Yours truly participated in a fashion show a few weeks ago for designer Carolina Sunshine; and had my friend and makeup artist, Yvannia Perez, take a few pictures of my face in this war-like fish-esque look. Thought the perfect treatment for this image would be to explore Byzantine portraits, and how “light” and metallic materials are so important to frame the subject.
-Alex
When you are a saint, and you wake up at 5am, you are no longer haunted by nightmares. You can spend the hours teaching others nifty levitation tricks.
Another piece from my Strawmary Saints series. In this one I take The Last Supper out of context, using an already existing painting, and inserting poker cards in the fingers of stoic anthropomorphic deities. Not all iconoclastic images intend to destroy the symbols they build upon, often they just look to enhance or replace an old system by coopting the signs that feed that culture’s stream of consciousness.
We at Fluid, Inc in San Francisco recently launched the most awesome site for Vera Wang Princess. It focuses on the fragrances (Original and Glam), and other cool social media content. This particular piece promotes the Vera Wang Contest at Polyvore.com, and for this I designed under Cat Lee’s art direction and Mariano Ferrario’s interaction design.
I must say the site has been quite a success, including the Facebook application we launched for them. This application allows the users to share their princess moments in their very own Vera Wang photo-op. So, what are you waiting for? Check it out for yourself!
The Holiday that shall not be named. Almost as scary as Sauron or Voldemort. The true meaning of… what was the name of that holiday again? Yes, religious holidays offer the best moments for average artists (like myself) to engage in iconoclastic behavior. ‘Tis the season for easy targets, falalalaaa-lalalala.
Fluid is having a holiday party next week, and we thought of doing a flyer that mixes the Dr. Seuss children’s book style with cheesy anaglyph 3D art. The intention is for it be fun, to pop out, and to evoke a retro feeling. Also, the inspiration behind the white elephant is that we were originally playing with the idea of having a white elephant gift exchange activity instead of a toy drive.
Hope you enjoy,
-Alex
Tonight, 12:25am, thousands of Puerto Ricans were awaken by a huge explosion at Gulf’s oil refinery. The night became day, and everyone got on their roofs trying to trace the origins of the flames. Rumors started running online, conspiracy theories, even spontaneous parties took place as ways to cope with the stress.
I’ve dedicated this blog entry to all things Gulf refinery disaster. Here are the links as they become available. You’ll find photos, videos, jokes, and articles that go in depth regarding what happened tonight. Read the official story at Primera Hora’s page, since they were some of the first people from the media who were on it.
The search topic in Twitter is “#explosionpr” http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23explosionpr
The explosion caused an earthquake of 2.8… http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/prp0929602.php#detail
Listen to Univisión’s radio coverage… http://www.univision.com/contentroot/locales/radio/jhtml/NOMETA_stream.jhtml?station=WKAQAM
The actual moment of the explosion, caught on video…
Is that a plane? conspiracy theories?
McDonalds… explosión de sabor.
Kanye West always makes his guest appearance.
I don’t know how this is part of the news coverage, but it is.
Today Sweet Trip releases their long-awaited album “You Will Never Know Why.” Here’s some surrealist artwork I did for my personal enjoyment inspired in their music… among other things. Did this using Flash, Photoshop, and my camera.
If you wanna see Sweet Trip live, they’ll be playing this Wednesday (September 30th @9pm) at the Bottom of the Hill venue, in the Mission.
Also, Miike Snow will be visiting Bottom of the Hill 3 days later (this Saturday, October 3rd)… and they’ll be rocking the house as always. A great week for music in San Francisco.
All good things… or bad things for that matter must come to an end, right? From great trends such as repurposing garden gnomes, to bad ones such as cuddling pet rocks, there comes a moment in which everything becomes obsolete. Is this what is happening to Twitter?
Lately the people who are contacting me on Twitter are not real. They are bots, spammers… entities obsessed in selling me sex or cheap ringtones. Similar to what happened to MySpace just after it peaked it is becoming infected with noise as opposed to real information.
Something I enjoy doing is seeing what topics are peaking, and reading what people say about them. Tonight, most topics led to dead-end type of results. Most tweets such as “Free ringtones #ATT” or “sexy webcams #ATT,” or other wasteful crap was filling the “ecosphere”… and this repeated all throughout the most trendy topics. It seems the dialogue is being killed by all the fake accounts that are born. I wonder what the ratio is now between real users and fake ones at the moment.
Will there be a time when there are more spammers than real people behind the Twitter accounts? Very likely. But let’s go slightly deeper and wonder… why is this? I know I’m always repeating the same thing, but this is just the plain old manifestation of Garrett Hardin’s Tragedy of Commons. No good system can ever peak in popularity that doesn’t start sucking because there will always be people abusing that system. When you are unable to filter your community successfully, or isolate it for that matter, these things are bound to happen.
I suggest the Twitter executives to monetize on the community immediately, because it is only a matter of time until a good chunk of the people abandon Twitter, and say hello to Tumblr. Ah, the era of short intensities… keeps getting… shorter.
-Alex
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Latest rendition of Miss In Scene. Inspired in the lame selfish argument against universal health care. If you had to stand in line, in exchange for your fellow brother and sister’s life, would you? Is someone’s life so insignificant that your inconvenience can even be used as an argument in this debate? If that’s the case, then I feel sorry for you.
Did I sound too serious over there? Haha, I’m joking. To hell with the poor… they are fat anyway.
-Alex
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