Meraki's Planetshine

contemplate manifest

2010-08-03T15:47:00.000-07:00

Le Banc

2010-03-20T18:17:00.001-07:00

2010-03-20T18:03:00.000-07:00

Talismanic Idols

2010-03-20T17:46:00.000-07:00

"Evolution is a term to define only one organism and that’s the self. The self is the universe, the self is the alpha and omega, god, and infinity, and that’s the only thing that evolves because we are all part of the self. Nothing goes through an evolutionary process alone or without direct benefit to the whole. So when you begin to think that there’s this controlling elite, this controlling hand behind the curtains leading the planet to destruction…

When you think the end is near, the apocalypse, Armageddon, and when you think we as a species are doomed, it is not they, it is you that brought this about, and for a very good reason. You are evolving. Stop blaming everybody and everything else. Quit panicking about global tyranny and natural disaster and pay attention, because the world is telling you something; it’s tell you exactly what is wrong with you and how to fix it."

(Excerpt from the documentary which you can see below)

sexy time

2010-02-05T15:30:00.000-08:00

sexy time with hildi

La Puerta

2010-01-22T22:40:00.000-08:00

A stop motion animation represented by Limow and created by Sam3 during the Fame Festival in Grottaglie and after in Barcelona and Murcia.

Edgar Oliver's The Apron Strings of Savannah

2010-01-10T22:43:00.000-08:00

Tom Waits reads "The Laughing Heart" by Charles Bukowski

2010-01-10T22:30:00.000-08:00

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

Charles Bukowski

Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans

2010-01-10T22:20:00.000-08:00

Jump past the intro to the 5:10 mark and enjoy :)

hug the blooming gold mine

2009-12-29T23:48:00.000-08:00

exquisite corpses with alessandro and evan.

Amy Lockhart's Walk for Walk

2009-12-23T19:20:00.000-08:00

Amy Logheart

Don Hertzfeldt's The Meaning of Life

2009-12-12T02:33:00.000-08:00

The Meaning of Life

Lucia, Luis y El Lobo

2009-12-11T11:22:00.000-08:00

Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León y Niles Atallah

whispered winged friends floating on marshemellow clouds

2009-12-04T19:06:00.000-08:00

Kim Sin Hye, a.k.a. SSIN

2009-11-24T21:49:00.000-08:00

Please visit her site to get a better understanding of the scale and detail in these pieces.

phantoms

2009-11-23T23:39:00.000-08:00

i painted and hildi inked on a little piece of wood

the game got dangerous

2009-11-23T23:34:00.000-08:00

old collabo that we forgot to post with karyna, juan and tere. there's more coming guys, slowly but they're coming!!

Bjorn Copeland

2009-11-23T13:55:00.000-08:00

Fred Tomaselli

2009-11-23T13:33:00.000-08:00

Images via: James Cohan Gallery

Ryan McGinley's Moonmilk

2009-11-23T13:25:00.000-08:00

See more here

Jonas Burgert

2009-11-23T12:50:00.000-08:00

Jonas Burgert

Images via: Produzentengalerie Hamburg and Artnet

Boxcartoon

2009-11-23T12:40:00.000-08:00

A collaborative animated unearthly train ride conceived a la exquisite corpse by Matt Marsden and friends.

Joseph Campbell

2009-11-15T15:33:00.000-08:00

Joseph Campbell was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."

The Power of Myth is a book and six part television documentary originally broadcast on PBS in 1988. The documentary comprises six one-hour conversations between mythologist Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers.

Mythology and the Individual consists of five talks, recorded early in Campbell's career as a public speaker, exploring the ways in which mythology serves and shapes the individual. They were among those that Campbell kept in his study and used as the basis for later investigations of myth, symbolism, the psyche, and spiritual awakening. Provocative and exhilarating, full of wit and wisdom, they are windows into one of the greatest minds of our time.

Alexander Ouchtomsky's Collage Works

2009-11-15T15:00:00.000-08:00

http://alouchtomsky.com

Mameshiba

2009-11-15T14:28:00.000-08:00

See more here.

Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No

2009-11-15T14:23:00.001-08:00

Story from North America

2009-11-11T12:06:00.001-08:00

Spending Time With New York Street Advertising Takeover

2009-11-11T11:27:00.001-08:00

And three parasol stars

2009-11-11T11:26:00.000-08:00

28 YEARS IN THE IMPLICATE ORDER

2009-11-11T11:25:00.000-08:00

Scientific Verification of Vedic Knowledge in Hinduism

2009-11-09T20:11:00.000-08:00

Atoms and What Not

2009-11-06T13:40:00.000-08:00

Collaboration with Esteban Vidal

Atoms And What Not from Roy on Vimeo.

Allison Schulnik's video for Ready, Able

2009-11-06T10:31:00.000-08:00

Ira Glass on Storytelling

2009-11-05T20:41:00.000-08:00

bugs in space

2009-11-03T23:42:00.000-08:00

hella fun with diana! more to come..

Metal Spiderwebs

2009-11-03T19:38:00.001-08:00

by the way

2009-10-28T14:28:00.000-07:00

we're always down with new collaborators coming in to play. come on, lets try it. what do you have to lose?

sapo de fuego

2009-10-28T14:20:00.000-07:00

we were SO excited to receive these collabos back from Gabo the other day! these 2 are finished and there's 2 others that are going back to Puerto Rico for him to spill a second round on.

gabo, hildi, and i

gabo, roy, tino, hildi, and i

Jim Henson's Limbo, The Organized Mind

2009-10-28T13:08:00.000-07:00

Brothers Quay

2009-10-28T12:17:00.000-07:00

Brothers Quay -1985- The Epic of Gilgamesh
by petitlolotechre

Brothers Quay -1987- Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
by petitlolotechre

The Cabinet Of Jan Svankmajer
by exhibicion

Tiny Pieces

2009-10-26T21:26:00.000-07:00

you cannot use a name that begins with a dot.JPG

2009-10-23T19:15:00.000-07:00

jamming with the mama hen

micro-scopic-poke your eyes

2009-10-14T19:26:00.000-07:00

Harry Smith - Film #10: Mirror Animations (1957)

2009-10-12T12:44:00.000-07:00

Smith himself described *Film #10* as An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballa in the form of a collage. The final scene shows Agaric mushrooms growing on the moon while the Hero and Heroine row by on a cerebrum.

Oceanic Dreamland

2009-10-11T17:44:00.000-07:00

This fort in our oceanic dreamland is our entry for the Wild Things’ Forts!

Our walls are responding to the dry desert air with the salty moisture of the sea..

A Joyful Noise

2009-10-02T01:59:00.000-07:00

Great Sun Ra documentary that will leave your third eye twinkling for your cosmic home. This is Part 1 of 7, see the rest here.

"It's better to deal with the people who have intuition now...you see...they don't know what they're doing, the ones who do know what they're doing haven't proven anything..."

Bomb It!

2009-10-02T01:36:00.000-07:00

Bomb It, a new documentary on the graffiti movement around the world, is currently showing in its entirety at Babelgum along with some pretty neat artist profiles.

Feed it kindly

2009-09-16T21:51:00.000-07:00

How to build community

2009-09-12T02:05:00.001-07:00

OVERTURE

2009-09-12T01:54:00.000-07:00

Overture is the creative unit of Jason and Aya Brown.

Overture Reel '09 from Overture on Vimeo.

The Black Dog's Progress

2009-09-12T01:36:00.000-07:00

Sam3's EXSITU INSITU

2009-09-12T01:34:00.001-07:00

eyeiz

2009-09-03T16:13:00.001-07:00

Hobo Clown by Allison Schulnik

2009-08-27T17:29:00.000-07:00

Amazing short film by Allison Schulnik. The shapes and animation are so exquisite and expressive. Experience it here. While you're there, see her paintings too. They are really great.

candy wrapper

2009-08-23T14:40:00.000-07:00

griffin park wizard of balls...

2009-08-23T14:39:00.001-07:00

each kingdom equipped with it's own distinct genetic armory

2009-08-23T14:35:00.000-07:00

Up is Down

2009-08-22T20:57:00.000-07:00

Max Ernst's Une Semaine de Bonté

2009-08-19T18:11:00.000-07:00

Une Semaine de Bonté (A Week of Kindness) is a graphic novel and artist's book composed in collage by Max Ernst, made during a three week visit in Italy. The novel was first published in Paris in 1934, as a series of five pamphlets of 816 copies each.

