This is really frickin' sweet.

Really.

Curves in All the Right Places

This has nothing to do with anything, but I think Mika may very well be the most beautiful person on the face of the planet.

Progressive Graffiti

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

I'm not sure why all animators seem to have an obsession with the violent and grotesque, but animated cannibals and frequent decapitation aside, this is one of the most innovative animations I've ever seen.

(courtesy of sommeree)

The Newest Tygielski

My brother had a baby girl! This is not the newest news, but I finally have the photographic evidence to prove it. She was born in Germany last Friday, and she's a tiny little thing... just 4 pounds, 6 ounces. I can't even imagine holding a living, breathing baby so itty-bitty.

Kandinsky v. Tygielski

Red, Green, Yellow, Tygielski


Yellow, Red, Blue, Kandinsky

David Hockney

Ian Swimming, Hockney

This man is my hero. Besides using a Polaroid camera for a lot of his photography (major bonus points right there), he's created totally unprecedented photo collages inspired by Cubist paintings. By arranging smaller, individually photographed pictures to create one composite image, he transformed scale, perspective, and angle in ways no other photographer had before him (or has since, really). Check out the simultaneity of time and space in Ian Washing His Hair below--it reminds me so strongly of Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2:


Ian Washing His Hair, Hockney


Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, Duchamp

Gwon Osang

There's so much to say about the trip, but my photos are currently being developed and my words alone couldn't possibly do justice to the experience. Since a picture is worth a thousand words (or so they say), I'll wait until I get my negatives back before I try to take on the week in Jackson.

In the meantime, these are the creations of Gwon Osang, a sculptor/photographer who creates life-size three-dimensional objects out of pictures. Wicked.