The Fall

Gorillaz - Phoner To Arizona. Recorded in Montreal on October 3.

Gorillaz - The fall by revolutioncontemporaine

http://thefall.gorillaz.com/

FACT:

Study sessions get sillier with time.
This has been proven by me!
See?

P.S. Greatest blog post EVER

TEDTalk of the week: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff

I have a confession. I adore TED.
Over the summer, I became addicted to ted.com. I think it was the lack of school.
It's a site I've been neglecting lately due to school busy-ness, and lack of internet chez moi. However, as both these problems are no longer existent, I will for sure be perusing TED more often.
Anyway, I think this site is the greatest thing since sliced baguette dipped in maple-nut-berry-cheese (thankyourida).

Here is an example for you all:

In this funny and insightful talk from TEDxHouston, builder Dan Phillips tours us through a dozen homes he's built in Texas using recycled and reclaimed materials in wildly creative ways. Brilliant, low-tech design details will refresh your own creative drive. - ted.com

Enjoy!

P.S. Watch Firefly. Damn roommate!

New Molo!

Sweet Mother Logic working on a new song from E Kapl on Vimeo.

Here is more instrumental awesomeness.

(You can drink the coffee later Jack!)

Dear Radiohead,

This evening, instead of working on my essay, I ended up on the Radiohead website. And decided to click around. I eventually found myself exploring a list of their old websites. And what I found was cyber surreal automatic poetic experience art.
Dear Radiohead, you make me giggle.






Here is the Hyptertextual Archeological Memory Hole.

Photoshoot anyone?

http://www.fubiz.net/2010/12/02/studio-raar-photoshoot/#more-119872

Artist Love: MEL KADEL

http://www.melkadel.com/

Artist Love: ERIK DESMAZIÈRES

I saw an exhibition of this man's work when I went to the J. W. Waterhouse exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal last year. I was blown away, not only by his immense skill and talent for detail, but also the extent of his imagination to create such amazing imaginary architecture and landscapes... as if Albrecht Dürer and M. C. Escher had gotten together and had a baby!

Erik Desmazières was born in Rabbat, Morocco, son of a French diplomat. He spent his childhood in Morocco, Portugal, and France. Desmazières studied at the Institute d’Etudes Politique, political science and took an evening art course at the Cours du Soir de la Ville. After graduation he decided to pursue a career as an artist.

Considered to be one of the finest printmakers of his generation, Desmazières was strongly influenced by artists such as Giovanni Piranesi and Jacques Callot. Erik Desmazières work is represented by galleries in Europe, the United States, and Japan and is collected by important museums worldwide.

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Running list of favourite musical frontmen/women I've seen live.

Artist Love: OTTO DIX

Sitting in Concordia University's Fine Arts building's student-run CAFÉ X staring at my painting on the wall.



The "holy-shit-what-the-fuck-do-I-do-after-art-school? syndrome" is getting to me.
Must go see a student advisor ASAP.

Last Wednesday I saw the Otto Dix exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
I fell in love.
Lots of people have a hard time looking at his work for extended periods of time, but I was just obsessed. Of course, little me with my penchant for art of the slightly dark, creepy and rebellious variety. I drew 3 sketches. And (surprise!) I was the last one out of the museum. As always.
My favourite part was his post-WWI etchings.







Yay!

Another day, another cancelled evening plan.

I'm at school for the quality of internet. At 9:38 pm.


Always liked this image. Somebody's rendering of what Babylon might have looked like.
Sigh.
Should I keep trying to find my true calling in the studio arts, or run off and become an archaeologist?

Can I do both?

Artist Love: AUDREY KAWASAKI

http://www.audrey-kawasaki.com/

Artist Love: HERAKUT

I love this duo (yet another discovery I've made via Juxtapoz).

Here is their website.

Enjoy :)

Possibly the cutest thing I've ever seen.

A few nights ago I came across a free LIVE streaming of Arcade Fire at Madison Square Gardens in NYC (directed by Terry Gilliam, what?).

Win Butler plants a kiss on Regine Chassagne's cheek during Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains).

I can't get over the cute.

Luminarium Adventure

When Chris and I went to Place des Arts to buy tickets for the Metropolis event, we came across the Just For Laughs/Juste Pour Rire Festival going on. And there was this weird, inflated structure that was situated there. It was free to visit, so me and Chris got in line. Turns out it was called a Luminarium, and was built by a group called the Architects of Air, who have built several of these such structures and have them touring various cities. The particular one we visited was called Amococo and is the biggest of the Luminaria.

The Architects of Air have existed since 1992 and are based in Nottingham, UK. They are currently touring 5 Luminaria.

The luminaria are inspired by pure forms of geometry & nature, Islamic architecture and modern architectural innovators such as Buckminster Fuller and Frei Otto.

"… takes Moorish architecture as its starting point and then, as Gaudí did in Barcelona a century or more ago, turns it into something highly organic and distinctly ambivalent. Not that Gaudí would have recognised it. What Parkinson has done is treat the inflated object as an immersive art experience, in which light, sound and architectural form combine.” Hugh Pearman, Sunday Times

Website: http://www.architects-of-air.com/

Here are some gloriously abstract pictures (and some portraits) I took (and one that Chris took of me) that might just one day become the inspirations for oil paintings or other artworks I may happen to create.

(Posted by request of my lovely friend Eunice :) )

The Complete Metropolis

On Wednesday me and my buddy Chris went to see a special screening of Fritz Lang's 1927 film, Metropolis. Held at the Salle Wilfred Pelletier at Place des Arts here in Montréal, complete with a live, 13-piece orchestra, it made for quite the experience.

Honestly though, although my knowledge of early 20th century films is massively lacking,
I would recommend this movie to anyone. It was pretty awesome, though cheesy at times through our silly 2010 eyes.

Artist Love: DAVID CHOE

So a few months ago, I hopped into a magazine store and was attracted to the cover of the then-latest edition of Juxtapoz magazine. It was titled the "David Choe Special Issue." Having no clue whatsoever as to who this was, I quickly riffled through the magazine, to discover that this man does some GORGEOUS work.


He can be as precise as Constable, as painterly as Pollock, as detailed as Rembrandt, and as wacky as Basquiat (& more), and throws it all into one image.
It wasn't until several weeks later, however, that I went through the entire magazine, only to discover that this man is a crazyass genius. This man is ten times as dementedly-minded as Heironymous Bosch, his antics would make a Salvador Dali on steroids jealous, and he is fast rising to a level of infamy of both fine art and underground art that is comparable to that of Banksy. The only difference is, while Banksy is notoriously anonymous, Choe will spill his soul to the world.

Oh, and his prolificness puts the Beatles to shame.

Here's his website: http://www.davidchoe.com/
Read his news section.
Do it.

Excerpt from Juxtapoz:
David Choe:
I haven't woken up before before noon since 1997 because a pimp and Bukowski told me so.

Bukowski wrote and said so many things that shaped my world view and opinions on life. He put into words what was so heavy on my mind and chest. That's what all great artists do. Here's one more thing he wrote that changed everything for me:

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing your girlfriends, wives, relatives, and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
-Charles Bukowski