Tuesday, May 6, 2008

To Do...

- ride my bicycle everywhere
- layer the streets with beautiful spray paint
- have a blast
- acquire a beach towel
- swim in the river at least once a week
- dance in the summer rain in underwear
- find enough change to buy one PBR 24oz can per day
- read when not doing items mentioned above
- make lots of art
- practice my german skills
- find more food (flies, spiders, gnats) for my pet spider, Cherry Nut. this spider knows how to eat.
- climb to the roof of as many buildings in Vermilion as possible.
- live cheaply and freely
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Richard Selesnick and Nicholas Kahn

The photos these two create are ridiculously imaginative and on a ridiculous scale. They can go from earth to space and back to earth and the viewer doesn't even have to blink. I was turned on to these guys thanks to Dave who was telling me about Henry Darger.



This guy has the most depressing and awe inspiring back story ever. A custodian that no one ever really knew in the early part of the 20th century. lived in an extremely small space. wrote over 15,000 pages of imaginative story, which made him posthumously famous. drew these watercolor images to go along with the story (about seven sisters, the Vivian girls).

2 comments:

Ed Harringtonn said...

theres a sweet ass documentary about this dude. youve probably seen it

p o l a r s t a t i c said...

No i need to find it, i really want to see it. i bet its pretty sweet.