Vanitas revisited

In an interesting turn of events since beginning work on my video archive I was contacted in February by Berlin-based Dane, Jens Christian Madsen about using an older work of mine, Vanitas 100 (from 13 years ago!!! Is that possible!?!), in a clip for his band/project Tjaere+Fjer‘s song Faking It All.

As a video within a video it will appear without Jamie Kiffiak’s deliciously soporific voiceover, but it’s quite exciting to think something from so long ago has some life. I was intruiged by the directors synopsis and am really looking forward to seeing the finished piece which must be in production AS I TYPE!

I made it while living in Vancouver, Canada in 2000 and there are a lot of things I would do differently now, but I still like the 100 freakishly differing self-portraits taken with a Nintendo Gameboy camera and anyone who’s really UP with everything I do will recognise Jamies script as having been re-used for 2011′s A Pack of Lies and indeed was the concept model for ALL the scripts from that work.

You can hear Tjaere+Fjer’s latest release II including Faking It All here.

This is a video for an earlier track Away which I quite dig too. Retro sounding electronica with 80′s mumbles.

The Haunted House

Bootleg movie posters from Ghana

From Awesome Robo.  Click for more.  Cujo‘s a gas.

Living on the mountain

From a collection of documentation of childhood graffiti from antique sources, found at Public Collectors

Voice Balloon

From a collection of documentation of childhood graffiti from antique sources, found at Public Collectors

Hombre Arana

From a collection of documentation of face painting options in Mexico City, found at Public Collectors

the fourth post title. all previous and deleted filled with comparative, self-loathing

How lovely are these embossed foil pans by Israeli artist, Idan Freidman? From his Profiles Project, he taglines the project in his Flickr account with the line ‘ordinary people disposable objects’ and by ordinary people, he means his friends.

I’m a bit obsessed by the entity named ‘friendship’ right now, and these are such a fragile devotional object to the cause. So nice. I would love to be this kind of artist. Gifted and free of bullshit.

I’m not usually one to fly the ‘fat chick’ freak flag…

…but whoa!  Check out this fashion shoot styled by Nicole Formichetti for an upcoming V Magazine.

Hot.  Maybe pregnant ladies will be the new black next…

Rod Stewart Fan Club

51 E. Claremont St. Edinburgh, Scotland

EDIT: PARDON, BUT THEIR SITE SEEMS TO HAVE FALLEN AWAY LIKE A WET CAKE.
ALONG WITH THIS PIC.  BUGGER.  STILL, GO EXPLORE THE DETAIL YOURSELF. FUN.
PIC BACK NOW .  HURRAH!

“A street view image can give us a sense of what it feels like to have everything recorded, but no particular significance accorded to anything.“

Fascinating post by Jon Rafman on the accidental ‘art’ of Google Street View.
From Art Fag City, a blog that seems to warrant a lot more exploring, by me at the very least

Found via B3TA.com.

P.S. Sorry for absence.  Got a job.  Temporarily full-time.  Yes, it’s going well, thanks for asking.  Catch up posts soon.

Quite possibly the finest photo ever taken

…so I wish I knew which genius to credit, but I got it from the Flying Dogs gallery at holytaco.com.
Warning: the rest of that site seems to be concerned with bosoms and the arse of somone named Keyra Augustina.  It looks like one of those novelty plastic ones.  Now I can probably be googled by the search term ‘Novelty Plastic Arse’.  Go me.

Edit:  Can I just be crystal clear?  If this is YOUR photo, I think you are amazing and deserve to have your name broadcast all across the interwebs.  Contact me and let me know who you are and I will attempt to do so by giving the credit that is due.  + I want to see more of your photos…