The novel consists of found images from Victorian encyclopedias and novels, cut up and re-organized into 182 montages which represent a kind of dark, surreal world.

"Each of these books projects recurrent themes of sexuality, anti-clericalism and violence, by dislocating the visual significance of the source material to suggest what has been repressed."

Luigi Serafini's Codex Seraphinianus

2009-08-19T18:09:00.000-07:00

The Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by the Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978. The book is approximately 360 pages long, and appears to be a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in one of its languages, a thus-far undeciphered alphabetic writing.

traveling collective sketchbook

2009-08-17T17:19:00.000-07:00

Many of our regular collaborators will recognize the following sketchbook. Hildi and I started this project about 3 years ago, a traveling collective sketchbook, it never got a proper title, yet the time for its rebirth has come. We started passing it around our friends and they did with it as they pleased, adding their magic based on the creation before. It went around Miami and other South Florida cities, Puerto Rico, and Virginia. Each person had 1 week to work on it, even though a lot of us slacked and kept it for months at a time. Some really great things were created on it and it captured a whole cycle in our lives. Now it started getting a little heavy and crowded and would inevitably fall apart just from looking at it. For us that meant it was time to close this chapter and start another. The second book will sport the same hardcover but with a totally different life inside. So to celebrate this rebirth, here are some images from book #1! If you would like to get the second book sometime just let us know. Whether you participated in the first one or not, it doesn't matter. We're also looking to make it more varied so photographers, writers, and even musicians are welcome (just record a song or something and turn a page into a pocket to drop the cd in). Enjoy book 1!

Brujos

2009-08-10T21:32:00.001-07:00

Gone Menstral

2009-08-10T21:31:00.000-07:00

tinkering

2009-08-08T17:15:00.000-07:00

tinkering through the leaks, her and me

Herbert Baglione

2009-07-19T22:17:00.000-07:00

Herbert Baglione

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

2009-07-19T21:02:00.000-07:00

"I believe that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension that we find paralyzing because we no longer hear our surprised feelings living. Because we are alone with the alien thing that has entered into our self; because everything intimate and accustomed is for an instant taken away; because we stand in the middle of a transition where we cannot remain standing. For this reason the sadness too passes: the new thing in us, the added thing, has entered into our heart, has gone into its inmost chamber and is not even there any more, is already in our blood. And we do not learn what it was. We could easily be made to believe that nothing has happened, and yet we have changed, as a house changes into which a guest has entered. We cannot say who has come, perhaps we shall never know, but many signs indicate that the future enters into us in this way in order to transform itself in us long before it happens. And this is why it is so important to be lonely and attentive when one is sad: because the apparently uneventful and stark moment at which our future sets foot in us is so much closer to life than that other noisy and fortuitous point of time at which it happens to us as if from outside. The more still, more patient and more open we are when we are sad, so much the deeper and so much the more unswervingly does the new go into us, so much the better do we make it ours, so much the more will it be our destiny, and when on some later day it "happens" (that is, steps forth out of us to others), we shall feel in our inmost selves akin and near to it. And that is necessary. It is necessary and toward this our development will move gradually that nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We have already had to think so many of our concepts of motion, we will also gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them. Only because so many have not absorbed their destinies and transmuted them within themselves while they were living in them, have they not recognized what has gone forth out of them; it was so strange to them that, in their bewildered fright, they thought it must only just then have entered into them, for they swear never before to have found anything like it in themselves. As people were long mistaken about the motion of the sun, so they are even yet mistaken about the motion of that which is to come. The future stands firm . . . but we move in infinite space.

How should it not be difficult for us? "
link to excerpt via thecry.com

image source

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Yonosequemierda

2009-07-18T00:28:00.000-07:00

Hildi and I present... Yonosequemierda!
This is a little triangle creature we made for Tere because it is her birthday! (we're happy you exist puta.) Its got 4 outer space arms, fire tentacles, and kittie whiskers, ears and tail. Yonosequemierda is so nice, it got us fruits and yogurt today!
Its been a while since we made any plush creatures and it was a lot of fun.

