cklablog

Here is a lovely, poignant interactive filmwebsitehtml5thingy:
http://thewildernessdowntown.com/

Requires sound and apparently doesn’t like Firefox much.

Via Kiki.

Q: How many performance artists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

(more…)

I really think this guy is a genius. There are hundreds of these clever dioramas, and they’re all quality.

Is this the Stormtrooper's Credo? When there are millions of you, you probably learn pretty quickly that "whoever shot those clones, I ain't seen nothin'."

Pound-for-pound, is this the greatest McDonalds commerical of all time? I think so. I loved this one when it first came out and have since unsuccessfully tried to imitate it for my friends. “Never found out!”

I especially love the Death of Marat, the Carrivagio and the Klimt. Very noice. The whole thing made me smile, and the Frida Kahlo made me lol a little.

This is well worth watching at full screen.

70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L'Ogre on Vimeo.

And this would be why.

!

. . . but wait!  There’s more!

Reportedly for an ad campaign, this clever photoshop diorama cracks me up. Making my tech tool of choice interface out of cardboard?  There’s a 1,000-word post-post-modern artist’s statement in here somewhere, but I won’t cry if I never see it. The fact it arrives into my thought-space sans intellectual fluffing is another reason art done for commercial purposes pwns most modern “fine” art, particularly the conceptual stuff.

^ Click for larger image

Street art by Berlin artists Mr. Tailon, Baveux Prod., Kone & Epox.  

They paste the Photoshop tool interface over this subway poster to remind the viewer of what they should already know — this version of our beauty ideal is phony as hell.  The ads for most fashion and celebrity print get Photoshopped into ludicrous physical impossibility.  

See the rest of the images here.

I’m currently reading this book, given to me by my lovely wife for my 38th birthday. She knows that Carrivagio is my best. Painter. Evar. This is only partially due to his technique; in fact, I probably prefer Diego Velazquez or Rembrant for skill and vision. You see, I like Carrivago for he fact that he was as deadly as Count Dante (although his weapon of choice was a sword, not his fingertips).

Michelangelo Merisi de Carrivagio was a duelist; a scofflaw murderer and a pugnacious street-tough who rendered his subjects with an uncompromising naturalism that would make him the most hated and influential Italian painter of his day. Carrivagio was larger than life. He had talent, he had vision, he had severe mental health problems, and he had enemies.

If you decide to pick up The Lost Painting, you’ll get a portrait of the life of Carrivagio, as well as a more detailed picture of the lives of the historians who are trying to peer through the fog of 400 years in order to better understand his work and his life.

Highly reccomended.