February, 2012
Tunage/Pleasure for Your Ear-Holes
+ Austra – The Beast
+ Fever Ray – The Wolf
+ Soap&Skin – The Sun
+ White Ring – Suffocation
+ SWANS – I Crawled (Live)
+ How to Destroy Angels – The Space in Between
+ CocoRosie – Gallows
+ Bjork – Army of Me
+ Portishead – Machine Gun
+ Massive Attack – Butterfly Caught
+ Lia Ices – Daphne
+ Black Tape for a Blue Girl – Fin de Siecle
+ Florence + The Machine – Cosmic Love
+ LA Vampires & Zola Jesus – No No No
+ Jarboe – Kiss of Life
+ Ruby Throat – Naked Ruby
+ Derniere Volonte – Songe d’un matin d’ete
+ Salem – Frost
+ Hybryds – Opheilia/Ulunda
+ Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows – La Mort d’Arthur (Instrumental)
+ Helium Vola – Zur Heilung
+ Coil – At the Heart of It All
+ Sonic Youth – Halloween
+ Chinawoman – Friday NightSongs can be listened to below.
Deathly Sweet: Macabre Ceramics by Maria Rubinke
Tags: babies, blood, ceramics, children, deer, dolls, innocence/menace, macabre, porcelain, red and white, sculptures, weird sculptures
Timothy Cummings
Tags: (twists on) traditional art, baroque, children, hauntingly beautiful, innocence/menace, medieval inspiration, neo-baroque, odalisque, realism, timothy cummings
Room Inspiration: Charmaine Olivia’s Studio
I am in love with the decor of the artist Charmaine Olivia’s studio. Simple, effective touches make for an atmosphere that is airy, delightfully antique, whimsical, a bit mystical/witchy, and beautiful.
All images are from Charmaine Olivia’s Flickr stream.
Tags: dark ethereal, dream houses, interior decoration, vintage
Mark Ryden Print
Yay, I received my very own print of Mark Ryden’s Puella Animo Aureo today! It shall go next to my Dilka Bear print.
Tags: lolita-esque, mark ryden, pastel, pop surrealism
“Shelf-Pod” Home by Kazuya Morita
Designated “Shelf-Pod,” this 557-square-foot house in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, created by Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio, is an innovative, simplistic, and elegant living space built (and revolving) around a specific concept: being capable of efficiently housing 10 tons of books and incorporating that as a major and stunning design element. It is a book-lover’s paradise. Shelf-Pod was commissioned by a young historian with an extensive collection of books on Islamic history. As Morita explains, “…we designed a lattice structure made from 25mm-thick laminated pine boards which serve as bookshelves. The dimensions of each shelf are as follows: 360mm height, 300mm width, and 300mm depth. All of the architectural elements in this space (stairs, windows, desks, chairs, etc.) have been designed on the basis of this shelf scale, with the aim of achieving geometrical harmony…”
Tags: bookshelves, contemporary architecture, minimalist, modern simplicity
Poetry: “Lovesong” by Ted Hughes
He loved her and she loved him
His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to
He had no other appetite
She bit him she gnawed him she sucked
She wanted him complete inside her
Safe and Sure forever and ever
Their little cries fluttered into the curtainsHer eyes wanted nothing to get away
Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows
He gripped her hard so that life
Should not drag her from that moment
He wanted all future to cease
He wanted to topple with his arms round her
Or everlasting or whatever there was
Her embrace was an immense press
To print him into her bones
His smiles were the garrets of a fairy place
Where the real world would never come
Her smiles were spider bites
So he would lie still till she felt hungry
His word were occupying armies
Her laughs were an assassin’s attempts
His looks were bullets daggers of revenge
Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets
His whispers were whips and jackboots
Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing
His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway
Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks
And their deep cries crawled over the floors
Like an animal dragging a great trap
His promises were the surgeon’s gag
Her promises took the top off his skull
She would get a brooch made of it
His vows pulled out all her sinews
He showed her how to make a love-knot
At the back of her secret drawer
Their screams stuck in the wall
Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves
Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stopIn their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs
In their dreams their brains took each other hostageIn the morning they wore each other’s face
—Ted Hughes
Tags: confessional poetry, modernism, poetry, ted hughes, visceral
New Realism: The Art of Korin Faught
Taking cues from classical art (she is a self-confessed devotee of the Dutch master Vermeer), Korin Faught paints beautiful, realistic, and surreal portraits of women, in white dresses and Dutch caps, often in groups or interactions of enigmatic/symbolic meaning; a striking blend of the modern and the traditional, a balance between a crisp and precise style, and an expressive and sharply imaginative quality. I love the whiteness contrasted with the touch of melancholy to the atmosphere and the vague sense of twisted foreboding.
Tags: (twists on) traditional art, classicism, femininity, korin faught, mystical, photorealism, puritanical, realism, religious imagery, religious symbolism, sexuality, symbolism, twins/doppelgangers/doubles, virtuoso, white
Her Sweet Anatomy: The Art of Fernando Vicente
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, anatomical-themed, biomechanical, conceptual, exposed anatomy, illustrations, pinup, realism, retro
“Bathtub” by M.A.Y.O.
I’m not sure what this short film is about, but I quite like it. Therefore, I’m posting it. I also love the 1960s French song (France Gall’s “Ne dis pas aux copains”) featured in it.
“Bathtub” Short Film from M.A.Y.O. on Vimeo
via Juxtapoz on Facebook
Tags: bathtubs, dollflesh, experimental, red and white, retro, short films, surreal
