BIG BANG BIG BOOM, an animation by BLU

07Aug10

BLU, the Bologna-based street artist and wall-art animator who is responsible for the amazing COMBO and MUTO videos has recently released BIG BANG BIG BOOM, another masterpiece.  As with his other work, BLU investigates the relationships between animation, artwork, and bringing urban space to life — this time using the twin tropes of evolution and […]

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Tags: animation, annihilation, Art is explosion!, Big Bang Boom, BLU, evolution, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, life on Earth, plastic, street art, transformation, video, wall art, wall-art animation

the tanuki zone

13Dec09

The tanuki (狸) is an indigenous Japanese mammal that is sometimes referred to in English as a “badger” or a “raccoon dog.”  Since the tanuki doesn’t actually resemble either closely, I think it’s best to stick to the local nomenclature.  Tanuki have been a part of Japanese folklore since ancient times and are one of […]

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Tags: allegory, balls, booze, 狸, desire, drinking, eight traits, eight virtues, erotics, 金玉, 金袋, folk tale, kin-bukuro, kin-tama, legend, myth, raccoon dog, sake, sake flask, sexuality, Shagaraki-yaki, shapeshifting, Shigaraki ware, symbolism, tanuki, tanuki encounters, tanuki shapeshifting stories, testicles, transformation, trickster, 信楽焼

With Oma in Petaluma

18Nov06

This summer when I went back to the States, I spent a few days hanging out with my sister, Oma, in Petaluma. We met out at the converted chicken coop that used to be my dad’s music studio — Studio Um — but which is now used by my sister and my mother for painting. […]

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Tags: art, Darrell DeVore, family, music studio, non-commercial artistic production, organic farming, Petaluma, sister, Studio Um, transformation