Inventing Snow

Yesterday was the last opportunity to see Xu Bing: Phoenix. Farewell, beautiful birds. Fly on!

This was absolutely stunning.

Rik Garrett - Symbiosis (2010-11)

Artist’s statement: 

"An integral concept of Alchemy is ‘Solve et Coagula’ – dissolve and combine.  This is the secret key to manifesting the Philosopher’s Stone, Elixr of Life and immortality. This ideal is represented with the image of the Rebis – a two-headed hermaphrodite that holds the assets of both genders."

Amazing.

Yes!

Heike Mutter & Ulrich Genth - Tiger & Turtle (2011) - A walk-along “roller coaster” (via likeafieldmouse)

Thoughts of water

oil on canvas

by Jochem Grin  http://jochemgrin.tumblr.com/

Light After Death: Mihoko Ogaki’s ‘Milky Way’ Figures Project Stars from Within (via itscolossal)

“Under Water” By paintedgraves

Pounding in at Croyde

Ken Roko

Red Bean Tree 01: Giclee Fine Art Print 13X19

Road, Willow Springs

“I’m not a big fan of clear, blue, skies.”

                              Joaquin Montalvan

ulmerstar: SO COOL! A giant human and architectural performance realized by NOTsoNOISY Guillaume Reymond and Trivial Mass Production. The tower has been animated as a rudimentary screen whose pixels are, in fact, all the windows and shutters that students, staff and friends shake for hours. Chapeau Chapeau!

Photography by Геннадий Тараканов (Gennadij Tarakanov)

Laurie Lipton - Love Bite, 2002. (Charcoal and Pencil on Paper, 137x96cm)

Another brilliant New Yorker cover by Christoph Niemann, for the Thanksgiving issue. Niemann’s Abstract City is a must-have. (via explore-blog)

The Lost Sketchbook of Guillermo del Toro:

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro put all his ideas for `Pan’s Labyrinth’ in a notebook — then lost it.

The heavyset man ran down the London street, panting, chasing the taxi. When it didn’t stop, he hopped into another cab. “Follow that cab!” he yelled. Guillermo del Toro wasn’t directing this movie. He was living it. And it was turning into a horror tale.

The Mexican filmmaker keeps all of his ideas in leather notebooks. And Del Toro had just left four years of work in the back seat of a British cab. Unlike in the movies, though, Del Toro couldn’t catch the taxi. Visits to the police and the taxi company proved equally fruitless.

Del Toro’s films — “Chronos,” “The Devil’s Backbone,” “Blade II,” “Hellboy” — typically feature magical realism. Fate was about to return the storytelling favor.

The cabbie spotted the misplaced journal. Working from a scrap of stationery that didn’t even have the name of Del Toro’s hotel (just its logo), the driver returned the book two days later. An overwhelmed Del Toro promptly gave him an approximately $900 tip.

The sketches and the ideas in that misplaced journal — four years of notes on character design, ruminations about plot — were the foundation of “Pan’s Labyrinth,” a child’s fantasy set in the wake of the Spanish Civil War.

The director, who at the time wasn’t even sure he’d actually make “Pan’s Labyrinth,” took the cabbie’s act as a sign, and plunged himself into the movie.

(via fuckyeahbookarts)