The Tremendous Archive of Cesar Padilla (and Radford Brown!)

Just came back from Mr Cesar Padilla's
incredible archive warehouse in Long Island City


where we witness pastoral scenesand fashion explosions
the archive includes a set of very rare gay bar t-shirts

with familiar namesand unexpected graphics (Dick Monster!)

so we hid behind semi-transparent maks (Jeremy)
(Felix)
(me)

(Angelo)and then we found books on the look of men
which was an entirely different story

we prayed to a broken St Jackie

before venturing into the endless Maze of Shoes

The Sea and the Cake

Every year in early January, swimmers jump into the sea to find a cross
a few days ago the celebration was canceled because the sea was too rough

impromptu beach tables

were almost dragged into the waves

makeshift chairs were left staring at the sea
tents stepped into the water

beach became waves

the sea kept getting angrier

ready to wipe everything away

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Theodor Kittlesen

Kind of obsessed with Theodor Kittelsen, popular Norwegian artist, famous for painting Nature, Fairies and especially Trolls

i-tə-ˈrā-shən

Iteration means the act of repeating a process usually with the aim of approaching a desired goal or target or result. Each repetition of the process is also called an "iteration", and the results of one iteration are used as the starting point for the next iteration.

A pentagon iteration. Connecting alternate corners of a regular pentagon produces a pentagram which encloses a smaller inverted pentagon. Iterating the process produces a sequence of nested pentagons and pentagrams.

Nostalgia for an ancient future

Loving the low-res texture mapping and the lo-tech sounds of the first Tombraider

Half-Life 2 with real voice

Monster Weekend

Been writing a course on videogames, mostly as an excuse to play. And I've been looking at the super cool stills from Shadow of Colossus, where something like a building seems to wake up and become a monster, though no PSII around to try it out.
Still plenty of Ray Harryhausen clips on the yootoobes, and even on the torrenz.




Here's the cute Cyclops from Sinbad



Snake Woman Dance



and our very own Ancient Greek Robot Talos, which I had completely forgotten of but my trusted co-worker Sotiris pointed out

Know How

Teapot Town

I must have clicked something wrong,
because all of a sudden CNN Traveler popped up on my screen,
and this was on the cover
somewhere in Thailand where tea is apparently very popular
had to find out more and ended up on this persons' flickr page
as much as I hate flickr
(seriously, how many times do you have to click to see one picture?)
I was hooked on this teapot masterpiece
which on the last photos looks a bit worse for wear
(or maybe its under construction?)

Sans Soleil

Just finished watching Chris Marker's 1983 Sans Soleil
Sunless
scary but I remember watching this 20 years ago
in a film classat Sci-ARC
a sequence of sequences
perfectly narrated
scenes from a movie never made
which would have been called Sunless



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