Some photos

I just remembered just now that I can sync my bookmarks here on my parents' machine, so now I have my blogpost thing. Anyway, I don't really feel like saying much, but here are some photos that I found to be moving:

From Time Magazine
From Daily Dose of Imagery
From CHROMASIA (This guy is amazing, I recommend livebookmarking his blog)
More from CHROMASIA
From "Ground Glass"

On a similar note, I apparently forgot my camera (along with my heavy jacket) in blacksburg. damn. I've got like five rolls of film I need to get developed. I remember I used to get annoyed at my mother for not getting film developed for years after it was taken. I guess now I understand. I swear, I've become my parents in so many ways.

While I'm at it with these links, I realized recently that in my search for interesting art, I've always tried to not be too concerned in what other people seem to like or what seems cool or what seems interesting to everyone else in a lot of areas, especially in regards to art. Not always, but quite a bit. I mean, I've always thought the Mona Lisa was a much overrated work, really not much more than a portrait. Of course I'm aware that da Vinci invented sfumato, and the mona lisa is probably the first time he used it (maybe not, not sure), but I don't see this as any major cause for alarm. Caravaggio invented chiaroscuro and although he's certainly very famous, neither his name nor his work are now part of popular culture. And even still, Brunelleschi (sp?) invented PERSPECTIVE and many people have never even heard his name. Anyways, here are some paintings:

Jacques-Louis David - The Death of Marat
(this might be my favorite painting ever. Like damn. Not the stuff of desktop wallpaper certainly, but I think David was a genius. It's called Death of Marat)
Jacques-Louis David - The Sabine Women ( think that's what its called)
(another David.
His works have such a dark, nightmare quality to them. Its insane.
Repin - Unexpected Return
(I think repin is another little known genius.)
Salvador Dali - Anthropomorphic Cabinet
(Dali is my favorite artist, and this is no doubt my favorite work by him. Strangely enough, its quite difficult to find good pictures of online. Even this one has some tone issues, but many of them cut off a good bit of the right side. Also art.com and allposters.com don't seem to sell any posters of it, though they are happy to sell you posters of every other obscure thing that Dali ever did. Here's my latest thought about this thing though: Its always kind of bothered me about the figure's legs, and how they seem to be folded correctly according to physics, but they still look like they're kind of floating. Did Dali do this intentionally? If you look at his working working sketches for it, the legs don't look floating there, but as soon as he put it on canvas, it looks kind of weird. I'd post links, but I can't find the sketches online. Anyway, just a thought.)