lack of consequence has got me making decisions based on truth or dare
See? I'm not neglecting you, my dearest LJ. Here I am, twice in a week! Wowee.
Jesus, I've been so addicted to I Survived, and I Shouldn't Be Alive, and I Escaped, and WTF HOW DID I LIIIIIVE?! This Amazon one of ISBA is one of the worst, though. Heading the ENTIRELY WRONG DIRECTION in the rainforest. Jesus shit. (watching actors recreate yelling at a pack of wild boars is pretty fucking great, as a side note).
I think they're all just such great cocktail party stories. Like, if you heard someone telling this story in real life, you'd be goddamned spellbound. It's just insanity what people do when faced with INSURMOUNTABLE ODDS. If they were all mashed together in a short story collection, I'd read it into pieces. Note: the new version of I Survived is Beyond and Back, which is really more interesting than I thought it'd be. Just amazing stories that spark some of the most interesting debates on what happens after you die. Like, there's obviously ways the massive Final Chemical Dump in your brain could trigger the feelings of floating, the ecstacy, even the visions of your life flashing before your eyes. But there are things it can't explain, like someone coming out of a bedridden state and telling you they saw a whole funny conversation you had in the cafeteria while they were in a coma. Very, very interesting shit.
Holy shit, that's a lot of non-update. Anyways!
-Photographer/Architect Hiroshi Sugimoto, seen here being way more awesome than you, does some amazing shit with electricity and photography:
So for this exhibition, he used a giant wandy thingee to elecrocute undeveloped photo paper and voila! Gorgeous. I think I like these better than if they'd just been shots of lightning; manufactored. HE IS GOD!
-So, while PETA's likely to shit their pants about this, artist Lori Tomita's "New World Specimans" are goddamned beautiful. He dissolves the flesh from small animals, then using some crazy ancient Japanese technique (I dunno what's with my Japanese innovation fetish this entry), injects their exo/skeletons with dye. Delicate, colorful, quiet. I love them.
-Lovely little stop motion animation by Kirstin Lepore called "Bottle." Cute, flawless, yesplz!
Bottle from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.
-Lastly, the photography of Charlotte Gonzalez is some beautiful shit. Nothing too groundbreaking, no insane Japanese stunts, just a fantastic eye for framing and some awesome subject matter, from the Anti-Nato protests last year to some awesome portraiture. Enjoying!
Off to CPK, blarg!
;Kileigh
Jesus, I've been so addicted to I Survived, and I Shouldn't Be Alive, and I Escaped, and WTF HOW DID I LIIIIIVE?! This Amazon one of ISBA is one of the worst, though. Heading the ENTIRELY WRONG DIRECTION in the rainforest. Jesus shit. (watching actors recreate yelling at a pack of wild boars is pretty fucking great, as a side note).
I think they're all just such great cocktail party stories. Like, if you heard someone telling this story in real life, you'd be goddamned spellbound. It's just insanity what people do when faced with INSURMOUNTABLE ODDS. If they were all mashed together in a short story collection, I'd read it into pieces. Note: the new version of I Survived is Beyond and Back, which is really more interesting than I thought it'd be. Just amazing stories that spark some of the most interesting debates on what happens after you die. Like, there's obviously ways the massive Final Chemical Dump in your brain could trigger the feelings of floating, the ecstacy, even the visions of your life flashing before your eyes. But there are things it can't explain, like someone coming out of a bedridden state and telling you they saw a whole funny conversation you had in the cafeteria while they were in a coma. Very, very interesting shit.
Holy shit, that's a lot of non-update. Anyways!
-Photographer/Architect Hiroshi Sugimoto, seen here being way more awesome than you, does some amazing shit with electricity and photography:
So for this exhibition, he used a giant wandy thingee to elecrocute undeveloped photo paper and voila! Gorgeous. I think I like these better than if they'd just been shots of lightning; manufactored. HE IS GOD!
-So, while PETA's likely to shit their pants about this, artist Lori Tomita's "New World Specimans" are goddamned beautiful. He dissolves the flesh from small animals, then using some crazy ancient Japanese technique (I dunno what's with my Japanese innovation fetish this entry), injects their exo/skeletons with dye. Delicate, colorful, quiet. I love them.
-Lovely little stop motion animation by Kirstin Lepore called "Bottle." Cute, flawless, yesplz!
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
Bottle from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.
-Lastly, the photography of Charlotte Gonzalez is some beautiful shit. Nothing too groundbreaking, no insane Japanese stunts, just a fantastic eye for framing and some awesome subject matter, from the Anti-Nato protests last year to some awesome portraiture. Enjoying!
Off to CPK, blarg!
;Kileigh