Do Not Use People. Emotionally, Sexually, Financially, Socially, Professionally, Creatively Or Just Suck

Did you know, you can quit your job, you can leave university? You aren’t legally required to have a degree, it’s a social pressure and expectation, not the law, and no one is holding a gun to your head. You can sell your house, you can give up your apartment, you can even sell your vehicle, and your things that are mostly unnecessary. You can see the world on a minimum wage salary, despite the persisting myth, you do not need a high paying job. You can leave your friends (if they’re true friends they’ll forgive you, and you’ll still be friends) and make new ones on the road. You can leave your family. You can depart from your hometown, your country, your culture, and everything you know. You can sacrifice. You can give up your $5.00 a cup morning coffee, you can give up air conditioning, frequent consumption of new products. You can give up eating out at restaurants and prepare affordable meals at home, and eat the leftovers too, instead of throwing them away. You can give up cable TV, Internet even. This list is endless. You can sacrifice climbing up in the hierarchy of careers. You can buck tradition and others’ expectations of you. You can triumph over your fears, by conquering your mind. You can take risks. And most of all, you can travel. You just don’t want it enough. You want a degree or a well-paying job or to stay in your comfort zone more. This is fine, if it’s what your heart desires most, but please don’t envy me and tell me you can’t travel. You’re not in a famine, in a desert, in a third world country, with five malnourished children to feed. You probably live in a first world country. You have a roof over your head, and food on your plate. You probably own luxuries like a cellphone and a computer. You can afford the $3.00 a night guest houses of India, the $0.10 fresh baked breakfasts of Morocco, because if you can afford to live in a first world country, you can certainly afford to travel in third world countries, you can probably even afford to travel in a first world country. So please say to me, “I want to travel, but other things are more important to me and I’m putting them first”, not, “I’m dying to travel, but I can’t”, because I have yet to have someone say they can’t, who truly can’t. You can, however, only live once, and for me, the enrichment of the soul that comes from seeing the world is worth more than a degree that could bring me in a bigger paycheck, or material wealth, or pleasing society. Of course, you must choose for yourself, follow your heart’s truest desires, but know that you can travel, you’re only making excuses for why you can’t. And if it makes any difference, I have never met anyone who has quit their job, left school, given up their life at home, to see the world, and regretted it. None. Only people who have grown old and regretted never traveling, who have regretted focusing too much on money and superficial success, who have realized too late that there is so much more to living than this.

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Pixelshow 2010 – Fat Monkey  by Florentijn Hofman 

Creation of Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman  in collaboration with local students, a small wink for this excellent facility created during the conference Pixelshow 2010  Sao Paulo. Entitled “Fat Monkey” and composed of nearly 10,000 Brazilian flip flops.

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Japanese Artisan Uses Wax to Make Incredibly Realistic Food Samples [VIDEO]

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[Last Days] Tomás Saraceno's Biosphere works are on display in the Long Gallery at GOMA as part of #Harvest until Sun 21 Sep. Read more on our blog

Portrait in process

From today i'll post my artworks, inspiration objects and some process of it all. Before that i only posted inspirations.

As the Eye Moves

Luis Tomasello, Chromoplastic Mural, 2011, bass wood and acrylic paint The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Though based in France, Argentine artist Luis Tomasello is considered to be one of Latin America’s leading Kinetic artists. Having discovered geometric abstraction during European travels early in his career, Tomasello developed a keen interest in the interaction of color and light, yet struggled with the restrictions of limiting color to a two-dimensional plane.  It was in Paris in the 1950s - the epicenter of the Kinetic art movement - where his three-dimensional relief art took form, making use of color and light reflections to produce optical illusions of movement.

Tomasello’s well-known “atmosphères chromoplastiques” - which according to assistant curator Leesa Fanning were discovered by accident after leaving a painted block of wood upside-down on a wet surface - are murals composed of white cubes placed against a white background, the resulting play of light and shadow engaging viewers as they move around the work.  In his installation at the Nelson-Atkins, Tomasello has placed nearly 700 white geometric polyhedra - the undersides of which are painted a bright fluorescent orange - along the gallery walk wall of the Bloch building. These minimal objects create a breathtaking effect that can really only be fully experienced in person. With no distance dividing them, the viewer is encouraged to interact closely and directly with the piece, and as one walks along the gallery wall, the glowing reflections of orange light against it create new movement with each shift in the viewer’s perspective. Through simple materials and objects, a nearly tangible atmosphere is created, the experience of which is completely unique to each individual viewer.

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Amazing Hyper-realistic Statues! by Jackie K. Seo - Jamie Salmon

Jackie K. Seo and Jamie Salmon’s hyper realistic sculpture capture every wrinkle, vein, and hair with uncanny realism and attention to detail.

Hyper-Realism, the art of making something look incredibly real and detailed, is a trend that has been sweeping the art world in recent years. From paintings that seem like they were photographed to statues that seem to be seconds away from blinking and coming to immediate life. These next examples belong to the latter category, with incredible statues you will have a hard time believing aren’t real!