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…FASCINATION AND INTEREST
Fascination and Interest
I think it's really important to devour culture, to soak, immerse, pickle and rinse your self in the stuff! Here are a few things that have I have approached with fascination and interest. It all goes into the artistic mix; it feeds, nourishes and without it I shall wither!
ART
Jean-Michel Basquiat — Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Ornamental Despair (Painting for Ian Curtis) — Julian Schnabel
Art Brut Japonais II — Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
Danse Macabre — Bernt Notke. St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn Estonia
BOOKS
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Fondation Louis Vuitton — Dieter Buchhart
Hawksmoor — Peter Ackroyd
The Little Zen Companion — David Schiller
The Sick Bag Song — Nick Cave
MUSIC
Spacebound Apes — Neil Cowley Trio
Lodger (Tony Visconti remix) David Bowie
Flowers of Romance — Public Image Ltd
Kicking Against The Pricks — Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Wings Of Desire — Soundtrack
White Lunar — Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
Secrets of the Beehive — David Sylvian
Distortland — The Dandy Warhols
FILM / DOCUMENTARY
Stan & Ollie — Jon S. Baird
Tokyo Story — Yasujiro Ozu
Loving Vincent — Dorota Kobiela / Hugh Welchman
On Chesil Beach — Dominic Cooke
Strangers On A Train — Alfred Hitchcock
Wonderstruck — Todd Haynes
Pina — Wim Wenders
Boom For Real — Sara Driver
LIKES
Paris
Tallinn
Winter light and winter cold
This Is Patti Smith — www.instagram.com/thisispattismith
The Vampires Wife — www.thevampireswife.com
Black Medicine Coffee — Edinburgh
We Heart — www.we-heart.com
The Red Hand Files — www.theredhandfiles.com
QUOTATIONS
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
— John Lennon
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
— Edgar Degas
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
ART
Jean-Michel Basquiat — Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Ornamental Despair (Painting for Ian Curtis) — Julian Schnabel
Art Brut Japonais II — Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
Danse Macabre — Bernt Notke. St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn Estonia
BOOKS
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Fondation Louis Vuitton — Dieter Buchhart
Hawksmoor — Peter Ackroyd
The Little Zen Companion — David Schiller
The Sick Bag Song — Nick Cave
MUSIC
Spacebound Apes — Neil Cowley Trio
Lodger (Tony Visconti remix) David Bowie
Flowers of Romance — Public Image Ltd
Kicking Against The Pricks — Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Wings Of Desire — Soundtrack
White Lunar — Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
Secrets of the Beehive — David Sylvian
Distortland — The Dandy Warhols
FILM / DOCUMENTARY
Stan & Ollie — Jon S. Baird
Tokyo Story — Yasujiro Ozu
Loving Vincent — Dorota Kobiela / Hugh Welchman
On Chesil Beach — Dominic Cooke
Strangers On A Train — Alfred Hitchcock
Wonderstruck — Todd Haynes
Pina — Wim Wenders
Boom For Real — Sara Driver
LIKES
Paris
Tallinn
Winter light and winter cold
This Is Patti Smith — www.instagram.com/thisispattismith
The Vampires Wife — www.thevampireswife.com
Black Medicine Coffee — Edinburgh
We Heart — www.we-heart.com
The Red Hand Files — www.theredhandfiles.com
QUOTATIONS
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
— John Lennon
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
— Edgar Degas
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
— Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
