R.M. ceated this beautiful journey into a mandelbox.
This is my second 3d fractal animation made with Mandelbulb 3d. The formula is a simple rotated mandelbox. Audio from my drone/ambient/experimental side project called ‘Musicians With Guns’.
I feel like I’m being devoured by a giant Peyote button while tripping on DMT.
Looking like a fabulous re-issue series from some faraway and highly tasteful land, I find these fantasy classic rock LP minimalist graphic re-workings totally irresistible.
Many more after the jump…
I usually get a little freaked out by insects (I don’t like ‘em), but these images by photographer Igor Siwanowicz are damn beautiful. I just can’t get over the gorgeous color combinations and textures of the insects. Lovely!
See many more images after the jump…
Joe Strummer painted Christmas cards each year for his close family and friends. Who knew? His last hand painted Christmas card comes in a pack of 8 and sells for £10.00. You can purchase them here. The proceeds go to the Strummerville Charity.
Below is another Christmas card I found by Joe Strummer. I don’t believe this one is for sale.
(via Everlasting Blort via Cherry Bombed)
Lest anyone dismiss the late, great Marcel Marceau and the art of mime as some kind of frivolous, god forbid French phenomenon I’d like to take this opportunity to graphically point out that no less a cutting-edge psychedelic warrior artist than Alejandro Jodorowsky was once a touring member of Marceau’s troupe and composed a few well known pieces for the great man including The Cage and The Mask Maker (shown below). So there, enjoy.
Like most of you, I hate mimes. But this guy has a certain je ne sais quo Je ne sais quoi that takes the hammy art to the next level. Marcel Marceau meets the electric boogaloo.
Is this an outtake from Paris Is Burning?
Artist Nick Gentry uses obsolete floppy discs to construct canvases, on which he paints large portraits. Gentry has exhibited in the UK, USA and Europe and describes himself as “part of a generation that grew up surrounded by floppy disks, VHS tapes, polaroids and cassettes,” the media he uses to create his art.
“The floppy disk stands firm and lives on as a metaphor for the increasing pace of the modern life cycle, mass production and the throwaway culture of today.”
His book Obsolete is available here.
With thanks to Henri Podin
Downtown 81 is more dream than reality, softening the edges and rounding off the corners of a much rougher reality than the film depicts. I was there and I know most of the people involved with the making of the film. We were young, broke and fearless. We flourished below 14th st. in an atmosphere filled with a kind of beautiful dread. You never knew where the city was heading. It was a giant, stinking, drunken beast that clattered, stumbled and lurched but never came to a stop. It’s different now, domesticated and safe. The wildness is gone - the beast shot in the heart with a tranquilizer dart.
The pleasure of Downtown 81 is in watching 19 year old Jean Michel Basquiat gliding past beautifully photographed downtown landmarks to a soundtrack of seminal New York music of the era.
Downtown 81’ was shot in 1980-81. Originally titled New York Beat’ it was written and co-produced by the well known writer Glenn O’Brien, produced by Maripol, the art director and stylist, and directed by photographer Edo Bertoglio, all of whom were deeply involved in the art, music and fashion scenes of the time. The Director of photography was John McNulty, one of New York’s top lighting men, shooting his first feature.
The film is not a documentary, but presents a slightly exaggerated, romantic and magical version of the reality of the time. The entire cast is composed of the movers and shakers on the downtown scene. In 1981, business problems interrupted the completion of post-production, and parts of the film were lost in Europe. Finally after much searching, the missing materials were located in 1998. Post production was begun in 1999 and finished in 2000, supervised by Maripol and Glenn O’Brien and edited by director/editor Pamela French. Executive producer of the film is Michael Zilkha, whose Ze Records released recordings by severals of the bands in the film.
The cast includes Deborah Harry, and leading bands of the era including Kid Creole and the Coconuts, James White and the Blacks, DNA, Tuxedomoon, The Plastics, and Walter Steding and the Dragon People. Also heard on the soundtrack are rap legend Melle Mel, John Lurie, Lydia Lunch, Suicide, Vincent Gallo, Kenny Burrell and Basquiat’s own band, Gray.”
Downtown 81 also features my mentor the legendary Giorgio Gomelsky.
Sekitano Norihiro’s surreal collage work is a mindbending explosion of day-glo entrails, lysergic flowers, primitive Japanese medical illustrations, torture devices, pop art advertisements, Tibetan hungry ghosts, and mutant babies, rendered in such a way as to maximize the nightmare factor. Into the Bardo. See more here.
“I use pictures of bowels because they have such beautiful colors! My artwork doesn’t mean anything more than how it looks. There is nothing more that I want to explain using words.”
Brutal video delirium from artist Norihiro for Japanese breakcore musicians Maruoso and ZFE (zombie face eater).
ZFE after the jump…
Hard to fathom that none of us has put together a Bruce Bickford post before now, but here ‘tis. Like most geeky nerds, I was first introduced to the entirely stupendous and obsessively detailed, not to mention extremely demented claymation of Bruce Bickford via his extended sequences in Frank Zappa’s late 70’s concert film Baby Snakes
Much more after the jump…