Paul Thek – The Tomb (1967) “Officially Paul Thek died in 1988, but really he died twice. In 1967 he conceived The Tomb (frequently called Death of a Hippie) – the summation of a decade, a cultural ethos, and a career. It was the piece he never lived down and never lived up to. Thek became the unwilling prophet of the failure of counterculture idealism and could not regain the tragicomic intensity of The Tomb or his Technological Reliquaries, wax sculptures of raw meat and body parts encased within vitrines.” “The Tomb consisted of a one-story-high, pale pink structure reminiscent of a Sumerian ziggurat, within which lay a full-size, painstakingly crafted effigy of Thek himself. Painted pale pink, the replicant…
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Jeff Hong – “Unhappily ever after”
Not all stories end happily, artist Jeff Hong created a series where popular Disney characters end up with realistic damaging outcomes. Check it out.
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Chad Wright – Master Plan
“For the first part of this series, Wright created a mould in the form of an L-shaped suburban dwelling, and set out a series of sand castles on his local beach. This scale-model suburbia was washed away by the tide, which perhaps urges us to consider the relative transience of so solid a symbol of the American dream, particularly since the 2007 subprime mortgage collapse. “ Artist’s statement: “In Master Plan, I am conflating a child’s sandcastle with architecture typifying postwar American suburbia. This three-part series culls artifacts from my childhood, investigating suburbia in its vision and legacy.Phase One focuses on the mass-produced tract house, re-examining it as symbol for the model American…
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Ben Alper – Background Noise
Ben Alper – Background Noise (2011)
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Music Video Review: Lana Del Rey – West Coast (Official Audio)
(We’ve already gone how we feel about the song, see that here.) The official music video was released. It’s not much of a step away from the lyric video previously released. It just displays a few more scenes with her and an older rich looking man. Showing how she’s seduced by the glamor of the West coast and how she has to choose between her current lover and the coast.
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Chiara Goia – Sculptors’ Village
Photographer Chiara Goia’s series titled “Sculptor’s Village” demonstrated the work and craftsmanship of a Mongolian village dedicated in mass producing and replicating popular statues. If it weren’t for the people you could assume these where photographed in black and white. Chiara Goia – Sculptors’ Village
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by Guy Denning
Haunting artworks by Guy Denning show figures in desperation and mourn.
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Ekaterina Bazhenova
Ekaterina Bazhenova
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Mystic Worlds: Photos by Marcus Moller Bitsch
“I started the project, because I wanted to make something out my the day, but also to pursue my newly profound passion. I wanted to learn, to discover the world of photography and the tell stories through a camera.” – Marcus Moller Bitsch source:
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A Mermaid Love
These photographs depicts a love story between a mermaid saved by a man from sewage, and also how not all stories end up happily ever after. Photographed by Anton Konashuck Anton Konashuk Photography
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Sky Art Illustrations by Thomas Lamadieu
ART: Sky Art Illustrations by Thomas Lamadieu Genius French artist Thomas Lamadieu has illustrated a series of scenes in the sky directly onto photographs of urban landscapes. source:
