| Sam Weber is very different from what the Illustration trends are going towards. He is similar, but there is a huge difference: He can paint! (which is obvious through his domain: sampaints.com) The textures he makes are just so real, and not at all overdone. The monochromatic color schemes are also very calming. Look at an extremely beautiful type painting called “Doughnut Hole”
Link: Sam Weber |
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Sandro Perri’s Tiny Mirrors is kind of like construction paper: Its messy and sloppy, but still soft and smooth at the same time. Coincidentally the cover of the album is on a textured construction like paper! A very unique mixture of instruments and Perri’s voice. Very relaxing.
Link: Sandro Perri.com
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| Someone made a movie of their teen-aged dreams. This movie is purely sex (literally) and rock and roll. In my best effort - I try to see the beauty of this short film, but I don’t understand why the writer and director Michael Winterbottom, didn’t just make a calm and beautiful porno (essentially thats what this is). As I read reviews I see that some see it as the simple beauty between a young, careless, obsessed with sex couple. But, as great and simple as that can be, I can’t get over the lack of story (which those who love the movie rave over it being such an important film: its so different from what we would see in a character-driven movie). Without those deeper connections, I think it is a very non-memorable movie, and for the slight ounce of character we saw in the male “Matt,” its pretty sad. I think Winterbottom had some bit of good intentions, but mostly just wanted to see if he could get away with it. |  |
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Being the early stages of this blog, let me say that I hope to not impose my feelings and/or opinions and views upon my readers, (as I hope I will seldom do), but in some cases I find things that I see to be so beatuiful (which are often things of great controversy) that I feel the need to share them (and hope that they are looked upon with open minds). This blog after all is here to merely inspire you, in which I will be more detailed on in the future as I add an “about” page - my idea of this blog was to share with the world the aesthetics that they may have not before seen. With this being said, this movie is simply a great story, but written so amazingly well: its not just the script, but the simplest idea of conveying the questions and points that are brought about in this movie - questions and ideas I have for long tried to bring about my friends and family. Although, it may have been told in not the best “movie format / plot” ever, the fascination you will see is quite an experience. Please watch “The Man from Earth.” |
| It is rare to find a collection of photographs that are so amazing and captivating that you don’t care where they are from, what they are of, how they were taken… Jon Edwards (via Flickr) has some images that are so beautiful - the subjects (even as scary as some are) don’t even matter. This is as beautiful as experimental photography gets. I also think I’m naming him the king of double exposures.
Link: Jon Edwards Flickr |
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Another great find from 125 Magazine. If I had a brief moment of psychedelic reveries every time I saw a beautiful girl like seen in That 70s Show - the moving pictures like “Rianne” would be exactly what they looked like - (without the psychedelic part). The moving pictures are something I’ve never seen before - and I wish this was something we see more often. It would be pretty different to see something like these on TV, but it would be nice to see these small little fashion / sexy clips between late night shows - maybe in place of those horrible chat-with-local-singles hotline ads?
Link: Kristian Schuller |
| Just saw this great spread in 125 Magazine. “Hit & Run” under “Personal” is vividly funny - it seems as if this Audi TT is out to kill every young male in the parking structure. Check out “In Motion” under “Personal” also - beautiful women dancing in front of a cloudy, colored, dream-like background. If only our dreams actually did look this great…
Link: Dirk Rees |
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I somehow came across this on Typophile.com and I fell in love. I’ve always thought blackletter is cool, but there really aren’t very many situations to use it today, especially because its so damn hard to read (we have been trained to read sans-serifs best). But, Elias Bitencourt is making “Benedicta” which is like a sans-serif looking Blackletter? I sent him an email a while ago about when it should be done (which is a stupid question because making a font takes years), so I’m assuming the response will also take just as long. But once I find a use for it, I’ll bug the crap out of him to buy it - even if it isn’t finished!
Link: Elias Bitencourt |
| The best use of javascript ever! This website is brilliant. I color selections are great - and easy to see how great when they are all laid out on one page. Hopefully it inspires to ditch long-loading flash sites - and get creative with coding.
Link: Seth Rieder |
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I saw Yusuke’s photographs at the Art Center College of Design grad show last year - I was mesmerized by every single one. The words in her About Me and a special “Haiku” equally match the thought and beauty put into each of her works.
Link: Yusuki Nishimura Photo |
| Fleet Foxes are exactly what indy - Seattle - folk - rock music should sound like. Relaxing, harmonic, smooth… If your familiar with “The Shins,” these guys are similar, but less pop, less distortion, and more peace. |  |
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