Special Interest

Perhaps a post on good websites? Here's a few of mine -

http://www.pedrodekastro.com/ (http://www.pedrodekastro.com/)
Dark, well rendered pen and ink, black and white creations in a consciously "post apocalyptic" mood.
http://www.jessewiedel.com/ (http://www.jessewiedel.com/)
Cynicism and sincerity, reality and surreality: the US underclass dug up and brought to light. Hail the Meth Mouth!
http://www.alessandrobavari.com/english/sodom_gomorrah/gallery_sodom_gomorrah.htm (http://www.alessandrobavari.com/english/sodom_gomorrah/gallery_sodom_gomorrah.htm)
Photo journalism of the last days of two of the Bible's favourite holiday locations. Let's all go to Fellatio Fair.

Martin Bladh should be known to most people here. If you don't know his work have look at the first Special Interests issue or at his blog. What can I say? Blood, guts, nude, serial killers, performance, sex... it's all there. The letters he gets from Denis Nilsen are nice.
http://martinbladh-vf.blogspot.com/

Stefan Danielsson is doing more and more interesting pictures. He has a ton of interesting thoughts on "his" subjects, and it would be great to see an indepth interview with him some day.

His two blogs:
http://bitedead.blogspot.com/
http://africaandomega.blogspot.com/

There has not been a lot written about Danielsson, but here is an interesting piece by Carl Abrahamsson, only in Swedish though:
http://bratnoir.blogspot.com/2009/11/stefan-danielsson-africa-omega.html

(http://galleriloyal.com/gl012/Stefan%20Danielsson-Untitled.jpg)

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5zRbbAQguQA/SIre1OAVOaI/AAAAAAAAAPY/oPEvWpPOmpg/s1600/%2BNicholas%2Bkalmakoff.jpg)

Not Danielsson, but a beautiful image nonetheless. Hail The Serpent!

Quote from: Tommy Carlsson on December 12, 2009, 12:04:28 PM
Stefan Danielsson is doing more and more interesting pictures. He has a ton of interesting thoughts on "his" subjects, and it would be great to see an indepth interview with him some day.

I have a feeling he might have made orders from my in past? And that we traded something. I remember one guy from sweden sending me flyers of his exhibition etc.

I have intent in Special Interest to cover some art. If there are interesting artists what even "vaguely" connect into noise. Quite recently obtained some art booklets of the guy who did artworks for SODALITY records. One of them very good.

I think first target will be simply "close to homebase" so to say. Finnish artists Jukka Siikala, who have done for example Strom.ec 3rd album cover painting. He has done more for metal, he's working on exceptional painting of mrs. Bizarre Uproar. I remember his first solo exhibition maybe 5-6 years ago in Helsinki when he blasted just Merzbow and Masonna as background music for his experimental sexually motivated works. Now his latest solo exhibition opening day had Bizarre Uproar doing live performance and on the walls you could see big oil paintings of sexual tension, www disturbances, cums fetish, etc.  Very good and talented artists doing pretty demanding works, instead of doodles and photoshop wankery.
His site: http://www.siikala.com/
experimental portrait series is my favorite. Been considering purchasing original painting if I could afford it. My siikala original painting collection is now simply record cover paintings he have done for me on Northern Heritage. When you see all these painting in real life, it does change the perspective to look at them. I finally have learned about why people might go to exhibitions of actual original art instead pre-view images online...

Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on December 13, 2009, 01:16:08 PM

Quote from: Tommy Carlsson on December 12, 2009, 12:04:28 PM
Stefan Danielsson is doing more and more interesting pictures. He has a ton of interesting thoughts on "his" subjects, and it would be great to see an indepth interview with him some day.

I have a feeling he might have made orders from my in past? And that we traded something. I remember one guy from sweden sending me flyers of his exhibition etc.

He also did the artwork for Racket by Whitehouse.

http://verlichtingshumanisten.web-log.nl/photos/test_fotoalbum/index.html (http://verlichtingshumanisten.web-log.nl/photos/test_fotoalbum/index.html)

Some very inspiring photography sites:

http://www.abandoned-places.com/
http://www.friched.net/
http://www.hfinster.de/
http://www.lost-least.it/
http://www.designshed.com/lostamerica/index.html
http://nostalgicglass.org/

And one for movie buffs:

http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/

Not a hug fan of photography for the most part, but I thought this guys stuff was different:

http://www.joshuahoffine.com/

Reading his blog about some of the lengths he goes to to set up the shots interesting as well:

http://joshuahoffine.wordpress.com/

I heard an interview with him once and he took some heat for the "Big Bad Wolf" picture (look at his portfolio) even though he used his own daughter.

