Hirst: Explains the Spot Paintings
A rhinestone-wearing Damien Hirst explains the theory and thought behind his infamous spot paintings in the latest short from filmmaker Matt Black. The legendary British artist, made famous by submerging mammals in formaldehyde and creating jaw-droppingly expensive jewel-encrusted skulls, has become one of the most prolific and lucrative names in contemporary art. The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986-2011, his series of 331 white canvasses imbued with rows of multicolored dots, are currently on display at all 11 of mega-gallerist Larry Gagosian’s sites around the globe. Manufactured largely by Hirst’s army of assistants, the paintings range in size and detail, with the most recent, completed in 2011, containing some 25,781 spots each 1mm in diameter; no single color is ever repeated on a canvas. Black first encountered Hirst’s hyper-symmetrical series in the mid 1990s, and found that his opinion on the works slowly developed from ambivalence to fascination. “When you are in a room full of them, they are overwhelming and disturbing; these dots staring at you creates a real sense of anxiety,” says Black. “His work always has an aggressiveness, and these are no exception.”
Damien Hirst: On the Spot
The Industrious Art Star Occupies Gagosian Galleries
Worldwide with His Complete Spot Paintings
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Welcome
Welcome to my performance diary.
It is here that I'll be recording my thoughts, reflections, and progress in the pursuit of my Master's degree at Queen's University. This ezine is being created to fulfill the requirement of a diary for my performance module, where I will be working to create a large-scale audiovisual performance. My hope is to expose, in some small way, the difficulties, successes, and inspirations that are inevitable prices of admission when creating new work.
Ideas I look forward to exploring:
-Live performance, and the role of visuals
-Improvisation and its social dynamics
-The history of audiovisual interaction
-Current audiovisual composers and their work processes, methodologies, and poieses
-What inspires, and why
Ideas I will be forced to explore, regardless of how I feel about them:
-Writer's [Artist's] block
-Situations in which visuals are detrimental to performance
-Deadlines, expectations, and pressures
Disclaimer: Fair Warning
-The works presented here will be equal parts mine (amateur, self-indulgent, and perhaps, if we're lucky, successful) and professional (artists that actually know what they're doing).
-The thoughts put forth will be also be equal parts mine (judgemental, opinionated, and completely and unabashedly biased) and expert (academics who actually know what they're talking about, with footnotes and other fancy things real adults make use of).
-Finally, my personal reflections on inspiration and process may be random, jumbled, and/or profound beyond my wildest dreams. I make no promises of coherence, relevence, or any other value of worth, other than this: I'll do my best to not blog while drinking. Let's get started.
February 3, 2012
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Ira Chernova
Model : Ira Chernova top 2 Photos by: Nikolay Biryukov
IRA CHERNOVA
Brooklyn based
Photographer / Model
and this is some of IRA CHERNOVA's PHOTOGRAPHY
source: weheartit.com / Ira Chernova's photography-public shared album in Fb
model: Ira Chernova, Photo by Tony Stamolis, NYC'11
source: weheartit.com
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Change is in the bag!
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Braids
BOX BRAIDS BACK!!
There are many updo's you can do for the professional setting. Youtube is covered with tutorials for them. Ive done a few looks on my blog...check it out...although I have had kinky twists and senegalese twists its the same idea) as far as breakage.
Have the stylist not braid around your edges "tightly"...and keep your edges AND nape well moisturized.
I kept my twists in for 4.5 weeks ! growth! My hair does not have issues with breakage after taking out the twists...
As for washing the longer the hair the heavier during wash so you may benefit from dry shampoo.
MOISTURE MOISTURE MOISTURE MOISTUR MOISTURE!!!
There are so many updo's you can do for the professional setting.
In celebration of braids and their awesomeness, and also to providesome inspiration for those considering braids
In Celebration Of Braids And Their Awesomeness!!
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ON THE COLOR SCALE BETWEEN RED AND YELLOW ORANGE IS PLACED.
BLACKIE
Spring 2012 color trends
Everyone approaches color differently. While our wardrobes are usually dominated by one or two of them, often when we shop we’re partial to investing in some seasonal colors. Read our spring 2012 colors guide to find out which colors are dominating the minds of designers when they set about creating 2012′s fashions.
I am very excited to meet the New Year. I’m hoping that the Year of the Dragon will provide me more opportunities to express my passion for fashion. I will leave 2011 behind with a promise of hope, faith and strength. I will also explore the fashion world with resilience and diligence so that I will become a catalyst of change, specifically in the field of sustainable fashion.
Alysha Nett: Lunch Break
PIZZA TIME!
Damn, as always I love Alysha Nett. Always looking good doin' the day to day!
Via: Poldberg
F Blogs and F You
This is how I feel
tonight...
(so leave me alone!)
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David Choe x Facebook
$200MILLION in stock market float via:dailymail.co.uk
who took shares instead of cash
who took shares instead of cash
DAVID CHOE, 35- Graffiti Artist
for painting Facebook's first HQ seven years ago, now making
A graffiti artist who painted the walls of Facebook's first headquarters seven years ago is set for a bumper payday of $200million after he agreed to take Facebook stock instead of cash for his work.
