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✖ Via Nicholas Di Genova: “Cuttlefish Floater”
“Drawing on the influence of anime, comic books, Otaku culture, and animal compendiums, the work of Nicholas Di Genova features an encyclopedic range of constructed creatures ranging from soft and nurturing to calculating and military. A vast and intense fabricated history acts as a backdrop to the hundreds of interconnected species, families and rival clans that find themselves projecting their habits, relations and environments to their viewers. Working with ink and animation paints, Di Genova’s paintings on mylar highlight his skill with line and his ability to manipulate colour. Always intense and intricately executed, Di Genova’s work rivals the quality of any fine art painter while firmly establishing itself on the fringes of contemporary art. The work brings together knowledge of art and design and samples from both fields, resulting in incredible visual and technical impact and an astonishing strong conceptual core which receives respect from both camps, a dichotomy often severely split.” (more at the LE Gallery)

Check his blo: Skeleton Hug.


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We went to the movies because we were trying to learn how to be alone together.
✖ Via Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo, New York: Scribner, 2003, p. 185

Previously on Skandalon: Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo



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In less than two months, China has seen six cases of men charging into schools and kindergartens to kill and hurt children. On April 28, 29 and 30, there was one incident per day in three separate cities. Last Wednesday, a man with a cleaver killed seven children and two adults in a central China kindergarten, while on Saturday the man behind the April 29 attack was sentenced to death for stabbing 29 children in an eastern province. The situation has become not only very dark but very surreal.
✖ Via next: “Behind China’s killing spree” by Huang Hung, May 21st, 2010
“Huang Hung is a columnist for China Daily, the English-language newspaper in China. She is also an avid blogger with more than 100 million page views on her blog on sina.co


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✖ Via Matt Robinson: Superheroes in the Recession

Artist’s statement:

“This photography project looked at childrens’ dream jobs, projecting the current employment problems onto one of the few timeless themes throughout childrens’ fantasies; Superheroes.”

Previously on Skandalon


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✖ Via YouTube: “When The Man Comes Around” (by user VBpictures)

The song is “When The Man Comes Around” by Johnny Cash from his album American IV: The Man Comes Around. The editing is quite similar to the opening sequence of Dawn of the Dead by Zack Snyder (2004). Watch the intro on YouTube.


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✖ Via The Art of Memory: Ahab by Raymond Bishop (from Unpainted To The Last: Moby-Aick And Twentieth-Century American Art by Elizabeth A. Schultz, University Press of Kansas 1995)

Great post collecting illustrations inspired by Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851)

Check Elizabeth Schultz’s book on Amazon.


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