Komar and Melamid

A concerned citizen named Milda gave me this link. It's a website featuring Vitaly Komar's and Alexander Melamid's work. The pair were the originators of the 'Sots art' movement (1970's, Moscow) and the activists of other various art movements in the USSR. Click on the chronology section to see information and photographs of their work. It's a must see.

Oh and they've bought the soul of Andy Warhol and many more artsy (and not) beings.

When I asked Milda whether I could link it here, she said: 'link the fuck away!'

So, there you have it Komarandmelamid.org.

Motifs

Uh-oh, I was reading around Design*Sponge and there was a post that the Owl motif is being used more commonly nowadays. I lost the link and cannot find it again anymore :< But I thought up some more common motifs in design/art:

Bunnies
This is probably the most loved and popular creature EVERYWHERE. Everyone likes a bunny, because bunnies are cute and they're sweet and you can make them evil, which adds even more to the cuteness. There's a bunny for every taste, for every style and for everything. Look, Miff is a bunny too! And bunnies sometimes tend to be suicidal (Bunny Suicides).

Cats
I don't know who wins the dogs vs cats battle among pet-keepers, but in art, cats do. They are either more visually torelable, or there are more cat-loving artists than not. Thom May used to say that one day he;s going to get a cat. I wonder if he did, it was a while ago now. I think cats are funny, I love them.

Girls
That's just because most of the artists/designers are male :< But hey, when you've got such artists like SerZhant, who gives a damn? Also, the fashion world is ruled by girls, yep.

Flowers
Floral patterns and photographs of flowers are everywhere. I don't mind at all. I mean, just look at the things Colorfilter does!

Birds
Notice how Julie West draws a birdie here and there in a lot of her illustrations. There are some owls too!

Monkeys
I hate these things in real life, but I just love them when they're drawn. Meomi's got a cute monkey character
as well as other cute animal things. Also, a DJ Monkey is another common thing among the artists.

Music
Everything music-related seems to look better. People with headphones, mixtapes, records, musical notes, DJ sets and even little animals listening and/or making music. Gabriele Magurno has some of the said elements and a girl in his layout. See? Popular.

Arrows, cicrles, hearts
Those are the main building blocks of vector art, it seems. Look, I did a vector search on Deviant Art.

Hmm, I've got lazy from here. What have you noticed, um? Do tell.

Jim Fiscus

What you see in your left is a fine example of what Jim Fiscus does with his photographs. No wonder he's got so many awards and other nice papers.

Visit his site at Fiscusphoto.com and see what the hell am I on about.

Chessie

I was talking to a friend on Skype and, all of a sudden, he started spazzing about this awesome track he was listening to. Since we're all cool like that, we always share, so he sent it to me. It was 'Daylight (Sutekh remix)' by an American duo called Chessie.

I started spazzing back when I was done listening.

It gets inside of you and you start to feel the music as if it was a part of you. Really powerfull.

Anyways, I hunted up some more tracks and, so far, I like them. Not as much as 'Dayligh' (notice the name of this blog), but they're somewhere not too far behind.

Genre/s: Electro-acoustic, Electronica, Experimental Techno, Abstract

Tracks to download

Daylight (Sutekh remix)

Nowa Huta - good for chillouting :)

Approach Limited - it's drum'n'bass-ish. I like that in a song :D

Useful links

Plug Research - Chessie's home. You can also find some more nice artists like Dntel and the like.

MySpace - Visit for some info and general MySpace-things.

Guest Star DJ

Ohh, I've got a blog for my music/design ramblings! I tried to do this in my LJ, but figured that I need a new space for it, so that only people who really want to see this, would, well, see this :D

Sorry, nothing to show just yet as I'm ill and it's a little late. Expect one sometime soon I guess, hmm.