Just completed my newest piece, Area: X. This piece was inspired by The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer.… by clifffranksart
"Debería haber sentido algo. Aquel cruce debería haberme conmovido o asqueado. Pero tras el descenso a la torre y después de que el Reptador me aniquilase, ya no sentía nada." Al acabar el último libro de la Trilogía Southern Reach sólo he podido sentir alivio. Y es que si el primero prometía y el segundo se dispersaba, con este tercero acabas hundido en un sinfín de sinsentidos. El autor nos muestra la historia del Área X desde cuatro personajes: el farero, la psicóloga, la bióloga y Control. Sin embargo, la idea de cuadrar las cuatro historias para que sea el lector el que conforme el pasado, presente y futuro del Área X no funciona ya que VanderMeer se pierde en divagaciones y en demasiados detalles que no aportan mucho a la historia. Aburrido en demasiados puntos y sin profundizar en la idea con la que termina el primero (para mí lo mejor de la trilogía), se convierte en un libro pesado, anodino y lineal. En algunos momentos tiene toques de genialidad que te hacen suponer que continuará con esa idea, aunque pronto compruebas que tu esperanza es vana (lo que te hace cabrearte más con el autor). Un libro que no he acabado de entender, que aporta poca cosa a la trama (todo se condesa en "Aniquilación"); además, ni siquiera he logrado empatizar con los personajes. Y como colofón un final pésimo Autor Jeff VanderMeer Editorial Destino Precio Aprox. 18 Eur. Sentimiento* Recomendable para enemigos Valoración Obtenido en Intercambio
Inside cover for Authority, book 2 of Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach Trilogy. Due out in May.
Upon retirement, Joe Herring—a successful healthcare industry entrepreneur and former CEO—dreamed of designing and building a river home. So in 2015, he purchased three secluded acres on the May River, a peaceful tidal tributary that flows amidst the preserve of Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. He wanted his home to be inspired by the French Colonial architecture of Parlange Plantation House, a 1754 National Historic Landmark in New Roads, Louisiana’s Pointe Coupee Parish. Pointe Coupee would soon become the name of Herring’s new home—a place intended as a nearby retreat from his lovingly restored 1857 city dwelling situated on Forsyth Park in Savannah’s Historic District.
Classic Southern homes share the characteristics of the people who live within them. They're inviting, hospitable, warm, and full of charm and personality.
Wiley Wallace‘s meticulous canvases depict a peculiar universe in which fantastical things happen, usually in nature with kids involved. They suggest an unholy mashup of Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach trilogy and Jeff Nichols’ 2016 movie Midnight Special. (Why Wiley’s work reminds of works by people named “Jeff” is as yet not clear to me.) Wallace’s art is what you’d get if you tried to create a Spielbergian “kids in peril” classic on mescaline. Interestingly, Wallace says that he uses his own children as models for the characters in his paintings. A press release states that “at times realistic depictions deliquesce into abstract blurs of bright colors, while at others subtle apparitions make their way into otherwise unassuming everyday scenes.” Yeah, they “deliquesce”...... At any rate, I hereby nominate Wallace to be given the contract for the key art of Stranger Things season 3. (Season 2 of Stranger Things starts in just a few weeks, by the way.) via Hi-Fructose
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Sitting on a level block in the LA foothills, this single-storey stunner is so open to its lush garden that it’s easy to forget the movie-star view at one end.
Wiley Wallace‘s meticulous canvases depict a peculiar universe in which fantastical things happen, usually in nature with kids involved. They suggest an unholy mashup of Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach trilogy and Jeff Nichols’ 2016 movie Midnight Special. (Why Wiley’s work reminds of works by people named “Jeff” is as yet not clear to me.) Wallace’s art is what you’d get if you tried to create a Spielbergian “kids in peril” classic on mescaline. Interestingly, Wallace says that he uses his own children as models for the characters in his paintings. A press release states that “at times realistic depictions deliquesce into abstract blurs of bright colors, while at others subtle apparitions make their way into otherwise unassuming everyday scenes.” Yeah, they “deliquesce”...... At any rate, I hereby nominate Wallace to be given the contract for the key art of Stranger Things season 3. (Season 2 of Stranger Things starts in just a few weeks, by the way.) via Hi-Fructose
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Wiley Wallace‘s meticulous canvases depict a peculiar universe in which fantastical things happen, usually in nature with kids involved. They suggest an unholy mashup of Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach trilogy and Jeff Nichols’ 2016 movie Midnight Special. (Why Wiley’s work reminds of works by people named “Jeff” is as yet not clear to me.) Wallace’s art is what you’d get if you tried to create a Spielbergian “kids in peril” classic on mescaline. Interestingly, Wallace says that he uses his own children as models for the characters in his paintings. A press release states that “at times realistic depictions deliquesce into abstract blurs of bright colors, while at others subtle apparitions make their way into otherwise unassuming everyday scenes.” Yeah, they “deliquesce”...... At any rate, I hereby nominate Wallace to be given the contract for the key art of Stranger Things season 3. (Season 2 of Stranger Things starts in just a few weeks, by the way.) via Hi-Fructose
