tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23543377773142663322024-02-19T01:05:18.318-08:00d i g i t a l a d a mOriginal Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-79922279997904774722015-11-12T18:56:00.001-08:002015-11-12T19:10:36.302-08:00Slowly Rising<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This music video for "Slowly Rising" by BEATSOFREEN is animated by the Tokyo - native Kanahebi. This is as close to perfect as you can get when pairing musical and visual language together; take a minute and get lost in this fantastic work!</div>
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More audio by BEATSOFREEN on their <a href="https://soundcloud.com/beatsofreen" target="_blank">soundcloud</a>.</div>
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Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-66046107135396663992015-11-05T18:21:00.000-08:002015-11-05T18:21:03.621-08:00Daisuke Tajima<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A recent art school graduate, Japanese artist Daisuke Tajima has gained attention for his thesis exhibition of large-scale drawings. Included in that project were dizzying fictitious cityscapes and fantastic imagined battleships, rendered with a very impressive technical precision. Besides drawing Tajima excels in painting, manga, and sculpture - all of which show a passion for meticulous detailing. <br />
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This passionate expression has a very personal meaning for him - in his words, "I wanted to hide away in my own world to ease the loneliness and insecurity I felt from not belonging. This piece is a world I can believe in."<br />
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His website: <a href="http://tarsansan.web.fc2.com/index.html" target="_blank">Daisuke Tajima</a></div>
Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-24329893580937866402015-08-16T22:18:00.000-07:002015-08-18T00:37:12.436-07:00Christian Zander<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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AKA the Emperor of Antarctica, creates infinitely detailed graphic images that blur the lines between reality and digital fiction. Truly original, these designs and experiments are nothing like the barrage of recycled themes in modern graphic design that have become the norm. </div>
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As expressed on his website, his work is "perhaps best described as neutral yet intricate meditations on form and human perception. The large-scale laser prints inspired by mathematics, symmetrical, Islamic construction patters, and his developing interest in introspectivity, subvert the traditional distinction between form and content by seeking a purity of form that is inherently suspicious of narrative intent. In this way, the Emperor in Antarctica can be seen as an exponent of a complex dynamic that forces the viewer to contemplate the significance of form without narrative, matter without story."</div>
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Delve into the vast cellar of work this native Copenhagen artist has at his <a href="http://blog.houseandbike.com/index" target="_blank">blog</a> (which I highly recommend), or see his recent work at his website: <a href="http://work.emperorofantarctica.com/About-the-Emperor-of-Antarctica" target="_blank">Emperor of Antarctica</a></div>
Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-15286483945510404212015-08-13T21:00:00.003-07:002015-08-13T21:00:51.120-07:00Zak Smith<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Some new paintings by Zak Smith have been surfacing recently - following his recurrent theme of nude girls in highly detailed environments, usually consisting of their bedrooms. The level of attention that Smith puts into the description of the scene surrounding the subject is extraordinary, complimenting and coloring the figures that are the focus. <div>
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This is probably the best/most epic example of modern graffiti expression I have seen - check out what happens when you put Sofles, Fintan Magee, Treas, and Quench in an enormous warehouse with limitless paint. Add excellent cinematography and soundtrack and you have reached steez factor 10.</div>
