LET'S GO TO BED: September 2009

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

‘A Forest (Cure)’ 2007

Cassette tape on canvas

Gregor Hildebrandt

The Tarahumara are an indigenous people of northern Mexico and are renowned for their long-distance running ability.

Going to be reading this book, sometime soon - barely 70,000 of the Tarahumaran Indians are left, as their culture can't survive the "modern" conditions.

‘The Centaur’, 2009

Tim Roda

Friday, September 25, 2009

WAGWAN NAWGAW

and, AH...

I will be starting a painting series based around meat - semi-nude/nude beings - personal belonging of the beings - in an interior setting. Not a solid concept but surely, something will give in the process.

Some inspiring images that makes my insides tickle, everytime I look at them...

Francis Bacon

Figure with Meat, 1952

Oil on Canvas

Rembrandt.

The Rabbi c. 1664.

Oil on Canvas

Francis Bacon - for the love of meat

Rembrandt.

The Slaughtered Ox. c. 1638.

Oil on panel

Monday, September 21, 2009

nou-fuck-velle-ing-vague

that sincere melody strikes as nostalgic- then again, that's how the french new wave directors did- pastiche from the previous (femme fatale plots/criminal genre) + new methods/attitude in film (random cuts/dubbing/shooting at nite/viewer&character relationships)= the infinite possibilities of what film can achieve.

oh, my.

and this bloody melody... aaaah...

and to contrast all that french, a delightful animated treat from the talented Kirsten Lepore..

flying lotus + tim & eric = milk + cookies

Directed by Eric Wareheim (Tim & Eric) in association with Warp Records and Warp Films. Music by Flying Lotus. Co Directed/ Animation by Devin Flynn. Co Directed/ Edited by Eric Fensler. More info at dancefloordale.com

Sunday, September 20, 2009

figures in water

Thom Yorke, "Harrowdown Hill" from Bent Image Lab on Vimeo.

Bill Viola - FIVE ANGELS from Institut für Kunstdokumentation on Vimeo.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

CHINA MASTA is COMIN AT YA!

Chinnamasta (Diptych)

James Jean

Oil on Canvas

60" x 96"

2009.

Believe in God(s)/Goddess(es) or not, the stories from the ancient Greco-Roman world to the Bible are nonetheless fascinating and a source of inspiration that will feed artists till the apocalypse (no pun intended).

The above piece is done by the contemporary mixed media master, James Jean - his interpretation on the fable of Chhinnamasta. I'm sure he makes his trips to the Rubin Museum of Art in NY for shits and giggles. But boy, is this man occupied in every way: from graphic novels to food packaging including wine and mints!?

As for now, I gotta figure this shit out.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Peace, War, Love etc.

iPhone photo of Mt Zion Cemetary in Brooklyn, NY (09/05/09)

iPhone photo of the Williamsburg Bridge (1903) plaque/mural (09/05/09)

Under the layers, it reads:

"CITY OF NEW YORK

WILLIAMSBURGH BRIDGE
DEPARTMENT OF BRIDGES"

Wiki News 09/09/09

"I heard the news today, O, Boy..."

(A Day in the Life - Lennon & McCartney, 1967)

That oh-so-crescendo build up gets me every time, yet Paul's verse makes me cringe like you just smelt an unfamiliar smell of your lover's secret possession.

Paolo Ucello

"The Battle of San Romano."

1456

Fighting for your own will is one thing, fighting another man's war is another.

Just read Sun Tzu's The Art of War (600 B.C.), which influenced a great number of leaders including Mao (illustration to be posted) and Napoleon. It was an easy, light read to digest in the subway during the morning commute - consisting of thirteen chapters in ways of defeating your enemy.

I'm not much of a violent guy (than what I used to be during silly drunken high school affairs) or have any particular "enemies" I want to defeat, yet it is full of memorable quotes including:

"Therefore one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful."

and

"All warfare is based on deception."

In contrast, I read an interview containing essential words, or perhaps, skills, that most civilized human beings cannot seem to follow:

"All living things struggle to survive and the world would take care of itself nicely if people would show a little more kindness and understanding towards others in their own day-to-day struggles, and less self-centered whining. Common sense and taking responsibility for one's actions are two of the things we need most if we're going to make it into the next century."
-Todd Schorr (Juxtapoz Interview, Sept 2009 Issue)

Yong Shin ©