29 xpome

 
What's the best art based experience you have ever had?

Hmm, i suppose it goes back to my first year of graffiti - 2001, when i painted a woman with an embryo holding a baby with a spraycan in his hands in a tram tunnel in Sofia just before NY 2002. Then i went back to Germany to study further and few days later i got an email from a close friend with my piece on the cover of a bulgarian magazine. He had to stole it and scan it for me: ) Soon after that another friend of mine told me how fascinated he was by that piece while we were going to school, he didn't know I'd painted it. That gave me the courage to continue painting.

Where's home?

Home is where my head lays, but it's mostly Sofia, my home town.

How did this all start for you?

Very accidently. I was looking for something in a library back in 2000 when i saw a book entitled Graffiti Art #8, i opened it and said to myself - that's what you'll be doing next...

What types of art do you like?

Art with quality and sense of humor.

What would you really like to be able to do?

To draw decently haha

Recommend a song, a book and a film.

anything by the Beastie boys
anything by Kurt Vonnegut
Kontroll - 90s hungarian movie about the surreal life in the metro system there

I can see a child like sense of fun to your art would you say that is fair?

True story, i try to keep the child in me while painting. It really keeps me young and alive in a way.

What are you working on now? What's next?

I am working as an architect in an NGO, we try to keep it up transformatori.net/

28 Mustapha Azeroual - Alterations

This work made with a pinhole camera is about the impact of past on present, so every picture contains a part of the picture before.

Check out the full series

I'd like to recommend Nils Guadagnin for his golden blanket.

27 Piotr Machela - Destruction

Here's my tumblr and facebook

And I recommend the artists:

Szum

Small Mechanics

If you are in Estonia check out

Blezej Rusin's exhibition.

26 Stunt

 Stunt

Here are sites of my friends:
marh  & Stachu Szumski

25 Seikon

 

Seikon

I want to nominate Pener 

24 Thomas Howes - Isaac Clarkes happiest moments

Thomas Howes

23 MH Antistar - Swag Discoteka 100% XXXL

MH Antistar

I want to nominate:
www.flickr.com/photos/otecki/

22 Grégoire Orio - Dawn

Grégoire Orio

And I would like to post the poem "Qui suis-je" written by Antonin Artaud

Qui suis-je ?
D’où je viens ?
Je suis Antonin Artaud
et que je le dise
comme je sais le dire
immédiatement
vous verrez mon corps actuel
voler en éclats
et se ramasser
sous dix mille aspects
notoires
un corps neuf
où vous ne pourrez
plus jamais
m’oublier.

I would like to nominate one of my friends, who is a french photographer, Mustapha Azeroual, especially for his work called alterations.

21 Sebastian Wolf

Sebastian Wolf

and i will nominate these artists

sebastian daschner

xpome

erell   

seikon 

ec13  

20 - Irina Stepanova - Saint Petersburg

I drew this in spring, on a wall in a hostel in this great city. It's a Saint Petersburg map with funny tourist animals.

Link on Flickr

And more of the drawing here

and here is my website.

19 - Graphic Surgery - Canal Project / houndstooth / electricity

http://graphicsurgery.nl/

We would recommend
 Erosie
Botlek

18 - Julian Pablo Manzelli

Personal Website

Stuff to check out

Hir Andriy - VODA VEDE

Hir Andriy

Occasional Musical Recommendation - Mogwai

Great band from Glasgow one of the first post rock bands, with a more electronic sound, ahead of the release of their new record; rave tapes.

17 - Megan Diddie - Psychedelic Succulents

Megan Diddie

Down the Last Coast

The bluebells stretch from play-dough colored rock

Along this foggy coast cozy like a sweater

Thrifted from prior generations of Shaggy dog style

Imaginations of arrival

In a place like this

Switched myths of coastal flora

Views of the past

Colors radiate from seeds

to sky through different air

I’m southbound searching through the road

Passing by the vistas no tourist misses

Braided palms around the wheel

Keep my attention

A memory flat like a photograph 

Tim Hogan

Other artists you should consider:

Aleksandra Waliszewska

Chiara No

Maureen Gubia

16 - Marko

macro có

Occasional Musical Recommendation - July Talk

July Talk are the first rock band I've liked for a long time, they remind me of a lot of people but they still have their own sound.

