None Shall Pass
Aesop Rock illustrated by Jeremy Fish. Yay area represent
San Francisco Hill Use # 509
Ryan McGinley does Caves
So, my favorite episode of Planet Earth hands down has to be “Caves”
The shit that can happen underground is nuts. It’s not fair that such gorgeous underground landscapes exist that nobody gets to see.
Of course, Ryan McGinley gets access to some cave and throws naked people around and it looks rediculously amazing. Surreal nudies. Check em out:
See full series here: Moonmilk
lovin me some Vena Cava
Check out their blog: Viva Vena Cava It’s filled with goodies
Remind me to sign up for this
Help I Need Help
Help I Need Help offers clean solutions to simple health issues.
They say it best: We find the best solution there is, and take away everything else. By stripping away some of the complexity and fear mongering of the health industry, we hope to make medicine friendlier and more accessible, and in doing so empower people to make their own health decisions.
They even have a “Help I’m bored” section where there are tons of Help questions answered. These are all picked from user generated questions. Making medicine friendly and reliable? That’s unheard of.
Remember the Time
I love how Michael Jackson’s music videos were always the biggest productions. 10 minutes plus with countless well known actors. He ruled.
Modern History
Last week I went to the Met and a piece by Sarah Charlesworth entitled, April 21, 1978, caught my eye. She had reproduced the front page of newspapers from around the world, and besides the header, blocked out all type so only images were left amid blank white spaces. She was tracking the reproduction of one specific photographic image seen floating around each page:
It is a picture of Aldo Moro taken during his capture by the Red Brigades, holding a newspaper from the day before, April 20, 1978, declaring him dead. Obviously false. For Moro’s full story click here.
The key point of this piece lies in the manipulation of text and image, and how “Charlesworth was able to reveal some of the ways that image choice and placement were invariably politically motivated… Perceiving the photographic image as a strategic instrument for the exchange of information and the creation of values within in our culture, as Charlesworth describes it, is crucial to unraveling these persistent questions about the mass media and our relationship to it.”
Hierarchy is engrained in every designer’s brain as a way to communicate importance and visual direction. I often forget how powerful this is.
I am a direct contributor to mass media.
I have the power to change the way people think.
This is strange to me. It could be a gift or a curse, or both. Who knows. But, this piece made me start to put things back into perspective.
Sarah Charlesworth’s full project can be found here
Holy F
I’ve been trying to figure out how to turn some drawings into sculptures
and I believe i’ve fallen in love with dioramas.
Check out Lori Nix’s work.
