My new favorite shoes: bread knife meets broken-in desert boots…
Jonny Ollsin / CHILDREN video
Sometimes there is nothing more exciting than 3 young men in sunglasses and long johns, running through a forest. …(Also check out Jonny’s website, a well-crafted machine of auditory & visual hallucination… www.jonnollsin.com )
Gee’s Bend Again
I’ve also been looking at the Gee’s Bend quilts again, through the book Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt . The visual inspiration from these artworks is untold for me. I added some examples below, of the corduroy & denim quilts, featuring recycled materials (how a quilt is defined in my view)…although just a few […]
What have you looked at lately.…?
I love these video effects — best video I’ve found for this track from Brian Eno & Jon Hassell’s Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics. Was apparently made in the late 80’s by this You Tube user. In the artist’s own words: “I shot the footage in Yosemite using a low cost VHS camera, then […]
ANDREA CREWS Fall/Winter 2010
This just released from the creative recycled-fashion/performance workshop in Paris, run by Andrea Crews. …a preview of the Fall 2010 looks, from what appears to be a randy theatre production… (photos from the Andrea Crews monthly newsletter: it’s like a peek into a parallel world constructed of familiar objects, dance-crazed characters, esoteric rituals…! Worth subscribing to…) […]
Maryanne Casasanta
Beautiful work, Maryanne Casasanta from Toronto… maryannecasasanta.com
VISION: The Slippery Spiral Situation
Henrik Vibskov, below, and selections from his Menswear Autumn/Winter 2010 show, The Slippery Spiral Situation. Almost a romantic futurist vision.… … it reminds me of T&T’s (Tony Romano & Tyler Brett) drawings of new-ecology scavengers. T & T: view here to see more SSS: alicebenusiglio.blogspot.com www.canvasmagazine.net/fashion
Tonight: Moon Duo, Steller Om Source, Pacific City Nightlife Vision Band, Magneticring
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH, 2009: Tonight, Moon Duo (Woodsist recording artists from San Francisco featuring Wooden Shjips frontman Ripley) are playing with Stellar OM Source (amazing synth-based psych from the Netherlands), the Pacific City Nightlife Vision Band (Spencer Clark of Skaters, Vodka Soap, and Monopoly Child Star Searchers’ new full-band project, apparently with someone from Eat […]