I wound up going to the Chazen Museum of Art (LINK) this weekend with some co-workers (long, sad story about how we went to see Spirited Away and didn't get in). So we spent the afternoon browsing the galleries and I found an artist I didn't previously know about that I'm in love with... Lee Bontecou (LINK). This morning I Googled her and found out ( Read more... )

This is super-awesome:


The Morphology of Desire from Robert F. Arnold on Vimeo.

I'm really loving movie posters the last couple of years -- It's not something I've traditionally been drawn to, but recent trends have made me want to start plastering my walls with them like a teen-ager. The Harry Potter stuff was *stunning*, and now, I think this set is just as *gorgeous*...


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My incredible B-Day present from my dear friend, euclase... GO HERE

Go and tell her how freaking awesome she is... DO IT.

Check out this seriously awesome art exhibit:

Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty ( Read more... )

Thanks to several of you... Art carving has been identified! (Original post is here.)

It's one of the carvings at Khajuraho Temples - Specifically, in the Devi Jagadamba Temple. The temples of Khajuraho are located in the Bundelkhand region of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Excellent info hereSee a fabulous photo of the carving in ( Read more... )

Having one of those synchronistic, rambling kind of days where everything weaves together. I think I shall start calling these sorts of days 'Bantock Days'.

Start at the beginning: I'm fascinated with Bodie's apartment. You know, the one in The Purging if CI5 and Need to Know... Every time I watch those, I never even pick up the storyline ( Read more... )