SASSATIONAL ☠

My new-to-me artist of the day is Alex Alemany, of Spain.

From the artist’s website:

Pintar En Defensa Propia

Vivimos en una estructura cultural, cuya complejidad es superior a nuestra capacidad individual para entenderla. La hemos construido nosotros; pero quienes deberían organizar, legislar y gestionar las sociedades liberal-democráticas y todos sus problemas culturales ya no tienen los recursos, conocimientos y capacidad necesarios, para entender lo que está pasando y lo que se puede hacer para resolverlo. El ser humano, ya no puede entender el mundo que ha creado.

En lo concerniente al Arte, soportamos mansamente la continua victoria de la promoción y el marketing sobre el conocimiento y los valores.

La pobreza de la preparación artística, se ha convertido por la alquimia del mercado, en un instrumento poderoso para la mejor “expresividad artística” del momento, entendido en términos consumistas.

Este es un momento caracterizado por la ausencia de tendencias claras, debido a la exhaustiva proliferación de propuestas e informaciones convulsas que somos incapaces de procesar y, que bloquean la selección, provocando la necesidad de buscar refugio personal. Quizá sea el momento del individualismo y la práctica del oficio como defensa mística ante la incertidumbre y desorientación. Al menos es la opción que he escogido.

Google Translation:

Painting In Self Defense

We live in a cultural structure, whose complexity is greater than our individual capacity to understand. We’ve built us, but who should organize, legislate and manage the liberal-democratic societies and all its cultural problems and lack the resources, knowledge and skills needed to understand what is happening and what can be done to solve it. Human beings can no longer understand the world you created. 

With regard to Art, meekly endure the continued victory of the promotion and marketing on knowledge and values.

The poverty of artistic training has become the Alchemy of the market, a powerful tool for the best “artistic expression” of the moment, understood in terms of consumerism. 

This is a time characterized by the absence of clear trends due to the extensive proliferation of proposals and information that we are unable convulsive process and to block selection, causing the need to seek shelter staff. It may be time of individualism and practice of the profession as a defense mystical face of uncertainty and disorientation. At least that is the option you have chosen.

(Source: sassational)

Kathrine Switzer & The 1967 Boston Marathon

Two miles into the 1967 Boston Marathon, an official tried to eject Kathrine Switzer from the race simply because she was a woman. Switzer tells producer Phoebe Judge the story about an amateur coach, a feisty official, and a race that helped change running for women in America.

Here is the link to the actual interview (begins at 31:15 in podcast), (via crookedindifference)

“All I wanted to do is run and run with friends.” - Katherine

“I wish you’d quit feeling sorry for yourself. Now that’s ugly.”

The Help is one of the only movies we’ve watched recently that really held our attention. Lines like this made it easy to love the film.

(Source: justtouchedawkwardly)