Quote from: Ganesha23 on December 30, 2009, 10:34:42 AM
Some very inspiring photography sites:

http://www.hfinster.de/

Thanks!!

http://www.industriekultur-fotografie.de/

perhaps whole decayed industrial culture photography phenomena would deserve its own topic. I was one given possibility to be officially invited to do source recordings at Imatra Steel factories. One guy who worked in the factory, saw Grunt live show in Lappeenranta, and came to tell me some of the sounds are like liquid hot steel being poured into molds. I though, it sounds interesting, but didn't have much of portable recorders at the time. Since then many walkmen and also digital recorder is bought, so would be easy. But now due economic depression, guy is no longer working in position he was in...
But I think the true industrial documentation in sound & visual, top interests.

I missed that! Those are very nice. A year or so back I stumbled on a website, it was photos this woman had taken of Chernobyl today. There are several out there, but hers was very good. For the life of me I can't remember the name.

Any recommendations for good photography books on abandonend buildings / old industrial sites and the like? I really like browsing through these websites but a printed page beats a computer screen any day.

And speaking of artist websites:

www.nitsch.org (http://www.nitsch.org)

Quote from: Plague Haus on January 01, 2010, 07:57:02 PM
I missed that! Those are very nice. A year or so back I stumbled on a website, it was photos this woman had taken of Chernobyl today. There are several out there, but hers was very good. For the life of me I can't remember the name.

That woman must be Elena Filatova: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiddofspeed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiddofspeed)

Another nice journal from Chernobyl with strangely colorful photos, videos and audio:
http://timmsuess.com/ (http://timmsuess.com/)

That's it! Cheers for that.

Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on January 01, 2010, 10:54:33 AM
I was one given possibility to be officially invited to do source recordings at Imatra Steel factories. One guy who worked in the factory, saw Grunt live show in Lappeenranta, and came to tell me some of the sounds are like liquid hot steel being poured into molds. I though, it sounds interesting, but didn't have much of portable recorders at the time.

Sorry about off topic but one of my most incredible aesthetic experiences of 2009 was visiting a steel factory (a full factory from a blast furnace to casting). A huge, dirty hall, flashes of melt steel, big machinery running on their own with rare appearance of workers, omnipresent deep, heavy echoing sounds. Very Mad Max style atmosphere, incredible.

a bit off topic, but before the finance crisis I was metal worker constructing waste mills for recycling industry. I always had tape recorder at hand and collected hours of raw sound that I still have use for when doing cutups...
my co-workers thought it was a bit strange that I found such pleasure in what they just considered disturbing part of their work environment... highlight was when we tested the machines and they shredded everything that fell into them. there has been two accidents where sloppy personell has fallen into the mills and come out as swedish meatballs....

Speaking of abandoned and decayed infrastructure,

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1542
Not really a specific artist website per se, but it has some nice photography of ghost town Kadykchan, located in Magadan Oblast, in easternmost Russia.

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1220
Some abandoned heavy machinery.

The page seems to have lots of such galleries related to Russia and the Soviet Union.

http://joch-so-tot.blogspot.com/

Denis Kostromitin from Russia who did cover art for Cloama + Die Blutleuchte - Convoluted In Peripheral Sacrifice tape and some other covers for Industrial releases.

One of Italy's finest:

http://www.lucadelbaldo.com/

Quote from: tiny_tove on January 22, 2010, 03:42:48 PM
One of Italy's finest:

http://www.lucadelbaldo.com/

Was he in Funeral Party? I have a memory of a hanged dog I think it was or an animal anyway.

I think you are mean Milo Sacchi? I brought my copies of Funeral Party with me to the gallery some days ago... great reading. Have you checked out Shades new book?

