Solstice

Solstice, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Thank you to XstockX (Julie Brocklehurst) for letting me use her beautiful photo in this picture. Here she is obscured by my digital effects! ;-)

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Simon

MADE IN BRITAIN

Essentially, an "indeterminate" or Dada poem created from spontaneous ideas, overheard conversations and "found objects" via the Internet, television, etc. I layered this over a photograph of the British countryside to create an impression of "ownership", however uncertain and ironic, during uncertain times.

The photograph was edited to add to the impression of irony and uncertainty.

Simon

Donnington Castle

Donnington Castle, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

The ruined remains of a Castle in Donnington, Southern England.

Simon

Spring Flowers (A Call for Peace and Unity)

Spring Flowers (A Call for Peace and Unity), originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr: Essentially, a digital art abstract that was created in reaction to events that are unfolding across the world. The global disruption, economic down-turn and frenetic rate of change are worrying trends in the early 21st century. Hatred and selfishness seem to be endemic and the brutality is shameful. Even though there are positive changes, the rate of change is unprecedented and this leads to stress and, sometimes violent reactions. It seems that wars are an inevitable part of human nature; indeed it is better to fight than to be killed by your foe. However, it is worth remembering that working together achieves far more positive results that confronting each other in violent warfare. The "Cold War" of the 1980's taught us that a global holocaust is a sick and pointless possibility, where the human race could succumb to the dark side of its creative and ingenious nature. In this scenario all sides are losers. Simon

Floral

Floral, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Thank you to XstockX for letting me use her photo in this image :-)

Simon

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11/03/2011 (The Red Sun Will Rise Once More.....)

Eerily O'reilly something strange and then cartograph
ousted as music your Faustian topography Sunning
Whimsically Proust benign in suffrage cloisters
ravishing Devonian

Sisyphus Cartesian embryonic Catholic preacherman
Causality Utopian Bahia genesis surreptitious
isotropic amino acids scouting perverse logic mammary
viscose bubbling

abstraction carcinogenic mucus product sweeps //arabesque//
foot to star face as visage, coda poco meno mosso Copernicus et Picasso
etre atomic affect consultant choice Delacroix
Excalibur neotopian buziness ma fleur elle conc
sense rebuke reform recapture privileged (es)
sans doubt (rien/tout)

calling out bazuke re domes assess assess a point ceci
red sun a carcinogenic Freudian slip in a paradigm
great waves dream time prefixed spasmodic rhythm en pointe
chassis turn step right per favore and pyramidal arms right a digit

Murmur deuterium nuclear force parallelogram
matrices concision hemispheric rumbling Earth costly
affects cars in the air careering trees spoiled brat
conscious unconscious preconscious paraconscious
OOBE

broiling fortresses of little monsters a caveat
of unfathomable inhumanity a reasons so insane
hand to mouth reach turn and stare at the audience
//arabesque// colloquialism dada pointing towards
the (abrupt)

Southern Hemisphere We Winter here Nunnery
consumed by Jupiter metronome=80
Mosaic midwifery text message advertising
pornography crushed by water
drowning

in this great city a tumultuous sea
crashing through me reining in sunshine
the sky we thought nothing of
and my family straining my eyes my mind

quickly and unexpectedly facing
Death.



Simon Harris

Video from BBC

True Confessions.

The Making Of Rockanrose, 1.
Innita's makeover.

Saturday, March 5, 2011.
(Excuse any flaws of my broken English, again.)

Back in , June 11 2010 I did make a kind of back-to-the-basics feeling about Innita when I picked her new album's title: “Rockanrose”: rock as thornes, love as roses, the synopsis of my Innita's attitude (by the way, the lack of the “d” in the title was purposedly avoiding male item if it could had been “Rock-andros-e”). It has been a long road since then. Weeks before that, my manager had hired a couple of female creative consultants. We have lots of meetings. They were like producers for a musician/band or like curators for a fine artist: it is, lot of healthy laughs but also lot of headaches. The best advice they gave me was focusing the face of Innita in one single model. For years the face of Innita had several models, from then-girlfriends to anonimous faces found on internet and printed magazines. Their advice was great, but making it real was another thing. I couldn't achieve to draw the right face ….for weeks! simply I had no satisfaction. I was stressed those weeks, even I was close to given up all Innita project, as pathetic as that I felt. Until one early november night, via Facebook friends' posts, I watched Taylor Momsen, singer of The Pretty Reckless, on “Makes Me Wanna Die” video-clip. I youtube-ed more videos and I watched her singing on Letterman's show and I was hooked-up with her onstage voice. Minutes later, I did read about the making of “Makes Me Wanna Die” video, and its original narration was Taylor Momsen, band's frontwoman, singer and song-writer, walking in a progressive striptease till get naked in a cementery and die, but Taylor is 17, so legally impossible to do it, she, a nudist-at-heart!

