Review of 2013

2013 was an interesting for not saying boring and extremely tasteless year. Rape porn became an adjective, bitcoin sky roofted to the stratosphere, literally (an early adopter bought the first ticket to space for 250,000 in bitcoins making Richard Branson grin grow an inch more), and oh well, stoners are still dreaming wildly about the zillions they are going to make going public and legit before the end of times. Everyone became aware that those pictures you have being taking to yourself since the beginning of times are as common as napping and its label is the selfie. Oh yeah and the peak of cultural development went to Miley Cyrus for her broad and ample knowledge and ability to twerk. Iran didn't got the bomb, Israel did not destroyed the world, Egipt got a second not as interesting as the first uprising, Syria is still a catastrophe and new natural catastrophes emerged causing massive devastation like in Philippines and the business as usual in the poverty-driven economy of most parts of the developing world continued, while the richest rich are still pretty insanely rich in the developed world, polluting like if there is no tomorrow and enslaving with minimum wages a big chunk of its population that are unbearable for even achieve at least a bare bones survival existence. Perhaps they can learn from Hunger Games, or from the handy tips the overlord McDonalds showed extravagantly to us in a shiny new-looking website, by the way thank you, I didn’t knew that breaking the meals in small pieces makes you feel fuller. (How can you break meals in small pieces? Ah! I know! It is because they know that most of its workers eat Cheetos for lunch, smart!). Oh yeah, and Banksy sold original artworks for $60 dollars worth thousands and just three lucky bastards got them while the rest of us just piped-dreamed about what would I have done with that money. It also was a really bad year for the dingy internet. The piratebay folks still have massive problems with the law while all the junkies are crying out loud when they discovered that their gateway to heaven have being seized by the FBI, with probably all their information about their habits printed in their transactions. fun fun fun, but not as fun than for its creator, the wise-ass Dread Pirate Roberts whose endeavour now means bankrupt for all his family, future children and grandchildren and a great conversation topic for christmas, if he gets out of jail of course before he can still fathered someone. With a year like this it is not difficult to predict that perhaps 2014 will be a better year, but who knows? A new Costa Concordia could be next door or stuxnet could be lurking in everyones devices and convert them into explosives or potential cause of cancer, oh wait, that already happened. All in the name of progress, right? but who knows? The only thing for sure is 2013 is over and with that all its misery is now history, as the love for crack of the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, because, yolo, isn’t?… you could do better than that, right?

testing cubes

meteoro

merged octagons

more abstraktion for you mein freund

Imprime algo sobre papel bond.

La idea detrás de este proyecto es que cualquier persona puede imprimir estas 'piezas' con los utensilios de más fácil acceso en una oficina. Solo necesitas papel bond y una impresora convencional. El resultado es bastante interesante y flexible. Disfruten. 

Instrucciones: Para acceder a estos archivos ya con el formato de impresión dar click al link debajo de cada imagen, esta dirección te llevará al documento de google donde se encuentra almacenado. Ahí sólo es ir a la pestaña de archivo y darle en Imprimir. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lWSucK4791BKUuFRsE7jTyodfCqqfH5mSbXzc23avls/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gs4Y4bWMp-PfHM0x0mijSHjdRcMT_8HTMSiQPf2FAD8/edit

Resultado:

testing the gradient function

testing abstraction

ballons in CYMK

La idea detrás de esta imagen es hacer que los globos tengan movimiento que luego publicaré para una más amplia experiencia en la página orangegutanlab.com

firefox to the end

And then Nietzsche said ...

space-ship owner

testing picasso

muahaha

cut, paste & re-escale

The idea behind the first image came from the cover of the latest book by Slavoj Zizek, I think it's an striking one.

I have been thinking recently about Jesus, but not as the institucionalized idea the Church have been exploiting since yester-year, but him as a man. So, it came to me the question, how jesus would look like today if he would be around? And the result was the following one:

Struggle

Following the same current I have been testing since the past month, being this one Constructivism, I'm experimenting with the main image of the fist in various forms to achieve deeper impact (adding some subversive red ink as background), play a little bit more and get familiar with the GIMP tools.

Some thoughts about my last drawings

Hello everybody,

Sometimes I get fixated by an idea, a thing, or a band. Recently I have been quite immersed about the band Rammstein, when something like that gets into my mind and I can't get it out starts manipulating my ideas for drawings and immediately I start trying to represent what I feel with my limitations of a precarious artist...

Ok, so here are some of the results of that so-called immersion:

First I would like to show the tools I work with, In the real life I work mostly with texts so these are what comes at hand all the time without searching much:

Later on when the set is ready I just start drawing semi-consciously and I don't edit much, what you see is pretty much the first take of the finished product:

 Ok, that's all thanks for listening.

spider-man got punched!

[GIF Version]

[Arcade Version]

Bohemian in San Pedro

Constructivism

I spent my day today thinking about the artistic current Constructivism. It really catch my attention because It feels very revolutionary and not only in the ideological way but also in how it is realized, using 'shocking' colors to attract the attention of the spectator mixed with geometrical forms that shapes human struggles and desires of emancipation. It just felt really good and I enjoyed very much exploring the thematic a little bit.

First I took this image I found doing quick research using google images with the term.

Then I sketched the image and the result was the following:

Later on I added an humoristic twist and I mutated it into this using the tools I found in the office desk and added a little of digital red to highlight the effect:

Recuento de daños del 2012

El 2012 ha sido sin duda un año de vasos rotos.

Vi a mis dos bandas favoritas de todos los tiempos Radiohead y Modeselektor. Las pistas que fui siguiendo dejadas por el rastro del 'Elvis Presley' de la filosofía, el esloveno Slavoj Zizek, desembocaron a recibir educación impartida por él y otros grandes en European Graduate School cuyo desenlace dejo apreciables amistades y una grata experiencia europea en compañía de viejos amigos y mas confusión.

He tratado de mantener un ritmo de escritura considerable que culmino en la publicación en diferentes medios que fueron muy amables de darme completa libertad siendo estos Sonic-Soma, Rockets Musik! y la iniciativa lingüística de European Graduate School para la cual realice traducciones del ingles al español de memorables académicos. A continuación hago un enlistado de dichas publicaciones por si alguien tiene curiosidad:

Traducciones para European Graduate School:

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK. POR QUÉ OBAMA ES MÁS QUE BUSH CON UN ROSTRO HUMANO.

JUDITH BUTLER. COMENTARIOS FINALES SOBRE MI OBSERVACIÓN CONTROVERSIAL.

JUDITH BUTLER. PUEDE UNO LLEVAR UNA VIDA BUENA EN UNA VIDA MALA.

Notas para Rockets Musik!:

Arte + Musica = Cold Void

#Flash: Burial + Four Tet, Beck & Mogwai

Band to watch: Source of Yellow

#Review: Julia Holter 'Ekstasis'

Band to watch: Endless Boogie

Notas para Sonic-Soma:

WFMU ¿La mejor estación de radio independiente?

Música Ideal Para Bodas

También quisiera despedirme agradeciéndoles a todos los que estuvieron presentes y ausentes pero pendientes en este periodo y mandarles un caluroso abrazo. El próximo año no tengo la mas remota idea de que nuevo monstruo me tendré que enfrentar pero tengo la seguridad de contar con las armas para salir victorioso.

Próximamente espero poder anunciarles sobre un proyecto que realice con un artista visual de NY que esta en proceso de ser hecho publico y que les brindare frescos detalles a medida que sea prudente.

 Y por ultimo recuerden este nombre: orangegutanlab