Yes, that was his name. Is Dark Stars Rising finally out? I didn't know that.

http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2008/11/07/incredible-paintings-by-tetsuya-ishida/ (http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2008/11/07/incredible-paintings-by-tetsuya-ishida/)

and

http://www.tetsuyaishida.jp/gallery/ (http://www.tetsuyaishida.jp/gallery/)

Trevor Brown's website:
http://www.pileup.com/babyart/_top.htm

classic shit

sorry for late answer,
no luca wasn't in funeral p and yes milo was.
luca's work is impressive, very big paintings with these intense use of colour.
he started with cut-ups and collages and then move the technique in paintings which I enjoy more.
I owe him to have introduced me to ballard and some visual stuff I would have had problems to find alone

http://laurielipton.com/Gallery.asp (http://laurielipton.com/Gallery.asp)

http://www.masterpiper.com/exhibition/in-your-own-village

This is a link to a gallery site showing works of Justin Mortimer.
The paintings are quite haunting after-war scenes, also a bit like after zombie holocaust.
The technique is excellent!

I have just received the futurist series of thes very talented artist/graphic designer, very inspired by futurism and constructivism, with a hint of skinhead culture.

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Dinamo-Futurista-Poster-Set/407035

the futurist series:

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Dinamo-Futurista-Poster-Set/407035

(http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles3/94351/projects/407035/943511264846718.jpg)

The poster of Fortunato Depero is the best one.

It's about time I learned Italian because I've got a book about the Futurists in Italian and I can't understand it. "Il Futuristi; La Storia, Gli Artisti, Le Opere", published by Guinti in 2004. Not sure if it's a catalogue or a monogram on the movement. Great, full colour reproductions of paintings, puppets, posters and other graphics, a real delight. I think Depero might be my favourite of their artists; real simple, effective style.

Hi there!
I'm from Madrid, I make noise (and other musics) and art also:

www.afeitealperro.blogspot.com

www.manchasyruido.blogspot.com

[imghttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_h91dM6R3Hos/S7XbiW1p3MI/AAAAAAAABAw/4rCSBySTwFY/s1600/k1.jpg][/img]

Best!
jose.

Well...I wrongloaded the image...

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_h91dM6R3Hos/S7XbiW1p3MI/AAAAAAAABAw/4rCSBySTwFY/s1600/k1.jpg)

http://www.mikereedy.com/?view=galleries&category=5&page=2&img=42


(http://www.mikereedy.com/art/resize/7587341a7d1f66e57bd6e09ed743adbe.jpg)

(http://www.mikereedy.com/art/resize/69fba8d9faa5fee60effd24a0fc83473.jpg)

http://eric-singelin.blogspot.com/2010/01/jeux-taime-leffet-que-tu-me-fais.html

fantastic, nothing extreme, but definitely intense

I've posted some images of recent collage art:

www.bitewerks.blogspot.com

Not sites, but some pages of interest. Photographic art -
http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2009/10/21/2719847.htm (http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2009/10/21/2719847.htm)
http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/30-incredible-examples-of-urban-decay-photography (http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/30-incredible-examples-of-urban-decay-photography)
http://magnesiumagency.com/2010/02/10/gunkanjima-battleship-island/ (http://magnesiumagency.com/2010/02/10/gunkanjima-battleship-island/)

Strictly speaking this is an art teacher's website, intended to instruct on how narratives are formed:

http://www.fulltable.com/

Really well done site with some deeply obscure source material content, mysterious and perverse connections waiting to be formed and seemingly endless hidden links. I spent hours there.

Literal sneaker fetischism and chav sex

http://drtenge.com/2011/07/23/david-haines/
http://www.davidhaines.org

Here is a list compiling contemporary artists.


Are Mokkelbost
http://www.b-o-r-g.org/ (http://www.b-o-r-g.org/)
Norwegian artist and musician.

Jukka Siikala
http://www.siikala.com/ (http://www.siikala.com/)
Shouldn't need any further introduction.

Luigi Presicce
http://www.luigipresicce.it/Luigi%20Presicce.html (http://www.luigipresicce.it/Luigi%20Presicce.html)
Italian artist working mainly in performance.

Alexander Rishaug
http://www.arishaug.com/ (http://www.arishaug.com/)
Norwegian sound artist and musician.

Roger Andersson
http://www.google.no/search?um=1&hl=en&noj=1&biw=1592&bih=894&q=roger%20andersson%20artist%20homepage&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=5eCKUJf3LtTN4QS5ioCADg (http://www.google.no/search?um=1&hl=en&noj=1&biw=1592&bih=894&q=roger%20andersson%20artist%20homepage&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=5eCKUJf3LtTN4QS5ioCADg)
Swedish artist working mainly in drawings.

Fredrik Söderberg
http://www.fredriksoderberg.org/ (http://www.fredriksoderberg.org/)
Swedish artist.

