As you can tell, I’ve already been on unofficial hiatus from writing in this blog - well, life has taken over! I am planning my winter wedding, writing my thesis, finishing my last class, working as a Research Assistant and trying to live a sane life. So… this blog will be temporarily postponed until hopefully [...]
Sometimes it feels so nice to have a reminder that you are not the only writer who procrastinates. Right now I am balancing two Research Assistant jobs, my thesis writing/researching, household chores and errands, and planning my upcoming nuptials (we’ve decided to have a winter wedding!) - because I’m CRAZY. I am in the habit [...]
Everyone has one, I think. A work of art that draws them in, inexplicably - one they feel deeply connected to without understanding why.
Maika,
Christian Schad
I remember first coming across this painting in an art book, I can’t recall which. While on one page they showed an image of the painting, in another they showed a [...]
Compiled by a blogger at the LA Times, this is a very interesting list of 61 top recommended postmodern reads, deemed postmodern based on having one or more set characteristics:
Author is a character
Self-contradicting plot
disrupts/plays with form
comments on its own bookishness
plays with language
includes fictional artifacts, like letters
blurs reality and fiction
includes historical falsehoods
overtly references other fictional works
more [...]
I find photographer Phil Sharp’s flickr set of New York photographs utterly refreshing. The details, the angles, the lighting, oh all of it.
Adrian Bach, untitled
isn’t this beautiful? transforms a playground into an island, a place of refuge from the flood. can’t seem to find any more on this artist but an intriguing image.
Delightfully silly - yet on one level practical (prevents floor scuffing) - these chair socks designed by Chris&Ruby made me laugh. (via)
This Canada day was extra special for me, since my partner of over seven years proposed - under a dark sky ablaze with fireworks. What a lovely surprise! It all feels exhilarating and just right. Anyway, just thought I would share the special news. Now we just have to find a way to have a [...]
Marilyn Minter’s photography (and painting) is up close, in-your-face, visceral, dripping with tangible texture, abject, corporeal, sexual, and stunning. She also made a video called Green Pink Caviar in the same evocative style. (via)
Chewing Pink
2008
Bazooka
2009
Crystal Swallow
2006
painting, enamel on metal
Joshua Shirky in SFMOMA’s brochure of her work, writes:
In place of these idealized objects, Minter [...]
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