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sweetbeautifulboy: Kalup Linzy: One Life to Heal The New York...

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:14:03 -0400

Kalup Linzy: One Life to Heal

The New York Video Artist’s Many Personalities Shine in an Art Basel Hong Kong Debut

Florida-born, Brooklyn-based artist Kalup Linzy casts Michael Stipe and Leo Fitzpatrick as his co-stars in the tragi-camp world of the fictional Braswell family in his newest feat, Conversations wit de Churen X: One Life to Heal. The video revisits characters that Linzy has been working with for over a decade in acclaimed soap opera-inspired films such as All My Churen (2003). From overbearing mama to wayward son, Linzy plays nearly every character in his draggy world of high drama, song and dance, where disturbing effects such as voice modifiers give foreboding electronic depth to the Braswells’ skewed universe. Though a celebrated figure in the art world, with work housed in MoMA’s permanent collection among others, Linzy’s engagement with the vocabulary of daytime television runs surprisingly deep. He has crossed into more popular forms, appearing in episodes of soap General Hospital during the same period in which his sometime collaborator James Franco infamously guest-starred. While here Linzy follows the disappearance of a camp chanteuse named Taiwan from a cruise ship, leaving us with her body slumped on the shore, this weekend at Art Basel Hong Kong fair the artist will reincarnate his tragic diva at a dinner for art-world luminaries organized by Yana Peel, held on an old boat decorated in the style of 1930s Shanghai.

http://www.nowness.com/day/2013/5/24?ecid=soc1268

This is amazing. Check out the rest of Kalup Linzy’s videos.

typeworship: If Words Could Fly This inspiring and beautiful 3D...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:04:32 -0400

typeworship:

If Words Could Fly

This inspiring and beautiful 3D poster was created in support of the people of Fukushima, Japan. Called ‘Words can fly a thousand miles’, the sentiment seems quite apt again after the Oklahoma Tornado.

The team of designers based in Montreal were inspired by the Japanese custom of Senbazuru that promises luck or a wish to anyone folding a thousand origami cranes.

Once complete, the team sough donations and handwritten messages to console and encourage people after the devastation. You can see it in progress here.

Credits: Creative Director: Kyosuke Nishida, Art Director: Kyosuke Nishida, Brian Li Sui Fong, Designer: Dominic Liu, Photographer: Simon Duhamel. This project was realised with the help of Surface3 Design Office.

Matthu's Blog: My People

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:45:38 -0400

Matthu's Blog: My People:

matthuplacek:

This is Mark Carson. His family lives in upper Manhattan. His brother’s name is Michael. Mark worked at a Yogurt shop and lived in Brooklyn. One of his closest friends is Kennisha Allen. Mark was 32 years old. 1 year younger than me. Mark was openly gay and shot point blank in the face last…

Preface to Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:56:13 -0400

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body…

Street art from around the world.

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:20:45 -0400

Street art from around the world.

mejorarse: architectureland: Echolilia: A Father’s...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:47:56 -0400

mejorarse:

architectureland:

Echolilia: A Father’s Photographic Conversation with His Autistic Son. Timothy Archibald uses his camera to find an emotional bridge to his son Photographs and text from the book Echolilia: Sometimes I Wonder

My eldest son was born in 2001. He was always a kid who went to the beat of his own drummer. When he was 5, we began making photographs collaboratively as a way to find some common ground and attempt to understand each other. Soon after we began the project, Elijah was diagnosed on the autistic spectrum. Though the diagnosis gave me the words and history to understand my son better, it didn’t take away the mystery and the need to try to find an emotional bridge to him.”Echolilia” is an alternate spelling of a more common term, “echolalia,” used in the autistic community to refer to the habit of verbal repetition and copying that is commonly found in autistic kids’ behavior. I liked the idea of it: photography is a form of copying. Kids are a form of repetition. And looking at my kid with photography allowed me to see myself a new

So beautiful

sweetbeautifulboy: Michael Stipe and Thomas Dozol at the Piers...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:46:56 -0400

sweetbeautifulboy:

Michael Stipe and Thomas Dozol at the Piers heading to Frieze New York on May 11, 2013.

