Plonk & Replonk
Plonk & Replonk is a Swiss French postcard company, they almost make me want to retouch my dead grandmother’s family album. Nuff said, I think the rest is clear in the images.
Andrea Galvani
“Time – one of the core elements of photography – has been central to my research from the very beginning. Acceleration – together with the absence of a defined direction – is leading society towards a sense of time that is single, global, and hysteric; a compressed and artificial time.” -Andrea Galvani
Dave Eggers
One of my best friends introduced me to the wonderful short short stories of Dave Eggers some time ago. You would have to read them yourself to discover their magic. Here’s my favourite pick:
What The Water Feels Like To The Fishes
Like the fur of a chinchilla. Like the cleanest tooth. Yes, the fishes say, this is what it feels like. People always ask the fishes, ‘What does the water feel like to you?’ and the fishes are always happy to oblige. Like feathers are to other feathers, they say. Like powder touching ash. We smile and nod. When the fishes tell us these things, we begin to understand. We begin to think we know what the water feels like to the fishes. But it’s not always like fur and ash and the cleanest tooth. At night, they say, the water can be different. At night, when it’s very cold, it can be like the tongue of a cat. At night, when it’s very very cold, it’s like cracked glass. Or honey. Or forgiveness, they say, ha ha. When the fishes answer these questions – which they are happy to do – they also ask why. They are curious things, fish are, and thus they ask, ‘Why? Why do you want to know what the water feels like to the fishes?’ And we are never quite sure. The fishes press further. ‘Do you breathe air?’ they ask. The answer is yes. Well then, they say, ‘What does the air feel like to you?’ And we do not know. We think of air and we think of wind, but that’s another thing. Wind is air in action, air on the move, and the fishes know this. Well then, they ask again, ‘What does the air feel like?’ And we have to think about this. Air feels like air, we say, and the fishes laugh mirthlessly. ‘Think!’ they say. ‘Think,’ they say, now gentler. And we think and we guess that air feels like hair, thousands of hairs, swaying ever so slightly in breezes microscopic. The fishes laugh again. ‘Do better, think harder,’ they say, encouraging us. It feels like language, we say, and they are impressed. ‘Keep going,’ they say. It feels like blood, we say, and they say, ‘No, no, now you’re getting colder.’ The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like being pushed and pulled and yanked, punched and slapped and misunderstood and loved, we say, and the fishes sigh and touch our forearm sympathetically.
(If you want to discover more of these stories visit his page on guardian.co.uk here.)
Sam Weber
This illustration by Sam Weber is actually a theatre poster for the Hungarian Playwright Ferenc Molnár’s “The Gaurdsman”. It is truly a very interesting reinterpretation of the story, compare it for instance with this 1931 poster from the feature film. The image kind of makes me wonder how many more layers there are, the Matryoshka Russian nested doll comes to mind.
Read more about the play here.
Victoria Reynolds
This painting by Victoria Reynolds makes my head spin with awe. What an excellent example of how art can subvert your expectations. At first look my heart skipped a beat while trying to process all the ambiguous sensations. A raw experience indeed…
Joe Amato
“And yeah o.k. i ate a lot of sweets along the way as well as dabbled in my keybored shitless and realised that the grass is often greener that form can be constraint that love ends that the search for oneself is a search that is always already changing and recognised the provisional and tentative and digressive nature of all insight and inspiration as i yearned for a solid place as i learned to cook or so i writ.” -Joe Amato, Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self
Kawano Takeshi
Kawano Takeshi made these beautiful and relevant works of art. I’d like them in sticker form, super for vandalising Hummers.
Tilman Faelker
I decided to breathe life into this blog after months of hibernation, these illustrations made me do it. Meet Tilman Faelker, creator of pure awesomeness. That third one is titled Naughty TV, it made me experience that good ol’ inner smile.
“Scan me!” said the pamphlets in unison.
Since the Cité des Arts doesn’t equip their studios with any post 1960′s equipment I went out and bought a scanner myself. £50 later I thought if I have to eat only soup for a few days it would be worth it. To test it I scanned these random clippings, mostly from brochures I picked up at galleries.
Cristina Maria Oswald
Every once in a while you stumble upon something that leaves you speechlessly in awe, this was one of those moments…
(Christina Maria Oswald at irritaction.com) 
An Eye For Annai by John Klassen and Dan Rodrigues.
This animation absolutely made my day
Discovered here: The Personality Girlsband
Originally from: You Tube
“Winter Bugs” by Ana Gomez
I love browsing portfolios on Behance Network, this is one of my favourite new discoveries… How it makes me think of “Biomorph Land”.
Visit Gomez on Behance Network
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