15 - Clément Paillardon

Open up the broken cup
Let goodly sin and sunshine in
Yes that's today.
And open wide the hymns you hide
You find renown while people frown
At things that you say
But say what you'll say
About the farmers and the fun
And the things behind the sun
And the people around your head
Who say everything's been said
And the movement in your brain
Sends you out into the rain.
Nick Drake



And I would like to nominate a good friend of mind Gegoire Orio from Paris, who is making music and experimental video clips. Take a look if you have the time.

Clement

www.clementpaillardon.com

www.clementpaillardon.tumblr.com

Jose Parla - Nature of Language

 Jose Parla

14 - Mike Bauer - Gross me out

Check out my flickr

and these artists:

 - www.flickr.com/thomashowes

 - www.flickr.com/el_neoray

 - www.flickr.com/stevendarden

 - www.flickr.com/connora

 - www.flickr.com/lazy_bones

Occasional Musical Recommendation - Karol Conka

Karol Conka é uma cantora de Rap - Hip Hop, que traz em sua sonoridade fortes referências da música Brasileira.
(Karol Conka is a singer of Rap - Hip Hop, which brings in its sonority strong references Brazilian music.)

13 Joseba Eskubi - Óleo sobre lienzo

Joseba Eskubi

12 - abcdef - sketchin Istanbul 3

"and no kinds of love are better than others" Velvet Underground, some kind of love.

5 artists:

Sebastian Wolf/ Real Twenty, Germany and http://www.flickr.com/photos/realtwenty/

Teck, Ukraine 

Ugoe, France

Delta, Netherland

Eduardo Paolozzi, Scotland

11 marie morassutti

I like people

People like me

People don´t always like me

I don´t always like people

They are all around me

and I am all around them

They make strange noises

as I do when I am alone

Someone would call it a Zoo

I love beasts.

www.marievitale.blogspot.com

http://cargocollective.com/marievitale

I nominate:

http://albamorassutti.tumblr.com/

http://www.claudecadi.org/

http://damiendaufresne.tumblr.com/

http://clementpaillardon.tumblr.com/

http://chiaimmaginario.blogspot.fr/

10 Alberonero - Campogalliano | Modena

Black wall.
One green window.
Gray sky.
Many tiles with moss.
Nonna Luciana, in Italian, cooking the typical "tortellini".
Sara is beautiful.
The composition slanted white is the axis of reflection of the window.
This situation creates another window overturned that gives balance to the wall.


Albero Nero 

9 Błażej Rusin / Personal organic / Teaser / 2013

Błażej Rusin

I would like to nominate :
Brems Oner
Jakup Ferii
Stunt
Marie Morassutti
Alexandros Vasmoulakis

8 Brett Williams - Lou

Brett Williams   -  artist of big vulnerable works with irreparable hair damage

I'd like to nominate:
Adrian Gheenie - Romania
Ben Quilty - Australia


Other inspirations are:
Egon Schiele
Alexander Kanevsky

7 Dima Mykytenko

Links: http://www.flickr.com/photos/azo_azo/

         http://cargocollective.com/dimaa

interesting artists:

- Blazej Rusin

- Alberonero

- Brems

- abcdef

- Jon Drypnz

6 Kyle Pellet

Kyle Pellet

 Spam Alfredo Recipe

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

-          1 tbsp olive oil
-          1 clove garlic, minced
-          ½ onion, chopped
-          1 dash black pepper
-          1/3 can (4 oz) Spam, diced
-          ½ (8 oz)bottle Ragu Fresh Alfredo Sauce
-          8 oz. / 226g spaghetti noodles
-          8-10 cups water

