“According to legend, my ancestors were fascinated with the flying; therefore they created increasingly sophisticated ways of creating material, spiritual, and virtual worlds in which flight (i.e. transcendence) was possible. It became a dream of mine to fly so I became an avatar able to defy gravity, and teleport to distant locations at the edges [...]
Introducing: Arabic calligraphy and light painting- my new fixations. Julien Breton, a Nantes, France-based artist, was the first light painter that exposed me to this awe-striking mergence of techniques . Check out more his work @ Kaalam.free.fr Album artwork for JM Video courtesy of Digital Slaves @Vimeo Images courtesy of Kaalam.free.fr Inspiration via/ Kissmyblackads.blogspot —————— [...]
Image courtesy of New.3yen.com…… Contrast makes life more vivid… Gonna need everyone to beef up their Enka repertoire like now! I’m so musically enchanted by Jero, a Pittsburg, PA native who took heed to his Japanese grandmother’s love for Enka-style crooning. – And, now has single-handedly revived what was considered to be a somewhat archaic [...]
Look. Do it closely + with that extra eye.— Ashley V. Reid has a way with words doesn’t she? Her fine art photography requires several double-takes and with each one you absorb a thousand more words than the last glance. I appreciate also her raw and uninhibited exploitation of the gnashing beauty complex that so [...]
Photo from ManRecordings Blog I mentioned briefly in a recent post that time was up for the artistic okie-doke… M.I.A. is one of the peculiars that must have taken heed to the same gust of wind that I was reckoning. And, rather than going against this thrust- for the sake of prideful hipster/raver/thrifter comfort, she [...]
Toyin Odutola is a Nigerian-born, Alabama-raised artist who has tuned up the ears of art-lovers + art aristocrats alike. She has recently been accepted into a graduate program at CCA San Francisco. As an artist, Toyin Odutola is a dream weaver. Her artwork captivates you with a sort of deafening silence. I stare at her [...]
Artwork by Yasuhiro “Hiro” Wakabayashi via FunkHome.com…… —”Where the heck is B|B|C with those banging blog updates?!” One word: Self-discovery. And, never does it ask your permission to take you by the face and pin your eyelids back for the sake of showing you a few… uhhh lets just say “rude awakenings”… but awakenings nonetheless. [...]
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