Agreed.

Jeff Koons Must Die!!

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not the biggest fan of video games,
OR GUNS.
Guns are just not cool.

But neither is Jeff Koons, in my opinion, at all, so...

This video game, (made by an angry art student?) might just be the exception...

Jeff Koons Must Die!!! The Video Game from Hunter Jonakin on Vimeo.

via who killed bambi?:
“Jeff Koons Must Die!!! is made up of a fabricated 80’s style stand-up arcade cabinet, and a simulated digital environment presented in a first-person perspective. Viewers must pay twenty-five cents to play the game and the virtual environment is traversed with a joystick and two arcade buttons. The premise of the video game is to allow the viewer to virtually destroy work by the artist, Jeff Koons.”

HAH!

http://deanjackson.dj/nameanagram

I am a surreal nag.

*o* of the day

Reflecting Pool, Hearst Castle, California

P.S. I'm going to start posting stuff on tumblr as well.

National Book Week?

"Since the cities that exist diverge in varying degree from the norm, I need only foresee the exceptions to the norm and calculate the most probable combinations."

It’s national book week. The rules are, grab the closest book to you, turn to page 56, post the 5th sentence as your status. Don’t mention the title. Copy the rules as part of your status.

I don't have facebook anymore so bloggity blog it is.

I only wish I had more time for my lovely, lonely books. Damn you, school readings!

TEDTalk du jour/Artist Love: JR

From his website:

JR owns the biggest art gallery in the world. He exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not the museum visitors. His work mixes Art and Act, talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit.

After he found a camera in the Paris subway, he did a tour of European Street Art, tracking the people who communicate messages via the walls. Then, he started to work on the vertical limits, watching the people and the passage of life from the forbidden undergrounds and roofs of the capital.

...

JR creates "Pervasive Art" that spreads uninvited on the buildings of the slums around Paris, on the walls in the Middle-East, on the broken bridges in Africa or the favelas in Brazil. People who often live with the bare minimum discover something absolutely unnecessary. And they don't just see it, they make it. Some elderly women become models for a day; some kids turn artists for a week. In that Art scene, there is no stage to separate the actors from the spectators.

After these local exhibitions, the images are transported to London, New York, Berlin or Amsterdam where people interpret them in the light of their own personal experience.

As he remains anonymous and doesn't explain his huge full frame portraits of people making faces, JR leaves the space empty for an encounter between the subject/protagonist and the passer-by/interpreter.

This is what JR is working on. Raising questions...

http://www.insideoutproject.net/

Band Love: DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979

Taken from their website:

February 4th, 2011

SOME WORDS

It’s been 5 years since Death From Above 1979 played a show, 10 years since Jesse played me the first demos & 11 years since we sat in his parents basement and played so loud we knocked the china off the shelves upstairs. 11 seems to be a YES number for me. Though I am usually a pretty rational guy, if I have something on my mind and I see an 11 somewhere, I know I’m on the right path. It’s one of my last remaining superstitions. 2011 has a nice ring to it & if you’re so inclined, it may be the last year ever! So why not say YES? Why not say YES to Coachella? Why not say YES to playing the music we designed to be an undeniable source of power? Why not say YES to stirring up a writhing pit of sweaty humans? YES to riots! YES to heavy music! YES instead of maybe, and YES to make death your adviser and remind yourself always, that this is not a dress rehearsal. This is the big show.

Jesse and I have decided that what we can do together should not be denied.
Together again, as was always the intention, as a collaboration.
The collision of two different worlds.
As this all takes shape, we will reveal it to you.
All of it happening, as it always has, in our own way.
Thank you all for sharing in our excitement!

Yes.
SEBASTIEN

March 14th, 2011:

LITTLE GIRL REHEARSAL from DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 on Vimeo.

THEY'RE BACK, BITCHES!

(I've been waiting so long for this day!)

IHOP nouveau

Aaaaaaand it's homework/lunch time.
I'm tired.

FMST 323 / Epic Artist Love: HAYAO MIYAZAKI

Firstly, ignore whenever Disney is mentioned.
Secondly, watch everything this magnificent man has ever made.

P.S. This blog post is obviously directed towards anyone except Rida, who is responsible for my Miyazaki love in the first place.

CRCR

Do watch this kickassness you will assuredly adore!

Junkspace from CRCR on Vimeo.

Elle est belle Machette from CRCR on Vimeo.

JESUS2000 from CRCR on Vimeo.

Taken from juxtapoz:
We think it is quite well-known that video art is at a good place, and we always enjoy when something gets put onto our desk (or computer screen) that is new and original in our eyes. Paris-based video artist(s) CRCR has expanisve talent at both animation and stop-motion video art with actors, creating some of the most unique video shorts we have seen this year.

View more awesome clips here.

FMST 323: Animé

Akira - Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988

I can't wait to watch this in its entirety!

I heart books!

BBC thinks the average person will read only 6 books/series from the 100 named here.
Here are the ones I've read. I get 15/100. I guess I'm above average, according to the BBC?
By my high-school reading standards, my list is kinda pitiful *punches Concordia readings*
SO many titles on the list are on my "to-read" list i.e. Dune, Life of Pi, On The Road, The Lovely Bones, etc. etc.
Sigh.

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Here is an amusing little stop-motion that made me wonder whether I have a book fetish:

Die Junge Die Young

DIE JUNGE DIE YOUNG (The Young Die Young) from Jason Jaworski on Vimeo.

and

His interview with David Choe

Ocean of Love

Illustration Art by HUEBUCKET