Bruno 9li

2009-07-16T19:46:00.000-07:00

Images via his website

John Thompson's Cosmic Trigger Finger

2009-07-16T18:57:00.000-07:00

If you've ever read Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson, I'm sure you can recognize the following illustrations created by John Thompson peppered through out the book.

I've looked all over the place for a virtual version of these images, but you really can't find them at all separate from the book. Except for now, of course.

Enjoy these epic paradigm shifting images!

Max Ernst

2009-07-10T17:59:00.000-07:00

Images via ABC Gallery

whats up? (foxes tails pig tails)

2009-07-07T14:01:00.000-07:00

Miniature exquisite corpse with Natali

Chunky Chonga VS Rocka' Chola

2009-07-07T13:52:00.001-07:00

Two sides of the country and two very distinct bad ass bitches!
Dennis and I

Happy Birthday Danni!!!!

2009-07-07T13:43:00.000-07:00

A Birthday wish for little Danni!
Dennis and I

Don't look back unicorn

2009-07-07T13:24:00.000-07:00

Esquisite Corpse with Natali

Carrot Juice

2009-07-07T12:13:00.001-07:00

Dennis and I

Sshhhh...

2009-07-03T22:59:00.000-07:00

H-bomb and I

Fusion of Spirit and Science

2009-06-30T19:49:00.000-07:00

"Neal Goldsmith introduces us to psychological concepts of the self. As we evolved we compartmentalized our lives, science and spirit have been separated for millenia, isn't it time we try to reconcile them and begin to fuse them together again?"

Moebius

2009-06-29T21:58:00.000-07:00

Images via but does it float.

Meet you at the tree of life...

2009-06-29T13:32:00.000-07:00

Léopold Rabus

2009-06-28T19:42:00.000-07:00

Léopold Rabus

Images via Galerie ADLER

MUTO

2009-06-28T19:16:00.000-07:00

c l a s s i c B L U

Matt Furie

2009-06-28T18:27:00.000-07:00

"Matt Furie was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1979. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio in 2001. Matt is a leo, he enjoys long walks in the park, bubble baths, and an occasional glass of wine. He currently lives in San Francisco. His comic series “Boy’s Club” is published by Buenaventura Press."

Photographs and text from mattfurie.com

Water Brain

2009-06-28T18:19:00.000-07:00

"This is a story about mental pressure.In this story,the kids are constantly forced to bury themselves into their endless homework by those giant monsters behind them.The children's brains are filled with water that can be heated by tension.If a kid is overstressed,the water in their brain would boil and produce steam,which becomes the food of the greedy monsters and the energy of the whole city.Thus,those poor children repeat their lives day after day, serving as the powerplant of their world,spending their childhood in tragic misery......"

A trip to the market

2009-06-24T11:48:00.000-07:00

Dennis and I took a trip to the market and we found some interesting things...

darshan

2009-06-18T00:26:00.000-07:00

while hildi and i waited for amma's darshan.

Hello Dracocetus...

2009-06-11T16:45:00.000-07:00

Dennis, Hildi, Gina, Rei, and Roy (Dre-day was there in spirit)

Dennis + Hildi

Hisham Bharoocha

2009-06-09T21:26:00.000-07:00

Hisham Bharoocha is a Japanese visual artist, musician and photographer residing in New York City.

He is a former member of the bands Black Dice and Lightning Bolt. He currently performs as a solo artist under the name Soft Circle.

saahd

2009-06-09T20:06:00.000-07:00

hildi and i made this as a 'thank you' for our super nice new neighbor who gave us an entire roll of canvas just a few minutes after meeting her!

underwater esquisite

2009-06-09T07:45:00.000-07:00

Arian and me!

the night you dont remember and the one that i cherish!

2009-06-08T08:47:00.000-07:00

the night you don't remember

me , gabe , sabrina, diana
the night i don't remember
sabrina , diana, gabe and myself

the night i cherish
reinier, hildi, dennis, gabe and myself

Regina José Galindo

2009-06-06T09:56:00.000-07:00

2003

“¿Quién puede borrar las huellas?”
Guatemala City

Protest against the presidential candidacy of Guatemala’s former dictator José Efraín Ríos Montt.

