100 photographs you didn’t know were great #12: David Lynch
September 14, 2008
David Lynch by Jean Baptiste Mondino
“I love to translate ideas. If you are true to the ideas that you love and never walk away from any element until it’s correct, then there’s a chance others will feel it’s correct and go into that world and have an experience. Hopefully a good experience.”
David Lynch
More:
- The official Mondino website (mondino-update.net)
- Mondino at Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
- The official David Lynch website (davidlynch.com)
- David Lynch filmography (imdb.com)
- The Universe of David Lynch (davidlynch.de)
A very comprehensive fan site with lots of links to other Lynch related resources. - The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace (davidlynchfoundation.org)
“Provides funds for in-school ‘Quiet Time’ programs utilizing the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique…”
Hell is other people?
July 8, 2007
“Crowd Porn 2″ by xtrapop (from the “Coachella Porn - Dante’s Orgy” series)
The idea that the Red Hot Chilli Peppers could inspire anything but catalepsy in an audience is beyond both my belief and understanding but, sometimes, it takes a photograph to show you what is in front of your eyes.
For me, this beautiful photo series of crowd scenes at Coachella, by Flickr member xtrapop (a.k.a. Thomas Brodahl), immediately brings to mind the listless rutting depicted in the orgy scene of the movie “Perfume” rather than Dante’s diabolical torments.
More:
- Coachella Porn - Dante’s Orgy (flickr.com)
Bring me my crown
May 24, 2007
If I could afford it I would buy virtually every piece of work by Stu Mead. For the time being I’m deliriously happy with this recently purchased print, number 3 in an edition of 40.
“Kitchen” by Stu Mead (2005)
More:
- Stu Mead (stumead.com)
- “Memo about STU aka Stuart Mead” (no-art.info)
- Stu Mead on MySpace (myspace.com)
- Le Dernier cri shop (lederniercri.org)
Source for Stu Mead in print.
Those nice people at Condomania now have a blog dedicated to their growing range of artist-designed condoms and related stuff. They also took me totally by surprise recently by commenting on this blog!
“We recently got the bright idea to gather together a bunch of working artists and ask them to design packaging for condoms which will both interest and excite our customers. This website is our attempt to document that process while also pointing out where others in the condom industry are doing things right, and where they are doing things wrong from our perspective.”
More:
- Art Condoms (artcondoms.com)
- Condomania (condomania.com)
Previously:
Furball
May 17, 2007
As today is apparently “Ascension Day” it seems appropriate to commemorate the life (and death) of the Nazerine with this picture of the plate that currently illuminates my kitchen wall:
Depicting, as it does, “The Life of Christ in Cats”, this beautiful, 19cm diameter masterpiece of the plate makers art always makes me smile and, occasionally, even strikes me as being almost reverentially spiritual (in a Serrano “Piss Christ” sort of way).
Definitely the best thing Viz magazine ever produced.
Zabina
May 16, 2007
Cover artwork for Whitehouse ‘Racket’, by Stefan Danielsson.
When it comes to album cover art, William Bennett of Whitehouse has the uncanny ability to consistently work with artists whose work I immediately and unreservedly fall in love with - Trevor Brown, Romain Slocombe and now, for the forthcoming “Racket”, Stefan Danielsson.
Luckily for me Stefan has a blog which features lots of high quality scans of his work. Though my art budget is small I presently own a brace of Trevor Brown originals and more Romain Slocombe prints than I currently have room to hang. I look forward to adding some of Stefan’s work to my collection in the near future.
More:
- Bite Dead: Stefan Danielsson (blogspot.com)
- Official Whitehouse website (susanlawly.freeuk.com)
- BabyArt: Official Trevor Brown Website (pileup.com)
- Romain Slocombe (experimental.com)
An old and badly laid out site but with a good selection of older RS photographs and paintings.
Infrequent “Quote of the Day” #14
April 27, 2007
“My biggest problem with the phrase ‘white power’ is my distaste for redundancy.”
Merkley
More:
- Three Question Marks - the official Merkley site (threequestionmarks.com)
- Photos by Merkley on Flickr (flickr.com)
- Merkley on MySpace (myspace.com)
Finally, a reason to have sex
April 13, 2007
I’ve always been a big fan of condoms, regardless of necessity, so the launch of a new range bearing the “Rubber Doll” design of one of my all time favourite artists, Trevor Brown, is a cause for, erm, celebration.
More:
- Trevor Brown condoms (condomania.com)
- BabyArt: Official Trevor Brown Website (pileup.com)
- Buy Trevor Brown books/posters/condoms in Europe (klangundkleid.ch)
- Coop condoms (condomania.com)
This is the truth
April 12, 2007
Despite having “a new found faith in Christianity” (generally the kiss of death to any kind of creativity), Peter Howson, “Scotland’s greatest living painter” ™ has now managed to produce a triumvirate of highly pleasing paintings of my favourite celebrity idiot and orphan botherer, the graceless Madonna. As can be seen from the extract above, also featuring her equally boorish husband (referred to here by Howson as ‘Ogre’), he has succinctly and expertly captured the repulsive allure of the “golden couple”.
More:
- “Madonna has bad brush with artist” (timesonline.co.uk)
- Peter Howson Official Website (peterhowson.net)
- “Howson slams ‘conveyor belt’ artists” (scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com)
- Flowers East Gallery, London (flowerseast.com)
Features images of all paintings in the collection “Acheron and other works”.
Previously:
Historical note: “Scotland’s greatest living painter” was actually born in England.
