from the 3rd volume of AWOL (a rarely released revolutionary mag...)
these covers are priceless... click for super-high resolution versions...
bush and the gang (circa 2004) as blinged out thugs:
definitely should click this back one to read the ad... you might need revolution:
the first is a still from baraka that my friend count zero used recently on his blog. the still is from kecak, as far as i can tell, and i know it mostly as an excellent rave visual. powerful piece of film, and worth watching the whole movie to see this part:
this utterly inspirational piece of photography/digital art comes from mostly fahion firm mi-zo... great work in the music section and the first fashion gallery... much of it nsfw.
white tigers, while usually inbred are quite beautiful. this one from a gallery in pravda i found via watching america.
dolce q is an aesthetic duo out of rome that specializes in bold graphics, hearts, nude women and money-inspired etching style... it's usually a formula for blingy trash porn, but with them it takes a gorgeous form of it's own... peep the portfolio... definitely nsfw
this is a drawing of my hand i did when i was 17. the poetry i cropped off was so embarassing... and twisted, but the drawing is still my best of hands that i'm aware of. i've been going through old sketchbooks and scanning, so this has prompted a study of my aesthetics... maybe more to come on this?
these drawings are from my travel notebook in 2006. laura and i traveled to a ton of coutries in a pre-conception sweep including ireland, england, germany, denmark, netherlands, france, spain, morrocco, czech republic, austria, switzerland, italy & turkey. click on the images for hi-res scans.
this page is from dublin, ireland, where we saw the chester beatty library, a collection of rare and beautiful manuscripts. i copied this common ten-sided form from the cover of an old book.
this is a drawing of our view of the alhambra from the (illegal) rambutan hostel in granada, spain. the bad graffiti on this page doesn't do justice to the awesome graffiti of granada.
this page details some of the awesome crafts available in chefchaouen, morrocco.
this is an abstract drawing i did on the terrace of a beautiful hostel in marrakesh, morrocco listening to the prayer calls.
this semi-observational drawing was inspired by the beautiful boboli gardens in florence, italy.
most of the other pages are text-heavy or quite personal, but maybe i'll post some others sometime.
from the incredibly intricate, instructive, "islamic design - a genius for geometry" by daud sutton (one of the "wooden books" i just got) i've looked at some other great books on islamic patterns like keith critchlow's classic "islamic patterns - an analytic and cosmological approach", but this book seems to go more into the construction of the patterns from a geometrical perspective, and while it touchs on some of the symbolism and metaphysics, it is less absorbed in this aspect than the critchlow book. get out your compass and straight edge! (or adobe illustrator...)
NOTE: click on these for very legible 2000 pixel - wide versions.
eight fold rosettes:
making things fit:
self similarity:
muqarnas:
i bought (for $1.50) a 6 LP set of swing records from my local charity thrift and it came with this swell "pleasure programmer". sounds like some sort of complex sex-toy, but it's really quite G-rated. just pull the tab to pick music for themes such as "cocktail hour", "let's dance" or "serenade for you alone". click for (legible) hi-res version. detail below. 
from the copy:
"WHAT IS PLEASURE PROGRAMMING? Pleasure Programming is an entirely new concept of record arrangement, devised by Reader's Digest Music Editors to dramatically increase your pleasure from your Reader's Digest record albums! ... ... From the ten records and twenty sides in your album, how many different Pleasure Programs do you think could be devised... 5,000? 10,000? 100,000? We asked an expert statistician for the answer and it is an astonishing 2,216,228! So you see, it will take you a long, long time to exhaust the listening pleasures of BACKGROUND MOODS."
i've always been a fan of this style of italian decoration. my mother had some mugs of this style featuring arabesque-esque (!) motifs and bizarre animals. apparently the style is centered around pottery from deruta. this scan is from a sketchbook made by rossi. i can't find this particular paper on their website, but it there is a picture of it on the products page. click for a larger version.
my first scan is the beautiful roof of the timchah amin dawlah in kashan, iran. click on it for the big version and check out the staircases... awesome. from the lavishly illustrated "sufi: expressions of the mystic quest" by laleh bakhtiar, a decent book from the excellent thames and hudson art & imagination series. (that link only shows like eight of the 30+ titles for some reason... i'd reccomend the sacred geometry book, the zen book and oddly, the surprisingly informative angel book by the sketchy but impossible-to-ignore peter lamborn wilson a.k.a. hakim bey.)
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