Monica Winther
http://monicawinther.no/ (http://monicawinther.no/)
Norwegian artist.

Linn Pedersen
http://linnpedersen.com/ (http://linnpedersen.com/)
Norwegian artist.

Mariell Amélie
http://www.mariellamelie.com/ (http://www.mariellamelie.com/)
Norwegian photographer.

Justin Bartlett
http://www.vberkvlt.com/pages/selected_pieces (http://www.vberkvlt.com/pages/selected_pieces)
US artist & illustrator, probably on everybody's tongue.

Tori Wraanes
http://www.toriwraanes.com/ (http://www.toriwraanes.com/)
Norwegian artist working mainly in performance.

SINDRE FOSS SKANCKE
Norwegian artist and musician.
http://sindrefossskancke.com/ (http://sindrefossskancke.com/)

(http://static.squarespace.com/static/5057103be4b02b42cb31ab1a/50571146e4b02b42cb31acb8/5057122be4b02b42cb31ae0f/1347883563349/1.jpg?format=1500w)

http://kazukitakamatsu.web.fc2.com/

(http://kazukitakamatsu.web.fc2.com/_src/sc536/14881w82C782A482B981A82DD82F182C888EA8F8F81x.jpg)

Quote from: HongKongGoolagong on October 15, 2012, 10:37:26 AM
Strictly speaking this is an art teacher's website, intended to instruct on how narratives are formed:

http://www.fulltable.com/

I looked again for the first time in a few years and realised just how much this brilliantly perspicacious site actually taught me about the manipulation and recontextualisation of images - can recommend it very highly as a learning tool to anyone working with found images, collage, bricolage.

http://www.johnredhead.org/

was iris mentioned already?

http://www.iris-schieferstein.de

ancient website, mini images unfortunately...

Interesting, thanks for that.

Holocaust Memorial selfies get improved - http://yolocaust.de/

And this new thing: https://ageprogressed.blogspot.co.uk/

Quote from: HongKongGoolagong on January 20, 2017, 05:00:09 PM
Holocaust Memorial selfies get improved - http://yolocaust.de/

And this new thing: https://ageprogressed.blogspot.co.uk/

selfie not art.banal self absorption
mr best, not as good as some think he is.

Quote from: david lloyd jones on January 20, 2017, 05:39:07 PM
selfie not art.banal self absorption

I'm guessing this doesn't work on mobiles - you see something else when you run a mouse over it. Terrific mischievous project - "Yes, some people's behaviour at the memorial site is indeed disrespectful. But the victims are dead, so they're probably busy doing dead people's stuff rather than caring about that"

well, no.
selfie culture, whilst ubiquitous, is a plague banalising reality.
memorials are always for living people-to not care is one thing, but guess these folks didn't give much thought other than as a banal ego centred holiday snap

revisited site and seen hidden selfie.
still think this a banalisation (which is not to critique these folks as being pro Nazi, but to critique them for banalising the power of the Nazi act (which can be seen as good or bad as according to your pro or anti Nazi beliefs).

Quote from: theotherjohn on March 04, 2017, 09:40:58 PM
Darja Bajagić: http://dbajagic.tumblr.com/

Can't really say that I'm too fond of her artwork, but her subject matter is both equally appealing and appalling...

I like the way her art looks, she mentions Mikko Aspa as one of her favorite living artists in the Interview magazine piece on her...

the anti paedophile stance is the epitome of liberal decency.
after a long working week of being liberal decency incarnate, I long to be the antithesis, hence wallowing in the waters here.
so, these artworks annoy as much as engage.
I am aware that others don't get this-ordinary folk, like the neighbour who taped my post stressful workday rant out of my flats window whilst bladdered, to comment on the driving skills of a black female in cheap, common racist terms.(stupid fucking nigger for those interested)
it only occurred to me how wrong others see this when a posse of local multicultural youth turned up to get the 'Nazi'.
aware this will be equally/more at home in the pc/butthurt thread.

Quote from: Peterson on March 04, 2017, 11:57:49 PM

Quote from: theotherjohn on March 04, 2017, 09:40:58 PM
Darja Bajagić: http://dbajagic.tumblr.com/

Can't really say that I'm too fond of her artwork, but her subject matter is both equally appealing and appalling...

I like the way her art looks, she mentions Mikko Aspa as one of her favorite living artists in the Interview magazine piece on her...

Looks interesting. Who is Molly?