Mark Heard

No single musician had a bigger influence on my wanting to be an artist than Mark Heard. He worked in the ghetto of contemporary christian music, a place I think he grew to hate. He wrote from the gut and the heart, he didn't flinch from telling the truth, and he always put the song first. When he played he stomped like hell and spat and sweated, he delivered with everything. I don't always relate to the lyrics anymore, they were written for a certain context, but he set the template for me. He died 20 years ago today, I never knew him personally, but I still miss him.

Strereogranimator

The New York Public Library has an online tool called aStereogranimator which allows you to create your own animated "wiggle gifs" that create the optical illusion of three dimensions from vintage stereograph slides.

Robert Hughes

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

Andrei Tarkovsky

"Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.” 
― Andrei Tarkovsky

Marc Giai

http://www.marc-giai-miniet.com/

The Ol' Rabbit Buck Trick

Cy Twombly