The first two pages from my upcoming comic Horus Story, the very true story of Horus’ birth according to Egyptian legend.
(Source: violentwavesofemotion, via myownpersonaluniverse)
A long time ago, before I even met you,
someone replaced my chest with a broken record.
For years, it’s been stammering through
the same old tune.
I want you to know I’m trying.
I quit smoking. I’m doing yoga. And those days
I wake up wishing for death are getting fewer
and farther apart.
No, I’m not ok. But I haven’t been ok
since I was 11, maybe 12. I am still here though.
I’m still breathing. For me, sometimes, that
will have to be enough.
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self portrait in terms that have no reference to the body.
ink on paper, 297 x 210 mm
by Jay Chang
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Nicola Samori (b. 1977). Italian.
Neo-Baroque??
Nicola Samori is fucking incredible. He works out of Italy, and he’s managed to nail the style of the Old Masters: his exhibitions contain everything from beautiful Baroque saints to Flemish still lifes — all painted now, in the modern era, in his studio. And that would be amazing in and of itself, but his work is so much more than simple reproduction. See, once he’s finished with a painting, or once he’s adapted one that’s been previously created, he takes a scalpel to it, a spatula, or a square of sandpaper, and begins to peel it apart. He flays painted skin right off his subjects’ bones.
Sometimes the “destruction” of the images asks the audience to think about what, exactly, the painting communicates when it’s whole. Other times it adds a strange level of corporeality to religious works, or gives portraits a darkly spiritual dimention they never had before.
He’s said in interviews that he views the layers of paint on the canvas as analogous to the muscle and tissue of the human body, and that by wearing it away, he changes the identity of the paintings themselves.
Dark and sometimes chilling as it is, I think his work is genuinely brilliant, and he’s one of my favorite living artists.
(Long story short, here’s his website, go check it out!)
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Obit of the Day: Romanthony - Writer, Producer and Singer
In November 2000 Daft Punk released their fifth single, “One More Time.” The French house music group would see its greatest success* with the song which reached #2 on the charts in the United Kingdom, #1 in France, and #1 on Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Songs. It would go on to earn a 2002 Grammy nomination for Best Dance Song. (It was re-released in 2001 on Daft Punk’s second studio album, Discovery.)
The voice on “One More Time” was Romanthony whose real name was Anthony Moore. The New Jersey native had met the French duo at the Winter Music Conference in 1996. They were familiar with and impressed by his earlier work on his own label, Black Male Records.
Romanthony began recording in the early 90s and self-produced several singles including “Make This Love Right” and “Let Me Show You Love.” He would release four albums on other labels, his last R.Hide in Plain Sight was produced in 2000.
Romanthony, who died on May 7, 2013 at the age of 45, was collaborating with German DJ Boys Noize at the time of his death. Boys Noize tweeted that “[Romanthony] said it was the best song he had ever written.”
Sources: RollingStone.com, Billboard.com, and Wikipedia
(“One More Time” and Musique Vol. 1: 1993-2005 is copyright Daft Life, 2006.)
* Their 2013 release, “Get Lucky,” featuring Pharrell Williams will likely surpass “One More Time” in sales and popularity.
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body’s been.
We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole."
Japanese Architecture firm Hironaka Ogawa were the masterminds behind this amazing home expansion in Kagawa, Japan. With the new found need for space, came the necessary demolition of old, sacred trees that had so much sentimental meaning for the homeowners. Instead of just parting ways, it was decided that the two trees would be repurposed into something greater for the family (via).
Daniel Nilsson
Attempting to fulfill my lifelong dream of flying silently and peacefully, I jumped off a two story roof
attached to approximately five hundred helium-filled balloons.
photos - James Edward Neuhalfen
