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When Charlotte Gainsbourg is not doing the unspeakable in the super freak-out horror flick Antichrist or making it impossible not to have a crush on her in the brilliant Science of Sleep, she's singing her way to critical acclaim and commercial success. She can do it all but seriously take those scissors away from her! The internet is wildly buzzing about her new video that features Beck. There's a man with a stack of pancakes for a head and that's all I say. It's a wonderfully visual tour de force and thank you internet for showing it to me.
Just incase you missed our previous Antichrist post, here's the trailer for SERIOUSLY the most disturbing film I've ever seen.
Since I've had my iPhone, I've come across some phenomenal wallpapers that are specifically made for the iPhone. Recently, I decided to make some of my own, using ten, random digital art pieces that I've created over the years.
I came across Irana's work on Flickr a while back and since then she's been one of my favorite artist. I hope everyone enjoys this interview. --- --- Where are you from? When did you start creating art? I’m from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I’ve been making art since I finished high school and I went to art university (which I will finish by the end of the year). --- The imaginary in your portraits is so strong that it seems like there's some personal mythology you're creating. Do you see it that way at all? That is a nice way to describe it, I might steal your words =). I like to think of my images as taking my internal world to the outside. I like using all kinds of symbols and images to represent things that I feel or think. I guess all of my work talk about what’s going on in my mind and my life. What medium do you prefer? I used to work a lot with acrylic paint on paper. Now I’m using graphite a little bit more. But always on paper. --- --- "y ahora?" is one of my favorite pieces; is there a story behind this piece? I like that piece too. I don’t know, it kind of reminds me of me being stuck and wanting to say something else. --- Does your brain shoot colorful triangles? And if so, could you elaborate on this ability? My brain not only shoots colourful triangles but all shapes and forms! Haha But most of the time they get stuck inside and create a chaos. --- --- How long have you had your super awesome online art mag Ruby? And how did that come about? It is going to be 4 years in December! Quite some time. Rubyis a web-based publication that launches every month and includes young and new artists from all over the world. It is a way to review artists I enjoy, show people artists I discover and works for me as an inspirational source. --- --- The figures in your pieces seem to be engulfed in hair. Why is that? And why are a good portion of your figures bleeding and crying? Well, my new work is not about that anymore. I used to draw a lot of hair and violence, a way of externalizing my inner violence or the way I felt inside. Most beaten up women in my work are hurt but on the inside. --- --- --- The "head / plant pot" cups and hand-painted slip-ons that you have on display on Flickr are amazing. Do you plan to sell these anywhere online or are they already online to purchase? Oh, you also have really amazing t-shirts. Have you made a t-shirt for a man before because I would like one very much? Blood is the New black will be making t-shirts for both men and women. I don’t know when will they launch them but soon I hope. I’m making new things all the time. Whenever I have stuff to sell I upload them on my shop: www.keepinmind.com.ar/shop.htm --- --- What do you have planned for the future? Right now, I’m putting all my energy in finishing school. I only have one month left and I’m done. My work is trying to go somewhere new so I’m in the middle of a process. Anyone can see how my work evolves through my flickr. --- facebook / flickr / myspace / ruby / website
A couple years back, I was featured in the on-line photo magazine JE SUIS UNE BANDE DE JEUNES in a picture series called "A Selection of Pictures from Rooms." The photos that were selected for this collection were some of my favorites, however, if they hadn't been showcased in this, I don't think I would have shown them to the public in any other way.
We will be making another trip to Brooklyn this coming weekend and wanted to share our itinerary with all of the EH readers. There are a few places we've visited during our last trip that impressed us so much that we're visiting them again. Two of these places are Egg and Barcade (read other EH post). We're pretty confident that we'll eventually be known as regulars at both of these places.
We will also be seeking out some new destinations, as well as attending two exhibitions:
Mesa Coyoacan: "Tonight marks the official opening of Mesa Coyoacan, a traditional Mexican restaurant from chef Ivan Garcia, original menu designer for Barrio Chino and most recently chef de cuisine at Mercadito. There’s nothing avant-garde about the menu, most of which will seem familiar at first glance--his “grandma’s recipes,” as Garcia put it, down to house-made tortillas--albeit with modern touches such as Berkshire pork in the carnitas tacos and grass fed beef for the carne asada. Look for tacos (3 for $9), a sampling of ceviches, sopas, and tamales, as well as entrees, including enchiladas de mole, pork-and-fruit-stuffed poblanos topped with walnut sauce and pomegranate seeds, and spiced lamb in chile ancho, chile guajillo, and avocado leaves steamed in a banana leaf, none over $15. Those price points and the warm interior (Chino-style wood tables for up to 14; salvaged 1940s wallpaper; and actual family photos hovering over the dining space like a glowering abuelita) you can expect Coyoacan to finally turn the former Pampa Grill space in Graham Ave’s 'Fish Tank' building into the destination those architects clearly meant it to be." webpage (free williamsburg)
Caracas Arepa Bar: "Caracas Arepa Bar is devoted to the pleasures of homemade Venezuelan food. Since 2003 we have been dedicated to the idea of a space where authentic quality food converges with the eclectic vibe of our city... The magic behind our place began with our founders 'serendipitous love-at-first-sight encounter at an Arepas joint in Caracas' the city. The following act includes a honeymoon, almost immediate transplant to the great apple, a series of odd jobs (like one that required the use of fake blood, moles, wigs, and plenty of powder), and a happy beginning that started exactly when they realized that they are made to serve the art and science of Arepas. Six months later the first Caracas Arepa Bar opened its doors in New York's East Village." website
Round N' Round, a Mark Gonzalez exhibition at the Franklin Parrasch Gallery: "Franklin Parrasch Gallery is pleased to present Round N' Round – an exhibition which includes the premier of a new film and sculpture, as well as drawings, poems and correspondences by Mark Gonzales. Gonzales, who has been skateboarding professionally since he was a teenager is a prime mover in bringing the inherently improvisational, free-ranging attitude manifested in skateboarding's engagement with the built and graphic environment to a wider audience. Gonzales's work has been exhibited internationally, and his skating has been documented by Spike Jonze among other filmmakers." webpage
Tim Burton Retrospective at MoMA: "This major career retrospective on Tim Burton (American, b. 1958), consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton's career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator. Following the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work, the exhibition presents artwork generated during the conception and production of his films, and highlights a number of unrealized projects and never-before-seen pieces, as well as student art, his earliest non-professional films, and examples of his work as a storyteller and graphic artist for non-film projects. The opposing themes of adolescence and adulthood, and the elements of sentiment, cynicism, and humor inform his work in a variety of mediums—drawings, paintings, storyboards, digital and moving-image formats, puppets and maquettes, props, costumes, ephemera, sketchbooks, and cartoons. Taking inspiration from sources in pop culture, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as a spiritual experience, influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics." webpage
Let's see:
Speaking of Brooklyn, I recently corresponded with Thu Tran from Food Party (which is now on IFC on Tuesdays @ 11:115PM) and she gave me a list of some of her favorites places to dine in Brooklyn:
in love with this mexican place in greenpoint called papacitos
hope you have a great time in Brooklyn, I like living here anyway. Hopefully we can hang out one day.