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Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-80805501537812614732013-07-03T14:05:00.002-07:002013-08-14T18:04:24.263-07:00As For the Updating...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’ve updated my blog links (on the right), so that if you need to find some art and/or want to waste some time looking at pretty things you can use my blog as a gateway to some creatively curated blogs and websites to that tune. I don’t update this blog much these days, really only when something is exceptionally inspiring to me personally at the time that I see it. For the foreseeable future my favorite art finds will be posted on One Grand Gallery’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OneGrandGallery" target="_blank">facebook page</a>, which you can follow for those updates and for the physical shows and various happenings that occur there. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you’re like me, then you find inspiration in details of people’s art that you didn’t know you were looking for. Then you steal the idea and reconstruct it with your own hands, a recreation that becomes completely different because it’s impossible to copy; and you don’t believe that a perfect copy is worth working for anyway. The piece that you chose becomes an unwilling subject to all the other pieces that you fit together, recontextualized in a new environment on your piece of paper or your canvas. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The freedom to choose your boundaries and constrictions is paradoxical, but necessary to create order and beauty. If all of your ideas were let into your creation it would lose all meaning, it would be confusing, it would be a mess. As would your life if you believed everyone’s beliefs. Which is why you approach the knowledge, advice, and philosophy of others in the same way, choosing with a cautious eye which pieces work for you and strike you as true and beautiful. And all of the ideas you’ve accepted influence your actions, arising somewhere between consciousness and habit like the order and disorder of a new painting.</span></div>
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Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-66353843971268728702013-02-21T01:16:00.000-08:002013-02-21T01:18:33.205-08:00Lilfuchs & Flying Lotus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I hope you've already seen this face-meltingly awesome short animation by Lilfuchs for the Flying Lotus song "Zodiac Shit". Always stoked when great art meets in two mediums so well. And if this is your first time, put it on full screen and plug in the speakers!</div>
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Lilfuchs website: <a href="http://www.lilfuchs.com/">www.lilfuchs.com</a></div>
Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-34640936636023358582012-09-03T18:39:00.003-07:002012-09-03T18:41:11.755-07:00Etam Crew<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Working out of Lodz, Poland, is art duo Mateusz Gapski (aka 'Bezt'), and Przemek Blejzyk (aka 'Sainer'). Together they work as Etam Crew making large scale paintings all over Poland and around the world. Both work with spray, oil, and acrylic paint, as well as some sculpture and screen printing. Their work is surreal, placing imagery of animals, people, and graffiti style lettering in environments of surprising perspective and bold colors.<br />
The first image below is by Sainer, called "Primavera"; the second is by both, called "Praying Sinner".<br />
Check out their video of the creation of "Balloon" as well!<br />
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Etam Crew's website: <a href="http://www.etamcru.com/" target="_blank">www.etamcru.com</a></div>
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Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-33427585359110441392012-04-17T20:37:00.003-07:002015-08-20T04:03:14.173-07:00Jean Giraud a.k.a. Moebius, a.k.a. Gir<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The late Jean Giraud was an impressive force in the comic world, known under the pseudonym Gir for his comic series "Blueberry", and used the name Moebius for his well-known "Métal Hurlant" (Heavy Metal, in english). His unique abstract and surreal style, described by some as a kind of medieval futurism, has had a huge influence in sci-fi art and film globally. Films that he has contributed to or has been credited with influencing include Alien, Willow, Tron (1982), The Fifth Element, Star Wars V, Blade Runner, and Space Jam. What a baller.</div>
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Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-55909309543849490562012-01-24T19:34:00.000-08:002012-01-25T04:57:34.405-08:00El Mac Vid<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's El Mac, talking about his art, process, and his project in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Art crush increased.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/m86HO_ykosQ/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m86HO_ykosQ&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m86HO_ykosQ&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div>More awesomeness on his website @ <a href="http://elmac.net/" target="_blank">elmac.net</a></div>Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-39868369845244400592011-12-13T16:13:00.001-08:002012-03-27T21:29:35.724-07:00Chris Berens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris Berens was born in 1976 in the Netherlands, where he was a freelance designer before moving to his studio in Amsterdam in 2004. His paintings have an intense depth and soft focus, which at first glance appear to be digitally-rendered photographs of some kind. But the curious and fantastical images of animals and landscapes, both real and imagined, are created almost entirely with ink. His technical process is truly unique, which he briefly addresses on his website. For an inside peek at his studio and process, check out the video interview below. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"How to Catch a Tidal Wave" is the title of this piece. </span><br />
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The paintings coming from british artist Ian Francis immediately caught my eye. Figures are set in environments of striking duality; backgrounds that are both architectural in form and atmospheric, suggestions of movement and stasis, solid and liquid, opaqueness and translucence. The shapes, lines, and color transitions are both abrupt and soft throughout these scenes. I love his fully abstracted pieces, as well as ones that bring a sharp focus to the human figure; figures that seem at once to be lost and completely at home in these created complex environments.<br />
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Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-67459489066820380442011-03-13T16:51:00.000-07:002011-12-13T16:27:04.136-08:00Iain Macarthur<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3X-BUff_zsAALvU9upEcIeXa2zHpUvaWS5rNCja3URQf53-byPVLEUWSNjeUe2lSauha9HuJvQ7Pm7HL-4yp-BERuXjE_qeLMr2xtI8iNIPnpjkd4ZdORjQy8uRXw4Fa9xmh-zsVMYkk/s1600/Picture+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3X-BUff_zsAALvU9upEcIeXa2zHpUvaWS5rNCja3URQf53-byPVLEUWSNjeUe2lSauha9HuJvQ7Pm7HL-4yp-BERuXjE_qeLMr2xtI8iNIPnpjkd4ZdORjQy8uRXw4Fa9xmh-zsVMYkk/s320/Picture+1.png" width="320" /></a></div>Wah wah wee wah! I am pretty blown away by the work coming from Iain Macarthur. Born in 1986 he already has a large amount of awesome art, from his sketch work that will transport you to the shady depths of hatching-heaven to his intricate and cleanly detailed design work. Subject matter includes but is not exclusive to people and their faces, animals, and architecture; their features exaggerated with high energy and meticulous delineation.<br />
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Here she talks about her craft and ideas. Enjoy!</div>Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-39258837095706770632011-01-15T01:13:00.000-08:002011-01-15T01:13:18.724-08:00Ironlak & Askew<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/aqSqynYTboE?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-1299980230227739062011-01-03T19:17:00.000-08:002011-12-13T16:27:56.921-08:00Nicholas Di Genova<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXUL1VXsica7YTkbaE00d-TT_g0-FDjTSKcN4kQ04SnffvXFhKPJOuBLh475q_rBOIPcycpZpzy68FpS1HGiChqJD7Pstmj8Ptpt6ZWHqiBaNFUa7lAZ18m0BFMLsAGxQj1YiSbP42zts/s1600/TemperateForestWeb.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558170585718081266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXUL1VXsica7YTkbaE00d-TT_g0-FDjTSKcN4kQ04SnffvXFhKPJOuBLh475q_rBOIPcycpZpzy68FpS1HGiChqJD7Pstmj8Ptpt6ZWHqiBaNFUa7lAZ18m0BFMLsAGxQj1YiSbP42zts/s320/TemperateForestWeb.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 251px;" /></a><br />
This man lives and works in Toronto, making intensely detailed and awesome art. Focusing on animals that look like Frankenstein-esque experiments in fauna-combination, the images are set in strict and organized chart-like design. The powerful and child-like energy and imagination that exists in such a disciplined setting is what attracts me most, along with great awe for the equally disciplined line work and amount of time his drawings must take. Fantastic!<br />
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<div>In his words, "When I was a kid growing up I was obsessed with animals and monsters... I'd draw them everyday, and when I grew up I either wanted to be a zoologist or a monster hunter... When I got a bit older I realized that being a zoologist was less exciting than I had imagined, and that 'monster hunter' isn't even a real job, so I just kept drawing. I pretty much do the exact same thing at 29 years old that I did when I was 9 years old."</div></div><div><br />
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Working from his home country of France, Amose is (currently) a 31 year old illustrator and baller of art. I was immediately enamored with his use of line; flowing movement of the individual strokes build the foundations for his expressive forms and characters of distorted proportion and surprising perspectives. Not only a master of ink, Amose shows deft prowess of spray, acrylic, printing in various methods as well as sculptural pieces. Lucky collaborators of his include Spyre, Sphere, Erone, and Nada who form Murcurocrom Collective. Check them all out!<br />
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Currently residing in Portland Oregon, creating with clay, is Meredith Dittmar. I am loving how she uses this medium to combine organic shapes and figures with very technical and mathematically-based designs; her attention to detail is immaculate. I get native South American vibes from many of her patterns and depictions, but expanded-upon and re-articulated into her vision. What an awesome blend of natural and man-made patterns! The piece above is titled "A Momentary Summit."<br />
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Check out more of her steez on her website: <a href="http://www.corporatepig.com/" target="_blank">www.corporatepig.com</a></div>Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-60470758058845290142010-04-09T19:03:00.000-07:002011-12-13T16:39:02.241-08:00Ekundayo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE513hHGaGgwDPDa-ZylAfNmQnprBN23gU8Ce7e40-TTjurcrlC_ayIV9sy4H9p7ToyB3Nhe4WcNAXR1zMd7q-v06Brjq_1LRyKFcFit3oK-ls06zdXQR-QOkeAFeoEnSmXih9M_U5eTY/s1600/DSC_2801_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458330200025143698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE513hHGaGgwDPDa-ZylAfNmQnprBN23gU8Ce7e40-TTjurcrlC_ayIV9sy4H9p7ToyB3Nhe4WcNAXR1zMd7q-v06Brjq_1LRyKFcFit3oK-ls06zdXQR-QOkeAFeoEnSmXih9M_U5eTY/s320/DSC_2801_b.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 312px;" /></a><br />
I am loving the work of Hawaii-born Ekundayo, in all of its subversive vibrancy. Mostly centered around bizarre creatures and the landscapes that are inhabited by them, his color palette of intensely contrasted warm and cool combine with a playful movement to create an almost psychedelic experience. They distort, twist and melt across his uniquely-shaped canvases, born out of acrylic, gouache, watercolor, ink and carving. His blog is tight, and his website is tighter. I mean, like really freakin' tight.<br />
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</div><div>his website: <a href="http://www.ekundayo.com/" target="_blank">www.ekundayo.com</a></div><div>his blog: <a href="http://sorrowbecomesjoy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">sorrowbecomesjoy.blogspot.com</a></div></div>Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-3996007178270439982010-02-02T01:13:00.000-08:002011-12-13T16:41:25.018-08:00Nimit Malavia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzZACb3_y6REJoJ6B3FasSSjg7s3xJX49TeesAijLF2ssoGtzt1xB7KM_OPtIh3QII1SvIRQHQmKIHxxkX-Gkf5NxUQxiag-Go3mcAnTDelby7KyKpn8yYidDu_EauwRBhdHWOv-MACSo/s1600-h/4_alookinside.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433582152804139810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzZACb3_y6REJoJ6B3FasSSjg7s3xJX49TeesAijLF2ssoGtzt1xB7KM_OPtIh3QII1SvIRQHQmKIHxxkX-Gkf5NxUQxiag-Go3mcAnTDelby7KyKpn8yYidDu_EauwRBhdHWOv-MACSo/s320/4_alookinside.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 270px;" /></a><br />
Yo, CHECK out the work and expression of Nimit Malavia right now! He is seriously on par with any illustration work that's inspired me previously. At roughly 21 years of age ('cus I'm not a private investigator), he was born and raised in Ottowa, Canada, and is either attending or has finished up school at Sheridan College for a BAA in illustration (Like I said, I'm no Tom Selleck). I love that as inspirations he includes the work of Hiyao Miyazaki, Haruki Murakami, Carl Jung, and <i>The Dark Knight</i>. As to Jung and the Philosophical side of his work, he is interested in the ideas of the 'shadow self' (which theme possibly crosses over with the batman picture), and the collective unconscious. You only have to breeze through images of his work on his site to know that they are very personal, conjuring up what I assume are personal narratives, but breezing through isn't enough. It is worth your time to consider the execution and meaning of the details in every medium and gesture he uses.<br />
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<div>Check out not only his website, <a href="http://www.nimitmalavia.com/" target="_blank">www.nimitmalavia.com</a></div><div>but also his blog (with TONS of deaceness), <a href="http://nimit-malavia.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">nimit-malavia.blogspot.com</a></div><div>Plus a great interview at <a href="http://commandax.blogspot.com/2008/08/nimit-malavias-transformative-energy.html" target="_blank">Erratic Phenomena</a>.</div><div><br />
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If you haven't heard of Blu, hear here. He draws and paints with mad steez, creating some really wild, fun, imaginitive pieces. You HAVE to check out his animated paintings, which combine his drawing and painting skills with the surrounding environment in an installation/graffiti kind of hybrid. Especially mind-blowingly deace is his collaboration with David Ellis... taking over the surrounding architecture, the piece (called COMBO) gives you a look at the process of their animated painting, constantly creating and destroying itself, moving and evolving with the building and environment. So much time goes into each part of the piece, you can pause it at almost any point and fall over in a jealousy-coma.<br />