2001

"Piel"

Venice , Italia

2006

"Limpieza Social"
Trento, Italia

"Perra"

2005
Milano, Italia

2002

"Lucha"

Guatemala

Performance artist specializing in body art she also draws and writes

http://www.reginajosegalindo.com

good interview = http://www.bombsite.com/issues/94/articles/2780

Julie Heffernan

2009-06-05T18:41:00.000-07:00

Julie Heffernan

Images via Sour Harvest

ez-qui-sit

2009-06-03T15:46:00.000-07:00

our first body bags in the desert

calabaza calabaza

2009-06-03T15:17:00.000-07:00

a donde estas?

Wangechi Mutu

2009-05-27T01:57:00.000-07:00

Images via Susanne Vielmetter & The Saatchi Gallery

that close

2009-05-24T14:58:00.000-07:00

hildi and me

your f*cking face

2009-05-16T20:21:00.000-07:00

hildi and myself

Jean Cocteau

2009-05-11T09:20:00.000-07:00

Poet, Novelist, Dramatist, Designer, Boxing Manager, Playwright, Artist, and Filmmaker
5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963

"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."

Jean Cocteau's 1913 cartoon of Stravinsky playing The Rite with Nijinsky's dancers multiplying movement in geometrical progression.

"A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system."

"A film is a petrified fountain of thought."

"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."

"After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter."

"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."

"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original."

"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."

"Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go to far."

"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."

"Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort."

"One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends."

"Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for."

"You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive."

Preamble (A Rough Draft For An Ars Poetica) by Jean Cocteau

...Preamble

A rough draft
for an ars poetica

. . . . . . .

Let's get our dreams unstuck

The grain of rye
free from the prattle of grass
et loin de arbres orateurs

I

plant

it

It will sprout

But forget about
the rustic festivities

For the explosive word
falls harmlessly
eternal through
the compact generations

and except for you

nothing
denotates

its sweet-scented dynamite

Greetings
I discard eloquence
the empty sail
and the swollen sail
which cause the ship
to lose her course

My ink nicks
and there

and there

and there

and
there

sleeps
deep poetry

The mirror-paneled wardrobe
washing down ice-floes
the little eskimo girl

dreaming
in a heap
of moist negroes
her nose was
flattened
against the window-pane
of dreary Christmases

A white bear
adorned with chromatic moire

dries himself in the midnight sun

Liners

The huge luxury item

Slowly founders
all its lights aglow

and so
sinks the evening-dress ball
into the thousand mirrors
of the palace hotel

And now
it is I

the thin Columbus of phenomena
alone
in the front
of a mirror-paneled wardrobe
full of linen
and locking with a key

The obstinate miner
of the void
exploits
his fertile mine

the potential in the rough
glitters there
mingling with its white rock

Oh
princess of the mad sleep
listen to my horn
and my pack of hounds

I deliver you
from the forest
where we came upon the spell

Here we are
by the pen
one with the other
wedded
on the page

Isles sobs of Ariadne

Ariadnes
dragging along
Aridnes seals

for I betray you my fair stanzas
to
run and awaken
elsewhere

I plan no architecture

Simply
deaf
like you Beethoven

blind
like you
Homer
numberless old man

born everywhere

I elaborate
in the prairies of inner
silence

and the work of the mission
and the poem of the work
and the stanza of the poem
and the group of the stanza
and the words of the group
and the letters of the word
and the least
loop of the letters

it's your foot
of attentive satin
that I place in position
pink
tightrope walker
sucked up by the void

to the left to the right
the god gives a shake
and I walk
towards the other side
with infinite precaution

diana dragon

2009-05-09T18:09:00.000-07:00

hildi, dennis, andrea, reinier, roy, and gabo here and there

TEDtalks

2009-05-07T11:40:00.000-07:00

Almost everything coming out of TED is amazing. These are some of my favorites:

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

Wade Davis: Cultures at the far edge of the world

Susan Blackmore: Memes and "temes"

David Gallo: Underwater astonishments