Impetuous Headlong Rush

Eaters - Bite Marks

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:25:32 -0500

“Black Lantern Music and NeverZone are hugely proud to present a unique 6-track release from one of the most significant and influential East Coast Scottish hip-hop bands, Eaters.”

Black Lantern Music loves you so much that they’ll let you download it for free.

Just like all their music.

(Though if you like it, by all means press the donate button and let them know their love is requited.)

© Veronika von Volkova Who is this gorgeous man? Why, he is the...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:18:44 -0500

© Veronika von Volkova

Who is this gorgeous man?

Why, he is the fabulous researcher Charalampos Saitis, aka Harry, who is currently working on acoustic modeling of violins.

The Dreamer by Lauren Beacham Original Polaroid Transfer...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:41:00 -0500

The Dreamer by Lauren Beacham

Original Polaroid Transfer available on etsy.

© Lauren Beacham

Paul Sizer is a lovely and talented delight.

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:31:18 -0500

Paul Sizer is a lovely and talented delight.

© Veronika von Volkova

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:57:27 -0500

Don't be an ass: credit the artist.

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:45:22 -0500

claytoncubitt:

Yes x1000, and I would add another reason, beyond it just being the moral (and legal) thing to do for the artist you admire: do it for future knowledge. Do it for future curious creative people like yourself. Tools like Google Image and TinEye would be so much more effective if everyone who published an image would post the credits with it, so that it could be properly indexed. Not some vague emotional poem-line about how the image makes you feel, the actual artist’s name and their title for the piece. In the art (and adult) world, provenance is key, so do your part and preserve the chain of custody, the praise for the things you love, or even the shame for the things you hate.

This counts for everyone, but triply so if you’re a young artist/designer yourself.

homeofthevain:

If you’re posting someone else’s work, credit them. Don’t deliberately remove the name of the artist. That’s just wrong. If your reasoning is that it’s own personal scrapbook — then keep it personal, not public. If it’s public, the least you can do is credit the artist and link back to their site, or at least their Wikipedia entry.

When I see something I like not credited — I try to track down the source, if for no other reason than to find more art by the same person. Consider this a small payback to the artist whose art you liked enough to post on your Tumblr. Use Tineye to track down original visual art — it’s easy to use, and takes no more than 10 seconds to do a search.

And that was your PSA for today. In the next episode: public shaming.

lexmachina: starcrossed1: via Shorpy October 1942. “Women are...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:53:32 -0500

lexmachina:

starcrossed1:

via Shorpy

October 1942. “Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training methods. Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California.”

theremina: xplanes: “This remarkable photograph, taken during...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:38:18 -0500

theremina:

xplanes:

“This remarkable photograph, taken during the Boeing B-17 attack on the Ploieşti oil refineries in Rumania on 15 July 1944, shows bombs falling on the target from the formation flying above this B-17 and flak bursts from anti-aircraft defenses. Smoke from the smoke screen put up by the German mingles with smoke from fires that mark hits on the target”

© Veronika von Volkova New Etsy print up for sale, by...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:13:58 -0500

New Etsy print up for sale, by request.

12” x 18” Limited Edition of 10.

© Veronika von Volkova I now have an etsy store.

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:15:27 -0500

© Veronika von Volkova

I now have an etsy store.

Buck Angel makes me happy. He’s so open and positive and...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:43:00 -0500

Buck Angel makes me happy.

He’s so open and positive and articulate and patient.

This whole show series is viewable on youtube.

The deeply wonderful Danielle Corsetto very kindly gave me a...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:18:00 -0500

The deeply wonderful Danielle Corsetto very kindly gave me a wacom tablet, so I thought I’d finally get around to trying some digital painting.

There are some things I will do differently next time, but I’m pretty happy with it as a first attempt.

(Based off a self portrait I took a while back.)

lexmachina: thedesque: (via lindsaycaswell)

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:19:41 -0500

lexmachina:

thedesque:

(via lindsaycaswell)

Brian Wood's Huge Lomo (and more) Sale

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:55:18 -0500

Brian Wood's Huge Lomo (and more) Sale:

Brian says:

I’m selling this oddball collection of lomo cameras, other cameras, and film. In a day or three I’ll put it up on eBay, but I thought I would post it here in case anyone wanted it. I have zero idea what to charge, so I figured I would ask you to make an offer and we’ll take it from there.

…

Click on the link to check out all the cool stuff.

I had a fair bit of fun looking through the sample photos he linked to.

I am in love with Dresden Codak. The delicious archives are generously available for you to linger...

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:47:00 -0500

I am in love with Dresden Codak.

The delicious archives are generously available for you to linger through.

You can buy prints of the comics here.

I’m a huge fan of Clayton Cubitt’s work in general,...

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:39:41 -0500

I’m a huge fan of Clayton Cubitt’s work in general, but I most adore the images of KT. She is always brilliantly gorgeous, and it is just so pleasurable to be permitted a glance through the viewpoint of someone who is completely enamoured.

claytoncubitt:

KT in the snow storm, Tribeca, NYC

claytoncubitt: Nick Knight, Alexander McQueen, ‘Angel’ 2000,...

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:22:16 -0500

claytoncubitt:

Nick Knight, Alexander McQueen, ‘Angel’ 2000, music by Bjork

“The concept is quintessential Knight/McQueen. Create the face of an angel and place it, pride of place, in a church in the southern French town of Avignon. Nothing much new about that, you might think, except that instead of using stained glass or any other such obvious and/or widely deemed appropriate materials, the pair constructed the piece entirely out of dyed maggots - 80 gallons of dyed maggots, to be precise. It’s a frankly horrifying thought, which is, of course, the point. The designer and photographer have by now collaborated on more than one idea that subverts our preconceptions of what is and isn’t beautiful. Ideas that, on the face of it, may rile the more politically correct among us and appear to be no more than sensational, once executed seem rather more tender, lovely - moving even - than had been expected.” -Of Maggots and Madonnas, Susannah Frankel

Showstudio project page with text and behind the scenes

sexartandpolitics: bonesarecoralmade: Margaret Bowland,...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:49:45 -0500

sexartandpolitics:

bonesarecoralmade:

Margaret Bowland, Olympia Series #7 (Queering/Re-envisioning Manet’s Olympia)

“We inhabit a purely relative world, in terms of belief structures, yet each of us knows and in a sense, believes in, the need to be beautiful. My work is about beauty—what it means to be beautiful and what significance the idea has in the twenty-first century in the world of art. We all know that being beautiful is as important as being rich, that being beautiful is itself a form of wealth. One must be tall, thin and white. One’s features must be diminutive and regular. We recognize deviations from this norm, but recognize that these deviations, even if appealing, are far from ideal. The need to be beautiful fuels one of the largest and most ruthless industries in our world.

Beauty makes sense to me, has weight for me, only when it falls from grace. It starts to matter when it carries damage. Sorrow allows it to cast a shadow. It becomes three-dimensional. It enters our world.

Looking at Manet’s Olympia, I wondered about the two women depicted—the young, naked prostitute and the black maid servant—about the relationship between them and to the man observing them. His implied presence began to unite them to me, not as lovers, but as the prey sharing a foxhole. In my imagination, the women of my paintings entered that room. What my century brings to the ideas of race and beauty and sexual allure began to overlay Manet’s.

via thegang

debauchette: Wolfgang Zajc

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:14:40 -0500

debauchette:

Wolfgang Zajc

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:28:22 -0500