Purveyor of Fine Intrigues
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Settlements and City Strategies by Lekan Jeyifous
Lekan Jeyifo (tumblr / twitter)
This series contains abstracted planimetric drawings and eerily-serene cityscapes that suggest the changing contours of urban settlements. They represent an idea of a degenerate futurism, yet one might find similar typologies and scenes in places such as the favelas of Brazil and North Africa, and in overpopulated cities such as Lagos, Mexico City, and Mumbai. Though outputted digitally, the drawings possess a textured and painterly quality as a result of combining hand-drawn sketches, industrial textures, surfaces of deteriorated paper, and digital architectural models.
A constant interplay between digital and analog processes is important in my work, resulting in a highly layered set of documents. The drawings presented here started out as digital images that were outputted, sketched and drawn over, and scanned back into the computer in order to be retraced, textured, and layered -
The Art of Nandan Ghiya
Artist creates works using vintage portraits with physical modern-day digital distortions.
More info and examples of the artist’s work can be found at Ocular here and Galerie Paris-Beijing here
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(via toxicbutterflyfarts)
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Jay DeFeo - The Rose (1958-69)
“The story of Jay DeFeo and The Rose is both a cautionary tale of obsession and an inspiring tale of determination and belief. She began working on The Rose in 1958. She was 29 years old and for the next eight years, she did little else but sit on a stool in her studio, smoking cigarettes, drinking brandy while she painted and scraped away at her vision.
First titled The Deathrose, then The White Rose and finally just The Rose, DeFeo only stopped working on the painting when an increase in rent forced her from her studio. By then it was 1966, her marriage was ending, she was in fragile physical and mental health, and The Rose had become too large to fit out the door.
At nearly 12 feet high and in places eight inches thick, The Rose was constructed from layer upon layer of built up and scraped away black and white paint. DeFeo added mica chips to the paint and so The Rose has its own interior light.”
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I just got more of the Misty posters printed! Check out the store way down at the bottom of http://viridiancitypokecenter.tumblr.com/
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Doug (McBride, of Cyan and Rivenguild fame) and I invited Rand Miller out to talk to our team as part of a Microsoft speaker series, and I made a point to have him sign the Myst book replica that Dan made for me.
I am… I am a happy camper.
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(Source: plagved, via brofisting)
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