I didn´t know nothing about Taylor Momsen. I knew about her for that video-clip. I just remind one single photo of Gossip Girl's cast, but I never watched that series before. That night I knew she was an actress because Luis Fernando, a close vegan friend, told me that same night, along with sending me another video's link, “miss Nothing”, where she represents Mary Magdalene. A couple of weeks later, I decided Taylor being my “official” reference-model for drawing Innita. I even reduced Innita's breast again inspired in Momsen's body.

Being Innita a rockstar in the vegan-dream radial-world, some of actual Innita's-story-followers had naivedly related Innita with the superstar Lady Gaga of this world. But no. Sorry but comparing the boring Gaga's “Born this way” with Taylor Momsen wearing “I F*ck for Satan” T-shirt, both news of these days, Taylor wins Gaga by far.

Finally, I did want to release “Rockanrose” album today, Innita's birthday, but the chair for Innita's voice is still empty, so back in December I realized we ( me and Esteban Martinez, the composer) couldn´t make it, so I picked Taylor's birthday for releasing it in a symbolic heart-felt 'acknowledgment'. The quest for Innita's voice is still on the run.

continuará .....
to be continued .....

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model / modelo: Taylor Momsen

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NHS)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NHS), originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Unnecessary complexity, chaos, financial woe and a gradual erosion are all symptoms of a sick NHS in the UK. However, most of us who reside in the UK already know this, so I opted for a more subtle conceptual approach that can be compared to a mechanism of infinite complexity, that cannot do the job that it was originally created to do.

I also attempted to address abitrariness and the intrinsic nature of the NHS to British culture/society, both conceptually and actually. I won't expand on these ideas any further in written form, because the perception of the viewer is intrinsic to the arts, particularly to abstract art.

The idea of inserting text into the already complex visual forms, was to attempt to render the text partially unreadable and to partially cohere text with the visual forms. Some words retain an identity seperate from the visual forms and "shout out" phrases, some that appear to be abitrary and others, such as "Whistleblow" "Car Crash" "Corporate" and "illegal" that have a direct relevence to the overriding concept of the work.

Simon

4 (back/fore)

e ti myzze car poll a' con de ti rope fa cloak
sew ri et et/ et et de pope car
soo ja com be set tete quest ci
pour do car glo seek sin t ed. proof
car jam

Car k k k cha cha cha chakra
a la per favore de cultus yeux fait accompli
desense
sa sa (ba) seperate (ba) ici la'
the internet is shite

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If, like me an app. is work then
you are a powerful subjectivity ought
to be caught counting remedies
arbitrary and implicitly stupid

a trace of potency by proxy (policy)
shards of the Western empire (defines)
like an insane history reeling (humanness)
before your eyes (fearfully)

Counter-slippage, your body its
resonant subjectivity, animalistic beauty and
a crime of movement
resolves democracy

powerful and beautiful you confine
such personal activities to the Internet
and espouse its freedoms
as corporeal yet

slippage contracts by spaces improbable
money is driven and is parried by the actual
your finger is free by a lonely individuality
to touch your vagina

and by this intense
a sex for the sexless

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Red Red

Red Red, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Thank you to Julie (Xstockx) for allowing me to use her beautiful photos in this picture :-)

http//xstockx.deviantart.com
Simon

A Moments Sleep

A Moments Sleep, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Abstract Digital Art :-)

Simon

happy and healthy 2011

als | ik de | macht zou hebben | dan | zou ik | jou geluk geven | ik | heb die | macht gelukkig niet | daarom | wens ik | jou dat geluk |

if i wielded the one power then i would give you happiness luckily i don't have that power so i wish you that happiness

Trace 2

Trace 2, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Thank you to Julie (XstockX) for letting me use her photos in this picture.

http://xstockx.deviantart.com

:-)
Simon

Love Triangle.

Triangular, 63. Guitar Love Triangle, 2.
Monday, December 27, 2010.
London, Uk.

“My world since Tuesday, August 31, 2010.
My beloved biologist sacrificed our company so that both could survive. Since then, we live in a bizarre love triangle. My loneliness is the symmetry's axis that leaves a bad taste. My love: Where am I in the world that you move? Where am I in the world in which you draw me? - Innita para No

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“Mi mundo desde el martes, 31 de agosto de 2010.
Mi amada bióloga sacrificó nuestra compañía para que ambas pudiéramos sobrevivir. Vivimos un extraño triángulo amoroso. Mi soledad es el eje de la simetría que deja mal sabor. Mi amor, ¿Dónde estoy yo en el mundo al que te desplazaste? ¿dónde estoy yo en el mundo en que me dibujas?” - Innita Para No

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continuará .....
to be continued .....
à suivre .....

Mathematical Skies

Mathematical Skies, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Wishing all readers and contributers to "SayingSomething" a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!! :-)

Simon