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Keith Arnatt

Love the painterly compositions and colours of photographer Keith Arnatt's Rubbish Tip series (1988):

Susanna Coffey

Been drawing inspiration from contemporary painter, Susanna Coffey lately:

Stream, 2003, oil, 12" x 15" in


Transport, 2008, oil, 12" x 15"

New Work: Paintings from Fall 2009

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Face Painting of New Guinea

Two Beautiful Voices

Been listening a lot of lover's rock lately and have discovered what are quickly becoming two of my favorite voices ever:

Beres Hammond - Putting Up Resistance (1996):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZOFBQndbqg (embedding disabled for some reason)

Alton Ellis - You Make Me So Very Happy (1970):

Harry Bertoia's Sound Sculptures

Listener's Ozark Empire

One of my favorite underground musicians just released a very good music video for one of their songs:

Daniel Ochoa

The figurative work of Daniel Ochoa:


"Seated in El Noche", 60x36 in, oil on canvas


D. Tu, 40x30 in., oil on canvas



"Lyric", 43x46.5 in, oil on board

Angelika Trojnarski

Digging the work of polish painter Angelika J. Trojnarski:


"Summerhouse II",

"Casting a Noise", 71"x47", 2009

"Skeleton Park XI", 61"x61", 2009

"Sand in Wheels", 47"x40", 2008

Fall Radio Show 2009

CoDJing with my guy Tony at 11 AM Sundays, we do a different genre each week. Here are the first two shows:

Jazz

FUNK (I highly recommend listening to this)

Free Music Download: So So Glos' Tourism/Terrorism

An excellent punk album with tropical elements by Brooklyn based band So So Glos. I own a physical copy of this, they just put it up for free download recently (100% legally). This band rules, they are the nicest guys and I have seen them twice live (they put on an incredible show), please download this, tell your friends, and support them in any way you can.

http://www.greenowl.com/download/so-so-glos-free


Band's facebook page and
myspace page

Ewe and Ashanti Kente Cloth

Ryan McGinley's Moonmilk Series

New work by photographer, Ryan McGinley:

Grace (Teeth), 2009

Tracy (Dripping), 2009

Jack (Blue Mass), 2009

via Beautiful/Decay

Free Music Download: Madlib's Blunted in the Bomb Shelter

A 2002 mix of classic Greensleeves and Trojan reggae, dub, and rocksteady releases by underground hip-hop producer Madlib made in. This is probably one of the biggest names I've found to put up on this blog for free download (I was a little cautious about the legality of this one but I found the link on Madlib's facebook and then I saw that PB Wolf's (one of the owners of the label that released this originally) twitter links to it).

More information and the download link here.

Madlib's page on StonesThrow's website.

"Horses" by Steve Kim

horses, oil on canvas, 74x74

A new painting straight off of Steve Kim's blog.

Google Patents

Search patents! Look at cool pictures! Read about silly inventions!
http://www.google.com/patents

Scintallation by Xavier Chassaing

I don't quite understand the process but this video is absolutely beautiful:

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

via Dash of Power

Mark Dean Veca

Love the playful wall painting installations of Mark Dean Veca:



Appeals to my disappointment in the lack of interior space/design-integrated painting in contemporary art and a my appreciation for any renewal in graffitiesque decorative arts.

A Cool Album Cover

Haven't heard it but it's joe gibbs so it's probably rad.

It's Coming...

10/27/09

Free Music Download: 3 Sessions in a Greenhouse

This is a free (100% legal) independent release by contemporary Brazilian genius Lucas Santtana. Santtana has become famous for using his classically trained abilities to mix samba and other traditional Brazilian music motifs with modern production values and unusual genres (electronica in particular). This particular album is 3 live sessions (of all otherwise unreleased material) recorded by Lucas and his band each in one take (however, the album is considered part of Santtana's cannon [it is his official 3rd album not a live side project]). Here Lucas is experimenting with the idea of combining dub with his older style. This is not at all a dub album (primarily in technique of production, but also in style). However, a there is a unifying theme of dubness that resonates throughout a few tracks are plain and simple imitating the dub style to great success (Awo Dub, the opening track in particular). Included with the download is a word document in English with much more information.

-To download go to:
http://www.diginois.com.br/ (Lucas's site in Brazilian)
-Under 3 sessions in a lighthouse on the left click "Clique para baixar o cd completo"

To preview the album before you download it you can click the headphones by each track.

Allison Schulnik

Painter Allison Schulnik employs some of the best color theory I've seen recently in heavy impasto paintings:

Ship #2, 96" x 68", 2005

Don't really dig the cliche subject matter (clowns, skeletons) in some of her other works too much though.

via BOOOOOOOOM!