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These luxury crayons from Geneva are the best kept secret of art supplies stores. I’ve been drawing with Neocolor Series 1 for the last ten years and they’ve been life-changing for me. Neocolor have the rich opaque pigments of high-quality pastels - but unlike regular oil pastels, they are waxy crayons that don’t smudge at all. Crayons themselves are a very forgiving medium, because of their bulbous tip they tend to make bold and imperfect lines. It’s harder to look like you made a mistake when you are drawing with crayons, and that makes them the perfect tool to experiment with expressively. I can’t prove it. but I believe that these are what Cy Twombly used on his 60’s and 70’s canvases - the museum placard always lists Twombly’s material as crayon, but it must be Necolor to look that vibrant! Crayolas suck once you try these.
Nov 2, 2022
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lyra brand in particular but most other oil based ones are similarly amazing. literally a game changer. the pigment goes down so thickly and you can actually for real blend and if ur into photorealism you can get there with em. theyre so expensive but genuinely worth it if ur a habitual coloured penciller amd are doing more than like journalling or whatever
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I started collecting perfumes on the tour for my “Aladdin” movie in 2016, my bandmate was an amateur perfumer and his passion for aromatic materials was infectious. Studying scent unlocked an entire dimension of sensory experiences I had been ignoring. I realized that perfumers were trying to communicate with us, the raw materials had developed symbolic meanings over thousands of years, and could be used in combination to create very specific artworks. I began to see perfumes as snowglobes that carry information as a landscape, that there’s a lot of encoded information in them. Collecting them became an adventure, walking around the city realizing every city block had stores with samples of these precious artworks. I even started to obtain vintage bottles of perfume from 30, 50, even 80 years ago that still smelled great, and I began to understand in more depth how people used to smell and why. I recently wrote an epic perfume adventure book that I hope to put out soon.
Nov 2, 2022
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Lots of people love Alejandro Jodorowsky’s psychedelic movies like El Topo and The Holy Mountain, there is even a documentary about his famously unmade Dune movie. What people don’t seem to realize though, is that for the last 40 years, Jodorowsky’s been authoring numerous graphic novels that comprise 20+ other movies he would have probably made if he’d had the budget for them - and they are all fully fleshed out in comic book form! For example if you are mourning the fact you will never see Jodorowsky’s Dune, now realize that he put those ideas into a comic book series called The Metabarons. If you are wondering what happens after El Topo, know that there is a graphic novel sequel he recently released called Sons of El Topo. A series, Techno Priests, is like Jodorwosky’s Star Wars. In fact, his graphic novel with Moebius called The Incal was so good that Luc Besson ripped it off to make The Fifth Element. If you are willing to read the comics, you’ll experience Jodorowsky quietly creating a universe of Miyazaki-level creativity. Inspiring is an understatement!
Nov 2, 2022
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I bought Beck’s Mutations album the day it came out, and I loved how Beck collected so many concepts on that record. After listening to it, I made the decision to write down all the ideas in my head, so I started carrying a pocket notebook. It’s been 24 years since then and I still write in one every day. Beck changed my standard of what a modern songwriter could or should be doing. I came from the indie-rock mentality where everything was sort of homespun and amateurish, Mutations made me realize that a contemporary artist could make a record at the level of Bowie, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen.
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