Amandakatarina's Blog

Ne Me Quitte Pas

amandakatarina — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:42:12 +0000

Tagged: art, Contemporary Art Daily, forget, France, French, music, nina Simone, Tempo Rubato, xanti schawinsky

An Urban Discovery

amandakatarina — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:48:44 +0000

Read the article in the Gothamist here

Tagged: america, broken, cool stuff, east village, new york, old, old hollywood theater, ruin, things I like, william gibson

Musique

amandakatarina — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:10:58 +0000

Tagged: music, Raphael Saadiq, video

rid and ride

amandakatarina — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:21:11 +0000

Monika Sosnowska, The Staircase
Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
-Virginia Woolf

Tagged: art, monika sosnowska, quote, virginia woolfe

temperament

amandakatarina — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:14:05 +0000

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles… unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing… better than to follow nature.

- Caravaggio

Her pictures of lovers and paintings from the Louvre blossomed before my eyes: I saw Goldin transform herself into a living raw nerve

Jerry Saltz

Tagged: caravaggio, jerry saltz, lighting, nan goldin, nature, painting, photography, quotes

america.

amandakatarina — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:16:43 +0000

So this is where tax money goes?

http://nymag.com/news/features/danny-chen-2012-1/

Tagged: military, racism, what the fuck?, you suck

“I have no hobbies”

amandakatarina — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:38:13 +0000

Read while playing the audio:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2011/11/famous_classical_composers_the_last_piece_they_wrote_before_they_died_.single.html

Tagged: art, Béla Bartók, beethovan, debussy, Jorge Luis Borges, killing me softly, mozart, music, process, requiem, richard wagner, the artist

Perfections

amandakatarina — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:28:03 +0000

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
At souls only understand souls.
- Walt Whitman

Tagged: CAD, finding, juxtapostion, life crisis, narration, Perfections, post modernism, Reena Spaulings, soul mate, things I like, Walt Whitman, words and pictures

The Curve of Singularity

amandakatarina — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:20:22 +0000

stories and pictures:

A Little Fable

Franz Kafka

“ALAS,” said the mouse, “the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when at last I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into.” “You only need to change your direction,” said the cat, and ate it up.

Raimer Jochims

Tagged: art, blue, CAD, cat and mouse, kafka, matching art with literature, men in black, Raimer Jochims, the universe, the world, what is this?

Quant a Soi

amandakatarina — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:06:46 +0000

brings us together, but also divides us.

Tagged: chuck and blair, edith wharton, hold on, life, preserve, quant a soi, reste, the age of innocence

“Quinta del Sordo”

amandakatarina — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:01:09 +0000

The House of the Deaf Man
A layout of Goya’s house showing his “black paintings” in their original positions in his house:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Quintasordo.svg

Goya has always been a favorite of mine, and I often reference him when writing about narrative. “Saturn devouring his Son”, was the inspiration behind my work with monsters.

Lately I’ve been feeling inspired to paint; I feel like “dog” may lead to a new series of work.

Tagged: artist's studio, dog, Goya, haunting, house of the deaf man, inspiration, landscape, like-mind, living with your work, macbeth, narrative, paintings, process, saturn devouring his son, spain

you’re

amandakatarina — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:02:23 +0000

too close.

I need more space between sea and sky.

Tagged: clausterphobia, Contemporary Art Daily, daniel lergon painting, feelings, mood, mountains, satellite, you

Chafic Abboud

amandakatarina — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:05:13 +0000

L’Amour en noir fleuri

Tagged: arab, art, contemporary, culture mix, inspiration, L'Amour en noir fleuri, painting

Steve Jobs

amandakatarina — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:36:42 +0000

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

Tagged: apple, creative, death, genius, innovation, invention, mac, making stuff, obituary, quote, steve jobs, technology

wishing I could be looming among the de koonings

amandakatarina — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:30:13 +0000

http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2011/09/26/110926_audioslideshow_willem-de-kooning

play the slideshow, it’s great!

Tagged: MOMA, New York TImes, willem de kooning

Modern nature

amandakatarina — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:11:48 +0000

plans for the underground “Low Line Park” in New York, based on an ancient Egyptian use of photosynthesis.

obviously a response to “The High Line Park”.

Video:

Tagged: city, drawing, Egypt, high and low, making it work, modern nature, new york, nymag, old things, park, plans, th high line park, underground, urban

Your scientists were so caught up thinking whether or not they could, that they never stopped to think about whether or not they should.

amandakatarina — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:40:21 +0000

dinosaurs had feathers.

Tagged: amber, dinosaurs, dinosaurs had feathers, discovery, ethics, evolution, feathers, fossil, ideas, jeff goldblum, nature, new, progression, science

MONAY!

amandakatarina — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:30:13 +0000

Tagged: capital, current exhibit, grouping, Hans-Peter Feldmann, installation, money, subjective reality

legacy

amandakatarina — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:26:03 +0000

“The eldest of the girls, Frances, known as Fanny, was according to Peggy, “an incurable soprano.” She wore feather boas and a rose in her hair and was an excellent cook, but nevertheless was given to constantly wiping household surfaces with Lysol. The family story had it that after quarreling with her for thirty years, her husband tried to kill her and one of their sons with a golf club, failed, and threw himself in a reservoir with weights on his feet. Another aunt, Adelaide, was enormously fat and late in life deluded herself into thinking that she was having an adulterous affair with a druggist named Balch; though her family tried to convince her that Balch did not exist, she remained so guilty and remorseful that they eventually put her in a nursing home. A third daughter Florette, was Peggy’s mother.”