A NEW BEGINNING. A NEW HOPE.

[IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL OLD OR NEW FOLLOWERS]

DEAR FELLOW FOLLOWERS OF OFF THE WALL,

First off, I'm sorry I haven't updated and put new content on the page in a long time. I've been going through some very difficult, but exciting life changes. I am trying to start a new life with a new hope of encompassing positive thinking and positive energy out-put.

Therefore, I will continue the exploration of the strange and amazing art and artist that make this world a more exciting, interesting, and asthetically pleasing place to be, here on this blog. In the next few days there will be new and improved content added, and I do hope to introduce all my blog followers to a couple of other projects that I am also working on such as; a co-authored web-page that I've been working on with my significant other, my other blog/web-page, my book, and a few other less important but just as interesting things.

Lastly, there might also be some changes to the layout of the blog and some old content will be improved upon. Any new content added to old pages will for a period of time (not specified as of yet) will be highlighted in a bright pink color and put in a bold lettering, just as you see here.

Thank you fellow followers for your patience and understanding.

Peace, Harmony, Tranquility, 

Bex [Off the Wall Creator/Mod]

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”

  

~Henery Matisse, French Painter, 1869-1954

MONSTER POKEMON!?!?!?!

These are just a few of the awesome monster like pokemon that this artist has made. This is his pixiv link.
http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=622350

Appologies

Sorry for not posting anything yesterday. I was moving out of my apartment and had limited to no internet connection available all day. And I was super busy. I'm super busy today too so I will post a big blog later tonight or tomorrow depending on how tired I am when I get home from work.

Later
Bex

Film

Above four pieces of art by Alex Grey

I know this is half-assed but today has been a rush. I'm in the process of moving so hold tight things will get more interesting later. For now I will leave you with a link to some cool youtube videos.

A film all about Joel-Peter Witkin (one of my favorite weird photographers) and his work. It's in segments but it's awesome!
Vile Bodies Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i19-SmPWuq4
Vile Bodies Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO7_HGb_CtQ
The Raft of George Bush: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JARVUmzI1qU


Now just for some fun ones

A History of Evil

Vagina The Dance

Alex Grey in COsM Trailer

Just Pics

Ferdinand Cheval Palace, France

Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City Missouri USA

Stone House, Guimaraes Potugal

Experience Music Project, Seattle Washington USA

The Crooked House, Sopot Poland

Museum of Contemporary Art, Niteori Brazil

Gangster's Wood House, Arkhangelsk Russia

The Story Book House, Seattle

Bubble House, France

More Websites to visit to see more cool and weird Architecture here:

80 Strange and Fantastic Buildings: http://www.instantshift.com/2009/02/19/80-strange-and-fantastic-buildings-architecture/

Funny Pictures of Weird buildings: http://architecture.about.com/od/weirdarchitecture/ig/Funny-Pictures/

Unusual life: http://unusuallife.com/

Mail Art

Above: Examples of various mail art

Mail art is exactly what you think it is. It's when you customize (with art such as drawing, painting, collage, ext.) a letter, postcard, or any other thing you can mail in the regular postal system way. By whatever means and mediums possible. You can create some really cool art on just 4x6 post cards and then send them out and get some even cooler art back. Mail art is a really fun way to exchange art and a real awesome way to make new friends too. And it's super awesome to send mail art back and forth between pen-pals.

A few sites all about mail art:

A German based site (in english too!): http://www.mail-art.de/

Electronic Museum of Mail Art: http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/emma/

Mail Art Postcard Exhibition: http://digitalmailart.blogspot.com/

Kirlian Photography

Above: Photographs using Kirlian technique

Weither you believe in spiritual energy, charkas, auras, a soul or nothing at all. These Photos and Photography techniques are just weird and awesome!

To start off with we'll look a little bit in to Kirlian photography. The Kirlian technique is named after it's accidental discoveror/inventor Semyon Kirlian in 1939.

He discovered that "if an object on a photographic plate is connected to a source of high voltage, small corona dischrges (created by the strong electric feilds at the edges of the object) create an image on the photographic plate."

Kirlian technique is so weird and cool because it is a contact photography technique meaning the object has to come in contact with the film or film paper. The image appears when "the subject is in direct contact with a film placed upon a metal plate charged with high voltage, high frequency electricity."

This later lead his rediscoveries of these listed techniques of photography: "electrography," "electrophotography," and "corona discharge photography".


Now Kirlin believed that he had photographed what we know as the life energy that is in everything, which some people call aura or soul. But others think that his technique only photographed the electric field or the emf that all things have. This is still a contorversial argument.

even though Kirlian photography was a precoursor to aura photography it is very different.
"Kirlian photography is completely different from aura photography, in which a colorful image is produced of a person's face and upper torso by interpreting galvanic skin responses and adding color to the photograph using a printer. The images made with an Aura camera do not result from coronal discharge. In aura photography, no high voltage is involved as with the Kirlian technique, and no direct contact with the film is made."

Above: Photograph of a leaf using the Kirlian technique

vs.

Below: Photograph of multiple human subjects using the Aura photography technique

A few cool websites:

Kirlian research site: http://www.kirlian.com/

Build your own Kirlian equipment: http://www.imagesco.com/articles/kirlian/kirlian-photography.html

A few cool videos about Kirlian photography:

Kirlian Photography Explination: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDOi1BLoN3U

Kirlian Imaging Reel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nze9I3L4vrE