Category: Art

The Holy Mountain (1973): You and I are gonna live forever.

Your Friend says: “What did you do last night?”

You respond: “Got weird and watched The Holy Mountain.”

Yes, This will be exactly what you tell someone after watching this film. I’ll take a stab at explaining the plot. So, it’s about this Jesus look alike guy known as “the thief” who after falling into some bad luck is befriended by a limbless dwarf. (Please note: This character makes me very uncomfortable and sad). They’re paling around one day when they witness gold descend upon the city from a mystery tower. Being curious, the thief ventures inside the tower to find the gold’s origin. Once inside he finds a character known as the alchemist and his tattooed assistant. With their guidance the thief learns that he can turn his own shit into gold. Yes, they show this whole glorious process.

The rest of the film follows the thief, the alchemist and their seven companions (each companion representing an astrological planet) journey to gain the secret of immortality on a holy mountain. There is tons of insane imagery throughout this movie: some beautiful, some gnarly but all interesting. I have read that in preparation for the film the central cast members and the director took mushrooms and LSD and lived in a commune together. Method acting at it’s best! Tom Cruise, you should be taking notes. It is above all visually stunning work of artistic genius.

WARNING: This film contains scenes of animal cruelty.

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21. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

22. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

23. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.

24. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

25. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

[From Zen » Blog Archive » Top 100 Inspirational Quotes]

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Gehard Demetz is a mystery artist, the only thing that we know about him is that he was born in 1972, Italy, and that he currently lives in the mountains of Selva Gardena. Maybe this is the only thing that matters when you set an eye on his absolutely marvelous wooden sculptures, since you forget everything you may have in your mind. Why lie, this is not wood, this is the material of the dreams. And dreams are the perfect place for dark surrealism to rise. What are those lost children looking for? What’s the story that they hide? They look at you and it seems that they are inviting you to torture them. Or to pay for having tortured them in the past, as if they were the habitants of a forgotten orphanage where bad things were happening.

[From The dark celebration of Gehard Demetz | yatzer | Design Architecture Art Fashion +more]

If you want something out of the ordinary when it comes to contact lenses then you might want to have a look at these special effect lenses, also known as crazy contacts or Halloween contact lenses, right from Hollywood plots. From a happy face to a soccer ball, see some of the craziest contact lenses ever worn.

[From 15 Strangest Contact Lenses – Oddee.com]

Thumbing through his local Swedish newspaper, Göteborg resident Mattias Akerberg found himself troubled by a full-page advertisement for Ikea. It wasn’t that the Grevbäck bookcases looked any less sturdy, or that the Bibbi Snur duvet covers were any less colorful, or even that the names given to each of the company’s 9,500 products were any less whimsical. No, what bothered Akerberg was the typeface. “I thought that something had gone terribly wrong, but when I Twittered about it, people at their ad agency told me that this was actually the new Ikea font,” he recalls. “I could hardly believe it was true.”

[From The Font War: Ikea Fans Fume over Switch to Verdana – TIME]

NO, SERIOUSLY!!!

[From DesignVerb! – Stefans: Stormtroopers a day!]

The work of Heather Jansch started from her two passions: drawing and horses. She has a very interesting and diverse biography, many exhibitions, one book published (Heather Jansch’s Diary: A Year in the Life of…..), and another one in progress.

[From Driftwood Horses by Heather Jansch › Zuza Fun]

Some artists use paint, others bronze – But for Nathan Sawaya he chooses to build his awe-inspiring art out of toy building blocks. LEGO® bricks to be exact. The former corporate lawyer quit his job in 2001 to focus on becoming the world’s foremost LEGO artist.

With more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his New York studio, Sawaya’s sculptures take many forms.

Sawaya’s art is currently touring North American museums in a show titled, The Art of the Brick. It’s the only exhibition focusing exclusively on LEGO as an art medium. The creations, constructed from nearly one million pieces, were built from standard bricks beginning as early as 2002. More information on the tour, dates and locations can be found here.

A full-time freelance artist, Sawaya accepts commissions from individuals, corporations, and … well just about anyone with a good idea! He’s also available to design and build custom creations at events, photo shoots and conventions.

So let Sawaya know what you have in mind, he says, that there are literally no limits to what he can create out of LEGO.

To make this post even better Panda has put interesting facts about LEGO bricks underneath the pictures, and marked them with “+”. Hope you like it.

