Throb & Ache & Break

Glitter, Oil, & Soap - “Odyssey”, Ruslan Khasanov

Russian artist Ruslan Khasanov just released a glittery follow-up to his mesmerizing“Pacific Light” video from a few years ago that captured close-up mixing of ink, oil and soap. The video, titled “Odyssey,” has us just as transfixed as last time… 

ie, Aisha said she didn’t want to go out with me VERSUS Aisha was like, “I’d rather kiss a Wookie”.

“So I said to Aisha,” is certainly used, but if you remove the “so,” which implies casual tone (“and” can be used in the same way), you get

“I said to Aisha,” which is really formal in most English dialects/variations. I don’t know about all, but in New England dialects, you sound like you’re reading aloud from a novel.

“I told Aisha,” is really only used when you continue to describe, not tell, what you told her. Ex: “I told Aisha that James was too punk for her” works while, “I told Aisha, ‘James is too punk for you’” crosses the line back into formalness of the “I said.”

Things like “I asked” or “I answered [with]” are similar levels of casual and efficient to the “So, I said [or say, as many conversations about the past take place in present tense anyway, as if the speaker is giving a play-by-play in the moment]” but are specific to only certain situations. 

“I was like, ‘Marc Johns, what is your obsession with restoring archaic speech patterns and interfering with the natural progression of English from complex to efficient?’” envelopes all of these easily and is accessible and crisp, and allows for more variations on inflection than the others.

Melissa McCracken, a painter with synesthesia, explains what it’s like to see your favorite songs. [x]

“Karma Police” — Radiohead

“Little Wing” — Jimi Hendrix

“Gravity” — John Mayer 

“Imagine” — John Lennon

“Joy in Repetition” — Prince

“Since I’ve Been Loving You” — Led Zeppelin

“Life On Mars?” — David Bowie

Tássia Bianchini

I´m a visual artist and designer based in São Paulo, Brazil. I work mainly with oil painting, drawing and photography. My work explores struggle in its many spheres as a creative force. I believe struggle is an active force towards freedom, metaphorically and figuratively, therefore art for me is an act of transformation that occurs when our 3 mechanisms of perception, mind, emotions and body, converge in a certain state of balance and depth. Therefore from that I study relations, time, transitivity, movement, body perception, decay, nature, expression and language. I believe a visual construction don’t need to be strictly based on form. I think of them as registry of an action, a trace left by an occurrence; they are somewhere in between the perception of a visual image and an act performed by the body.