Instructions:

-          Heat olive oil in a medium-sized pan over medium-high heat. Bring heat down to medium, and stir in the garlic and onions, and cook for three minutes. Stir in black pepper and Spam, and cook for two minutes, or until onions are golden brown. Stir in Ragu Fresh Alfredo Sauce, and cook for another 2-3 minutes. Bring heat to low.
-          In a pot, bring water to a boil. Add noodles, and cook for 8 minutes or until tender.
-          Drain noodles. In a bowl, serve Ragu Alfredo Spam sauce over noodles to your mom, your sister, a girl you like, a friend, or just yourself if you’re all alone. Eat 3 servings if you’re all alone.

and finally these are the artists I nominate:

Mia Christopher
Frances Marin
Wai Wai Pang 
 Rory Dean
 Jesse Balmer
 

5 Hir Andriy - The punishment of Egypt

As punishment for Pharaoh's obstinacy God brought down upon Egypt ten successive plagues that are depicted on murals. They are: water turned to blood, frogs, mosquitoes, horseflies, death of livestock, ulcers, hail, locusts, darkness and death of the firstborn.

Hir Andriy 

I can nominate my friends:

Dima Azo and MH

4 William Schaff - Jesus washes the feet of the disciples

 

William Schaff

The five other artists I would nominate would be

1. Brian Chippendale, Rhode Island, USA
2. Jungil Hong, Rhode Island, USA
3. Dan Blakeslee, Massachusetts, USA
4. Meredith Younger, Rhode Island, USA
5. Brett Williams, South Africa

3 Bob May - Idée fixe

 

In making my collages I restrict myself to using only actual original illustrations from old books. Until last year this meant that my supply of material was very sparse. But I have now found the place where all the old books that nobody wants, that no-one can sell, end up.

They are sent to this warehouse from charity shops nationwide. They arrive in huge lorries, packed in sacks. Inside the warehouse about forty people sort them out, to the accompaniment of the beeps from the fork-lift trucks that whizz backwards and forwards all the time. Some are “old books”, or “pre-ISBN” and these are sent to the corner of the warehouse where the majority are deemed unsellable and are thrown into a skip. These skips are hoisted into the back of a huge bulk-carrying lorry and sent off to become cardboard.

But one day a week I stand by that skip and rescue the odd old book. I might remove only one illustration from a single book, or I might remove a dozen. In my improvised studio at home I store the thousands of pictures salvaged and I stare at them until they talk to me.

In my small way, and as a hobbyist, I hope to entertain people and to stimulate ideas and feelings through my collages. I have found collage to be capable of more expression than I had imagined, but a good deal of thought and feeling has to be poured into it before anything of quality comes out.

Most of the amateur collage that I see on the photo-sharing website that I use strikes me as empty and cheap, not to mention ugly. I hope that I may be influential in raising the standards of collage work to some degree.

I would only nominate Federico Hurtado.

2 Alex Chiu - Bird, Bunny, Bear and Monkey

I usually have no idea what I’m going to draw before I start a piece.
I’ve developed a vocabulary of patterns, characters, objects,
and symbols that I utilize throughout the drawing process,
but the main objective is to fill white space until a picture appears.
It has become a process of surprising myself and not being afraid
to draw something in a way I haven’t before.  In this way, when
I have given up the idea that a piece is supposed to look a certain way,
I can tap into a part of the universe that reveals things to me that
I have never seen or understood before.
This is how I believe an artist grows.

-- Alex Chiu, May 2011

Nominations (for future Bright Tangents):

Jesse Balmer
Adam Roth
Darin Schuler
Dustin Myers
Kyle Pellet

1 Chris Murtagh - Each Bright Morning

Chris Murtagh

With each step you may wander further off from your original idea, that's ok, that idea was just before your first step, and you're now just before your next one.