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Photographer Unknown, (The Edge)
“The Edge … There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others – the living – are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later.”
-Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Photographer Unknown, (Relaxing on the Sofa), Unknown Model from Corbin Fisher
Photographer Unknown, (Woolen Socks)
Artist Unknown, (The Gathering of All Thoughts), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
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Photographer Unknown, (At the Edge: The Dancers)
“At the edge you will always remember me, at the edge you will last be remembered, where sanity and insanity come together, for the time, then separates. Like leaves on October trees, that color the world, but for a moment, then leave. At the edge, where life losses its edginess, and thoughts we will become one, someday. At the edge the sun drops, the ring falls, and senses of raindrops climb upwards to the gray sky.”
-Anthony Liccione
Cloud Painting by Eric Hosford, New York Artist
Eric Hosford is an illustrator living in New York City. He is currently also the art director for Rocketdog. He also does work in typography and graphic design.
Male Figurative Paintings by David Agenjo
David Agenjo is a self-taught artist. He was born in Madrid in 1977 and now lives in London.
Agenjo is heavily influenced by color and texture and combines this in “unexpected” ways on his palette. He is intrigued by almost accidental ways of establishing a textural or color field, so he started incorporating and combining palette works into his actual paintings.
Agenjo always uses a secondary canvas as a palette, this second canvas/palette becomes the new surface on which to overlay and merge the next figurative composition. This palette, covered in random color combinations and textures, becomes the underlayer for his next figurative painting.
In this way, his unpredictable abstract work interacts with his more conscious figurative work process, and each of his paintings is organically linked to the previous one, almost like DNA. Some paintings contain other textural elements besides paint, such as fiberglass, grid tape, or plastic bags. He incorporates these elements in the pallet stage of the canvas building up a rich starting point for the next work.
Photographer Unknown, Gus Kenworthy
Eran Hill: Computer Graphics
Images reblogged with thanks to the artist’s site: https://eranhill.tumblr.com
Twenty One Pilots, “Stressed Out”
Twenty One Pilots is an American musical duo that originates from Columbus, Ohio. The band was formed in 2009 and consists of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun. They put out two self-released albums, Twenty One Pilots in 2009 and Regional at Best in 2011, before being signed by Fueled by Ramen in 2012. They released their signed debut, Vessel, with Fueled by Ramen in 2013. Their second signed album, Blurryface, was released on May 15, 2015 through the same label.
Tyler came up with the band’s name while studying All My Sons by Arthur Miller, a play about a man who must decide what is best for his family after causing the death of 21 pilots during World War II because he knowingly sent them faulty parts for the good of his business. Tyler explains that this story of moral dilemma was the inspiration for the name of the band.
Sacha Goldberger, “Super Flemish” Series of Superheros
Sacha Goldberger’s discovery of these characters, which goes back to childhood, gave birth to a desire to re-appropriate them, to take them back to a time forming the cornerstone of modern western art. Sacha wants to confront these icons of American culture with contemporary painters of the Flemish school. The collection demonstrates the use of 17 century techniques counterpointing light and shadow to illustrate nobility and fragility of the super powerful of all times. It also invites you to celebrate the heroes of your childhood.
These characters have become icons to reveal their humanity: tired of having to save the world without respite, promised to a destiny of endless immortality, forever trapped in their character. The superheroes often live their lives cloaked in anonymity. These portraits give them a chance to “fix” their narcissism denied. By the temporal disturbance they produce, these images allow us to discover, under the patina of time, an unexpected melancholy of those who are to be invincible.
The photos, explains Goldberger, intend to “illustrate the nobility and fragility of the super-powerful and reveal their humanity” and to highlight and celebrate the superheroes, who live “cloaked in anonymity.”
Photographer Unknown, (Cute Guy in Car), Selfie
“I think theres a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.”
Etchings by Reynold Weidenaar
Reynold Weidenaar was born in Grand Rapids in 1915. He studied at the Kendall School of Design and then at the Kansas City Art Institute. He won national awards while still a first year student. After moving back to Michigan from Kansas City, he quickly achieved fame and acclaim. He taught at Kendall School of Design for many years, but is best known for his exquisite black and white mezzotints. Reynold Weidenaar was internationally acclaimed for his work, focusing on local scenes, humor and satire, his personal worldview and politics in his work.
Reynold Weidenaar was a master of a technique known as intaglio printing. In this type of printing, the artist uses special tools to etch an image into a metal plate. The plate is then coated with ink, a piece of paper is placed on top, and the whole thing is run through a printing press, which transfers the image to the paper. In order for the image to come out correctly, the artist much etch everything into the metal plate backwards. This is especially impressive when you consider the detail and complexity present in many of Weidenaar’s prints.
Maurizio Montani, “Pedro Stolz”, Photo Shoot for the Brazilian Magazine “Burbujas de Deso”
Kyle Thompson, Untitled, (Flames in the Forest)
Kyle Thompson is a photographer currently based in Portland, Oregon. His original work can be found at his website. His new phonebook entitled “Sinking Ship” is now available. The images in the book were photographed in abandoned towns in the American grasslands. He would briefly visit these ghost towns, living thee alone briefly, wearing the clothes left in the closets, and taking self-portraits in sets built from items found at the scene. Thompson used himself as a vessel to portray the past residents through their belongings and their environment. Images from the book can be found at: https://shop.kylethompsonphotography.com/products/sinking-ship
Image reblogged with thanks to the artist’s site: kylejthompson: