The absolutely stunning photography of self taught Berlin based photographer Matthias Heiderich. Fantastic spacial and colour compositions.
The beautiful paintings of Erin McSavaney. The buildings appear to almost disturb the landscape and the effect of oil in rain than over lays the entire series leads to a haunting result.
Found via boooom.com.
Gem of a find. A bike safety video from 1963 called One Got Fat, kids go ape on their bikes it seems!
Posted March 14, 2012 at 2:08pm
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The condensation dripped down the windows on the bus, masking what was outside and in.
Round up your mates for a GUINNESS on St Patrick’s Day. I love this. Very clever concept and perfectly executed. (by GuinnessGB)
Posted March 6, 2012 at 3:56pm
CocoRosie - Japan. The beautiful birds that are CocoRosie. I recently heard this in an ad, although I can’t recall what for right now, but I have enjoyed greatly revisiting their album ‘The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn’ over the last few days.
Posted February 28, 2012 at 9:49pm in CocoRosie The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn Japan
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David Lynch - Stone’s gone Up. I always look like an absolute eejit when I’m listening to this song walking around town. Reason being that I always freak out looking for the ambulance that is surely about the run me down as the sirens blare and only once I have successfully made it across the road in a blind panic do I remember, yet again, that they are in the song! Great song it is too (pretty nice fan video on YouTube too).
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Rain on faux fur. It is a wet morning in Dublin, rain on the coat of the woman sitting in front of me on the bus.
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Self Portrait featuring my Sakdidet Road Brass Paper Plane necklace, shot with my friend’s beautiful Yashica T4.
David LaChapelle’s new work, Earth Laughs in Flowers, has taken my breath away. The images are rich in allegory and through both the content and the titling of the work LaChappelle has elevated the often over worked still life approach into a visual delight that has credibility. The titles of the images also evoke with titles such as ‘Wilting Gossip’ and ‘Flaccid Passion’. Yes, there is prevalence for the still life to be a little (a lot) art schooly, an approach that every photography student goes through, but the images are lush and suit his style far more over his crass celebrity images.
The work will be shown simultaneously in the London and New York. Catch it is London at Obiliant & Vonena, Dover St from Feb 4th - March 24th. Thankfully I’ll be able to catch them in real life, I think I am most certainly in for a treat.
Press Release from the New York exhibition:
David LaChapelle: Earth Laughs in Flowers
American photographer David LaChapelle has created ‘earth laughs in flowers’, a series consisting of the ten large-scale still life photographs.
LaChapelle’s installation explores the fragility of society and ideas of vice and vanity through composing his images in a manner typical to that of baroque still life painting. deviating from the inclusion of solely fruit, flowers and sculls,
the artist evokes a contemporary sensibility through his use of items such as pre-packaged foods, mobile phones, medicine, balloons, and barbie dolls. rather than being constructed in an especially balanced composition, LaChapelle’s massive painterly-like photographs are intentionally chaotic, engaging the viewer as he/she attempt to reconcile the overwhelming canvas.
The artist conceived the title for the exhibition from the poem ‘hamatreya’ by ralph waldo emerson, in which the author explores the notion of flowers being the expression of nature’s hatred of human ignorance and desire to control the earth. subsequently, each work is named according to the cycles of both seasons and life.
’where are these men? asleep beneath their grounds:
and strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough.
earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys
earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs;
who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet,
clear of the grave.‘-ralph waldo emerson
Posted February 13, 2012 at 1:28pm in david lachappelle photography earth laughs in flowers
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