New York game

Via Woodster Collective

Firefox Has Got a 100% Market Share…

...in Antarctica.

Black humor

The places we live

Colette Calascione paintings

The Anatomy Lesson

Oil on Panel (1998)

Swimmer

Oil on Wood (1998)

Whispering Leaves
Oil on Wood (1992)

Coincidental Gathering
Oil on Wood (2003/2004)

Illumination

Oil on Panel (2002)

Colette Calascione (born in 1971) is an American artist. She received a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute, California. Her work has been shown at St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California and the San Francisco Art Institute, as well as in many galleries, most notably in the San Francisco area.
Sometimes her work reeks just a bit too much of the lowbrow art movement, but though steeped in art history, yet feels fresh.

Colette's Website

Ευγένιος Σπαθάρης: "Θα έπρεπε να φτιάξουν άγαλμα στον Καραγκιόζη"

O Ευγένιος Σπαθάρης, μιλά για την τέχνη του και τη ζωή του.

''Γεννήθηκα τον Γενάρη του 1924 στην Κηφισιά. Ο παππούς μου ήταν Μικρασιάτης. Πέρασε στη Σαντορίνη όπου παντρεύτηκε μια κοπέλα απ’ την Οία. Μετά από ένα χρόνο ήρθαν στην Αθήνα, όπου γεννήθηκε ο πατέρας μου. Μεγάλωσα στην Κηφισιά. Τότε ήταν δάσος και χωράφια. Μόνο το τρένο ανέβαινε εκεί επάνω.
Υπήρχε η γειτονιά στα κάτω Αλώνια όπου μέναμε, κοντά στο σημερινό Ζηρίνειο.
Από το 1952 και μετά ήρθα στο Μαρούσι, γιατί εκεί απάνω δεν υπήρχε τίποτα.

Ξεκίνησα να ασχολούμαι με τον Καραγκιόζη από μικρός βλέποντας τον πατέρα μου. Έπαιζα καραγκιόζη αλλά στο σπίτι. Ερχόταν όλη η γειτονιά να δει την παράσταση, αλλά δεν με άφηνε ο πατέρας μου να παίξω επαγγελματικά.

The killing of Satan (Exploitation movie trailer)

Hilarius Filipino splatter, girls with their Tacos exposed, funny scenario - now, that's what I call entertainment.

You Just Can't Fix Stupid

What goes around comes around.

Girl fights octopus (1933)

Bob Dylan on Barack Obama: ‘‘He’s like a fictional character, but he’s real‘‘

From Bob`s interview to Bill Flanagan, for the TIMES (found on TIMES online apparently).

(...)

BD:
He’s got an interesting background. He’s like a fictional character, but he’s real. First off, his mother was a Kansas girl. Never lived in Kansas though, but with deep roots. You know, like Kansas bloody Kansas. John Brown the insurrectionist. Jesse James and Quantrill. Bushwhackers, Guerillas. Wizard of Oz Kansas. I think Barack has Jefferson Davis back there in his ancestry someplace. And then his father. An African intellectual. Bantu, Masai, Griot type heritage - cattle raiders, lion killers. I mean it’s just so incongruous that these two people would meet and fall in love. You kind of get past that though. And then you’re into his story. Like an odyssey except in reverse.

Microcosmos

Rankin Erotica

Rankin's...

...Erotic...

...Portfolio.

Conversational

Lenka - Trouble is a friend

Smart words from a DJ veteran

Dali atomicus

Girl talk

Working class hero

Have a nice day

American Princes "Never Grow Old"

Aeroplastics

Cut vinyl record silhouettes by Carlos Aires

New Brainland (map)

The above map's original data was created from a reference photo of a real human brain which was used to build the 3d terrain. This digital elevation model was then used to create contour line data, relief shading and to plan where the roads and features should be placed for map compilation. Real New Zealand public domain data was then added for the surrounding islands.

