Robin Thicke, Jimmy Fallon & The Roots sing Blurred Lines. (Thanks to Andrea for sending this!)
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Nick Brandt is one of the best nature photographers out there. His exquisite black and white photographs documenting the vanishing wildlife of East Africa are a wonder to behold.
His new series Across the Ravaged Land with a book by the same name will be on view at Hasted/Kraeutler in the fall of 2013
via the artists web site
“For 20 years now, New York-based photographer Spencer Tunick has been creating human art installations all over the world, calling together volunteers by the hundreds or thousands, asking them to remove their clothes, and photographing them in massive groups. His philosophy is that “individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together, metamorphose into a new shape.” He aims to create an architecture of flesh, where the masses of human bodies blend with the landscape, or juxtapose with architecture. Collected here are images from several of his installations as they were being composed”.
Via The Atlantic
My favorite Chinese artist’s don’t copy tired and old western styles of painting like Zhu Jinshi (who for some reason is a very successful painter). I like Chinese Artists who exhibit their Chinese DNA in their work.You can’t help but love these subversive self-portraits about Yue Minjun’s cynical take on the “new” China. The kind of artist you want to have a beer with.
Immediately humorous and sympathetic, Yue Minjun’s paintings offer a light-hearted approach to philosophical inquiry and contemplation of existence. Drawing connotations to the disparate images of the Laughing Buddha and the inane gap toothed grin of Alfred E. Newman, Yue’s self-portraits have been describe by theorist Li Xianting as “a self-ironic response to the spiritual vacuum and folly of modern-day China.”
via Galleri s . e
Georges Méliès was a huge inspiration for Martin Scorsese and his last film Hugo. Charlie Chaplin described him as “the alchemist of light.” Below are his two most famous films: Le Voyage Dans La Lune followed by The Impossible Voyage each shot in a large glass greenhouse and outdoors, with incredible set design, each frame hand colored and now restored.
Le Voyage Dans La Lune
The Impossible Voyage (Music by The Musician’s Lounge)