The Teenagers - French Kiss

Natanz

Pictures, words, and sounds: Driving human thought heavenward for millenia.

Just got the new cd Reality Check by The Teenagers a french pop band (thanks for the heads up JJones). Yes, the tone of the songs can be a bit redundant, but the album greets listeners with cynical cheer, drawing influence from the youthful & neon-colored American culture of the 90s. If you want to reminisce to an upbeat step about Reebok Pumps, Heroin Chic, and BevHills90210, this album is all you. Catch me @ Union Square with 'the teens' slappin in my headphones

Heres a link to the Pitchfork Media review of the album . I give personal promise that the songs are NY summertime 2k8 appropo. indeed.

The Teenagers are having a show @ the Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn) on the 3rd of May. Come push and shove!

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“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
-Jack London

babies.

The Teenagers - Sunset Beach

As I Play My iPod

Hum - Apollo

Sigur Ros - Saeglopur

I hope Francis Bacon would have appreciated this butchering

The Cure - Another Day

More to be added later -

Her. Hedi Slimane

Yeah, the 'now' image should have been this..... 3-7-08

Air - Mer Du Japan

Radiohead - Wierd Fishes/ Arpeggi

oldskool high contrast B&W + new imagery = an updated version of Picasso's Guernica (the most prolific 20th century painting).

Fourth Summer of Love 08

L'immagine è in alto a destra. Corinne Day è quella che fino .. Selvatici da oscurità a fronte di tutto questo. Prende uno a uno significa essere in grado di che hanno un impatto molto più di quanto non importa. La sua iconografia, che è sempre più pertinenti. Di trascendere un settore, e di rientro nella cultura moderna, unbeknownst per la maggior parte, è stupefacente.

Needle in a Haystack

In times of green sources, renewable energy, climate crisis, and all out self righteous causes for concern, people should take note that the extent of their existence is not determined by themselves. We have been on this planet only for 1/4600th of earth time; +4.6 billion plus. in that range, the earth's entire being has changed dramatically, sometimes violently, many, many times over.... and far beyond human understanding. One of my favorite times in earth history is the carboniferous era(286 million years ago), where six foot spiders and insects, and some reptiles ruled and mammals simply tried to survive. This was a far cry from our world today, on the same planet. Violent electric storms caused by this concentrated heat and chemical content in the air consistently tormented the swamp forests that covered a more equilateral North America. I Think of this everytime I hear of carbon levels rising due to fossil fuel consumption, which is true, yet mentioned for the most selfish of reasons. People simply want to maintain their way of life in places as beautiful as my home, New York, that will likely be affected as waters rise with the heat. During much of 'prehistory', the land masses were ~30% missing thanks to submersion in water due to lack of much, if any polar ice. The earth is changing, and people will be able to change with it. Part of that adjustment is going to be a population check. Nature controls all. When things get out of hand, or even if things are divine, the earth has a way of flushing itself out. Believe it or not, people, as a species, are not in control of their own destiny. We have been here only a short time and it looks that we have created our own recipe for... well only really societal disaster. As far as the earth's concerned, its nothing new, infact this is one of the most temperate eras in earth's entire history. This is an anomaly, not 'global warming'. The earth is more diverse the hotter it gets. Just look at any tropical rainforest. beautiful. Humans are the anomaly. The value of human life is merely an illusion. Dinosaurs flourished for 185 million years, 1850 times our total existence, the amount of our entire evolutionary process, or 100,000 years. Please believe that some of those organisms were highly evolved, and highly intelligent. Their speech patterns, decision making and problem solving were on par, and in the opinion of the author, more sophisticated than human logic. Because humans are the product of their own tragic flaw. We are too smart. Humans think too much. Instinctual predators such as velociraptors and such actually had true beauty, balance, in their existence. Why? Because they lived in harmony with nature. There was a race of people who in my biased opinion lived the ultimate life of sustenance and balance on this very soil before the euros. But, they were wiped out by a more 'human' civilization that only a hundred years later (remember 100 is a sixty millionth of earth time... nothing) is confused, crying and self destructing and ruled by a monopoly... slavery is kickin harder than ever.. i guess thats coo. Democracy is dead, but Obama still doin his thing.. thats wassup.... aannyway..Basically, enjoy your life, do whatever you want, because no matter what any uber liberal fucker tells you, your footprint is going pretty much unnoticed by the earth, as long as your not out there eating endangered turtles eggs or shooting one of the last 600 wild gorillas or something. Besides, an asteroid might hit the earth in 2028 anyways and cleanup you mess for you, while wiping the slate clean for a good millennia. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/64871.stm Start over with an ice age and it all keeps going... hopefully with more intuitive beings next time. Just don't give me any of that 'let's save the earth' stuff, because the earth is so beautiful that people don't even understand it is a power in it's own right far, far beyond their comprehension. this is real science. the more you know, the less. let go... meditate or something and just be. the earth will love you for it. One Love.

