NEU FISH!

HEALTH “We are Water” from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.

100,000 staples and 40 hours later, artist Peter Root’s creative vision gave birth to a beautiful new city.

The making of Ephemicropolis from Peter Root on Vimeo.

M.I.A, Born Free by ROMAIN-GAVRAS

On the verge of ruin
You’ll see it all clear
How steep the fall is
How long the way back is
On the verge of success
It’s all white and fluffy
Horizons are blurred
By the time you reach your goal
Tongues will be twisted
To the point where you’ll lose track of your soul
Distorted pictures is all you deliver
José González

I’ve been slightly obsessed with this song for the past week

All You Deliver

I sometimes don’t understand people.
It’s fine though, I don’t mind that much. As long as I’m not involved in the non-understandable part.
Once you get involved with it though it makes everything complicated and kind of macabre.
And more so makes me feel vulnerable, angry and misunderstood.

Like drowning or being fucked by a demon.

sources: photograph found on Sabino, drawing by unknown found on geneticmutations.

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.” – Marcus Aurelius

“For me it was always a question… If we have such a fast life, we have to have long art… I always believe the artist’s function is to connect disconnected society and give some kind of awareness, not just spiritual but where they live…”

“Its so important in life of the artists to know a few things: to know when to stop the work and how to die.”

Marina Abramović’s
‘The Artist is Present’ is a performance retrospective at MoMA, New York, from March 14-May 31, 2010.

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I love how the interlocking of the two family members’ fingers not only successfully communicates the key message of the importance of a seatbelt, but it serves as a reminder that anyone who ever gets involved in such tragedies, hurts not only themselves, but those they share a close bond with. I’m starting to sound like I work with the traffic police, I’m sorry!

I also love how the pre-accident bit is in slow motion, coupled with soothing music that may be representative of how we take life for granted, and then followed by the sudden thrust of a driver, a father, a husband, a best friend, a bread winner, a son.

The ad is further dramatised with the flying of the coins/bits/pieces, representative of a car crash, perhaps also to display how brittle life can be, and that it can all break apart into the tiniest little pieces, fly away and disappear in an instance.

Employing the soft approach, lovely to see that all this was done without the conventional employment of blood, dead bodies, mourning family members, screaming eyewitnesses, crashed cars, ambulances and the likes.

Definitely a work of art this ad is.

mark evans and his etched carvings = GORGEOUS ART.