Chris Jordan – Groundswell

Quite a different beauty compared to Joshua Petker’s paintings, but in a way of course also the same. I found this photo in the latest Orion Magazine.; it’s been created by Chris Jordan, who is into quite stunning nature photography.
[The above artwork looks much more stunning at 4x enlargement, like in the Orion Mag. That [...]

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Joshua Petker

Back in September, Fecal Face interviewed Joshua Petker, a Californian artist who often likes to paint women in a rather disturbing way. Fecal Face’s Manuel Bello has got a point: “His paintings are like that girl that you know will destroy you but somehow you just can’t resist”.
Petker paints his women as being seductive, and they all are [...]

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Sydney’s Dub Dentist

For quite a few weeks now I wanted to write a post on Sydney’s Dub Dentist (or is David Kagan), music addict since the age of 12, a compulsive record collector, sometime DJ, Dental Surgeon (yeah for real!), and of late, music producer. Several years in London infused the Dentist with a love of reggae, dub, [...]

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Finding truth in the natural world

I just subscribed to the digital edition of the Orion Magazine, and opening the November/December issue, I felt quite touched by this part the editors’ foreword, reflecting on our alienation from nature and especially our perception of what is real and true.
In 2004, an unnamed Bush administration aide famously derided New York Times writer Ron Suskind [...]

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