chris kutlesa
IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE SENSE
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
DAZED and CONFUSED: Maurizio Anzeri and Richard Burbridge
someone make this an album cover
A great collaboration, this time between photographer Richard Burbridge, Italian artist Maurizio Anzeri and stylist Robbie Spencer for June 2011 issue of Dazed and Confused. Black and white photographs taken by amazing Richard Burbridge were exploded to another dimension by Maurizio Anzeri who is best known for his series of embroidered portraits made from photogrpahs found in flea market. He transformed photos by stiching and sewing directly on them using colored threads.
source: http://trendland.net/2011/07/23/it-came-from-the-sky-by-maurizio-anzeri-and-richard-burbridge/#more-62675
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
LUIS ROBAYO- EXORCISMS
Luis Robayo is an Agence France-Presse photographer based in Colombia. In this set of photographs he documents Brother Hermes, an exorcist in the Valle del Cauca.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
TIM BURTON at LACMA
TIM BURTON exhibit at LACMA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents a major retrospective exploring the full range of Tim Burton's creative work, both as a film director and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer.
Tim Burton was born in Burbank in 1958. After studying at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), he worked as an animator at the Walt Disney Studios before breaking out on his own. Taking inspiration from popular culture, fairy tales and traditions of the gothic, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of a personal vision.
The exhibition brings together over 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, moving-image works, storyboards, puppets, concept artworks, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, including art from a number of unrealized and little-known personal projects. Many of these objects come from the artist's own archive, as well as from studio archives and private collections of Burton's collaborators. Hundreds of never-before-exhibited artworks and sketches will be joined by a selection of film posters accompanied by music composed for the exhibition by Burton's longtime collaborator Danny Elfman.
Two large-scale outdoor artworks are also installed on campus: a topiary inspired by Edward Scissorhands (1990), and Balloon Boy, an enormous figure based on an amalgamation of characters that Burton first introduced in his 1997 book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories.
In addition to the exhibit, Burton has taken on the role as curator and sifted through LACMA's archives to find the most "Burtonesque" art among the collection. Burton shares his inspirations in the video below.
Tim Burton was born in Burbank in 1958. After studying at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), he worked as an animator at the Walt Disney Studios before breaking out on his own. Taking inspiration from popular culture, fairy tales and traditions of the gothic, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of a personal vision.
The exhibition brings together over 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, moving-image works, storyboards, puppets, concept artworks, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, including art from a number of unrealized and little-known personal projects. Many of these objects come from the artist's own archive, as well as from studio archives and private collections of Burton's collaborators. Hundreds of never-before-exhibited artworks and sketches will be joined by a selection of film posters accompanied by music composed for the exhibition by Burton's longtime collaborator Danny Elfman.
Two large-scale outdoor artworks are also installed on campus: a topiary inspired by Edward Scissorhands (1990), and Balloon Boy, an enormous figure based on an amalgamation of characters that Burton first introduced in his 1997 book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories.
In addition to the exhibit, Burton has taken on the role as curator and sifted through LACMA's archives to find the most "Burtonesque" art among the collection. Burton shares his inspirations in the video below.
source: http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/tim-burton
Thursday, May 26, 2011
The Reality Show-by- ARAKI
The Reality Show By Araki
on Nowness.com.
The Reality Show By Araki
The Erotic-Minded Artist Captures Japan's Next Wave for Tokyo's Cult Fashion Magazine
The man known for his S&M slant turned his lens to Japan's bleeding edge to shoot the second issue of limited-edition Tokyo-based style magazine The Reality Show. Director Kensui Arao filmed the behind-the-scenes action as Nobuyoshi Araki captured tastemakers including model-actress Kiko Mizuhara, triathlete Jessica Michibata and concept band The Plasticzooms, who created the video's original soundtrack. “It was like a zoo, a Tokyo fashion zoo,” says editor-in-chief Tiffany Godoy, who founded The Reality Show in 2010 with art director Tomoyuki Yonezu. The two conceived of the title as a way to showcase Japanese style with a global perspective: inviting a select mix of models, actors, artists and street-fashonistas to meld their own wardrobes with the latest collections from Western designers, including Lanvin, Balenciaga and Tom Ford. “There’s fantasy and beauty in what we make, but it’s still realistic,” explains Godoy, an L.A. native who has lived in Tokyo since 1997. “These are real people who are influencers, and this is what they really wear and really think. We're just refining the way it’s presented." Best known for his provocative photographs incorporating kinbaku (the art of Japanese rope tying), Araki has published over 500 books of his artwork and exhibited around the world at such institutions as The Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo and London's Hayward Gallery.
see more daily videos at nowness.com
source: http://www.nowness.com/day/2011/5/17/the-reality-show-by-nobuyoshi-araki
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
BLOOD & CIGARETTES
These photos are apart of a bigger project that I have been working on. I struggle sometimes focusing my thought process into concise visuals. With these photos I just wanted everything to be extremly tangiable- sensual but not sexual? It's important that human elements take center stage in a hyper and wonderous way. Mystery-adventure-WONDER---- all things to keep in the forefront. Uhhh reading this back I sound like this shit is coming out of my ass.
I'm posting this bastard before I delete the whole thing entirely. THAT is another thing!!!- it's hard not throwing most of my stuff in the garbage. Thankfully I've come into the realization that I am not the only one who has this problem- in fact a lot of people "cleanse" their work out of frustration. On the flip side it's the frustration that becomes the drive.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
SKULL RINGS
Met this old time rocker in LA- could't resist but snapping a pic of his rings- the middle finger? I'm use to it by now.
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