Happy Halloween & see you in a week

I am leaving tonight for a week, so I will not be here for Halloween. But in case you need some last minute simple ideas for costumes, here are some suggestions. They are pretty cheap too, specially if you work in an office.
(The writer on them is Tom Carter)

Bye Elliott

Elliot Smith was found dead Tuesday in his apartment in what it's suspected to be a suicide. He was 34.
We saw him in concert a couple of months ago. We loved his music. "Roman Candle" (1994), "Elliott Smith" (1995), "Either/Or" (1997), "XO" (1998) and "Figure 8" (2000). Although he is probably most known for the "Good Will Hunting" soundtrack.
We will miss the chance to listen to the sixth record he was working on. And yes, "we'll miss you as much as we say we do".

Isabelle Arsenault

I met her briefly at the Art Director's Club last spring. She is Canadian and she told me she's just been doing this for a couple of years. Her work is amazing. It's really personal, colorful and with an special sense of humor.
Check out her more of her paintings here.

What is Print?

Revisité esta página hace poco, cuando me dio por la serigrafía, y me sigue pareciendo una pasada. Diseñada por el MOMA es una manera muy entretenida y gráfica de entender la diferencia entre estos sistemas de impresión.

Sketching New York IV

The Bozell building. Too bad it's going to become a Home Depot.

Lost in Translation

Me pareció una película muy especial. Una visión muy honesta de las relaciones de pareja y de lo perdidos que estamos todos la mayoría del tiempo. Y de cómo se agudiza todo eso cuando te cambian el paisaje y te encuentras en medio de un lugar como Tokio.
Qué pasa cuando parece que tienes lo que querías y te das cuenta de que eso no te llena? Qué pasa cuando te empiezas a aburrir de esa persona con la que planeaste vivir el resto de tu vida? Cómo se vive media vida en piloto automático? Cómo se reinventa uno? Por qué tenemos que irnos al fin del mundo para entender las cosas más básicas sobre nosotros mismos? Qué haces cuando encuentras esa conexión que tanto has buscado, con la persona equivocada?
La dirección de arte es maravillosa y el tema introduce notas de humor para no resultar demasiado pastelosa.
Para perdidos en parajes extraños y románticos incurables.
Si queréis ver el trailer, id aquí.

Vik Muniz

I had seen his clouds project before, but I didn't know much more about the work of this Brazilian artist. He seems fascinating.
"I draw with sugar. I draw with wire, thread, things that are very bad to make representations... I don't want people to simply see representations fo someting. I want them to feel how it happens. The moment of that embodiment is what I consider a spiritual experience."
The Times published an article on his chocolate syrup drawings back in 98. And since then he hasn't stopped. You can see all his work in his personal site.. He is co-founder of Blind Spot. And he lives in Brooklyn too. How weird is when the Internet brings you back to your neighbourhood. I may ask him if he wants to be in my documentary.

Acabo de descubrir que el pintor de las nubes y del chocolate es brasileño y vive en mi barrio. Para los que tengais curiosidad desde alli, estará exponiendo en Santiago de Compostela a partir del 12 de diciembre en la CGAC..

Found Magazine

This is a great idea. A site dedicated to the little treasures that we all find on the street. In our old apartment we used to have a wall of pictures of unknown people that Joe would find on the street.
In this website you can find from hilarious notes, to love letters, to weird pictures.

Zachary Scott

I got his promo today and I certainly love his work.
He has that clean, simple style that Lars Tunbjork or Martin Timmermann have, but he uses those flat color backgrounds that that make his work more fun and colorful. Reminds me a little of Christian Stoll. That "Northern European-look" with simple lines and bold contrasts seem to be a trend right now. I really like it. Bransch is always a good reference for this style.

Adam Pointer

I would love to learn to do this kind of stuff. Maybe I try. Check out his web.

Sketching New York III

My street in Carrol Gardens, Brooklyn.

American Movie

Si tenéis oportunidad de verla, no os la perdáis. La historia de una apasionado del cine de terror y sus aventuras y desventuras para producir la peli de sus sueños. En el DVD puedes ver el corto que acabó haciendo, que no tiene desperdicio.

Do you have a minute?

Because there are too many books to read, and too many movies to watch and we don't have enough time: Books-a-Minute and Movies-a-Minute is the solution to all your problems.
Hilarious Web sites. Check them out.
Gracias Bea!

Thomas Struth

I saw some of his work at the Met last March. I had seen photographs in books before, but they don't do much justice. You need to see them real size.
I was particularly fascinated by his "Museum" series: monumental pictures of people visiting museums, churches, and other cultural destinations around the world, where the viewer find itself being part of the equation. We are no longer simply a beholder viewing a world outside ourselves, we have become in fact protagonists in the aesthetic game.
Thomas Struth (Germany, b.1954) is considered to be part of the "Becher School", together with Candida Hofer, Thomas Ruff, Axel Hutte and Andreas Gursky.

Sketching New York II

View of Manhattan from The Brooklyn Bridge.

Raymond Carver

I followed Colin's and Matt's literary recommenations (thanks) and read Carver. And I have been reading him since. And I have been reading it at the same time that Manu was reading it. I wonder if we are all connected, the same way all the characters in "Short Cuts" (the movie Robert Altman directed based on Raymond Carver's stories).
I have been loving it. In a depressive and masochistic kind of way. The same way I love Miller, Bukowski, Kundera or Sartre. The characters in his stories seem to find out that maybe life isn't as great as it was promised to them. I like the honesty of that statement and the simple and minimalist way on how he unveils the stories.
Check out "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love".