18: Un Chien Andalou

Luis Bunuel (with a squiggly line above the n) and Salvador Dali's super trippy 15 minute silent film, Un Chien Andalou, came out in 1929 shocking artists alike in Paris. It has no plot, as one would expect from an avant-garde surrealist film, and as such follows a dream-like sequence of moments and experiences. Irrationality and free association pays homage to Frued. We watch the film with no expectations, only with a conceptual mind and an awareness of our frustrations with incoherence. What is beautiful is not found in your relations to the films but instead your perceptions of the artificial associations we make with an already irrational world.To quote Breton, "existence lies elsewhere."

17: Retrospective

25 years ago I was hardly a thought to these people...

Then they got married, had my brother, then me, and now... it's time to celebrate. Thanks mom. Thanks dad. I'm thankful for all that you've done. You guys deserve the best. Happy Anniversary. Love you.

16: I will find you, in the garden, slowing drowing

Chris Clark - Growls Garden
LISTEN!

15: I Froze in Passing

...
Serrated winter wind grapples the surface of my river
Like skin, below, my blood flows where its claws cannot touch me
I will not falter to the cold of things
Because I am hot blooded, I persist, I know no end.

14: My Inspriation

PLAY HIM OFF!!!~

13: Falling

12: Jaroslav Seifert

"how the hand with rings is choking them..."

Seifert was a key figure in the Czechoslovakian artistic avant-garde of the early 20th century. In The Monologue of the Handless Soldier, Seifert expresses political protest (relevant to the development of the Communist party) through the personal experiences of a soldier wounded in the Great War, and religious metaphor. Moving, poignant, and lyrical, I chose to share his touching prose to draw from a conceptualized relevance in our current state of affairs.

11: "it's time to act..."

*video taken down by youtube

10: Prefuse 73

Glitch is a modern genre of experimental electronic music with parallels to early manifestations of noise music. Characterized by an interest in sonic artifacts from malfunctioning digital technology, there is a use of unwanted sounds in music production, such as produced by: bugs, crashes, system errors, hardware noises, CD skipping, etc. This highly experimental musical aesthetic lends itself to the many sub-genres of Glitch.

Glitch-hop encompasses the same premises of Glitch except with a foundation in hip-hop. Scott Heren, of Prefuse 73, is a great example of the Glitch-hop style. I also admire his visual creativity. In "Perverted Undertones" we see a montage of film stills, played in both real-time and reverse, and in an array of altering tonal hues. The effect is a minimalist, humorous, and psychedelic ambiance. Werd.

9: Ignacia Lozano: Connected

I stumbled upon this image on the website of Spiral Magazine - a compelling art mag. It's a photograph by artist Ignacio Lozano entitled Connected. Lozano is infamously known in the homosexual art world as an accomplished painter, and more keenly, photographer.

With a fondness of non-artificial photographing (i.e. use of natural lights, out-of-studio settings), Lozano's work has an honest depiction of real life contexts highlighted with blatant homoerotic motifs.

This particular image compelled me primarily due to the interesting use of, Connex, as a medium to clothe the nude figure. Prescribed with the genre of "construction portraits," I draw an allusion to the fusion of sculpture, architecture, and portrait photo. "Connected" serves as an example of a new interesting style, combined with an equally interesting aesthetic of subject matter that I can appreciate. Enjoy!