The work of Eddie Martinez
EDDIE
MARTINEZ
Martinez’s painting is a way of recording the chaotic nature of life into paint, to be analyzed and observed later. What Martinez offers is not a theoretical concept that can be proven or disproved. Something more mysterious and inexplicable is happening here, based not in hard facts but in the very nature of the soft mutability of paint. Martinez navigates an ocean of information with instinctive talent, and defies the ability to pin down and clarify.
Martinez’s paintings come out of a practice of drawing that almost never stops, a steady outpouring of imagery. Filtering through the background noise of contemporary life and aligning it with the past, the references for a Martinez painting pop in from everywhere. The longer one spends with his works, the more one absorbs that this is a renegade paint form, and the constant movement is why Martinez paintings feel so fresh yet simultaneously classic.
Organizing his thoughts physically on the canvas, Martinez isn’t afraid to attack the surface with bold brushwork and then scrape away at and carve into it, obsessively adding and canceling, layer upon layer. Constant learning, from both art history and contemporary art activities, is absorbed into his character to the point of habit. Daily life ephemera, conversations, thoughts, ideas are all recorded in the paint, and his spontaneity gives the carefully worked paintings their raw feeling.
Martinez has developed his own distinct style with a personal iconography of recurring motifs that he both repeats and transmutes. Like his wild-eyed blockheads, monolithic figures that are at times cracked open by a sword, or joined by other blockheads in a gazing stack. Avoiding all pretension, a continuous story spreads out across his work, developing from one series to the next, while all the while reveling in the sheer beauty of the paint.
View more from his 2008 Show at Loyal in Sweden.
Barefoot Bambees, Alysha Nett and Kristen Leanne
"I left my house when I was seventeen because I wasn't getting along with my parents. I have lived on my own ever since. It was a really good experience for me. Taught me how to be ambitious and get things done because I knew no one else was gonna be there to help me if I messed up and couldn't afford rent, or food etc. It also taught me the value of a dollar which I think is missing in MANY MANY young people's lives. It's unfortunate."
KRISTEN
LEANNE
ALYSHA
NETT
"Well over the weekend we played with a lot of Polaroids, and that's always fun. Lately, I've been trying to work with more artists that inspire me so I don't feel burnt out. I'm trying to melt the worlds of fashion and fetish together to create erotic art that doesn't necessarily include nudity".
Pin-Up Model, Loulou Von Brochwitz
model:
Loulou
Von
Brochwitz
Loulou von Brochwitz started her modeling career at the age of 14 in Switzerland where she was born. Supervised by a established modeling agency, she worked as a part-time model for classic brands; later she decided to specialize in pin-up modeling: Over the years she started a passion for the American Atomic Age and in 2006 she decided to put her passion for the 1950's into her image.
Loulou’s uniquely visual brand as a sexy Pin-Up Girl and nerdy mathematician has her in demand all over the World. Recognized as the ATOMIC AGE HIGH FASHION PIN-UP, she has become both renowned and iconic. She has graced the covers of dozens of magazines, was featured in the September 2010 Edition of Playboy Magazine, and her upcoming role as the “Obedient but Alluring College Girl of the 50's” in: "College Girls Can Be Poison", will be released next year.
Fashion photographer, Michael Quinn, MICKOO
Michael Quinn is an affable and dedicated photographer. British born, Quinn has lived in the US and now lives in Paris, reflecting the dynamic and ambitious nature of his work. Never afraid of controversy, his images enhance the aesthetics of the subject by projecting the observer into a rich narrative of his making.
Having trained in London, at the University of the Arts, and Paris, under the rigorous tradition of Speos: Paris Photographic Institute, his range of technique and style is fitting for nearly all purposes. Experienced in and out of the studio, he embraces the possibilities of recreating the world through image.
Michael Quinn
View more: MICKOO
Retarded Music is IN like the color Black
Via, the wonderful folks at 9Gag.com
I don't care what anyone says, Justin Bieber has talent. I just can't stand his haircut and his idiot 13 year old fans. LOL. Rebecca Black should avoid posting videos on YouTube at all costs if she plans to have a social life and a boyfriend in the years ahead. Jesus...
What About the Robots?
Should I ?
What If?
I think I should try
But what about the robots?
Can I do it today?
But, what about those robots?
Ronald Reagan Airstrike Libya
Operation El Dorado Canyon
Alysha Nett
Baselitz, Colen 3D
Georg Baselitz
Scarecrow (Eagle) , 2009
Bronze and black painted stainless steel.
250 x 100 x 100 cm (91 x 40 x 40 in)
Dan Colen
Untitled (Vete al Diablo)
2006
Wood, wire, polyurethane, papier mâché, gesso, oil paint
182.9 x 121.9 cm base 30.5 cm
Project by Borscht Film Festival
Waverly Films + Otto von Shirach Short Film Madness!
I saw that my friend Andrew put up this kickstarter project and it seems really cool. Check out the clip and help get this project finished :)
Redheads can take electric pain
Two studies have demonstrated that people with red hair have different sensitivity to pain compared to people with other hair colors. One study found that people with red hair are more sensitive to thermal pain (associated with naturally occurring low vitamin K levels),while another study concluded that redheads are less sensitive to pain from multiple modalities, including noxious stimuli such as electrically induced pain
DON'T TOUCH A REDHEAD; SHE'S ELECTRIC
Stereo Chest Tattoo
Stereo - chest tattoo. get it? heart beat music.
Marilyn Monroe: The Unpublished Photos!
marilyn monroe
the unpublished photos
Wow, I never seen these before. She always looked awesome no matter what. Check her out doing normal stuff, vacationing, pool and hanging with loved ones.
View more at: Smilorama.com
Sporty Summer come Now
I'M READY FOR SUMMER
ARE YOU??
End of the World as we Know it...
END OF THE WORLD?
If you watch the news and read the papers and what’s on the internet; by the looks of it, it seems it’s the end of the world. If it’s not the end, it appears more then ever as if it’s around corner. It could be fear mongering by the media as a form of control? It could be that information due to the rapid growth of social media gives us “breaking” news overdoses. Things have always happened, but now we find out on real time instead of weeks or months later. It’s at an instance. The world is more united when it comes to info sharing. Now, if a doze birds die mysteriously everyone around the world can find out in 1 hour. Does this have to do with all of this 2012 talk? I like to stay optimistic, even if I stopped eating the fish. If Dec. 21st 2012 is the date…well I have a little message for the Mayans….
WTF Son...Community
