Sneak peek of new line of underthesea jewelry by Susan Rockefeller - launching soon.
Checking out music by Antonio de Jerez, whose “cante” appears in new doc we’ve just recently discussed with filmmaker Katina Dunn.
Yesterday we recorded with Antonio de Jerez (singer in the video above), who is one of the most respected flamenco artists in the United States. For the last 2 months, me + Gnotes have been working on the soundtrack for this documentary about the flamenco community here in LA, which is way more vibrant and full of talent than I expected.
On Monday we recorded with guitarist Jose Tanaka … soon we’ll be grabando con Kai Narezo. Thankfully, we have our SUBSUELO dancer La Tigresa keeping us in compás.
But this post was actually sparked by the acompanying guitarist in the video above, Gareth Owen, a 23 year old Canadian who holds his geet kinda weird but rips like none other. He’s the best young flamenco guitarist I’ve seen since El Nieto Habichuela.
Insane Art Formed By Carving Books with Surgical Tools
Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed.
Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms.
“My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception,” he says.
“The richness and depth of the book is universally respected yet often undiscovered as the monopoly of the form and relevance of the information fades over time. The book’s intended function has decreased and the form remains linear in a non-linear world. By altering physical forms of information and shifting preconceived functions, new and unexpected roles emerge.”
Dettmer is originally from Chicago, where he studied at Columbia College. He currently lives and works in Atlanta, GA.
(Spotted via posterous)
Maybe it looks like we collect odd bathroom signs—and maybe we do! Couldn’t resist this one. Titled Fire Baby.