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Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-90427822374564082882009-06-05T17:07:00.000-07:002011-12-13T16:43:32.556-08:00Damon Soule<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOYV3ZUB-mBFZ0h0tdh3cwzq7tO-H99o3yQL6GpYjlrFB74epVepXjjrdYhPaaqTdRpZOZUlwiT8HyHw-zjEv0RSYyuba9Z3Vn76ceO5GKe1bgVCMRnLMUXI2eoOU6QESOlY4fk8nvbSw/s1600-h/img2870748e93259ddf46.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343999865205361026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOYV3ZUB-mBFZ0h0tdh3cwzq7tO-H99o3yQL6GpYjlrFB74epVepXjjrdYhPaaqTdRpZOZUlwiT8HyHw-zjEv0RSYyuba9Z3Vn76ceO5GKe1bgVCMRnLMUXI2eoOU6QESOlY4fk8nvbSw/s320/img2870748e93259ddf46.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 230px; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a>For an über-deace experience, check out the art of Damon Soule! His imaginative, detailed pieces blow me away. There's an immediate psychedelic vibe in the geometric forms and patterns that show up in a lot of his recent work, not to mention the veraciously vibrant colors. His precise execution of form and pattern echo M.C. Escher, while the juxtaposed movement and surrealistic objects might as well curl their mustaches and call themselves Dalí. Every detail seems composed to the details in the minutest, like the Fibonacci sequence or molecular structures showing up, as if Damon was intentionally trying to initiate thought or even make viewers question nature..! He also has an illustrious beard.<br />
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</div><div>His website: <a href="http://www.damonsoule.com/" target="_blank">www.damonsoule.com</a></div><div>His Blog: <a href="http://soule23.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">soule23.tumblr.com</a></div></div>Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-82356815120923586962009-03-29T15:57:00.000-07:002011-12-13T16:44:04.869-08:00Andrew Hem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxqBqKJLrsjLc76EV0sOo3qG4qs0gq2u0IkTdxOTK_qN535S5AhoDgSr0QWbl2LMOdX5B4I8PLyODEQ7ozQcMphzEP4j_xPh0dnHwHyJV0tIxFG_qJEH0GSQNIbmw7C8V5mhYB9X0rVIQ/s1600-h/waitforit.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318753686919359570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxqBqKJLrsjLc76EV0sOo3qG4qs0gq2u0IkTdxOTK_qN535S5AhoDgSr0QWbl2LMOdX5B4I8PLyODEQ7ozQcMphzEP4j_xPh0dnHwHyJV0tIxFG_qJEH0GSQNIbmw7C8V5mhYB9X0rVIQ/s320/waitforit.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 320px; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 216px;" /></a><br />
Check out this über-deace illustrator Andrew Hem! In paintings, drawings, and sculpture Hem creates impressively expressive pieces featuring a myriad of interesting characters. His paintings have an immediately textural feeling, synthesizing weaving and collage elements at times and abstracting them for a vivid and evocative experience. Lettering elements also pop up in his paintings, drawings and sculptures, which are graphic and seem graffiti-like in style. Existing in worlds of sweet color schemes, his choice of elements really come together into very unique and evocative artistic manifestations.<br />
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</div><div>Andrew Hem's site: <a href="http://www.andrewhem.com/" target="_blank">www.andrewhem.com</a></div></div>Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2354337777314266332.post-90258044110813357972009-03-05T22:31:00.000-08:002012-01-25T04:56:54.986-08:00Nicola López, revisited!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP_xHdob4tK5nCZY4MOBle1V-AdGu9gki_GLEOj16QgtjIebh137WQuSojmuSEJMIXNRN9462_dLlpUCbmk8-1c1O2JembZZHLgIWLG2N1n8pB59hbhwukpUP-aPQRqyzi1-OC-mdp-3M/s1600-h/IMG_1990.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309960269792149762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP_xHdob4tK5nCZY4MOBle1V-AdGu9gki_GLEOj16QgtjIebh137WQuSojmuSEJMIXNRN9462_dLlpUCbmk8-1c1O2JembZZHLgIWLG2N1n8pB59hbhwukpUP-aPQRqyzi1-OC-mdp-3M/s320/IMG_1990.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 240px; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
Happiness abounded when I heard that the visiting artist lecturer at the local university (which I attend), was none other than Nicola López! An excellent lecture on her process and ideas, and a look at the evolution of her prints and drawings (and installations). Also an excellent photo opportunity!<br />
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</div><div>Once again, find her work at</div><div><a href="http://nicolalopez.com/" target="_blank">nicolalopez.com</a></div></div>Original Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01780513366118055282noreply@blogger.com0