'there is this place
it is in the bowels of hell basically
instead just go to the starbucks across the street.'

-
on art school

 

2011 by blank frank

 

2011 by luis perez jaregui
just another genius who feels it hard

 

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by scott treleaven

 

 

2006 by patrick o'dell

 

by patrick o'dell

 

keith haring by shepard fairey for aids walk 2010
from a photo by patrick mcmullan

 

karl andersson next to one of his gisberta stencils, 2010
photo by karl's friend robert

 

2006
approx the first photos by Patrick O'Dell that i ever encountered
he is still going strong at Epicly Later'd and is a daily inspiration

 

he's about my age, has an awesome name, and has done so much cool shit it overwhelms me. i just discovered his short film Study After Cruel Intentions which i guess feels something like a skyscraper-sized dead dove looped around the recent Simian Mobile Disco track Cruel Intentions. the 'music video' for Cruel Intentions is made out of parts of the film and is kinda cool but has nothing really on the original work, which is an insanely powerful interpretation of a song i would call just 'ok' if this film didn't exist to expand it.

Saam brought the same kind of gravity to the playful tune Hustler by SMD- an intense sense of place and time, capital-S Sexuality, a queering of everything in the truest sense. Study After Cruel Intentions is extremely similar to Hustler, as both evoke a secret energy between women that is recognisable+real. in Hustler, it is colorful / youthful / jokey, but it is also ominous. in Study After Cruel Intentions, it has grown up / grey / into horror.

dude has also made a bunch of videos for Klaxons and one for Janet Jackson and even does commercials. i think he has also won some awards and stuff. however he does not have a wikipedia page.

watch Study After Cruel Intentions [enable fullscreen]

to the sidebar as soon as i get round to fixing the formatting-
saam.tv

 

For Keith H

 

Sexual restraint at the state of the art

--
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in the glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in the glass.

The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true cannot be proved.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.

From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface, do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol, do so at their peril.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.
--

it was for me as it was for many: Oscar Wilde was the first sloganeerist to catch my attention and throat my heart. this is the introduction to The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, my favorite work of 'art criticism'.

infinite loop --> oh baby baby

 

Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith
photographed by Norman Seeff

 

Matthew Barney: holy fucking christ. hello Captain Rockstar.

 

the one on the right in the top one, and on the floor in the bottom one, sent me two of the most amazing letters, once, before he got famous. just look at him; imagine what getting a letter from him must be like; you don't know half of it.

Virginia Puff-Paint by Jeremy Laing, 2004
Jeremy Laing and Will Munro, shot by Bruce LaBruce

 

all other entries are in the directory. some questions are answered at return the ring.