Electrical riptides reside in tapestry repetition for safety survival for majority short attention span for detail focus on longevity stumbling through crowded possibilities rate this hermit cyclone status grab the bat for bad kids, you eat too much this anorexic touch got toys throwing up I lost my direction in arrangement comfortable complacent find my treasure at the bottom of the tree, like santiago the alchemist I say alchemy construct your construct friendly adversary, uncomfortable ransacked pulled the trigger but …
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Pages from Codex Seraphinianus 
Pages from Codex Seraphinianus 
Pages from Codex Seraphinianus 
Pages from Codex Seraphinianus 
Pages from Codex Seraphinianus 
Pages from Codex Seraphinianus 
Codex Seraphinianus is a 400-page book written in an imaginary language accompanied by illustrations that seem to be of a remixed earth. Italian artist and former architect, Luigi Serafini made the book as an attempt to get out of the art gallery scene .The pen-and-ink and colored-pencil images seem self-explanatory. There’s a white mountainous car with melting tires covered in ants. A seed grows to become a tree-chair. A deer head emerges out of a flowerpot. The impersonating text is handwritten …
The intricate and surreal visuals of Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski’s stop-animated story Madame Tutli-Putli are alluring from the very first frames. Stadium lights are the only evidence given that the first scene takes place at a train station. They turn on like a controlled explosion to illuminate a foggy world. The camera pans along the ground where random objects are lined up: a record player, empty picture frames, a rocking chair, stacked books and piles of suitcases. They have sentimental value. They …
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz reads Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss on the Senate floor during his 22-hour filibuster against ObamaCare. In response, New York Democrat Chuck Schumer is “appalled.” To a crowd of reporters he said, “Green Eggs and Ham has a moral: Don’t criticize something, don’t reject something, until you actually try it. Sam said he didn’t like green eggs and ham for a long time. And then when he finally tried it, he liked it.” …
My five-year-old daughter, Kantra created “Trying To Be Friends.” The story was all her idea. I didn’t help or critique her output. Any subtle hint of me trying to do so was met with, “No, I don’t want that.” “Did she really think of it?” my wife, Haruki asked me. I was half way done editing our footage when I showed it to her. Making a movie came out of Kantra and I crafting hand puppets. She was out of …
