Artist Love: CHRIS RYNIAK

I'm addicted to pop-surrealism.
Here is some art by the marvelous CHRIS RYNIAK.
I saw some of his works at a gallery in Montreal last September.
And was inspired.

http://www.chrisryniak.com/







That's all for now. BONNE ST-JEAN to any fellow Quebeckers out there.

Googly eyes, candy corn and rubiks cubes

I love this guy.



http://www.eatpes.com/

Band Love: BEAST

I am instantly addicted to this glorious local Montreal band. I got one of their songs for free when I went to Osheaga last year and got handed a card for free iTunes downloads. It was ages before I listened to it, but eventually loved it. For some reason I've only just very recently checked out their other stuff.

I have no idea how I missed them at the festival last year. Wtf.

According to their myspace, "A prominent journalist who shall go unnamed wrote: 'Beast sounds like what you might hear at the last cabaret on the road to hell.'" A purely awesome fusion of "alternative, electro, hip hop, trip-rock or just ‘go to hell music.’" Whatever you'd like to call it. Experimental/trip-hop as their myspace states.

http://www.myspace.com/beastsound

June 29th, free Beast concert at the Jazz Fest. HUZZAH!
I love Montreal.

Bloggage?

So, after much self-persuasion, as well as that of of a good friend, I have up and created this blog. Realizing that I already have a blogger account due to a long-ago digital photography class, it wasn't that difficult. So this is where I will post my FASCINATING FINDINGS - most of which might be of the artistic or musical variety, but honestly, to be more precise... whatever.

Moving on, to begin this blog with a bang, I'm gonna post some work by one of my favourite painters: MARS-1.

"MARS-1 (aka Mario Martinez) is a left-handed artist who spends most of his time in the right side of his brain, communicating through a visual language. His unique imagery explores possibilities of otherworldly existence through highly developed, multi-layered landscapes. Often employing a fuzzy-logic aesthetic, Mars-1’s artwork has a sentient appearance, like a tulpa—which in mysticism, is the concept of a materialized thought that manifests into physical form. His unique style has been described as urban-Gothic, sci-fi abstracted, quasi-organic form.

Early inspirations include: graffiti, animation, comic book characters, ufology, extraterrestrials, unexplored life, mysteries of the universe, alternate realities and the abstract quality of existence. At the age of 13, Mars-1 began writing graffiti in his hometown of Fresno. He later attended Academy of Art in San Francisco, where he currently lives and works, remaining heavily active in the city’s contemporary art scene.

The true meaning of Mars-1’s imagery is ultimately left to the viewer’s interpretation. The artist feels this brings his creations full-circle, encouraging his audience not only to decipher the messages he wishes to convey but to receive thoughts and ideas of their own, as well."

(taken from his site): http://www.mars-1.com/
Enjoy it and his phantasmically sexy work.

Strange Cargo, 2008

The Nature of Time, 2008 (and the cover page of the Juxtapoz issue in which he was featured)

2007