love, thu"
If you live in the area and have any suggestions for other destinations, please let us know via comments. We look forward to sharing our trip with you!
Do not let this happen to you today. __________________________________________________________________________________________
"If Friday the 13th is unlucky, then 2009 is an unusually unlucky year. This week's Friday the 13th is one of three to endure this year.
The first came last month. The next is in November. Such a rare triple-threat occurs only once every 11 years.
The origin of the link between bad luck and Friday the 13th is murky. The whole thing might date to Biblical times (the 13th guest at the Last Supper betrayed Jesus). By the Middle Ages, both Friday and 13 were considered bearers of bad fortune. In modern times, the superstition permeates society." read article in its entirety
"A giant mechanical digger gouges out a chunk of topsoil, grass and tree stumps, extending a neat furrow that stretches into the distance. Dozens of similar furrows run parallel with the regularity of a ploughed field.
Syncrude's Fort McMurray tar sands (Times/UK)
Yet no crop could grow in the pitch-black surface exposed by the machine working 1,000ft below our helicopter. This is the edge of a fast-expanding open-cast mine in the Canadian tar sands, one of the world's most polluting sources of oil.
It takes only a few minutes to fly across the 200 sq miles (520 sq km) of mines, processing plants and man-made lakes of toxic water. But Canada has so far extracted only 2 per cent of a resource that it hopes will turn it into a global energy superpower.
BP and Shell are among dozens of oil companies preparing to raise production from 1.3 million barrels a day at present to 2.5 million by 2015 and 6 million by 2030." read article in its entirety...by Ben Webster at CommonDreams.org
Apparently, today is mix day. Or, maybe it should be at Evolve Happy. This morning, I got the idea to include two mixes for this week's post. Halloween was this past Saturday, and these are late, of course. Here are two mixes associated with Halloween, although neither one really feels like it. They are good anytime mixes, in my opinion. The first was made by Tobacco of Black Moth Super Rainbow and the second is from my 2002-03 radio show, Hooray For Life. They were both made for and on Halloween. Since it's my favorite "holiday," and many others' on this site, I feel this is still appropriate. I mean, people leave their X-mas lights up way after the fact, right?
I can't find any documentation on what Tobacco's mix contains, but it's really good. The mix I made has no track list, either, but it has songs from Sonic Youth, Liars, Bob Dylan, Them, Donovan, The Zombies, DJ Shadow, derek_ (as noise [sound collage]), and more.
If you haven't done it yet, check out Roberto's EHMIX005, below. It is really good, and I hope this means he's back in the saddle and feeling better.
November 11, 2009: I wanted to say, without posting above the newest post, that this will be my final Audio Treat of the Week until the future of the website is decided. We all hope that Roberto is recovering, and we all miss him. Evolve Happy just isn't the same without him. Get well soon.
I made this mix to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's first album, Bleach. On November 3rd 1989, the dirt-covered classic was released by the immaculate Sub Pop. -----------------------------------------------------------------
"Bleach turns 20 this year (feel old yet?), and Sub Pop is planning a deluxe reissue on CD and 180 gram white vinyl. (The first run of Bleach was also on white vinyl, appropriately enough.) The 20th anniversary edition is due November 3. Jack Endino, the album's original producer, oversaw the remastering, which was done from the original tapes.
This edition will also include a complete recording of a never-before-released 1990 live show at Portland's Pine Street Theatre, remixed by Endino from original tapes. And there's a booklet: 48 pages on CD and 16 on LP, featuring previously unseen photos." - Pitchfork -----------------------------------------------------------------
I pieced together my favorite Nirvana rarities, covers and the original songs they've covered. The albums are obviously brilliant but I didn't want to include any of the songs from the albums. These rarities always make me wonder what could have been. -----------------------------------------------------------------
click here to download (MediaFire) ----------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------
Songs Nirvana Covered: Leadbelly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (In the Pines)
Shocking Blue - Love Buzz David Bowie - Man Who Sold the World Fang - The Money Will Roll Right In The Vaselines - Son of a Gun
My Favorite Rarities: Even in His Youth
Sappy (Verse, Chorus, Verse) <<< href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_%28band%29">Nirvana song.
Curmudgeon
Marigold
Oh, The Guilt
Moist Vagina
I Hate Myself and I Want to Die
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