Artists Websites

[Andrew McIntosh]

Perhaps a post on good websites? Here's a few of mine -

http://www.pedrodekastro.com/
Dark, well rendered pen and ink, black and white creations in a consciously "post apocalyptic" mood.
http://www.jessewiedel.com/
Cynicism and sincerity, reality and surreality: the US underclass dug up and brought to light. Hail the Meth Mouth!
http://www.alessandrobavari.com/english/sodom_gomorrah/gallery_sodom_gomorrah.htm
Photo journalism of the last days of two of the Bible's favourite holiday locations. Let's all go to Fellatio Fair.

[Strömkarlen]

Martin Bladh should be known to most people here. If you don't know his work have look at the first Special Interests issue or at his blog. What can I say? Blood, guts, nude, serial killers, performance, sex... it's all there. The letters he gets from Denis Nilsen are nice.
http://martinbladh-vf.blogspot.com/

[Tommy Carlsson]

Stefan Danielsson is doing more and more interesting pictures. He has a ton of interesting thoughts on "his" subjects, and it would be great to see an indepth interview with him some day.

His two blogs:
http://bitedead.blogspot.com/
http://africaandomega.blogspot.com/

There has not been a lot written about Danielsson, but here is an interesting piece by Carl Abrahamsson, only in Swedish though:
http://bratnoir.blogspot.com/2009/11/stefan-danielsson-africa-omega.html

[Andrew McIntosh]

Not Danielsson, but a beautiful image nonetheless. Hail The Serpent!

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Stefan Danielsson is doing more and more interesting pictures. He has a ton of interesting thoughts on "his" subjects, and it would be great to see an indepth interview with him some day.

I have a feeling he might have made orders from my in past? And that we traded something. I remember one guy from sweden sending me flyers of his exhibition etc.

I have intent in Special Interest to cover some art. If there are interesting artists what even "vaguely" connect into noise. Quite recently obtained some art booklets of the guy who did artworks for SODALITY records. One of them very good.

I think first target will be simply "close to homebase" so to say. Finnish artists Jukka Siikala, who have done for example Strom.ec 3rd album cover painting. He has done more for metal, he's working on exceptional painting of mrs. Bizarre Uproar. I remember his first solo exhibition maybe 5-6 years ago in Helsinki when he blasted just Merzbow and Masonna as background music for his experimental sexually motivated works. Now his latest solo exhibition opening day had Bizarre Uproar doing live performance and on the walls you could see big oil paintings of sexual tension, www disturbances, cums fetish, etc.  Very good and talented artists doing pretty demanding works, instead of doodles and photoshop wankery.
His site: http://www.siikala.com/
experimental portrait series is my favorite. Been considering purchasing original painting if I could afford it. My siikala original painting collection is now simply record cover paintings he have done for me on Northern Heritage. When you see all these painting in real life, it does change the perspective to look at them. I finally have learned about why people might go to exhibitions of actual original art instead pre-view images online...

[Strömkarlen]

Stefan Danielsson is doing more and more interesting pictures. He has a ton of interesting thoughts on "his" subjects, and it would be great to see an indepth interview with him some day.

I have a feeling he might have made orders from my in past? And that we traded something. I remember one guy from sweden sending me flyers of his exhibition etc.

He also did the artwork for Racket by Whitehouse.

[Andrew McIntosh]

http://verlichtingshumanisten.web-log.nl/photos/test_fotoalbum/index.html

[Ganesha23]

Some very inspiring photography sites:

http://www.abandoned-places.com/
http://www.friched.net/
http://www.hfinster.de/
http://www.lost-least.it/
http://www.designshed.com/lostamerica/index.html
http://nostalgicglass.org/

And one for movie buffs:

http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/

[Plague Haus]

Not a hug fan of photography for the most part, but I thought this guys stuff was different:

http://www.joshuahoffine.com/

Reading his blog about some of the lengths he goes to to set up the shots interesting as well:

http://joshuahoffine.wordpress.com/

I heard an interview with him once and he took some heat for the "Big Bad Wolf" picture (look at his portfolio) even though he used his own daughter.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Some very inspiring photography sites:

http://www.hfinster.de/

Thanks!!

http://www.industriekultur-fotografie.de/

perhaps whole decayed industrial culture photography phenomena would deserve its own topic. I was one given possibility to be officially invited to do source recordings at Imatra Steel factories. One guy who worked in the factory, saw Grunt live show in Lappeenranta, and came to tell me some of the sounds are like liquid hot steel being poured into molds. I though, it sounds interesting, but didn't have much of portable recorders at the time. Since then many walkmen and also digital recorder is bought, so would be easy. But now due economic depression, guy is no longer working in position he was in...
But I think the true industrial documentation in sound & visual, top interests.

[Plague Haus]

I missed that! Those are very nice. A year or so back I stumbled on a website, it was photos this woman had taken of Chernobyl today. There are several out there, but hers was very good. For the life of me I can't remember the name.

[heretogo]

Any recommendations for good photography books on abandonend buildings / old industrial sites and the like? I really like browsing through these websites but a printed page beats a computer screen any day.

And speaking of artist websites:

www.nitsch.org

[obscure eruption]

I missed that! Those are very nice. A year or so back I stumbled on a website, it was photos this woman had taken of Chernobyl today. There are several out there, but hers was very good. For the life of me I can't remember the name.

That woman must be Elena Filatova: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiddofspeed

Another nice journal from Chernobyl with strangely colorful photos, videos and audio:
http://timmsuess.com/

[Plague Haus]

That's it! Cheers for that.

[Henrik III]

I was one given possibility to be officially invited to do source recordings at Imatra Steel factories. One guy who worked in the factory, saw Grunt live show in Lappeenranta, and came to tell me some of the sounds are like liquid hot steel being poured into molds. I though, it sounds interesting, but didn't have much of portable recorders at the time.

Sorry about off topic but one of my most incredible aesthetic experiences of 2009 was visiting a steel factory (a full factory from a blast furnace to casting). A huge, dirty hall, flashes of melt steel, big machinery running on their own with rare appearance of workers, omnipresent deep, heavy echoing sounds. Very Mad Max style atmosphere, incredible.