

Portrait artist Jason Walker created the technique of adding composited human eyes to the stop motion puppets. Walker developed a system of separating and analyzing the previously shot stop-motion puppet moves, choreographing, rehearsing and shooting a human actor’s corresponding “eye performance” to match each puppet move, at the same time recreating as closely as possible all light and shadow passes original to the stop-motion. Once the human eyes were shot, each eye was individually positioned, scaled, re-timed and digitally composited onto the puppet scenes on a frame by frame basis.
The creation of the film and this extraordinarily painstaking process took 4 years from concept to completion of the 20min Shortfilm by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski.

Meet Laurie Maher, the Soul of Madame Tutli-Putli

Maya Bloch was born in Be’er Sheva (1978). Anna Veronica was the original, now almost forgotten, name of Maya Bloch’s mother, before she was granted a new, Hebrew one, upon her arrival in Israel at the age of five. Its employment does not point to a preoccupation with the artist’s biography, but vice versa - to a kind of metaphorical ghost symbolizing for her the possibility of otherness to inhabit a familiar space and the possibility of melding real and fictional biographies.
This doubling is expressed in the way Bloch produces the subjects of her portraits, which are based on photographs from newspapers, other people’s family albums and the internet; she “harasses” these family photographs and “imports” them into her own world, in this way resuscitating unknown identities and making up other people’s emotional worlds. But even though she relates to the photographs’ characteristics by borrowing their compositions, she does not search for a realist context but rather dredges up the dark psychic situations that lie behind the photographed figures’ representational “poses.” mia.in.the.sky

Tricia Anders “Everybody needs a little monster in their life”

JimFromIowa “I’m a professional writer who has come back to art recently after 30+ years away and I’m making up for lost time.”

Serbé San, 2007 (view big)

Stephen and Timothy Quay (born June 17, 1947) are American identical twin brothers better known as the Quay Brothers. Most of their films feature dolls, often partially disassembled, in a dark, moody atmosphere. Perhaps their best known work is Street of Crocodiles, based on the short novel of the same name by the Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz. This short film was selected by director and animator Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time.

Full 20min Shortfilm: LINK1 / LINK2

also take a look at this interview with the Quay Brothers: part1 / part2

Monotypie

i created this piece out of an antique frame from 1910 - removed the insides, added mirrors and sawed in each flower. i used a photograph of an original tribal shrunken head (from a museum in ecuador) and placed it into my sculpture. Now i’m looking for the right title for this creation, suggestions are welcome!

Shirin K. A. Winiger

Dont forget to check out Dieter VDO’s fantastic comic’s and paintings

“You’re either a genius or completely nuts.” — John F. Casey, Sr. [my dad]

Jumbo Fruit, explores the underbelly of American culture, reflecting on an age of consumerism and over-stimulation. Using obsessively bold colors, Rob and Christian Clayton generate a tangled myriad of technicolor imagery that stems from the traditional still-life. The brothers transcend convention to create a kaleidoscopic medley of fruits, figures, and objects. (via)

Find all of Wang Tzu-Ting’s works on her flickr: 史黛普．王

Rembrandt emailed me to stop ripping him off.

Rembrandt in one day

This was a random find. I believe it’s made by Jane Frazer.
Generous Download in High Resolution. thanks!

David Cooper published several graphic novels at Fantagraphics. He also works as a commercial illustrator and a designer, creator and producer in the field of animation. Dave Cooper gradually became more known as a fine art oil painter, and some of his work was collected in the books ‘Underbelly’ and ‘Overbite’.

According to the American psychologist Paul Ekman, there are only a few ‘basic’ facial expressions which are worldwide the same, independent on culture.

These expressions are: anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise and, although less clear, contempt.