Transfixing
Posted on June 5th, 2007Tags: Art, Beautiful, Surrealism, YouTube
Angelina Jolie is so lovely. Not just for obvious reasons, but because she lives with such intensity.
Drawn by hand and carved out of 9×12″ black scratchboard.
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In the reference photo, she’s speaking to a group of children – totally connecting with them and radiating such joy!
To me, this image is glorious, exalted. I want to redo this in a Baroque style, to do it more justice.
Sometimes this seems a preferable alternative to the bullshit that goes on, though of course it would be self-defeating. For someone as visually-stimulated as myself, this would be ghastly, though sometimes I would rather…
What has me agitated:
Blaming Video Games for Violence
Faith-based regulations passing
Lack of food-safety standards in China snuffing pets
Seeking a positive side… it spawned a painting.
Straying from my signature style, it should be noted that the emphasis for this project was the typography, rather than image quality. Further, the image is not my own, nor was it used for profit, but for a school project.

This is intriguing, the angle to which a dog’s tail wags is indicative of their mood:
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Also gives me an excuse to post a Typography project based on my favorite Led Zeppelin song, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, which is all about the good times had with the best dog ever. That song is also not typically my style, but it’s so upbeat & fitting, for what it describes!
Amorphophallus rivieri
Georgia O’Keefe &/or Robert Mapplethorpe would have dug this flower. ;)
One must pardon the hickboy editorial tone from the source, it’s the info I’m after.
Isolated and tweaked the photo a bit, to better suit my aesthetics. Everything always looks washed out to me, I LOVE saturation, the intensity of color – the more, the better.
Wow, the “critics” are really relishing taking a dump on this film. Can’t you just say, “I don’t get it,” if you truly don’t? Admit ignorance. Not that it’s profound, but the issue is that they’re taking it seriously.
For MSNBC & Rotten Tomatoes to Poop On.
However, Digging the images from the Premiere :D
I plan on seeing it this weekend. For anyone that’s pondering it, GRINDHOUSE kicks ass something fierce! Rose McGowan has seriously redeemed herself as a ferocious ass-kicking chicky, a leading lady – a true femme fatale.
Violent, lurid, pulpy goodness. Again, you can’t take all art so seriously! Time permitting (and I just laaaughed), I would like to do some artwork based on some of the intense imagery of these films.
As you sit through the chicks yapping about girly shit in DEATHPROOF, I assure you, there IS a payoff. It’s worth sitting through to get the backstory and see what ensues. ;)
PLANET TERROR… It takes a lot to make me cringe, since I’ve worked at a pathology lab, but this… *gags* I adore Robert Rodriguez. :)