yea, the picture of that dude and the prehistoric fish is SCIENCE FIC.... haha. that fool would get straight served up w A1

Ryan

Citizen Cope - Hurricane Waters

With its rich color, I just couldn't stay away from the lineage of pop art as a source of imagery.
..And disregarding the fact that I'd prefer pop art to be locked in the darkest dungeon of Art's history, I am pleased with this piece.

Kaiser Chiefs - Modern Way

portrait of the artist

Self Portrait

I want to apologize for enveloping the entire blog with images... Syke!
If I could wrap the whole world in pictures I would...

The Knife - The Captain

Cai Guo-Qiang's "Head On"

My rendition of Head On

Last but certainly not least, this was drawn inside of MoMA. I sat underneath Cai Guo-Qiang's piece "Head On" for about 3 hours sketching the energy that his piece conjured in my mind.

I LOVE the result!

Zoot Woman - Living In A Magazine

Heres a bunch of observational drawings from this week, pulled out of my sketchbook and cleaned up on Photoshop CS3. Enjoy

Andrew

Honey Bee Crisis

Approximately 80% of all insect pollination is accomplished by honey bees.

“An alarming die-off of honey bees has beekeepers fighting for commercial survival and crop growers wondering whether bees will be available to pollinate their crops this spring and summer…” The losses were called “unprecedented” by Penn State Agriculture Extension Associate, Mary Ann Frazier

"It’s hard for many to imagine how something as small and pesky as a honey bee could play such an important role in global food supply, but it does. Since the decline of insect pollinators fits into an emerging global pattern of insect pollinator decline, shouldn't the current US honey bee crisis be investigated from a wider world view?"

"The year 2006 passed seemingly without incident relating to honey bees and I breathed a sigh of relief. Why is it worrisome when bees die by the thousands? Three words: global food supply. The lowly honey bee is required for the pollination of a wide range of plants, affecting everything from clover (think cows) to fruits to vegetable seeds. Honey bee-pollinated crops represent more than $15 billion annually to the economy. That does not even take into consideration indirectly affected items, such as beef, milk, cheese, wild animals, or birds."

Sally Francis. The Honey Bee Crisis of 2007. @ Suite101.com

Rauschenberg's Melencolia

D&G looks to Renoir

Fashion is too confined within its own parameter. Art in 2008 is not about Renoir, French Impressionism, or even painting. Its about seeking new meanings and new interpretations of basic questions. If fashion wants to be recognized as Art, it must continually find new ways to interpret itself, seeking solutions to the same philosophical conflicts that Art is currently engaged with.

Fashion needs to depart from its identity as a decorative garment for humans. Future endeavors should be inspired independently of the contemporary market. Let fashion step outside of its market dependency, and it will have better odds of evolution.

D&G advertising fails to make the leap

The MOBB Sits Down in Harlem....this aint homer- it's j.simpson pimpin

happy birthday to jeremy!!!

Cinematic Orchestra - Familiar Ground

Matisyahu - King Without A Crown

Benoit Pioulard - Ash Into The Sky

Tupac - Until The End Of Time

Harlem 5

On a date with Golden State, a beezy caint eat offa this plate

shooting an American Eagle job in sanfrancisco proved to be more than a bit interesting, and... enough stuff to think about crammed into one week. probably why i had that physical mishap today.. gotta decompress. highly efficient though too thanks to a masterminded production team..... *hella nice clients.... artists as models....models as models... way too much craft services haha yee