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12-15 BIZARRE UNDERGROUND STUFF WEIRD + FUN
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Uncommon
FANTASY enjoy it
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Kyle Thompson
Kyle Thompson was born in Chicago on January 11th, 1992. He began taking photographs at the age of nineteen after finding interest in nearby abandoned houses. His work is mostly composed of self portraits, often taking place in empty forests and abandoned homes.
His work encapsulates the ephemeral narrative, a nonexistent story line that only lives for a split moment. These images show the collapse of narrative, as there is no defined story line with a beginning and end; instead, these images create a loop. This fleeting moment lives on in a constant unchanging state. By diverting the view of the face, the images become more ambiguous, the viewer is no longer able to tie a defined story line to the image.
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Claire Boucher
March 17, 1988 Canadian producer, artist, musician, singer-songwriter and music video director. According to Grimes, she had a “realization” at age 20 as to how music was created, which enabled her to begin recording and experimenting. “One day, I was listening to music and it suddenly made sense to me how it was constructed,” she said. She went on, saying: “I have a nervous tic. When I was a kid, I would constantly be banging on things with my foot. Making music has been a really good mechanism for releasing some kind of percussive issue that I have. It’s usually about finding a perfect beat; I play around until I get a tempo I like and then it’s just a matter of filling in the blanks.”
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Very unique freelance illustrator with the name of Suntur, 23 (may not be his legal name). He doesn’t list much information about himself but his artwork is one of a kind. He has over 52,000 followers on Instagram and over 14,000 likes on Facebook. His artwork has a sort of caricature feel to to it, with exaggerated facial features such as very large foreheads on portraits he’s done. He’s artwork is also “simple” but that’s what makes his art stand out. He uses very bold lines in his artwork as well.
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Luanna Perez WWW.LE-HAPPY.COM His style is quite unique, yet very distinctive: naïve, detailed and playful, drawing people, animals, food, plants and objects. His illustrations can be found on scarfs (collab with Labyrinthism), T-shirts, debit cards, iPhone cases,…and lots of his work can now be purchased at his facebook shop. She started on Lookbook.nu about three years ago. Began to share her looks and loved what other lookbook members posted so it became one of her hobbies. After a while she realized she wanted to share more stuff so created her blog. She received a lot of feedback and that definitely motivated her to do her blog as well. Wanted to has a creative space by her own where She could share whatever came to her mind in relation to fashion and her own personal style. She moved to NY about a year ago. She was studying literature until decided to try and apply to FIT for Fashion Merchandising. She loved Peru but Lua wanted to pursue Fashion Merchandising as a career and Peru didn’t have that major. She was also kind of bored because the fashion scenario in Peru is way far from creative, or at least it was like that about two years ago. Still loves Peru though and She misses it sometimes. Lua hasn’t had any cultural shocks besides from being a little bit stressed because everything is so fast here. Luanna’s advice “I think its always important to be yourself. I think the best bloggers out there are those who don’t try to resemble other blogs, they just share what they like and what they feel they want to communicate. Creativity is extremely important”
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HIKARI SHIMODA Hikari’s motif is children whose ages are around 10 to 15 years old. Their attempt to adjust themselves to the modern environment in our time seems to be a hard battle to her. Also, they are living in an unstable time between being a child and a being an adult.She picks up their warped attitude or feeling toward the outer world and express it through their unstable presence, she can express deep feelings.
She has inside, such as grief, alienation, and love. She believes that adults who were once a child feel compassion with the children she paints. Hikari Shimoda’s evocative paintings explore the complex themes of childhood and adolescence. Shimoda’s work captures children in situations of discomfort and hesitation. Her paintings offer the viewer an intimate glimpse into a world of isolation and alienation.
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Hikari Shimoda earned her AFA from Kyoto Saga University of Arts in Kyoto, Japan. She has received several awards for her work in illustration and painting. Shimoda has participated in various exhibitions, including the Museum Asahi Nagano, the Design Festa, the National Art Center, and the Geisa Museum. Shimoda currently resides in Japan.
Rather than idealized portraits, Shimoda’s paintings present hollow-eyed children with chafed, twisted fingers and expressions of unease and sadness. These blemished and often disfigured subjects evoke empathy rather than fetishism, which has so often been associated with contemporary Japanese paintings. Often depicting a solitary child, Shimoda’s paintings possess a naive, illustrative quality. Her delicately textured surfaces work together with a muted, seductive palette to create a presumed innocence. Shimoda draws the viewer into an emotional space pervaded by feelings of vulnerability, loneliness, and grief.
17 They started playing together about 4 years ago. They’d all played in previous bands when we were teenagers and we drifted together because they wanted to start something new. Mike (Second vocal and guitar) was looking for a drummer and i met Greg through an add he posted on an internet forum. Then a friend who Mike used to live with introduced him to Brian and Darragh joined a little while after. They needed a fourth set of hands and They all knew Darragh as he’d played in a band with Brian before. All have similar aspirations and overlapping tastes in music. They fit together pretty well.
FUNERAL SUITS They all write songs together. They have different processed though so nothing is set in stone. With videos and art work the band like to work with their friends outside the band. Philip Kennedy has been doing our art work since Funeral Suits started out. They’ve worked with various friends on videos. They like the buzz of interacting with other creative people and sharing a common goal of expressing theirselves and what they’re about to the wider population.
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20 BY IORI TOMITA Transparent specimens: they are far from what you might imagine from the word “specimens.� Although being organisms, they appear as if they were beautifully sculpted from minerals. Originally, the method of making transparent specimens enzymatically turning the protein transparent, dyeing the bones magenta and dyeing the cartilages blue was established for scientific purposes to study the skeletal system. Taking this a step further to refine the form and coloration of the specimens requires time and experience.
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