ARTIST: SAGAZAN, OLIVER DE

Intense French performance artist Oiver De Sagazan. His transformations are really inspiring for me right now as I'm learning about transforming people into someone or something else.

VIDEO: COCOROSIE 'GALLOWS'

Fucking gorge.

RAPSCALLION: PUGH, GARETH

Supa-genius.





*Edit* I just found this last video and the screeching homo in me had to add it to this post. It's too good not too. The end is cute.

MUSIC: COCOROSIE

Hey. Hey. HEY! Cocorosie! HEY! Why are you so AMAZING? HUH?! HUH!? HUH!?!?!
I will see them live before I die.

MUSIC: DRUGS, DESIGNER "DROP DOWN"

I wanna be where these people are, wear what they wear, and do what they do.

MUSIC: PRESETS, THE

OTHER: BOYS

I couldn't resist posting this. Yes please all the way around.

MUSIC: GOSSIP

OPERA: TOMORROW, IN A YEAR

Ok, so I literally just found out about this but I was so excited that I had to blog about it immediately!! (Did I really just type that?) Ew...anyway...LISTEN TO THIS!!! Genius music duo The Knife, in collaboration with Mt. Sims, and Planningtorock are collaborating to produce the music for an upcoming opera being arranged by Danish performance company Hotel Pro Forma. The opera is based on Charles Darwin's 'On The Origin of the Species'. Get excited, because it's BREATH-FUCKING-TAKING! One song from the opera is waiting at http://www.theknife.net/ to fill your senses with delight. It's called 'Colouring of Pigeons' and it's moving and it's beautiful. AND if you sign up for their mailing list you can download an mp3 of the song for your very own. CAN YOU TELL I'M EXCITED!?! Ok. I feel better. NOW GO! DO IT NOW! And then check out these related things (you won't be sorry):

http://theknife.net/o0o.html
http://hotelproforma.dk/
http://www.myspace.com/mtsims
http://www.myspace.com/planningtorock
http://feverray.com/

ARTIST: CURRIN, JOHN

The awesome art of John Currin. I don't want to gush, but he's another of my favorites. He's fairly famous so I feel like going into a long and insufficient explanation of his work would just be pointless. Suffice to say, I'm impressed. The pictures below are some "safer" examples of his work, but be warned shold you choose to investigate further, the man takes a great deal of inspiration from Eastern European pornography. Enjoy!

SUBJECT OF INQUIRY: ANATOMY

Human anatomy has been a subject that has fascinated me for years. Our internal workings are so intricate, delicate, and complex. When you really look at them, it seems unlikely that all of these oddly shaped little pieces should come together to form one cohesive system. Anatomical imagery is often viewed as abject, morbid, or completely grusome but I look there and I see beauty. I constantly find myself drawn to it. It's truly amazing to me that, on the inside, most of us are made up of the same bits and pieces, yet somehow no two people are alike.