Cultivating a modern Bonsai style by adding a theme of relationship between human and nature to a Japanese classical Bonsai style. Originally, Japanese Classical Bonsai Style portraits the beauty of nature in miniature. Bonsai-B is an experimental approach to turn out a modern Bonsai style that portraits the beauty of spiritual accordance between human and nature in miniature.(via Junkculture)
(via Animal / Bild: Facebook & Album von David Choe)"In 2005, Mr. Choe was invited to paint murals on the walls of Facebook’s first offices in Palo Alto, Calif., by Sean Parker, then Facebook’s president. As pay, Mr. Parker offered Mr. Choe a choice between cash in the “thousands of dollars,” according to several people who know Mr. Choe, or stock then worth about the same. Mr. Choe, who has said that at the time that he thought the idea of Facebook was “ridiculous and pointless,” nevertheless chose the stock. Many “advisers” to the company at that time, which is how Mr. Choe would have been classified, would have received about 0.1 to 0.25 percent of the company, according to a former Facebook employee. That may sound like a paltry amount, but a stake that size is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, based on a market value of $100 billion. Mr. Choe’s payment is valued at roughly $200 million, according to a number of people who know Mr. Choe and Facebook executives. Although Mr. Choe initially led a rough life including run-ins with the law, he is wealthy even without the Facebook offering. (It is unclear whether he sold any portion of his Facebook holdings on secondary markets.) Now a very successful artist with gallery shows and pieces exhibited in major museums ... Mr. Choe declined requests to be interviewed for this article; he said he wanted to maintain his privacy. He has, however, published an obscenity-strewn book of his art, “David Choe,” which includes images of the multimillion-dollar murals at Facebook. Mr. Choe’s page on Facebook shows the life of a modern-day renegade artist. Among the images of his graffiti, there is a trail of images of him partying with scantily clad women and spending large amounts of money on alcohol. In recent weeks, Mr. Choe promoted photos of a $40,000 bottle of alcohol; a single shot, he boasted, costs $888. He offers life advice in his book: “Always double down on 11. Always.” Maybe the better advice is to take stock, not cash, from Harvard dropouts in Silicon Valley." The New York Times: From Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches
"Quasi-Objects" is an art project consisting of 3d generated videos and prints, a practice of "organic re-design" - started in 2003 and still in progress - ... "Quasi-Objects" regards data actualization, the production of biologically non-functional organisms and ecosystems as transient output of an operative practice: aesthetics of process ... "Life is a real and autonomous process independent from any specific material manifestation."(via Drawn)
In “Unreal Estate,” Doyle explores locations found throughout popular culture in a variety of limited-edition hand-printed screen prints and original art."From Moe’s Tavern to the Bluth Banana Stand, Doyle’s realistic and illustrative reinterpretations of television’s most iconic places is a captivating voyage. In the artists words, “Unreal Estate’ is a collection of locations that many of us know and have been to on a weekly basis at times, but can never actually visit. These places are in our memories transmitted and entrenched there through a cathode-ray tube. Some of us have been going to these places for decades, some of these places were taken from us, way too soon ...Noch mehr Unreal Estate nach dem Klick – entgegen der sonst hier üblichen Praxis, weil es kein Portfolio zum Verlinken gibt ...
"The sculpture embodies the dichotomy between pleasure and fear, thought and desire, instinct, and reason"(via BEAUTIFUL/DECAY)
