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Harry Smith - man of many great hats

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Harry makes me think of that children’s story - the man who sold the many hats and he wore all of them stacked up ridiculously high (until a monkey came and stole them and scattered them in the tree branches). His animations open the heart.

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MIKE REA revisiting dreams

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Mike Rea is amazing. He takes the fantasy to the next level. Here is a fecal face interview with him.

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MUTO - moving through walls

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008


Blu animated an transformation over around and about. I am in awe for the patience taken here.

Painted in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche) | music by Andrea Martignoni | produced by Mercurio Film | assistant: Sibe

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You Don’t Know What You Got Til Its Gone

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Florentijn Hofman thinks big and in color. He inflates large animals, imitates delivery men to get their parking spaces and paints the brick road yellow. Oh and he made a giant sleeping muskrat out of hay in a place where they seem to cause a hulabaloo.

Here he highlights a forgotten building - slated for demolition. Renewing interest before it is erased, it is now one of the most photographed buildings in Rottterdam.

Met vriendelijke groet,

Jessica

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What I want for my birthday.

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

I saw Ma Jun’s work in a book in the 768 in Beijing & fell in love. He takes porcelain casts of modern objects and sends them to a factory where they paint China in a traditional way. Genius.

lagallery-frankfurt.de/majun.html

This would go great in my broken Chinese Wedding cabinet. That is another beast of a story all together.

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Cai Guo-Qiang’s black rainbow

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Dear Cai,

In the middle of the rainbow, the arch of your heart, there is a black space. Rather, many of them. But it arches and soars. it searches for the top of the sky, not knowing or needing to know if it will never get there.

love,

Jessica

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Letter to Theo Jensen

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

theo jansen

Dear Theo,

Today was a pretty hard. I am not going to go into it. It’s not unique. Infact, it’s so common that 60% of the songs in the world already say my feelings better for me. Anyways, I am not writing to complain. Really I just want to say thank you. You are my hero. I love the image of you above, pulling the magical beast of yours behind you. We each seem to have one we pull around with us. I guess our beasts are just how we make them. Yours is great. Thanks again.

Jessica

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get together with friends and stew

Monday, February 18th, 2008

pool

Tomorrow I am going to meet up with my friend Ryan and try to make a chandelier sing. Details once the experiment has been made to come…

This image above is currently my desktop - it is a collage by agnes montgomery. Her collages take baths with bears, fly in wooden boats and bring you to the festival you wished happened every summer.

www.agnesmontgomery.com/

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