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Oh, Joyce Kim, Joyce Kim. Why do you have to take great photos? I’m sitting here staring at several dead rechargeable batteries that I forgot to put in the charger, and one lonely, empty camera. Your photos make me want to be outside, having adventures, getting into scrapes. In another three hours I can leave the building and then there will be scrapes aplenty, Joyce Kim. And maybe I will have found some batteries.
Joyce Kim found via It’s Nice That
You have no idea how hard it was for me to not publish this interview a month ago. I told myself I had to wait until the new site was up, and I stayed strong. I was art-crushing from the very first time I saw Kristina Collantes‘ drawings, and I knew immediately that I wanted her to be the first interview for Secret Still. She was gracious enough to answer my questions eloquently and interestingly, not something that everyone can manage. Get to know a little about this So Cal artist after the jump. Continue Reading »
I’m sure you’re asking yourself what in the hell happened to Days of Danger. Calm down. I’ve been alluding to a new site design for months now, and somehow I fell ass first into accomplishment this weekend. Ta Da. I’ll still be bringing you all the same wonderment as before, and now with even more words you won’t find anywhere else like eviscerate and longitudinal. Let me run you through a couple of the big changes so that my hard work doesn’t go unnoticed. The daily videos have moved over to the sidebar to streamline things, and there’s now a Picture of the Week section as well. If you have a picture that you think is POTW worthy, feel free to send it my way. All of the posts you see before this one are imported from Blogger so don’t expect them to look perfect in Wordpress. All subsequent posts, this one included, should look fine. Hopefully at some point I will even get rid of that shitsucking hr tag. In the left sidebar you’ll notice an About link and a Contact link. For the drunks following along at home, those pages will tell you about me and how to contact me respectively.
This page should work in most browsers. I don’t like the way it looks in IE, but, honestly, if you’re using Internet Explorer I have to politely tell you to go fuck yourself. There will be a lot of changes over the next few weeks, nothing drastic, but just remember: I’m only doing this for your own good. The safe word is patella.
Thanks to Drawn! for the tipoff to Markerbored. The site is a series of call and response style whiteboard drawings created by roommates Pat Barret and Todd McArthur. If you’re nerdy enough these drawings are pure comic gold. Lucky for me, I am secretly nerdy as all hell. I had a project like this involving stick figures with my friend Walter in 12th grade english. I still remember when he countered my “the whole army from Braveheart” with a stealth bomber. How can I compete with superior technology? I seem to recall I drew in the finger of God flicking the jet. That’s kind of a tie really. And that story reminds me of when I used to be woman. What? I don’t tell you every little thing.
1) Animator vs. Animation. Shit’s new and improved.
2) Animated Chinese Painting. I like any animation in this style, especially when it stays so traditional. Via Drawn!
Beautiful Decay has a nice interview up with Erika Somogyi (mentioned previously). I was going to get a quick interview with her (and I may still), but B/D beat me to the punch. Oh well, I can’t even post the interviews I have in the can until the new site is launched. Maybe this weekend. Until then enjoy some professional journalism, not my rinky dink crap.
Swedish artist Karin Martensson won me over with one image. The one pictured. It was equal parts gross and pretty. That’s an automatic win. Of course the rest of her work is just as good, and makes me wonder once again what they’re putting in the water in the Nordic countries. How the hell do you people keep pumping out so many great artists? If it wasn’t so cold in the Winter you would have a new resident, Northern Europe. But ultimately ice is my enemy so I’ll just have to live with experiencing great illustrations like Martensson’s over the internet. A poor substitute indeed.
1) Le le - Breakfast. The song is a tad annoying, although the lyrics are pretty funny. The real treat is the video created by Parra.
2) We Are the Mary Kay Cosmetic People. Get a look at innovators in empowerment, equality, and pure evil. Via Boing Boing.
3) The Growth of Walmart. SPeaking of evil, this is a light map of the spread of Walmart stores across the country in the past half century or so.
4) Elephants as camera operators. In what may go down as the coolest documentary ever filmed, the BBC has shot a series on Tigers that was mostly filmed by elephants. I am not shitting you. I wouldn’t do that to you or to elephants. I would probably do that to tigers. I would shit tigers.
For those of you in or near the Bay Area this weekend, Saturday will see the launching of the first Carrotmob mission. The CM has partnered with K & D market on 16th and Guerrero in San Francisco to provide the stage for their inaugural attempt. The mission is to go to the store from noon until 2:30ish and buy as much as you can. 22% of the revenue generated from this little shopping burst will be put into energy saving measures and renovations to make the store more environmentally friendly. This is the first of many Carrotmob missions aimed at using the collective buying power of individuals to help small businesses incorporate sustainable and environmentally sound practices. Think of it as becoming a shareholder in the environment. That is damn clever.
Aside from having a nice site design, Tara Muller also kills it with her artwork. Each of her paintings maintains a strange balance between stunted, childlike figures, and ageless faces that appear almost pasted on. Is it her own face played out in all the various roles of being? I don’t know, I’ve never seen her, but it seems likely. The same eyes stare out at the viewer, piercing and questioning at the same time. I could stare all day and never get used to that look.