Dec 30, 2012

50 Words 4 Snow

      Sullarniq: Eskimo for snow blown in through a doorway.

"Nocturne in Grey and Gold - Chelsea Snow" James McNeill Whistler (1876) oil painting, winter night, winter evening, outside looking in, warm glow
"Nocturne in Grey and Gold - Chelsea Snow" James McNeill Whistler (1876)

        Tuaq: Eskimo for lump of old ice frozen into new ice.


"Hunters in the Snow" Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565) flemish painters, winter, hunting scene, hunting dogs, ice skating, coming through the woods to town, returning home
"Hunters in the Snow" Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565)

       Qanipalaat: Eskimo for feathery clumps of falling snow.


"Moscow. Red Square" Boris Kustodiev , Russian painters, evening, dusk, gloaming, cold, walking in the snow
"Moscow. Red Square" Boris Kustodiev

      Pukak: Eskimo for snow crust.


"Ipatiev monastery in the winter light" Aleksey Savrasov (1870) dark, cold, creepy, woods, forest, Russia, russian painters
"Ipatiev monastery in the winter light" Aleksey Savrasov (1870)

       Nittaalaq: Eskimo for air thick with snow.


February by Grant Wood (1940) three horses stanging in the snow. Cold, barbed wire, winter, chill
"February" Grant Wood (1940)


      Here's a little send-off from Kate Bush it's my favorite song on 50 Words For Snow:

      For extra credit, check out the title track "50 Words For Snow". (SPOILER: Stephen Frye monotonously recites Inuit snow words for eight minutes. It makes me feel like I'm watching performance art that I reaaaaaaly shouldn't be giggling at but I juuuuust can't help it... You know. But, like, in a good way.)


      Inuit words via Azimuth.

Dec 20, 2012

Smoke Bomb

      I would love to experiment with colored smoke bombs but, when you live on an island, using flares and distress signals for art will warrant a visit from the coast guard. Even inland. So, you know. Excitinnnng!

Vita Cagnone for D-Mode Magazine by Antonella Arismendi, colored smoke, smoke bomb, blue smoke bomb, fashion editorial, fantasy witch, smoke grenade, forest, colored smoke photography, fashion
Vita Cagnone for D-Mode Magazine by Antonella Arismendi



witches, a beautiful forest fantasy, flower crowns, flower garlands, girls holding woven baskets of dried flowers in a cloud of orange smoke, smoke bomb photography, smoke bomb, colored smoke, smoke grenade, fantasy, Levitsky
Untitled by ▲ Levitsky



Silence/Shapes no. 2 by Filippo Minelli, an ongoing series of photos taken all over the world. fantasy photography forest, colored smoke, yellow smoke, smoke bomb, smoke grenade, photography
Silence/Shapes no. 2 by Filippo Minelli



Silence/Shapes no.11 by Filippo Minelli, an ongoing series of photos taken all over the world. fantasy photography forest, colored smoke, yellow smoke, smoke bomb, smoke grenade, photography
Silence/Shapes no. 11 by Filippo Minelli



      Roger Moore's James Bond gets desperately creative with a smoke flare in A View To A Kill (1985)
So, like, PRETTY MUCH: During a snowy downhill chase, an orange Commie helicopter blows up Bond's orange stolen Commie snowmobile and he uses the broken ski from the now defunct Commie snowmobile to shred down the glacial mountain doing 'gnar tricks 'n cliff jumps (Tom Sims) while dodging Commie machine gun fire (all while wearing a white parka trimmed with fur and makin' it look, like, so easy) and when he gets to the bottom of the mountain the orange Commie helicopter is still raining bullets down so he grabs for his pack and draws out a distress flare and with a practiced hand shoots is straight into the cabin of the 'copter and the Commie pilots are pissed and they start spinning out of control in a beautiful haze of smoke, blaze orange against the white snow and blue sky, and then they BLOW UP. James Bond then makes his way to a submarine disguised as an iceberg where a beautiful scantily clad babe is waiting for him to make out with her.

Roger Moore as James Bond in A View To A Kill (1985), readying to use a smoke distress flare orange smoke bomb to blow up an orange helicopter after a downhill snowboard chase, he wears a white parka trimmed with fur
Roger Moore as James Bond in A View To A Kill (1985), readying to use a smoke distress flare orange smoke bomb to blow up an orange helicopter after a downhill snowboard chase, he wears a white parka trimmed with fur
James Bond, A View To A Kill, orange helicopter close-up
Roger Moore as James Bond in A View To A Kill (1985), readying to use a smoke distress flare orange smoke bomb to blow up an orange helicopter after a downhill snowboard chase, he wears a white parka trimmed with fur
Roger Moore as James Bond in A View To A Kill (1985), readying to use a smoke distress flare orange smoke bomb to blow up an orange helicopter after a downhill snowboard chase, he wears a white parka trimmed with fur
Roger Moore as James Bond in A View To A Kill (1985), readying to use a smoke distress flare orange smoke bomb to blow up an orange helicopter after a downhill snowboard chase, he wears a white parka trimmed with fur
A View To A Kill, James Bond. Orange Communist helicopter spinning out of control as orange smoke pours out of the cabin. Orange smoke bomb, smoke grenade, distress flare, smoke flare
A View To A Kill, James Bond. Orange Communist helicopter spinning out of control as orange smoke pours out of the cabin. Orange smoke bomb, smoke grenade, distress flare, smoke flare
A View To A Kill, James Bond. Orange Communist helicopter spinning out of control as orange smoke pours out of the cabin. Orange smoke bomb, smoke grenade, distress flare, smoke flare
A View To A Kill, James Bond. Orange Communist helicopter spinning out of control as orange smoke pours out of the cabin. Orange smoke bomb, smoke grenade, distress flare, smoke flare
A View To A Kill, James Bond. Orange Communist helicopter spinning out of control as orange smoke pours out of the cabin. Orange smoke bomb, smoke grenade, distress flare, smoke flare
A View To A Kill, James Bond. Orange Communist helicopter spinning out of control as orange smoke pours out of the cabin. Orange smoke bomb, smoke grenade, distress flare, smoke flare EXPLOSION


Dec 17, 2012

Jusko's Fantasy

      MOSTLY NAKED BABES WITH SWORDS! OILY SHIRTLESS BARBARIANS WITH ARROW-WOUNDS! MARTIAN MONSTERS WITH POINTY TEETH! LARA CROFT! These illustrations by artist Joe Jusko are a treat, you know, like a giant spoon full of sugar - or maybe an entire roast chicken that you can eat with your hands?

Lady Death

Dec 14, 2012

Björk

      Here she is, the queen of Iceland! Björk Guðmundsdóttir! When the days are so dark and short up here on the island I start eating lots of gjetost and lighting candles all the time.
      Björk's 1992 MTV Cribs house-tour of her Icelandic nest is awesome. She has this enormous and beautifully modern chandelier with blue taper candles in her living-room. As she lights the candles for the camera she chirrps and trills:
"I think this big room definitely needs a center-point, you know? And a light in the middle... I think chandelier is a heart of every home and in the winter its, like, dark - It's dark almost twenty hours a day. It's quite amazing how these candles can - they actually [light] up the whole flat and in a nice kind of way."
       I love how her possessions have been curated.  Everything is special!



Bjork 1992 MTV Cribs house tour lighting her the blue candles on her chandelier