Scott Radke makes some cool shit. I sat around for a couple minutes to try to think of a better way to describe his sculptures, but the best I can come up with is “cool shit”. Scott is a 37 year old artist who lives in Ohio. Scott makes cool shit.
His work is here, his blog is here, and his myspace is here.
If your feeling generous, please buy me everything hes ever made. Thanks.
Danilo Pasquali is awesomly bizzare. He’s a 33 year old photographer from Italy. His photography is so varied in styles but you can still tell a Danilo Pasquali shot apart from any other. He does some very creative things with masks and he has some great models. Two thumbs up for Danilo Pasquali.
Hikari Kesho is a breathtakingly good fetish/bondage photographer. His models are great and his shots are excellent. Hikari really pushes the envelope and should be in inspiration for any fetish model or photographer alike. I love that it’s all in black & white too.
Well, after much searching, I really wasn’t able to find much about about Thomas Burggraf. It looks like he might be German, and probably lives around there somewhere. He also looks to be in his early thirties, but who knows. Regardless, Thomas Burggraf is one of the best photographers I’ve come across yet. He has a refreshingly rounded style of shooting and does everything from fetish, to portrait, to pin-up girls with muscle cars.
Thomas Burggraf really needs to get his work out there more. I can’t stress enough how amazing it is. Checking out his website will be the highlight of your day, I promise.
Jerome Gouvrion is a pretty decent bondage photographer if your into the clean, high quality style bondage scene. His work isn’t dark, it’s not morbid, and theres no death or blasphemy involved. But none-the-less, he’s a good photographer. He has a website, and also a flickr profile.
Not really my style, but someone out there might be into it and he’s worth mentioning. So there you go.
Mark Powell. What can I even say about Mark Powell? Mark Powell is an incredible sculptor, to say the least. He hails from the down under (Melbourne specifically) and his sculptures are some of the most terrifyingly realistic looking macabre/occult style pieces I’ve ever seen. His use of gloss is nothing less than perfect, and whatever he uses for his organs and intestines is spot on.
It’s hard to tell weather these peices are small dollhouse size, or more life (death?) like. He does some free standing sculptures that are obviously pretty large, as well as some painting. But I think anyone who’s ever seen his work will relate his name to his sculpting more than anything.
Mark Powell actually has two seperate resources for his work. One is his website, http://www.markpowellart.com which has mostly pictures of the “Hell” set. Unfortunately the photos look like they were taken with the first camera phone ever made. The second resource, and the one with more work and *much* better photos, is his flickr account. I recommend checking out both.
Marc Blackie is an absolutely incredible Fetish/BDSM photography from London. His photography is abnormally incredible and his use of black & white contrast is stellar. He describes his work as “being a product of various parts of my mind; my love of the erotic, the female form & sexual fantasy and quite obviously the more sinister underbelly of these things.”
“Marc Blackie’s photographs depict a surreal, heightened eroticism in a manner that manages to be both playful and solemnly ritualistic. In elegantly-shot black and white photos – technically clear and unfussy – women with faces as impassive as kabuki masks (and sometimes, indeed, wearing actual masks) are depicted enacting little scenarios of power and contrast: light against dark; soft against spiky; innocent against corrupted; natural against artificial.
Nobuyoshi Araki is clearly a reference point in Blackie’s work and he shares the Japanese photographer’s interest in bondage themes, but also his dead-pan sense of humour. A more subtle influence, however, comes from the American Francesca Woodman. Woodman – who died by her own hand in 1981 - practised in her photography a kind of moody, backwoods surrealism, in which narrative has been siphoned away, leaving only a layer of queasy, erotic atmosphere and unanswered questions.
It is this same sense of the unknown – the feeling that something as banal as an ice cream cone can be utterly mysterious – mingled with a dark erotic impulse, that forms the heart of Marc Blackie’s work.” - Jim Anderson
Shannon Hourigan is a Los Angeles based Bachelor of Visual Arts graduate from the Queensland College of Art in Australia. She does some very interesting model shoots as well as some themed still life sets. Evidence is a fun set which makes use of some random autopsy/surgical tools, as well as a rather large bullet and some fake blood. You cant really go wrong with that.
At any rate her eye is great and her depth is awesome and her atitude is quite dark. She has some twisted ideas, and I love her for that.
I can across some John Santerineross art today randomly and I was pretty impressed. It’s some of the best dark art photography I’ve seen in a while that didn’t depend on heavy editing. He’s been called “The worlds leading neo-symbolist photographer of our time”, and for obviouse reasons. According to his bio, his inspiration comes mostly from his exposure to Catholocism and Santeria when he was younger.
I suggest checking out his portfolio. It’s very Giger-ish, only more of this world, and with less biomech influences.
… nevermind. It’s nothing like Giger at all.
Promoe is basically fucking awesome. You’ve probably heard him while listening to Looptroop as early as ‘92, and never even noticed. According to my iPod I’ve listened to Promoe about 680 times in the last year with an almost non existant skip count. I’d say that’s pretty good.
If you have any interest in a hard blend of Raggae and Hip-hop from a crazy swedish white boy with a lot to say about life, politics, and the swedish street art scene, then start spending a lot of time listening to Promoe. Easily one of the best MC’s out there right now.