An alternate version of “Humming”. I feel like this one fits better with the comic itself but I hate thinking I wasted my time with all that color work…
Oh well.
As before: 1080p here.
1. Untitled: Bungee (2005)
2. Cyclone (2008)
3. Falling: Sand (2007)
4. Jake’s Eyes (2003)
5. The Boy with the Thorns in his Side (2011)
6. Highway (2007)
7. BMX (2000)
8. Eric: Glowing (2004)
9. Elevator (2001)
10. Silhouette (2004)
In Japan, the word “cute” or kawaii can be stamped on just about everything when it comes to aesthetics. Cute dogs, dolls, cartoons and cars are the accepted standard. Now picture human bodies with wolf heads tearing each other apart. Pigs crowded around a dinner table salivating over their roasted brethren. Japanese artist and Tokyo resident Ryohei Hase illustrates beautifully disturbing scenes with obsessive detail. Cannibalism is at times a running theme in his work. Using Photoshop and other software, Hase creates digital art that almost challenges traditional painting if not coexisting without notice. Take a look at some of his work below.
MORE: http://hifructose.com/2013/05/07/ryohei-hases-morbid-digital-artworks/
Humming
A sort of promo/title image for Homunculus that I’ve been whittling away at over the last couple weeks in between commissions and classwork. It is also available in 1080p if anyone has a widescreen and is interested in using it as a wallpaper.
On Tumblr: http://erikjones.co/
Crops of my thesis images. I will post the full ones after my thesis defense. Basically representations of my emotions when confronted by these different states of being, and trying to reason with not being as emotionally expressive as my friends and family—especially when it comes to death.
From top to bottom: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance.
Vasili Zorin, an incredible russian illustrator from the HonkFu Studio.
www.blog.honkfu.com/ru/author/zorin/#.UVyVPMrC-70
www.honkfu.com
www.www.behance.net/HonkFu
www.honkfu.deviantart.com
Flowers of Sickness, by Marcel Van Der Vlught
From the series “A New Day” these images depict the “flowers of illness”, featuring nude women in hospital regalia entwined in flowers to represent fragility and trauma
Marina Abramović, “Rhythm 0,” 1974
Marina Abramović is best known for her performance pieces, in which she tries to explore what is possible for an artist to do in the name of art. Her best known piece was the recent “The Artist Is Present,” in which she sat motionless for 736.5 hours over the course of three months, inviting visitors to sit opposite her and make eye contact for as long as they wanted. So many people began spontaneously crying across from her that blogs and Facebook groups were set up for those people.
Her bravest piece, however, is my favorite. This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her. She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.
Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly. “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”
This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.
This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.
she’s the only reason why i’m proud i’m from serbia
god fucking bless marina abramovic
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