Sarah Elizabeth Blais

Sometimes you need a muse.

Sarah Blais' work is pretty sweet. She's def got a cool style and is worth checking out. Enjoy!

FOLLOW UP - got the EMA vinyl for Past Life Martyred Saints  the other day and I must say it's even better than I thought it would be. 2011's first must listen for sure. Get hooked. Here's another taste of this fantastic album. Moody 90's at it's finest.

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Fall Again

I love the fall.

Things are just beautiful and awesome. It's my final semester of classes, I got my show opening coming up, and all I wanna do is go off to the woods and walk around. So, I took a day off from school, and worked a short project into a little day trip. Got to take some fun pictures and got to just spend some time away from everything. Little sick of looking at a computer to be honest.

Anyway, didn't turn out exactly how I wanted as I sorta ran outa time. But it's all good, check it out:

Vancouver

I hope you are all watching the olympics. I've done poorly in school and work a lot lately because of it. Buuuuut, that's ok :) haha. Anyway, check this out, it's a guy doing a digital graffiti performance inside the Athlete's Village in Vancouver. Kinda sweet.

Digital Graffiti at the Olympic Village from Alex Beim on Vimeo.

Inspiration

I realize I haven't posted in forever, school is kicking my ass, but it's almost done! Don't give up, keep working hard and push through it.
Almost There!

Raquel Aparicio

Raquel Aparicio is way cool.

I absolutely love her understanding and depictions of all things organic and their integration into the bigger idea. Her understanding of similarity of shape is stunning.

I haven't done any stuff even close to this for my illustration class.

I need to work harder.

Check out more of her work at her site

Randomly Fun

Ok random ass post of the week
Just found this crazy project from Christian Joy ( the designer behind Karen O' from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' crazy costumes). She took Where the Wild Things are and decided to make five costumes based off the book and it's characters.

I know it could be considered kitschy or lame, but I think these are really fun. I've always wanted to have a suit like Max since I was super little. Soooo, these are really cool to me. If I was a girl, and had some dorky occasion to wear one of these to, I would so totally buy one.

Bonus Yeah Yeah Yeahs' remix

-Gold Lion (Diplo's Optimo Remix)

Link- UO Features

Something good came out of the 500 emails I get from Urban a week, other than them convincing me to spend too much money haha.

Photo

This is definately one of the cooler things I've seen in a while

Would be awesome to be able to go out and do a project like this.

WHOOOAAA

Whoa kids, sorry bout the hiatus.

Disappeared for a bit.

Was out in Cali vacationing myself;

body,

mind,

soul.

Chilled at the beach,

jumped into the Pacific,

ate fresh seafood,

drank sparky's,

drove down (and up) Highway 1,

climbed the hills of San Fran,

wore a jacket at the beach and was cold,

wore shorts in Salinas and was hot (105),

saw the Silversun Pickups, Incubus, Pearl Jam,

Jason Mraz, Bat for Lashes, TV on the Radio, Conor Oberst, Dave Matthews,

Big Light, Cage the Elephant, The Morning Benders, Lenka, Atmosphere, Matt & Kim, The Dead Weather, Modest Mouse, M.I.A., Band of Horses, Tenacious D,

and two of my closest friends.

Now I'm back in school. Stressed but so inspired. Starting playing music again, started doing art again, started really having fun again. Sometimes it's just good to get away. And sometimes it's good to come home.

Ps- I think I'm going to make a new blog. Something completely different. Something that one experiences, not reads. Something that makes you hear, and see, and think, and breathe. Let's hope it works.

WW3

Can I just say these posters are sweet?
They're part of a 'WW3 Propaganda' series highlighting the affect that the interweb culture holds on us. It shows how important these things have become in a really cool, designy way.

I really like em.

The integration of modernity into an aged aesthetic is just really fun.

Check out some other designs

Star Wars Project

Ok I must admit, this looks pretty cool.

Basically, someone had the idea to split up Star Wars: A New Hope into 15 second sections and have a different person take each section. Then when all the videos are in they're going to edit it all together into one final fan film.

Seems like a pretty fun idea. I might have to participate! Haha. Here's another clip.

If you wanna watch more, check it. If you wanna read up and participate yourself, go here.

Journalism

Sometimes I wonder if I should have been a Photojournalist.
"I was in a bus when I saw a man shot dead on the road. People passed by. Further down the road, I saw a dog that had been run over by a car. There was a group of dogs gathered around his corpse, mourning his death. What does this say about us?"
Kashmir, March 2003 (quote by Bashir Ahmad Lone, TV Journalist)

Mimi Chakarova is doing some great things.

Revenge

This,

is so enjoyable.

I don't know why, it just is.

My Photos

So I FINALLY scanned in pictures from my Photography 1 class.
It was all 35mm old school photo. I learned a lot and had a lot of fun.

I'm gonna post my final project in a few days when I have the time, but till then enjoy what I have up and leave any comments!!

My Photostream

Bravo's Art Show

So Bravo has announced a new show?

Bravo has announced that they will be having a national casting call for participants in a reality show that will pit 13 aspiring artists against each other for a gallery show, a cash prize, and a sponsored national museum tour for their work.

For anyone who has(does) watch project runway, I'm assuming it will be run in a similar fashion, pun intended. The artists' creations will be within a range of media including: sculpture, painting, photography, and industrial design; just to name a few .

While who Bravo chooses as contestants will seemingly affect the entertainment value of this show, I'm actually kind of excited. I think it will be fun to watch aspiring artists get thrown into new territories and media, and to see just how creative they are.

I think I'll watch. You?

Via: ArtCityFag

Takashi/Kanye

Takashi Murakami and Kanye, still working the art world.
It's pretty much real gold.

Sweet.

via. Supreme Being

Japanese Art

Japanese art is so silly.

That's all I have to say about that.

Mykromag

A great web mag that I came across in my travels.

As with many fashion oriented magazines,

MYKROMAG is laid out out really nicely

and has some gorgeous photographs

and great design bio's.

It is a fashion magazine for designers.

And it is great.

It's worth checking out, you must.

Chiho Aoshima

Japanese Post-ModernismI love Pop Art

I love Japanesque things.

I love the Superflat.

Chiho Aoshima was part of Takashi Murakami's design collective and has created some beautiful and poignant works in the Superflat, Murakami's self-proclaimed art movement. If you've never heard of it, Superflat is a pop art movement that among other things, relates to the "shallow emptiness of Japanese consumer culture"(Murakami). Although Murakami started this movement in the early 2K's, Aoshima is doing gorgeous and important things in the art world.

Check out more of her work.

More Dallas Clayton

Ok, cuz the simple coolness of Dallas Clayton needs to be highlighted again.

Medication

"Starting a snowball fight
with a group of six year olds
is one of the best ideas.
Period."

Check out more of his stuff here.

Postographs

I love good imagery. 

This Blog is pretty dang cool. 

The posts are collections of photographs that (I assume) are collected based upon a certain theme. While the blog might not save the world, this chick really has an eye for good photography. Some of the pictures are stunning and it's fun to see the progression through the images within a post.