The Kwiasatz haderach's journal

Been meaning to post this in a while...

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:09:38 GMT

FLORENCE

These are mostly the digital images I took.

The analogical stuff will eventually follow. I should be posting Rome soon.
Check out the Barcelona Stream as well.

Art Sunday!

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:17:09 GMT

French illustrator Laure Nollet

Her FLICKR

From the ever amazing BibliOdyssey Blog, “the costumes of the Portuguese” from an album of sketches dating back to 1836.

To end, Jennifer Tong

Good old times

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:46:28 GMT

I have gotten a couple of inquiries about my current main icon. It is Captain Flam, AKA Captain Future.
For the last few years I have become retarded and very nostalgic about the cartoons that I watched when I was a kid. Indisputably, I grew up with the best cartoons ever made. Captain Flam was shown on Portuguese TV in the late 70's and I also got to enjoy Future boy Conan (Miyazaki), Goldorak, Astro boy,Chapi-Chapo, Les Mysterieuses Cites D'or (which with each episode gave you 5 minutes about European history and South American culture) , the Once upon a Time series and crapload of others. In the late 80's I came to Canada and had wide access to American TV and 2 PBS stations to which I was often glued. I devoured anything from the Children's Television Workshop like 3-2-1 Contact and Ghostwriter .

That quality is gone and can't even imagine what kids are watching but I do know that they seem dumber than ever. Dunno if I can blame that on the quality of cartoons these days but I must stress, for example, the Once Upon a Time series.
There where 3 that I know of:
Once upon a time Man (which had a kick ass opening)
Once Upon a Time in Space
and Once upon a time Life

These were really well done and tackled science education,space exploration, how the body works and human evolution.
Granted, I have been away from American TV for a while but as far as I know, there is not one mainstream cartoon or TV show outside of PBS that bothers teaching Kids anything. Please, PLEASE correct me if I am wrong...

Craig Thompson has a blog!

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:53:08 GMT

http://blog.dootdootgarden.com/

This made me laugh

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:29:26 GMT

I just finished watching season II. Yes, I am behind the fracking times but the show never aired in Yurop, as far as I know.

here we go again...

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:42:04 GMT

Lucian Freud painting expected to smash auction records

By Gervase de Wilde and Agencies

Last Updated: 1:01pm BST 11/04/2008

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Christie's expect a life-size Lucian Freud painting of a naked Jobcentre supervisor sleeping to smash auction records in May.

Benefits Supervisor Sleeping', which is being sold by a private European collector, is predicted to fetch up to £18 million at the New York sale.

The auction house believes that the masterpiece will beat the current world auction record for a work by a living artist, held by Jeff Koons's 'Hanging Heart (Magenta and Gold)', which was bought by art dealer Larry Gagosian for £11.3 million in November 2007.

Koons's work had itself knocked Damien Hirst's medicine-cabinet exhibit 'Lullaby Spring', which went for £10 million at Sotheby's in June 2007, from the top spot.

Freud has previously competed with American Jasper Johns for the position of the world's most expensive living artist.

The 1995 Freud painting, appearing at auction for the first time, depicts rotund Londoner Sue Tilley, now 51, sleeping on a dilapidated sofa.

The British artist, 85, first painted 'Big Sue' in 'Evening in the Studio' (1993), for which Ms Tilley had to lie in an uncomfortable pose on a bare floor.

Tilley, who posed for Freud for four years in the early 1990s, has said in the past of being his muse: "I think he probably picked me because he got value for money. He got a lot of flesh."

The painting will be on public view in London for the first time at a special exhibition at Christie's and will go on sale on the other side of the Atlantic as the highlight of Christie's New York Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on May 13.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/11/bbfreud111.xml

The fact that Lucian Freud is one of the greatest comtemporary artists alive is unquestionable.
This kind of moronics speculation is not.

Art Sunday!

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:42:59 GMT

Israeli illustrator Eitay Reichert

The amazing Jillian Tamaki

Vintage Japanese toy designs from Bibliodissey

Oh and Alexandre Day

Am I the only one that loves vintage logos and the related aesthetic ?

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:13:00 GMT

Justice - DVNO

A collection of vintage logos on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_carl/sets/72157604144345854/

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:07:13 GMT

Some architectural stuff

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:32:56 GMT

Fuck

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:05:35 GMT

(CNN) -- Science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, who co-wrote the epic film "2001: A Space Odyssey" and raised the idea of communications satellites in the 1940s, died Wednesday at age 90, an associate confirmed.

Oh yes

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:22:57 GMT

After seeing all Oscar nominated pictures (except for Juno which I honestly do not give a shit about), I am certain that There will be Blood will win.

D.D. Lewis will also win best actor even though Depp would also deserve it as would Vigo. It was a bad year for them to get nominated. D.D. is crushingly good.

Other Oscar Picks:

Best cinematography - The Assassination of Jesse James …
Best art direction - Sweeney Todd
Best Actress - Did not see all that was nominated but probably the chick from La vie em Rose
Best animated film: Ratatouille will probably win but I have a soft spot for Persepolis...though the best animated film to be nominated should have been Paprika.
Best Director : P.T. Anderson
Best costumes : Sweeney Todd will win but it should be given to Elizabeth II: The revenge (she's back and she's on a horse! oooooooh!)
Bet I am right on all accounts.

Art Sunday....

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:23:35 GMT

Colette Calascione

Brian Dettmer

http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/09/13/13:26:26/
http://packergallery.com/dettmer2/dettmer.html

New Warren Ellis

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:16:11 GMT

REST

Balance

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:42:58 GMT

A short masterpiece of animation.