Photo by Terry Richardson

sweetbeautifulboy: Ryan McGinley and Michael Stipe at the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:46:34 -0400

sweetbeautifulboy:

Ryan McGinley and Michael Stipe at the opening of Wolfgang Tillmans’ Neue Welt at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in NYC on May 3, 2013.

Photo

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:45:17 -0400

Brian Eno, Michael Stipe & David Byrne at The Kitchen Spring Benefit Gala honoring Brian Eno on May 7, 2013.

Brian Eno, Michael Stipe, David Byrne & Laurie Anderson at The Kitchen Spring Benefit Gala honoring Brian Eno on May 7, 2013.

Eli Subrack and Thomas Dozol at The Kitchen Spring Benefit Gala honoring Brian Eno on May 7, 2013.

sweetbeautifulboy: An unsettling video that shows John Lennon...

Mon, 06 May 2013 06:46:19 -0400

sweetbeautifulboy:

An unsettling video that shows John Lennon speaking with a young man who has been camping out in his garden. He is convinced that John speaks to him through Beatles’ songs. John tries to help him see how impossible that is but realizes there is no way to get through to him. I have always been touched at how kind he was to the man, even inviting him in to eat with them. That part always disturbs me in light of what happened to John at the hands of a “fan”. Celebrities really never know what type of person they are being approached by in public. Is it a fan who just wants to let them know how important their work has been in their life, or someone who has constructed a fantasy world where the two of them live happily ever after if only they could meet? There are those who argue that you can’t complain about the spotlight when you placed yourself in it. But it seems to me the perks of being famous are far outweighed by the “fans” who create their own reality with themselves in a starring role.

This is disturbing. Also very sad at how out of touch with reality the young man appears to be. Being a celebrity doesn’t seem to be such a glamorous existence.

Miles Ahead: Sums Up Boston Tragedy

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:36:26 -0400

Miles Ahead: Sums Up Boston Tragedy:

milesonmilesonmiles:

Patton Oswalt on the Boston Bombings

Boston. Horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, “Well, I’ve had it with humanity.”

But I was wrong. I don’t know what’s going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

logans818: “The good outnumber you, and we always will.” So...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:34:08 -0400

logans818:

“The good outnumber you, and we always will.”

So much yes, Patton.

sweetbeautifulboy: Michael Stipe at the premiere of ‘Cold...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:57:45 -0500

sweetbeautifulboy:

Michael Stipe at the premiere of ‘Cold Lands’ at Berlinale with the film’s director, Tom Gilroy.

Michael is so sexy & witty. And bonus - a brief glimpse of adorable Thomas. Very glad you posted this.

thomasdozol: Back at work.

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:25:52 -0500

thomasdozol:

Back at work.

tattoolit: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:15:15 -0500

tattoolit:

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me. When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell. And of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling, on tiptoes and no luggage, not even a sponge bag, completely unencumbered.”

Aldous Huxley, Island (1962)

"What makes night within us may leave stars."

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:53:29 -0500

“What makes night within us may leave stars.”

- Victor Hugo (via somelittlejoy)

sweetbeautifulboy: Michael Stipe attends Cinema Society...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:54:06 -0500

sweetbeautifulboy:

Michael Stipe attends Cinema Society Presents The World Premiere Of ‘Girls’ Season 2at NYU Skirball Center on January 9, 2013 in New York City.

sweetbeautifulboy: Patti Smith and Michael Stipe attend the...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:53:25 -0500

sweetbeautifulboy:

Patti Smith and Michael Stipe attend the after party for the ‘On the Road’ premiere at the Top of The Standard Hotel on December 13, 2012 in New York City.

sweetbeautifulboy: Michael Stipe - Prisoner of Love

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:52:24 -0500

sweetbeautifulboy:

Michael Stipe - Prisoner of Love

Thomas Dozol & Michael Stipe...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:20:00 -0500

Thomas Dozol & Michael Stipe

confessionsofamichaelstipe:

rainjphoenix:

Thomas Dozol. Michael Stipe. Photographers. Artists. Lovers. Destroyers of mediocrity. Purveyors of cool. Tomorrows power couple today. www.thomasdozol.com
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