I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
-- Margaret Atwood
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Thought for today
Friday, October 24, 2008
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!
World Of SL readers, click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4
Last night, for the first time, I viewed the amazing film known as....
My life will never be the same.
My life will never be the same.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Event this Sunday
'In the Hall of the Pumpkin King' event @ Cetus --
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
4 pm SLT/PST
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cetus/171/29/32
Hope to see you there!
RIP, Dolemite!
Rudy Ray Moore
March 17, 1927 – October 19, 2008
"I'm going to let 'em know that Dolemite is my name
and fucking up motherfuckers is my game!"
Friday, October 17, 2008
Art I like lately - William Elliott of 'What Fresh Hell is This?'
Stumbling around on the web tonight, I came across an internet comic strip called What Fresh Hell is This? by William Elliott and Tom Nash.
The humor's a bit inconsistent, but some strips had me cracking the FUCK up (like this one - http://www.nashspace.net/freshhell/jesuschrist.htm).
It's the illustrations, however, that really, really grabbed me -- I read through the entire site in one sitting, and I can't wait to see more.
All the artwork for WFHIT is done by William Elliott, whose style reminds be a bit of Jhonen Vasquez, especially in earlier strips -- not that it's a BAD thing. Just check out the "Doodles" page -- fucking BRILLIANT technique:
Images and work ©2006-2007 Will Elliott and Tom Nash
Tonight I'm going to add a link list to this blog - "Sites I Really Fucking Like."
What Fresh Hell is This? will be the first one I add to it.
The humor's a bit inconsistent, but some strips had me cracking the FUCK up (like this one - http://www.nashspace.net/freshhell/jesuschrist.htm).
It's the illustrations, however, that really, really grabbed me -- I read through the entire site in one sitting, and I can't wait to see more.
All the artwork for WFHIT is done by William Elliott, whose style reminds be a bit of Jhonen Vasquez, especially in earlier strips -- not that it's a BAD thing. Just check out the "Doodles" page -- fucking BRILLIANT technique:
Images and work ©2006-2007 Will Elliott and Tom Nash
Tonight I'm going to add a link list to this blog - "Sites I Really Fucking Like."
What Fresh Hell is This? will be the first one I add to it.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Art I like lately - Vincent Castiglia
I found out about Vincent Castiglia while browsing a recent issue of Rue Morgue magazine.
Vincent Castiglia - The Accuser
Artist's blood on paper
22 x 30 in.
Vincent Castiglia - The Accuser
Artist's blood on paper
22 x 30 in.
A blurb about the artist and his work:
His use of blood as a medium fascinates me, and is also something I identify with a bit, as I have used blood in my art before:
CM Pauluh - Look What You Made Me Do
1995
Ink, colored pencil, and blood on paper
Approx. 8.5 in. X 11 in.
All of Vincent Castiglia's work is created using only his blood, and water, sometimes utilizing pen and ink. Castiglia finds that to connect with his work on this level is obligatory. This is integral to the veracity of each work. For Castiglia, it is as if the force contained within his vital fluid and the space in which he is rendering with it, converge, quickening the image.
Vincent Castiglia lives and works in New York City. His work has been explored by several international art, tattoo, and lifestyle publications.
His use of blood as a medium fascinates me, and is also something I identify with a bit, as I have used blood in my art before:
CM Pauluh - Look What You Made Me Do
1995
Ink, colored pencil, and blood on paper
Approx. 8.5 in. X 11 in.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Highly Sensitive
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this:
A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
To him... a touch is a blow,
a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an ecstasy,
a friend is a lover,
a lover is a god,
and failure is death.
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - - - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.
-- Pearl S. Buck
A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
To him... a touch is a blow,
a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an ecstasy,
a friend is a lover,
a lover is a god,
and failure is death.
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - - - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.
-- Pearl S. Buck
Monday, October 6, 2008
Finally, yay! My Halloween 2008 build.
'In The Hall of the Pumpkin King'
Installation by Nebulosus Severine [2008]
Cetus Gallery District
Although Halloween is my favorite holiday, I had some difficulty with this installation for weeks. I scrapped several things I started, and ended up building pretty much everything in one day.
Though I used mostly traditional Halloween imagery (pumpkins, gravestones, etc.), the central shrine was inspired in part by the 'ofrenda,' a traditional altar constructed to honor the dead during Dias De Los Muertos (observed November 1st and 2nd). I have echoed this imagery with the sugar skulls on either side of the Pumpkin King.
The name "Pumpkin King" is not intended to refer to Jack Skellington in 'The Nightmare Before Christmas.' Rather, this Pumpkin King is the Halloween Everyman, the spirit of All Hallow's Eve that resides within all who revel in this holiday.
This installation is rather simple, and is meant to be. It is a celebration of color and light and atmosphere -- intended to be a whimsical and a little bit eerie.
Installation by Nebulosus Severine [2008]
Cetus Gallery District
Although Halloween is my favorite holiday, I had some difficulty with this installation for weeks. I scrapped several things I started, and ended up building pretty much everything in one day.
Though I used mostly traditional Halloween imagery (pumpkins, gravestones, etc.), the central shrine was inspired in part by the 'ofrenda,' a traditional altar constructed to honor the dead during Dias De Los Muertos (observed November 1st and 2nd). I have echoed this imagery with the sugar skulls on either side of the Pumpkin King.
The name "Pumpkin King" is not intended to refer to Jack Skellington in 'The Nightmare Before Christmas.' Rather, this Pumpkin King is the Halloween Everyman, the spirit of All Hallow's Eve that resides within all who revel in this holiday.
This installation is rather simple, and is meant to be. It is a celebration of color and light and atmosphere -- intended to be a whimsical and a little bit eerie.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Paralyzing
You do not know how paralyzing that staring at a blank canvas is; it says to the painter, You can't do anything.
-- Vincent Van Gogh [Letter #378 (to Theo), October 1884]
-- Vincent Van Gogh [Letter #378 (to Theo), October 1884]
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