[From 20 Incredible LEGO Artworks by Nathan Sawaya | Bored Panda]

A rare parasite which burrows into host fish before eating and replacing their tongues with itself has been found off the Jersey coast.

Fishermen near the Minquiers – islands under the jurisdiction of Jersey – found the isopod, a type of louse, inside a weaver fish.

Marine researcher Paul Chambers, from the Société Jersiaise, was one of the fishing party and identified the find.

He said he was surprised to find the isopod away from the Mediterranean sea.

Isopods are normally about 2cm (1in) long and live in fish, surviving on the animal’s blood, in warm waters.

‘Quite vicious’

Mr Chambers told: “When we emptied the fish bag out there at the bottom was this incredibly ugly looking isopod.

“Really quite large, really quite hideous – if you turn it over its got dozens of these really sharp, nasty claws underneath and I thought ‘that’s a bit of a nasty beast’.

“I struggled for weeks to find an identification for this thing until, quite by chance I stumbled across something that looked similar in a Victorian journal.

“Apparently there’s not too much ill effect to the fish itself except it’s lost its tongue.”

Experts at the University of Southampton confirmed that the creature was an isopod and that there had been several sightings of them in Cornwall in 1996.

Mr Chambers added: “It doesn’t affect humans other than if you do actually come across a live one and try and pick it up – they are quite vicious, they will deliver a good nip.”

[From Rare tongue-eating parasite found]

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British-born and -based artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster skilfully skirt the boundaries between beauty and the shadowier aspects of humanity, playing with our perceptions as well as our notions of taste. Many of their most notable pieces are made from piles of rubbish, with light projected against them to create a shadow image entirely different to that seen when looking directly at the deliberately disguised pile.

Dirty White Trash (With Gulls), 1998
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The photo above shows White Trash (With Gulls), one of Webster and Noble’s earliest trash-based pieces. Six months’ worth of household waste plus a pair of dead seagulls comprise the heap of refuse. It’s no accident that it took the couple a further six months to make the piece, during which time they were eating and consuming – as you do. On the wall, the shadow figure self-portraits of the artists take a break with a cigarette and a glass of wine.

[From Incredible Shadow Art Created From Junk]

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These incredible photos could have been taken in an alternate universe.

The extraordinary pictures show ordinary situations distorted in impossible ways – even allowing a man to iron his own body.

[From The mind-Boggling photo manipulations that turn everyday snaps into stunning works of art | Mail Online]

Basements are dark, dank places that require at least some light fixture for you to find your way around. Thankfully, we have a Fake Window that utilizes electroluminescent sheets as its light source, allowing you to adjust the intensity of the light by manipulating the shades. It surely looks like a nifty idea to have in your home (assuming you have a basement to begin with), and this would also work well with cramped store rooms or even the attic.

[From fake window – Fake window brightens up the blues]

Belgian humor magazine runs most offensive ads in history of mankind

Expect to see many panties get bunched up when these ads inevitably enter the cable news network dialogue. No surprise, but I think they’re brilliant.

[From Jeff Koyen – The Places You\’ll Go – Belgian humor magazine runs most offensive ads in history of mankind – True/Slant]

Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles.
His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, companies, and cities seek Gehry’s services as a badge of distinction, beyond the product he delivers.
His best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Basque Country, Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, Experience Music Project in Seattle, Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Dancing House in Prague, Czech Republic and the MARTa Museum in Herford, Germany. However, it was his private residence in Santa Monica, California, which jump-started his career, lifting it from the status of “paper architecture,” a phenomenon that many famous architects have experienced in their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in later years.

[From Frank Gehry – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]

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[From Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao]

  

turkish designer ersinhan ersin deconstructed old cassette tapes to create a series of images and typography
he calls tapeography. the handmade font was originally created for a school project about music, but ersin
carried the concept to a variety of projects. the letters are made from the tape’s ribbon and pieces of the
mechanics. by rearranging the elements, ersin is able to create letters from the alphabet and images such
as a skull and cross bones.

[From ersinhan ersin: tapeography]

Can you capture a DMT trip on film? Jason Tucker wrote to tell us about a movie screened at Cannes this Spring that claims to do just that. ‘Enter the Void’.

[From ‘Enter The Void’]

Civilization by Marco Brambilla from CRUSH on Vimeo.