(as seen on Fecal Face)

Today I will bring you some more epic art from another San Fransisco artist known as Matt Furie.

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If you are anything like me, then a soiled mattress, faint aroma of urine and fried chicken does nothing but heighten your enjoyment of art…

This street art was found in the alley behind the salvation army near Hastings and Nanaimo… conveniently located across the street from Church’s Chicken!!!

This cheeky buggers name is "Prime Rib"

I’d rather drink at a gallery than see art at one and In my opinion taking a stroll down Vancouver’s back alleys will yield, not necessarily better art but, definitely more interesting art than most galleries.

Some art belongs in a gallery and that is fine. I just want it to be known that whoever is responsible for some of the great street art around our lovely city, I am a fan…

wtf is a "Buzcrout"?

- japan11

I’d like to thank our reporter in the field: Cheese’n'PoutinePizza for taking these picture.

Now enjoy.

-lionsteeth with photo credit to cheese’n'poutinepizza

This is the first installment of a running series of posts I will be writing about various sound sculptures and installations across the world.

The Sea Organ is a natural organ driven by the sea waves, and stretches along the Adriatic in the coastal town of Zadar, Croatia. It was created by Dalmatian stone carvers and architect Nikola Basic(who won the European Prize for Urban Public Space for this very installation) in 2005. It produces music through organ pipes attached to tubes near the sea, and air holes located on the steps themselves.

Sea Organ Sample

The organ is made out of 35 musically tuned pipes, sectioned into seven groups of five. Each organ pipe is blown by a column of air and then pushed by a column of wave-moved water. The tuned pipes then emanate the sounds through gaps in the top-most stairs. The seven sets of pipes are alternately tuned between two chords of the diatonic major scale. This relates to the musical tradition of the area of spontaneous four-voice male singing, with melodies and chords conforming to the diatonic scale.

Click to see details of the arrangement of the pipes:

The Sea Organ is one of three organs in the world that are driven by the movement of the sea. It sits alongside The Blackpool High Tide Organ and San Francisco’s Wave Organ.  All three organ share similar designs with slight variations, mostly in aesthetic design.  In my opinion I find the execution of the Zadar Sea Organ to be the most elegant, blending into the surrounding scenery rather than dominating it.

I was absolutely in awe when I hear the above recording, with hints of rhythm and drone at the same time, I instantly fell in love. You can almost picture where and when the waves are washing up against it.

Maybe it’s time for a field-trip?

-iceonthetrail

I found out about this young guy from fecal face.

I was going to start this article out by saying, “Hey, I’m not a big art guy but…” and then I thought about it and, of course, I am a big art guy. In fact I’m pretty much a big anything guy, except for maybe a big snake or big genocide kind of guy. When it comes to art I claim to love realism, yet I love Pollock. I like old skate art, yet I hate this new gory skate art scene that has emerged from it. As much as or possibly more so than music, art is subjective. I like what I like, you like what you like… But we all probably like The Group Of Seven and that sweet Edvard Munch with the scream bro. Every now and then, without looking for it I find an artist that punches me in the stomach with how awesome he/she is. Thanks Henry Gunderson, I’m winded.

So lets talk about Henry. From what I was able to gather from his Fecal Face interview, young Henry is well… young! This dudes only 18 years old. When I was 18 all I could think about was bumming smokes and trying to get my 19 year old friends to buy me beers to drink in the parking lot. Somehow Gunderson has seemed to over come that young age obstacle and create some of the best art I’ve seen in a long time. Judging from the art one is able to gather that Gunderson was really into skateboarding as a youth, it’s in there whether you can see it or not. I mean come on, he’s from San Fran, skate-bombing hills is the only other thing to do besides this.

I’m not sure what to make of his art however. Most paintings include animals, if not all. Most of them jaggedly cut and spliced into others in some sort of mad science experiment done through painting… with awesome geometrical shapes and colours thrown in for good measure.

As I see this style of art becoming more and more popular, I also see certain artists such as Gunderson, Mel Kadel and Jeremy Fish emerging more as masters of the form. As stated before I dont know much about art so here’s my art correspondent in the feild and current Emily Carr student L. “Too Many Names” T.W on the work of Henry Gunderson:

“Yhese paintings are a cacophony of postmodernism. The use of semiotics is complemented by seemingly random organization of his collaged elements. The illustrative quality of the paintings brings about histories of storytelling and mythology.”

Good one L.T.W… I’m done talking about this, lets see some more cool pictures shall we:

this one scares me a bit:

-lionsteeth

When I was a little kid I would love to go grocery shopping with my mom. I would always check out Save-On’s little book section and would stare in awe at the amazing cover art of the Conan books.

It wasn’t until years later, long after I had forgotten about those wicked Conan books, that I found out who was responsible for those beautiful covers… Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell.

I don’t have any background info on these two artists… but that’s what wiki is for right?

Here are just a few samples from my new fave art genre… fantasy art.

Happy Monday…

-Japan11

These are Cheddar Dippers…

This is my story:

One night not too long ago my good friend, Eric the Red, and I came down with a truly savage case of the munchies. My main man, being the amazing provider that he is, reached into his ice-chest and pulled out these Cheddar Dippers – our salvation – or so I thought… Quite honestly these babies disappointed me – they were not crispy or crunchy, both the cheese and breading were bland and the provided ranch sauce was extra gnarley and watery. These snacks were not good but I ate them anyways because that’s who I am.

After I got over the taste I found myself enamored by the super “cheesy” design and photoshop job…

Here a few of my observations:
-The cheese which is supposed to be bubbling out of the sticks looks so fake… as does the parsley
-Love the “Party On!”
-Was hooked at first by “Roadhouse Quality”
-Was looking forward to and disappointed by the “Crispy Great Taste”

Aftermath:

My bubble has burst as my worst fears have been confirmed, there is such thing as bad fried cheese.

Rating of Product:

1.5 Bon’s off of Broadway’s out of 5 … (.5 marks for genius design.)

Windom Earle – Kitten vs. Pegasus

-japan11

Now I don’t in general enjoy politically charged art works. This is because they usuallly are so grossly straightforward and lack any sort of right-brain influence. Such creativity craving works should be left to high-school sociology classes. Oh wait, here is an example:

Yes. We all understand that you hate Bush , but do you really have to make bad art about it?

I do however enjoy works of artistry which can subtly hint at politics, but have artistic value separate from what they represent. I like metaphors. I like them a lot. Walton Ford is an American artist who doesn’t have to use images of yelling US presidents, or peace signs, or tanks, to get his political opinions across. In fact, he has artistic talent and the uncanny ability to tap into some creative reserve and vomit beauty onto giant canvases.

His works, at first might appear to be traditional naturalist illustrations and are eerily reminiscent to works by 19th century artist and ornithologist John James Audubon ( his inspiration!). While Audubon revolutionized naturalist illustrations making them engaging and giving them life, Ford is adding to the art world all together. Taking a closer look at one of Ford’s works, one might be taken aback. Offended even. For in every work there is some hidden morbidity or violence taking place which is  easy to miss just glancing at the work.  His works are fogged to make them appear older, speaking perhaps about history repeating itself.

In ford’s 10 foot  work titled “Thanh Haung” , Ford references the vietnam war. At first and even second glances I hadn’t noticed that the tiger’s stripes are silhouettes. after reading more about he work, I found out that they are silhouettes of historic figures associated with the Chinese, French, and American military interventions in Vietnam. You might also notice the wasps attacking the tiger as well as the fire in the background.

Whatever you take from the work itself, It retains it’s amazing detail and colour, which is a trait all good art must have; separateness from it’s meaning.

Either way I suggest you check this out: