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streetdrawings.tumblr.com is a blog by Emelie Pettersson. She make illustrations of people in Stockholm. She use pencil, markers and Photoshop.

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In May of this year, Pixar animator Austin Madison kindly hand-wrote the following open letter to aspiring artists, in a bid to inspire them through times of creative drought. It’s a lovely, eloquent letter, and in fact contains advice valuable to people in many a creative field. Source

These pictures, researched by and showcased on the exhaustive In Twin Peaks, show some key locations from the 1990 show Twin Peaks – as they were in the show, and as they are now twenty years later. Source

The last couple of days I’ve been watching the first season of the US adaption of the Danish TV serie The Killing.

It’s a good serie.

But I would like to make note of the beautiful colour work done on the opening title sequence by Sarofsky. Love it. The pale blue/grey general tone and the red and yellow details.

The ‘Working Class Hero‘ exhibition by Candice Breitz is an exhibitions that made a lasting impression on me; it was an amazing and paralysing experience, it brought a new dimensions to John Lennon’s album ‘Plastic Ono Band’ and it’s a constantly reappearing as a very found memory.

I don’t know exactly when I saw it, but it was showed between the 10th October 2006 and the 28th January 2007 at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Newcastle-upon-Tyne Gateshead.

Below is the description.
Taken from balticmill.com.

During a recent residency at BALTIC, artist Candice Breitz invited a diverse community of dedicated John Lennon fans to pay tribute to their hero in a recording studio in Newcastle upon Tyne. Each fan was given the opportunity to re-perform Lennon’s first solo album Plastic Ono Band (1970), from beginning to end.

The resulting video installation, with a looping duration of 39 minutes and 55 seconds (matching the length of the original album), will be displayed on 25 plasma screens that are staggered spirally around BALTIC’s seven-story-high public stairway. Each 42” plasma screen is dedicated to one fan’s idiosyncratic re-performance of the howling and cathartic songs on Plastic Ono Band, an album that explores the traumas of Lennon’s childhood (isolation, abandonment and death), and which was made parallel to Lennon and Yoko Ono undergoing intense Primal Therapy with Dr. Arthur Janov.

The Lennon fans were recruited from far and wide to participate in the project, the sole criteria for their eventual inclusion being that each was required to answer a detailed questionnaire to prove their sincere devotion to Lennon and his music. Over 400 fans from as far a field as Mexico City, Moscow and Tokyo expressed an interest in taking part in the project. Out of the 40 who were invited to Newcastle to pay homage to Lennon, 25 fans are featured in the final installation. They range in age from 25 to 62, and in addition to 8 Geordies and 5 Liverpudlians, include participants from Wales, Scotland, Japan, Italy and the United States.

Above photo was captured by Thomas Hoepker on 11 September 2001. Here’s an article published by the Guardian telling the story: The meaning of 9/11′s most controversial photo.

This popular DRB series features the most fascinating abandoned environments around the world, best “urban exploration” adventures and artifacts of technology, left in the most unlikely places. Send us tips and pictures of the places you discovered, we will be happy to add to this collection. Source

On top of Empire State Building.
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