wish i would just go...

From Maurice Sendak's In the Night Kitchen

awesome opening, awesome design.

game over

The Ultimate Warrior (GAME OVER)

© Yong Shin

(via Aziz is Bored)

(un)real WRESTLING

Hulkamania from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

also

Origin II from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

(via Keith Loutit)

hindenburg

97 on board.

in less than 40 seconds -

36 people died

(13 passengers, 22 crew

plus

1 death on ground)

Cause still unknown...

sticks and stones

an eco retreat - perhaps, the most functional house

(for my personal activities)

and the awesome dining room...

(via Modern Residential Design)

Wizard Smoke from Salazar on Vimeo.

the truth about women

and...

"In a properly functioning capitalist economy, rich people don't "create jobs" for workers; workers, upon having jobs, create rich people."

(via Constant Siege)

culture is...

(via Hans Bacher who also wrote this great book)

family values (?!)T

Toldeo, Ohio

(via FecalFace)

TECHNOLOGY & the arts

There is a difference though, between using tech as a tool and using it in place of thinking or ability. This is the problem with all tech; people come to rely on it to give them an advantage that they don’t have the skills for otherwise, nowhere is this more apparent than the field of visual art.

they can have a website and advertise for free to people around the world. What this does is it creates pressure to commoditize art; to make it a widget and mass produce it like any other thing being made in the same way, as much as possible and as cheap as possible. Tech allows you to have no committment to a craft, you can dabble and still teach high school or work at an office, ebay is up 24 hours selling for you.

Social networking, another tech invention, has convinced people that what you are doing every minute of the day is important. This electronic voyeurism has artists racing to post their images on ning or facebook and then tell everyone on twitter. The side effect of these social media is that the painting itself becomes a byproduct of its promotion, it convinces people with mediocre skills that ability is unimportant; it is networking and marketing that creates your success. Fame is now more important than talent, and what tech does more than anything is it allows people to become noticed without having to earn that notoriety with ability and hard work.

(via Art and Influence)

assignments

a couple of assignments from various classes...

1st assignment for storyboard class taught by Veronica Lawlor

Death of a Tooth

Charcoal/Marker

© Yong Shin

Visual Narrative assignments

(required to feature a fish market, the doctor's, a hospital and the barber's)

the title may refer to my initial reaction to the homework

WHAT THE FUCK?

watercolor and ink

© Yong Shin

(required to include 4 invisible things that occur in the environment)

The Invisible World

watercolor and ink

© Yong Shin

Digital Silkscreen assignment

(required to create a winter count 'zine)

Everything Is Connected

Mixed Media (to silkscreen)

eventually, fold and cut into a mini book

© Yong Shin

beck/gainsbourg

Disney's Magic Highway USA (1958)

wow.

FastFoodFlowChart

(via Grub Street)

see also 'this is why you're fat.'

from Visual Narrative

A couple of works from Ben Katchor's Visual Narrative class.

Bro Nite

Biro (bic) on Paper

© Yong Shin

Roughly based on experiences with my older brother, Chang.

Chang, at his best.

Luke Sacherman

Biro (bic) on Paper

© Yong Shin

This is Luke.

A.k.a: current roommate, hilarious man, College Humor intern, philanthropist, baby-seal killah, older brother of two, leader of RHK (Red Head Klan), SHA(r)Q ATTACK etc.

Find him on twitter or his blog.

ha-re-cy

Eurasia Siberian Symphony, 1963

Joseph Beuys

(at the MOMA)

A Hare and a Leg of Lamb, 1742

Oil on Canvas

Jean Baptiste Oudry

Still Life: Hare, Duck, Loaf of Bread, Cheese and Flasks of Wine, 1742.

Oil on Canvas

Jean Baptiste Oudry

hey, pig.

Pig Leg, Unknown

(via Constant Siege)

Yesterday, I braised some pork tongue and pan-fried it in butter, served with grilled onions and dijon. It looked terrible but tasted great. Right now, a pair of pig's feet are braising in my baby (not the woman).

I am on a pork-venture and nobody's stopping me!

Are You Swinophobic?

Mixed Media

© Yong Shin

shrigley, the comical genius

Who I Am and What I Want - an animation by David Shrigley.

6 x 6

Win/Sin

Mixed Media

© Yong Shin

Be sure to check out the Parsons Illustration show at 6 x 6 Gallery in the East Village.

http://parsonsillustration.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/reminder-superstition-show-by-parsons-students-opens-tomorrow-at-6x6-gallery/

humble chefs

Eric Ripert's show

people doing stuff

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

from where i'm from, a sweater is referred to as a jumper

Yves Klein (French, 1928–1962) and Harry Shunk (German, b. Italy, 1924–2006)
Leap into the Void, 1960

from The Lens and the Mirror: Self-Portraits

from the Collection, 1957–2007 at the MET.

also at the MET:

Art of the Samurai

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

wooden joy (no innuendos intended)

Yocahi Matos' Lighting Art

SÜT KUTUSU

I AM from TronicStudio on Vimeo.

how much value can you put into meat?

the receipt from Nello's in New York, where Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich laid down $47,000 to cover lunch for a party of 6...

(via Buzzfeed)

...as opposed to simple, cheap, delicious meats

from my local butcher Model T by Williamsburg.

Yong Shin ©

and in more meat related visuals...

photo by Swiss photographer Guido Mocafico

(via Gastronomista)

performance by Herman Nitsch in Eindhoven, Netherlands, 1982.

Hermann Nitsch part 2 of 6 from Incubate Tilburg on Vimeo.

nos-tal-jah

\\\gardensofmychildhood\\\ from VOLKAN ERGEN on Vimeo.

fall is here... it's nick drake time.

see also:

and

and

cubical cube

SQUARE3 / E. De Crecy Tests from 1024 on Vimeo.