simply put.

29Apr09

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Junichi Sakamoto
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Tokyo, Japan

simply put. simply compsed. simply beautiful.

http://www.sakamotojunichi.com/

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the company of people.

03Apr09

///////////////////////////////////////////////////paranoia soft

hard boiled suspicion///////////////////////////////////////////

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////meta-punk

fresh cream/////////////////////////////////////////////////////

non-space//////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//////////////////////////////////////////de-fractured landscape

/////////////////////////////////////////////////black lightening

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” So this is a dream or a nightmare? If it’s a nightmare, how could it be so memorable and beautiful? “

▼ A Fötos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliscarpulla/

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the sky is falling.

29Mar09

We are warm. We are cold. We are strangely secure.
Sound. Horrible sound.
Spell us out.
Bring us out.

Streetwise.

Arrogantly, they sit in a row. Proud, they come in sevens.
They are my childhood. These are our building blocks.
They are a natural disaster.

This is our mother. This is our father.
This is our sibling.
Swarmed by technicolor. Bathed in filth. Transferred through fog.
This was our natural disaster.

Fruit. Musical Fruit. Stripped of all its divinity.
One minute here, the next not. Sour. Sweet & Sour.
Strangely original and oddly discerning.
Beautiful and terrible.

They understand me.
They need me. They need me more than I need them.
Without they just collapse. Fall apart. Go brown.

We’re all so tall. And all so proud.
Adjacent and spectacular.
Shimmering. Amoebas.
We wonder where we will be in the morning.

Triangles.
Squares.
Our ancestors would be proud.
Always growing. Always moving.

nigel evan dennis is an artist from chicago creating some simple yet striking illustrations. the little poems accompany as descriptions for his work. something resides after looking at his work, a weird nostaligic hopeful feeling, odd.

http://www.nigelevandennis.com/

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if atheists ruled the world…

25Mar09

All text taken directly from online Christian fundamentalist forums.

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beautifully alone.

24Mar09

There’s a lot to say when you can’t find much information about an artist. It sets you looking in different directions, or for possible patterns in things they are frequented with. like groups. online groups. Sylvain Emmanuel is one of those anonymous type artists hailing from Paris. Shooting film. Joining flickr groups. creating lovely images.

sylvain-emmanuel .P’s public groups

ET GO HOME ALL ENCOMPASSING ALL hardcore tree photography photo forever WE ARE LUCKY On being blue PISTON Magazine CTRL.ALT.SHIFT and the world creeps in to paint the town RED heaven is only in my head there’s something romantic Photography Proper I collect light . The Quiet Photograph NEW All Better Now Journal We are shit at taking photos. Entr’ouvert le film ! fovea fever anonymousness if you go down to the woods today /// GHOSTYGHOSTY.BLOGSPOT.COM /// spooky selective sect pentadactyly whoreizontal the company of people

NEW i-want-a-print : submissions i like to stay in bed all day Democratic Forest lavender dreams & aubergine moods Yashica, The World according to… crashing here was our destiny Analogue Photography 6×7 -COLOR- Phenomenology i felt your shape ø hope & anchor NEW Film is not Dead!! 6×6. suitably creepy ATTIO-FYRA reverie Imaginary Zine The Night Shots Fotoschlachta WHOLEGRAIN PULL▲SHAPES “I LIKE BORING THINGS” Not Content NEW Blood of the Young Zine http://www.flickr.com/photos/sylvain-emmanuel_p/

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turn around.

20Mar09

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obsolete.

often when looking out at the world surrounds me, i focus on the derelict aspects of common everyday scenes. maybe it’s the pessimisst in me, maybe the realist, but it’s funny to think how humans create various structures/objects/things/whatever to better human flow. flow of life? according to whom? hmmmm?

i took these photos. i like taking photos, even though i study film at school. life is funny like that.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlymiller/

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contemporary landscapes.

19Mar09

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GOOSE.

Justin James Reed creates beautiful stark photos out of suburban landscapes. Emptiness yet everything. Barren yet full. Destroyed yet renewed. He’s photos remind me of the calm before some really horrid catastrophe, they emit a creepy undertone of human destruction and unknown self-destruction. basically i like them.

b. 1980

Justin James Reed was born in Oregon. He has lived all over the United States, and currently makes Pennsylvania his home. Justin recieved his BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art. He has worked as an intern at the Polaroid 20×24 Studio and as a colour printer and assistant photographer Alec Sloth. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

http://justinjamesreed.com/Justin_James_Reed_2.html

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one day.

18Mar09

Michel Gondry, born May 8, 1963, is a French Academy Award-winning screenwriter, film, commercial and music video director. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène.

Michel Gondry was born in Versailles, France. His career as a filmmaker began with creating music videos for the French rock band Oui Oui, in which he also served as a drummer. The style of his videos for Oui Oui caught the attention of music artist Björk, who asked him to direct the video for her song “Human Behaviour“. The collaboration proved long-lasting, with Gondry directing a total of seven music videos for Björk. Other artists who have collaborated with Gondry on more than one occasion include Daft Punk, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, The Vines, Steriogram, Radiohead, and Beck. Gondry has also created numerous television commercials. He pioneered the “bullet time” technique later adapted in The Matrix,^[1] in a 1998 commercial for Smirnoff vodka, as well as directing a trio of inventive holiday-themed advertisements for clothing retailer Gap, Incorporated. He has a teenage son named Paul who is also an artist. (This is straight up taken from wikipedia.)

This is the short film written by, directed, and starring Michel Gondry, as a man who, one day, has his poo follow him around (“The Turd” played by David Cross).

Gondry is brilliant. enough said.

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tender squares.

12Mar09

timetable (timetable) ((timetable))
(((timetable))) ((((timetable)))) (((((time)))))
table (((able))) ((((able)))) able?
(((((time))))) (bate) mate
(mite) ((emit)) ((blame))
(timetable) timetable (((time)))

timetable (timetable) ((timetable))
(((timetable))) ((((timetable)))) (((((time)))))
table (((able))) ((((able)))) able?
(((((time))))) (bate) mate
(mite) ((emit)) ((blame))
(timetable) timetable (((time)))

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.TIMETABLE.

http://creebobby.com/art.html

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racecar.

12Mar09

All our times have come
Here but now they’re gone
Seasons don’t fear the reaper
Nor do the wind the sun or the rain
(we can be like they are)
Come on baby (don’t fear the reaper)
Baby take my hand (don’t fear the reaper)
We’ll be able to fly (don’t fear the reaper)

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or we can talk about palindromes if you’d prefer.
or blue oyster cult.
or how life is funny and sad all at once.

is a little twisted, but i like that. as i sifted through his work i thought to myself how his painting resembles a modern day Magritte, only he’s a bit more fascinated with surgical matter and anatomy. he lives and works in Milan, Italy and has had several group exhibitions showing his work. It’s kind of refreshing to see this kind of painting, because it doesn’t verge on extreme gore or on being totally overdone…like still lifes or kitty cats. Rather it is detailed and slightly disturbing whilst still keeping a storybook kind of feel. interesting.

http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/nature/valerio-carrubba

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