Photo-Respiration

Tokihiro Sato uses a small flashlight at night (or a mirror during the day) to make pinpoints of light that chart his movement through space. On a couple of occasions he has worked within snowscapes.

Photo-Respiration #155 1992

Hattachi # 346, 2000Gelatin-silver print or black and white transparency over light panel

Sapporo 1, 2001, Gelatin-silver print or black and white transparency over light panel

more works by the artist can be seen here

via the interesting blog of artist Alec Scoth

Time is Up

Ed Ruscha

Time Is Up," 1990. Screenprint, ed. 36" x 27"

MARC BELL

"Fresh From the Silver Pumpkin," 200622 1/2" x 17 1/4"Watercolor on Paper

"Don'ts Lookin' ," 200514" x 11"Ink and Watercolour on Paper

see more

SwooN Street Art

Work by Artist

SWOON’s worlds are often populated by realistically rendered-- and evocatively cut-out-- street people, often her friends and family. Riding bikes, talking on a stoop, going grocery shopping-- these people traverse a cityscape of her own unique invention. Bridges, fire escapes, water towers and street signs create crisscrossing shadows and spaces through which her figures move. Inspired by both art historical and folk sources, ranging from German Expressionist wood block prints to Indonesian shadow puppets, SWOON is a master of using cut paper to play with positive and negative space in a conceptually driven exploration of the experience of the streets. SWOON has been covering the streets of New York with her signature cutouts for over six years. Often found in beautiful states of decay, her wheat-pasted cut outs “collaborate” with the street to create a time-based public artwork.

SWOON (see more swoon)

watch A Street Art Tour Swoon, guides a tour of her work at the NYtimes

more steet art in NY - at gammablog and woostercollective

Jeff Bridges blog

emily young

Giallo di Siena King Head 46cm

Giallo di Siena Queen Head 38cm

Artist's site

Free Element

Dodo Jin - Ming

16 x 20 in.: gelatin silver print, edition 1530 x 40 in.: chromaginic print, edition 10

Gaze

photography by Desiree Dolron

via brindilles

The Secret Historian of Red Herrings

Watch The Secret Historian of Red Herrings via locusnovus

Anne Chu

Tombstone for a King and Queen, 2001 painted wood 111 x 167.6

Nicing My Dinky

by Todd Colby via theeastvillage

Everyday begins fair and smooth

A long, thin tube of white marble piercing a pink rose

Soupy morning of heat slashing chrome

I'm better at fear than fright

The spine broke on the poetics of reverie

The closet smells like something someone did to feel better

You win wet blue denim

Why not a calming potion?

The slightly bitter soapy taste of ginseng tea

If it's raining I'll have a scrambled egg

She does "not well" eating fish with mercury

The tender portion of white fish is called the wing

Suddenly hormones shoot out my ass

A black spoon in the tub

I may soothe you as a panther is soothed by the smell of butter

A person who opens a window exposes others to shards of glass

At a certain point all books blur into one book

What is repeated is always something that occurs as if by chance

Vivid animals strut and grind their hips into strangers

The subject of my organism is you

Popping blisters on my lead belly

Do you see what I am to you?

I will not force you to give up your verticality

Water is a concern because you could blow up a dam

I'm sorry that I said you had a third eye in the library

The merest dusting of pink or peach on the small of her back

I've never heard someone cry that I couldn't cry better than

Everything I own smells bad

Dark blue copper salt is soluble in a beige universe

Sometimes I think I just might have brain damage

Eat some of the meat wrapped in the pink terry cloth robe

You can't write a suicide note in the third person

I'll put my beach towel somewhere in the vicinity of the Wonder Wheel

Humming, degrees of humming, where it's constant

I'll curl into a ball and smile into the palm of my hand

by Todd Colby

Edward Knippers

The art of Edward Knippers

Massacre of the Innocents 24”x18”

The Raising of Lazarus

ORPHEUS

pen drawings of the series "Orpheus and Eurydice" by castor

The Sonnets to Orpheus: XIX

(by Rainer Maria Rilke)

Though the world keeps changing its form

as fast as a cloud, still

what is accomplished falls home

to the Primeval.

Over the change and the passing,

larger and freer,

soars your eternal song,

god with the lyre.

Never has grief been possesed,

never has love been learned,

and what removes us in death

is not revealed.

Only the song through the land

hallows and heals.

(Translated by Stephen Mitchell)

Ancient mirrors still shine

How strangly it looks like the moon to me....

Mirror (c. 1400 BC) Polished bronze and wood

MirrorFrom the White Pagoda in Qingzhou,Balin Right Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous RegionLiao dynasty, 1105BronzeDiameter 50 cmMuseum of Balin Right Banner.

read onhere

Milan Cathedral (Interior), 1998. Cibachrome print, 73 1/4 x 91 inches.

National Gallery I, London 1989 1989

Thomas Struth

selected works

Map Collections

Rare Map Collection - The Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia maintains a collection of more than 800 historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century.

Novi orbis pars borealis. 1600

Virginiae item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum nova descriptio. Neg 5718 Mercator 1633

Carta particolare della costa di Florida e di Virginia. Neg 5157 Dudley 1646

A Selection of Maps from Early America (1, 2)

Johann Ruysch, "Universalior cogniti orbis tabula . . . in Claudius Ptolemaeus," in Geographia (Rome: Bernardinus de Vitalibus, 1507), DLC.

Map of Cuauhtinchan.

Illustrations For Beauty and the Beast

and other fairy tale... at the Sur La Lune portal

Cinderella by Aubrey Beardsley

Jack and the Beanstalkby Maxfield Parrish

Beauty and the Beastby Edmund Dulac

Beauty and the Beastby W. Heath Robinson

One of my favorites are the illustrations of Kay Nielsen

Bluebeardby Kay Nielsen

East of the Sun and West of the Moonby Kay Nielsen

speed

i can't slow up. death is an hysteria. i don't care about your

gender. i

send out work as soon as it's done. i make work as soon as i think

of it.

i read as fast as i can. i watch news and practice music while i

read. i

know if i slow up i'll die. i know there will be a missive or missile

here

in this space that will not be sent. i know the missive will be the

tag or

curlicue. i know it will be the conjunction of my death. i read the

con-

junction as not both life and death. i read the conjunction as

neither

life nor death. i eat fast. i never sleep properly. i dream theory

and

practice. i hunt on the internet. i shape ride on the internet. i

speak [..you get the point]

UB Poetics List hits new highpoint Alan Sondheim hide details 1:39 pm (1 hour ago) reply-to UB Poetics discussion group to POETICS@listserv.buffalo.edu date Dec 1, 2006 1:39 PM subject speed. mailed-by listserv.buffalo.edu speed. read more

via mappemunde

Saving Time

HEIDI KUMAO. Saving Time, detail, 2000,

Landscap

From CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI ART ONLINE AUCTION

Landscap By Guy Shoham

Guy Shoham, Landscap, Oil on Wood, 34 x 61 cm

via Hammersite.com - CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI ART ONLINE AUCTION

ROOM

Bernard Faucon: Les Chambres d´amour

Sarah Hobbs selected works

Fish Tank Sonata

By Artist Arthur Tress:

St. Geroge Island, Florida,1989(A fine and frothy day...)

St. George Island, Florida, 1989 (Like a spawning fish ...)

Redono Beach, CA, 1989 (The volley ball captain...)