David Choe, 35, was asked to paint the offices in Palo Alto, California, in 2005, and was offered the choice by then-president Sean Parker of being paid a few thousand cash or the equivalent in shares. Now, after a blockbuster $5billion Facebook stock exchange flotation moved a step closer last night, he is one of at least 1,000 company employees finally on their way to becoming millionaires. viadailymail.co.uk
and this is his art in Facebook Headquarters building
Mark Zuckerberg collabing with David Choe at Facebook HQ.
Executive Producer: Wang Newton via: You tube
Fitness Friday #1
Fitness Friday!
1st Tip: Workout In The Morning!
Working out in the morning really makes all the difference. Firstly, if you workout in the afternoon, there is more of a chance of you skipping your workout due to conflicts. Getting your workout in right when you wake up guarantees that you work out. Also, you can get it over with and won't have to worry about it later. Another cool thing, is that you burn more fat in the morning. It takes about 3 minutes to start burning fat right when you wake up, where it takes about 12 minutes in the afternoon. This happens beacuse your body has to burn through all the sugar you've eaten beforehand, and in the morning, your body hasn't had any sugar yet. In conclusion, if you workout in the morning, EVERYONE WINS!
2nd Tip: Do 8 Minute Abs Before You Go To Sleep!
Okay this may sound weird, but I've been doing this for a while, and I gotta say, I have abs of steel. It's only 8 minutes, and it really gives your abs a good workout. If you can't do this everyday, I would suggest doing it at least every other day to get good results.
3rd Tip: Keep Calm!
Being fit and healthy is somewhat of a challenge...For me, if I mess up and eat a big, fat juicy burger, I don't freak! It's oaky to mess up! When you over eat or forget to excercise, just drink a lot of water and try to be healthy for the rest of the day. A bunch of little steps make big changes!
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Anne Vyalitsyna/Harri Peccinotti in Muse
Anne
in Muse
These stunning photos were taken by Harri Peccinotti for Muse Magazine, The Fashion Art Magazine. This striking model is no other then Anne Vyalitsyna and you can find her in the spread "Sun & Soda." Is it hot in here or is it just me?
I stole these great photos from the amazing blog Anatomika.net. I can't read much on that site but the visuals are amazing. They have some great scans from all of the magazines. Makes for good inspiriation.
Via: Anatomika
Shelter Dogs - Photo Book and Series
"Shelter Dogs" is simply a collection of close-up portraits of homeless dogs. All images were taken while the dog was in an animal shelter. Some of these dogs found good homes, others were euthanized.
"Shelter Dogs" is available at all major bookstores, online at Amazon, etc. and on the ASPCA web store. A percent of all proceeds from sales are being donated to the ASPCA, so far we have raised over $25,000.
Shelter
Dogs
Aww, you have to feel for these dogs. Just look at the raw emotion in the eyes of these beautiful animals.
Via: Shelter Dog Book
the world is not enough
Hola Mundo
Artist Mike Kelley Dead by Apparent Suicide
Artist Mike Kelley has passed away at his home in Los Angeles, having apparently taken his own life. The tragic news was confirmed to BLOUIN ARTINFO by Helene Winer, of New York's Metro Pictures gallery, a long-time associate of the artist.
"It is totally shocking that someone would decide to do this, someone who has success and renown and options," said Winer. "It's extremely sad." She added that the artist had been depressed.
Kelley was born in 1954 in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. He became involved in the city's music scene as a teen, and while a student at the University of Michigan, formed the influential proto-punk band Destroy All Monsters with fellow artists Jim Shaw, Niagara, and Cary Loren (a retrospective devoted to Destroy All Monsters was held at L.A.'s Prism gallery last year). Together, the band hatched a style of performance that skirted the edge of performance art.
After graduating college in 1976, he moved to Los Angeles to attend the California Institute of the Arts, studying alongside teachers like John Baldessari and Laurie Anderson. Music continued to be a constant passion: he formed another band, "Poetics," with fellow CalArts students John Miller and Tony Oursler.
Kelley's career took off in the early 1990s, with solo shows at the Whitney, LACMA, and other international venues. He and Oursler organized a well-recived installation — a kind of monument to punk — at Documenta X in 1997. In the early 2000s, he began exhibiting with Gagosian Gallery after 20 years with Metro Pictures.
For his 2005 exhibition "Day is Done," Kelley filled Gagosian with found yearbook photos, video footage, and automated furniture, prompting New York Magazine critic Jerry Saltz to describe the show as an example of "clusterfuck aesthetics." More conventionally, he was associated with the notion of "abject art," highlighting the irrational and the repulsive.
Kelley's studio released a statement to the L.A. Times saying, "Mike was an irresistible force in contemporary art... We cannot believe he is gone. But we know his legacy will continue to touch and challenge anyone who crosses its path. We will miss him. We will keep him with us."
"Mike Kelley was as kind and generous a collaborator as I could possibly hope for," said curator Dan Nadel, who organized Prism's retrospective for "Destroy All Monsters." "I'm extremely grateful to have worked with him, and will be forever grateful to him for his patience and the education he gave me, perhaps without even realizing it. And, besides his remarkable genius, I'll always remember his rolling, infectious laughter, which was a pleasure to behold."
Legendary Artist Mike Kelley Dead
at 58, an Apparent Suicide
Mr. Piano Man
"I'm open to different opinions and always looking for better methods of advancing and improving my style. Similar to 'Drumline', I play the piano by ear; whatever I hear, I can play. What you see is not what you get because you get a lot more than what you see. There's always more to come."
"Through all adversity, a man of faith is well grounded..."