Practical Aesthetics from UniteSeven

Rin Nadeshico

Rin Nadeshico, painter, computer and graphic illustrator

Soldiers too

Cory Marc, artist from New Jersey

seX-files

Xfiles - Geoffroy de Boismenu

Internet Porn (by GOOD magazine)

Good magazine

ABC3D

ABC3D by Marion Bataille.

Marion Bataille is a graphic and book designer who lives in Paris.
This is just a hand-made mock-up of the actual book which publishes in Oct. 2008.

Frank Habicht photograhy

Live it to the hilt

Peace Message
(Vanessa Redgrave)

Lost in a dream
(Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin)

Bare essentials

High in the sky
(the Rolling Stones)

Born in Hamburg in 1938, Habicht began his career as a photographer in 1960 attending the Hamburg School of Photography, from which he graduated in 1962.
He quickly became established as a freelance photographer and writer in Europe submitting works to be published in magazines including Camera Magazine, Spigelreflex Praxis, Twen, Jasmin, Esquire, Hoer Zu, Die Welt, Sunday Times (UK) and The Guardian.

Project "Amazed to Be"
(more great photos in flash)

The Drawer of Memory

A newcomer and very promising animator, this short is his first work ever.
Po Chou Chi from Taiwan.

Hallucii

by Goo Shun Wang

Tom Waits animation

Tom Waits and Donna Gordon as the stripper,
Performed live (at the La Brea stage in Hollywood, 1978), and rotoscoped - a process that traces back the live action
frame by frame and turns it into animation. The original live
action was shot with 5 cameras - 2 high, 2 low and one hand
held. The music from "The One That Got Away" blared in the
background as Tom sang karaoke style different lyrics on each
take. Two strippers, Donna Gordon was the choice, 6 takes and 13 hours of video footage were edited to make a 5 1/2 minute live action short which we turned into animation. A total of 5,500 frames were caricatured and then re-drawn, inked by Mike Cressy and painted by hand onto celluloid acitate to produce this film.
Produced by Lyon Lamb, directed by John Lamb, the film bore some cool new technology, talent ( David Silverman, producer and director of the Simpsons TV series, and director of the NEW Simpsons movie to be released in July of 2007, was our head animator and also his FIRST job as an animator) and was created specifically for a video music market that didn't yet exist . But
the buzz was out and we went on to create what arguably may be the first music video created for the new and upcoming MTV market.
A series of unfortunate events prohibited the film from ever
being released or sold commercially, consequently catapulting it into obscurity... until now,thanks You Tube!
In 1979, an Academy Award was presented to Lyon Lamb for the
technology used in this short.
The production materials (character sketches, layouts,
storyboards, animation drawings and cels) are still amazingly intact and held in private hands. However, a few of the production elements managed to slip away over the last 28 years and occasionally, one of these rare gems can be found on ebay.
To learn more about this amazing lost film, go to ....TomWaitsLibrary.com and Wikipedia.

-Austin Stein

Something like bodypainting

stay-snow white
c-print
87cm x 150cm
2007


duet-bally
c-print
140cm x 100cm
2006


Artist: Kim Joon
Country: Korea
Official site: ****

Alberto García-Alix

Self portrait

Alberto García-Alix, fotógrafo español
[French wiki] [Spanish wiki]
via Livejournal

Débutant son travail artistique en 1976, après la mort du Général Franco, Alberto García-Alix est considéré à partir des années 1980 comme l'un des principaux acteurs du mouvement culturel de la Movida, bien qu'il s'en défende et se présente comme un photographe de la marge: les milieux underground de la nuit, du rock'n'roll, des bikers, des toxicomanes, des stars du porno.

Depuis quelques années, il réalise également des vidéos.

Récompensé du Prix national de la photographie espagnol (1999), il a réalisé plus d'une trentaine d'expositions et publié dans de prestigieux magazines de mode (Vogue, Vanity Fair). Reconnu dans le milieu de l'art contemporain, ses œuvres sont aujourd'hui présentes dans plusieurs musées en Espagne, et il expose à travers le monde. Aujourd'hui Alberto García-Alix est parfois qualifié de «plus grand photographe espagnol contemporain».