Dimitri Stankowicz
All I know about Dimitri Stankowicz is that I love his motion work. Why would I need to know anything else?
{ Monthly Archives }
March 2009
Sprung
Thought I’d throw together a little mix for you guys. I don’t have to explain my reasons, just enjoy it.
Download the mix here.
Track List:
- Simon and Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York
- Paco de Lucia - La Nina de Puerta Oscura
- Fridge - Cut Up Piano and Xylophone
- Animal Collective - Banshee Beat
- Some Song From Katamari
- Radiohead - Talk Show Host
- Zombies - Tell Her No
- Mountain Goats - No Children
- Polyphonic Spree - Reach for the Sun
- Wolf Parade - You Are a Runner and I Am My Father’s Son
- Smashing Pumpkins - Today
- Toadies - So Help Me Jesus
- Some Other Track from Katamari
- Daedelus - Scaling Snowdon
- UNKLE - Rabbit in Your Headlights (Massive Attack Remix)
- The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
- Some Yves Montand Song
Best place to listen to this CD: Driving somewhere with the windows down on a Sunny Saturday afternoon.
Josh Keyes
I’ve posted about him here, there and everywhere in between, and today he’s all over much bigger art sites than this one, but I can’t not mention the fact that Josh Keyes has updated his site with some incredible new work. I’ve seen his stuff in person, and it’s even better. Incredibly talented and really nice guy all around. Give his new shizz a looksee. Your eyes won’t be disappointed.
Videos
Start your week with a tweak.
Victoria Reichelt
I got to work this morning to find that someone had apparently been building a fort in my office while I’d been out sick. There was a big stack of cardboard boxes with my name on them waiting for me off to one side. Had I been fired? Apparently not. My parents found some of my books that they had been storing and decided that we should be reunited. It’s an odd coincidence then that I would come across the work of Victoria Reichelt, an artists who paints “portraits” of people by painting their bookshelves. If she had sat down to paint me yesterday, I would’ve been a big jumble of random crap that I haven’t found a place for yet. After this weekend she can paint me as my entire Vonnegut collection stacked up next to my collection of funk records (also in the boxes). I’ve been away from these books for so long that I have no idea what I’m going to find in these boxes. I know that almost every one of them will be a happy surprise. I love these paper motherfuckers, even if they are becoming increasingly obsolete artifacts. And that’s why I think that Reichelt’s paintings are probably pretty accurate portraits, because you can know a lot about a person by seeing what they love. Of course, it’s probably a little off…or maybe I really do love Three Dog Night that much.
NED
Why do I like it? I don’t know. Sometimes things just are what they are.
Honey and Bloom
I’m crushing hard on the delicate design work of Honey and Bloom this morning, from the wedding invitations to the personal print work. And wouldn’t you know it, Becky Hui Chan, the brilliant mind behind it, is just over the bridge in San Francisco. I could literally give a shout out to her, and there is a chance that she would hear me. Yeah, man, I can yell pretty loud. My only question is: where can I get these prints? Ok, it’s not my only question by a long shot, but this isn’t an interview. It could be, I guess. Becky, you want to do an interview? I can even take photos of your studio for once, because you don’t live prohibitively far away. As long as I’ve been writing these posts, you’d think I’d be better at it.
Alex Castaneda
Oil painting + Skate decks = hell yes.