five elements.

wood.

water.

metal.

fire.

earth.

eunice kim.

five element personality quiz.

gina adams.

here.

yiorgos kordakis.

global summer.

feeling it.

here.

marco tirelli

here.

brendan lott.

If I could write a dictionary I’d want to make all the strong words so broadly defined that they would lose all practical meaning outside of a specific context. I’d like negatives like stupid and ugly to become more positive and words like brilliant and beautiful to become more negative so that they would meet somewhere in the middle. These words would then become simply descriptive without carrying any sense of judgment, like shinyor rectangular. I think then the language would become really free. People could say whatever they thought without worrying about hurting anybody’s feelings. People could really describe their own personal state of affairs clearly and without shame.

Jokes are important. For example, I’m fascinated with how three things are funny and four are not. This is why a priest, a minister and a rabbi go into a bar and leave the pastor at home. It’s the structure that makes it funny. Some people can tell jokes and some can’t. I am also really interested in how ham is a funnier lunchmeat than turkey. A ham sandwich is special in a way that no other sandwich is. Note that Mama Cass is said to have died choking on a ham sandwich, and not some other kind. That story wouldn’t have the staying power it does if the sandwich were different. There is a certain kind of pathos to ham. Pathos is important. Ham is somehow a little abject when corned beef is not. Like ham has no business killing anybody so when it does, it’s extra notable.

paintings of snapshots.

laura letinsky.

a year later and i am still enamored.

here.

alejandro cartagena.

suburbia mexicana; fragmented cities 2006-2009

this is a representation of the current mexican suburban sprawl with a focus on the metropolitan area of monterrey (mam). the implemented neo-liberal economic strategies made by the mexican government since 2001 have pushed urban growth out of the regulation of the metropolitan urban plan. this has created contradicting policies that have let construction firms build more than 300,000 new houses around the 9 cities of the mam. in 2008, the national housing commission (infonavit) marked monterrey’s metro area as first place in the issuing of home loans and for the first time in mexican history, the commission has issued 497,000 loans towards buying houses in all of mexico. consequently, this demand has granted a green light to developers to urbanize in ways where profit is sought out for over the well being of the community, with roadways, parks and proper public transport systems standing far from becoming a reality. amazingly even in the financial and mortgage crisis being lived in most of the world, the commission just announced in june that they will position another 500,000 loans for housing in 2009. after photographing these landscapes for the past 3 years i have now returned to many of the finished housing complexes and learned of many misfortunes the new inhabitants are facing, the ecological impact and the increasing distance being formed between the well-urbanized city and these new fragmented cities in the peripheries; a new chaotic ambient to which méxico is growing into. expectantly what i strive for with these aesthetic representations is to point out and open relationships between issues created by an economy-driven state and how our society resides in the dilemma of living as capitalists but wishing for a fairer world.

here.

found at blue sky gallery in portland.

joni sternbach.

with the sun hardly making an appearance lately, i am finding myself

drawn to more surf and beach imagery.

here.

fabienne lasserre.

here.

dj desks.

here.

linger & quiet.