Posts tagged art
Tom Ashbrook, one of the greatest interviewers ever, spoke with Douglas Trumbull, visual effects pioneer behind Stanley Kubricks’ 2001: A Space Odyssey, Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and many other cinema classics, on his illustrious career and the future of the movies.
Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa builds LEGO replica space station while orbiting Earth in the International Space Station. CHECK OUT THIS COOLNESS!
What would you say to the one who got away? Artist Sophie Blackall’s illustrations are inspired by the Internet’s love lost and found.
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Life is pure adventure and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
Handmade Portraits: The Sword Maker
As one of Japan’s last remaining swordsmiths, Korehira Watanabe has honed his craft for 40 years while attempting to recreate the mythical Koto sword.
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NPR First Listen: Kate Bush, 50 Words for Snow
“Powdery fantasia. Contemplative. Winter matins. Playful. Opium reverie. Grounded. Ghost story. Sensual. Artistic recalibration. Unhurried. Drummer’s holiday. Quiet. Ode to the white keys. Imaginative. Exploration of the lower register. Floating. Mother-son duet. Solitary. Snowed-in erotica. Collaborative. Joni Mitchell answer record. Inimitable. Supernatural space odyssey. What we’d expect from Kate Bush…”
World’s Chillest Alien Just Lounging Around
Being a big fan of the Alien series, I simply couldn’t resist this amazing craftsmanship!
Etsy Handmade Portraits: Bob Ryan
What could be a greater way to celebrate the world than acknowledging the beauty in the everyday? Read the full Etsy blog post.
“It’s either you do what you have to do and hate, or you do what you love and take the risk.” – Marco Cochrane
Ruby Bridges visited the White House to see how a painting commemorating her personal and historic milestone looks hanging on the wall outside of the Oval Office. American Artist Norman Rockwell was criticized by some when this painting first appeared on the cover of Look magazine on January 14,1964; now the iconic portrait will be on display throughout the summer of 2011 in one of the most exalted locations in the country.
Posting this with hopes that the NFL works it out and takes the field on schedule. Read the full Etsy blog post on the leather artistry of Paul Cunningham.
Dear Photograph,
Grandma loved this beach.
Dan Perry
Great video from the Baltimore School for the Arts profiling a few of its visual arts students and the interests that inspire them.
A friend posted a link on Facebook yesterday to spoken word artist Gil Scott Heron’s music video for his single, Me and the Devil.
“Hmm, Gil Scott Heron’s got a new track out?” I said to myself. He’s been MIA for quite a while.
Well, I had no idea what I was in for as I followed that link.
First off, Gil ABSOLUTELY delivers vocally. Sounding like a Gandalf of the streets, the stream of consciousness he recites throughout this track is both enigmatic, haunting and intimate.
Now about the visuals. They’re like a Molotov cocktail of volatile youth, raw urban grit and primal goth, tossed right into the cerebral cortex. Not only does it sweep one’s audio and visual senses into intoxication, but I found that I could even feel the abrasive texture and smell the night air of each NYC location depicted. Homage, directly or indirectly, seems to be paid to classic New York mean streets cinema like Walter Hill’s The Warriors, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, and Larry Clark’s Kids.
What a gem from directors Coodie & Chike and Michael Sterling Eaton. What a gift to hear Gil, as relevant and timeless as ever, doing his thing.