Paper Moon

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:21:52 GMT

I stayed up last night when I stumbled upon this film.

Paper Moon

The film is set during the Great Depression in the U.S. state of Kansas and it starred the real life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, as on screen father and daughter Moses and Addie.

It is beautifully shot and no wonder...
It was photographed by Laszlo Kovacs.

You might not recognize the name of Laszlo Kovacs, who passed away in his sleep last year at the age of 74. But generations of movie geeks recognize his indelible images, such as his work on this film (Paper Moon) evocative of the Depression-era portraits by Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans.
From Easy Rider (1969) and Five Easy Pieces to Shampoo (1975) and New York, New York (1977) to Ghostbusters (1984) and Say Anything (1989), Kovacs was a painter of light responsible for an immodest number of classic movie moments. Neon, fluorescent and streetlamps were important figures in the comedies and dramas he shot. What you remember about a Kovacs image is not just its stunning beauty, but how it underlines the emotional exchange between characters. He began his career as a guerrilla cinematographer on the streets of Budapest, chronicling the anti-Communist revolt of 1956 by hiding his camera in a paper bag and smuggling the footage into America. For me, the guys every bit as great as the Hungarians of the '60s and '70s are the Mexicans: Rodrigo Prieto (Brokeback Mountain, Babel, Frida) and Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien and Great Expectations).

The death of Polaroid

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:48:05 GMT

The digital age has claimed yet another scalp. Polaroid instant photographs entranced a generation in the 1970s as colour images magically emerged from an unpromising white square of plastic.The technological breakthrough was endorsed over the years by luminaries as diverse as Sir Laurence Olivier, Ali McGraw and Kermit the Frog. But now, with the push of a factory button, Polaroid has consigned its iconic invention to the history books.

The American-based firm has confirmed that it has stopped making its instant film and expects supplies to run out completely in 2009. The announcement has sparked a sales run on the cult cameras with enthusiasts rushing to snap up remaining supplies.

Polaroid is closing factories in Massachusetts, Mexico and the Netherlands with the loss of more than 450 jobs and will belatedly focus on producing digital cameras, portable printers for mobile phones, TVs and DVD players.

Polaroid has already stopped making the cameras. "We are trying to reinvent Polaroid so it lives on for the next 30 to 40 years," said Tom Beaudoin, the firm's president and chief financial officer.

Industry analysts claim Polaroid has suffered greatly by its refusal to embrace the digital technology that has transformed photography.

Instead, executives stuck to the belief that many photographers would want to be able to hold their developed pictures in their hands rather than view them on a screen.

Global sales of traditional camera film have been dropping by around 30% per year.

"Instant film has been falling as fast if not faster," said Ed Lee, a digital photography analyst at the research firm InfoTrends.

"At some point it was inevitable that it had to reach the point where it was going to be uneconomical to keep producing instant film."

Polaroid, which is privately owned, has always refused to disclose financial details about its instant film business.

The announcement has already led sales of Polaroid products to rocket in the US.

"My shelves are completely empty of instant film," said Jeff Newman, who runs Calumet Photographic in Cambridge.

"Polaroid enthusiasts are panicking and are bulk-buying all the stock that we have."

Edward Nute who runs a photography firm in Plymouth, and still occasionally uses Polaroid films for commercial shoots, felt the technology would be missed by many of his colleagues.

He said: "There's something exciting about peeling back a Polaroid photo and seeing the photograph develop before your eyes. I'm going to toast Polaroid for all the fond memories tonight."

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/The-death-of-the-Polaroid.3762571.jp

It's blue!

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:27:22 GMT

...and yellow.
I like it, bite me.

Go see this

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:46:07 GMT

You get to see Natalie Portman's sweet ass and it is lots of fun.
-As is all Wes Anderson.

Why does 99% of American mainstream animation suck?

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:10:50 GMT

Because this kind of standard can't be packaged with a happy meal.
Clip is from the OST of Tekkon Kinkreet

More Paris and Barcelona soon - expect Rome and Florence in late March!

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:06:15 GMT

1 today, more tomorrow.

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:48:06 GMT

Art Friday

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:55:32 GMT

http://www.behance.net/gallery/La-Esencia-de-Klimt/50709

http://emroca.com/

http://www.lolleyland.com

Vince Guaraldi Trio - O Tannenbaum

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:20:46 GMT

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:33:40 GMT

A Jehovah's Witness who for decades refused all surgery on his horrific facial disfigurement has been given hope by a British doctor and new medical technology.

Unwilling to accept a blood transfusion, Jose Mestre has allowed the bloody tumour that first appeared on his lip in adolescence to obliterate almost all of his face.

Now 15 inches long and weighing 12 pounds, it has blinded him in one eye and made eating a daily ordeal. As it begins to block his airways, doctors fear his life could be in danger.

But now one of Britain's leading facial surgeons has proposed treating Jose, 51, by employing ultrasound waves to coagulate the blood before the operation.

This should allow his growths to be removed without risk of heavy bleeding – satisfying his religious prohibition on blood transfusions that has so far hampered his search for treatment.

Jose was examined by two doctors in Britain - Loshan Kangesu, consultant plastic surgeon at Broomfield Hospital, and Dr Iain Hutchison of St Bartholomew's in London.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/03/wface103.xml

I photographed Jose in 1998. At the time he told me that when he was a child, he must have done something very wicked and so God punished him.