Via the Internet Archive, a great collection of Japanese graphics from the early 1900s. Shin Bijutsukai appears to be a short monthly magazine collecting graphics from popular designers of the time.
Images: Shin Bijutsukai
Category: art
Image: Burroughs
Bill Burroughs’ Recurring Dream, David Wojnarowicz, 1978
Public Domain Illustrations
A fantastic website. Very well organized. Each image can be downloaded in a variety of formats and sizes.
Headpiece for “Faust,” scene VII, titled “Street.” Harry Clarke
America Decayed
By Andrew Borowiec. Some truly depressing photos here. Immaculately photographed decay. Rust Belt communities. These are taken from his collection The Post-Industrial Rust Belt . Another good collection is Along the Ohio.
Dayton, Ohio
McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Octopus Illustrations
Octopus illustrations by Japanese Artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)
Image: Artemis and her hounds
Sarasota Half In Dream
Sarasota Half in Dream from Mitchell Zemil on Vimeo.
A film by Derek Murphy and Mitchell Zemil
Purchase the film for download (+ deleted scenes and other bonus content!) on Gumroad: https://gum.co/HalfinDream
SARASOTA HALF IN DREAM is an experimental documentary about dead turtles, crab swarms, decaying tennis courts, and microscopic histories. The filmmakers shot their explorations into the abandoned golf courses, factories, and resorts of Sarasota, Florida and spoke to local youths who are using them for new and strange purposes.
What would the Surrealists and Situationists think of a suburban, subtropical tourist town? What goes on in a storage unit in the dead of night? What is the afterlife of a decommissioned train car? What ghosts haunt a ruined hotel? What is the life cycle of a city? When will waters wash it all away?
LACMA: Outliers and American Vanguard Art
Recently went to this exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. I found it to be incredibly inspirational. These are people who had to create, who were driven to create. Their circumstances (uneducated or rural or sometimes insane or sometimes all of the above) really didn’t allow them to think about commercial success. They were not stopped by lack of materials. They just did art. Whenever they could. On whatever material they could obtain. In whatever medium they could use. All the time.
The inspirational part is precisely that. This exhibit inspired me to create. Just fucking kick it in the head and start writing again. It’s so easy to get wrapped up in online shit, Twitter threads about how to self-promote, about how to get published, it’s so easy to forget that the point is to create. For me, the point is put the words on the page. And this exhibit reminded me of that essential fact.
