Art        deathanddesperation.com Illustration    another-mother.com Studio Visits     fluffyfluffy.com Loves        blog.fluffyfluffy.com s@stevekim.com   562 640 1440 Twitter  Facebook  Newsletter 3/15: Incognito SMMOA Santa Monica var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-2119453-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Tumblr (3.0; @steve-kim)http://stevekim.com/<p>Professional tip: If <a href="http://deathanddesperation.com" target="_blank">deathanddesperation.com</a> is too much to type or too awkward to say, you can use <a href="http://stevekim.net" target="_blank">stevekim.net</a> instead. It’s what I use when I have to give out my art URL and look someone in the eye at the same time.</p>http://stevekim.com/post/18201926664http://stevekim.com/post/18201926664Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:12:50 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzrtq1lTmQ1qccgmso1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>2.2.isabelle.ghost 11x14 gouache and colored pencil on paper</p>http://stevekim.com/post/18043615798http://stevekim.com/post/18043615798Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:34:00 -08002.2.isabelle.ghostcartoon<p>I invite you to befriend me on <a href="http://twitter.com/fluffydeathmom" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://facebook.com/fluffydeathmom" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, and my <a href="http://blog.fluffyfluffy.com" target="_blank">other Tumblr</a>.</p> <p>Love,<br/>Steve </p>http://stevekim.com/post/17969985926http://stevekim.com/post/17969985926Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:56:00 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzmt2i2NVG1qccgmso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Gouacheaaarrrrghe</p>http://stevekim.com/post/17874529213http://stevekim.com/post/17874529213Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:20:00 -0800else<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzk8pkRo6R1qccgmso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://stevekim.com/post/17788703042http://stevekim.com/post/17788703042Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:17:00 -0800else“<p>You learn when you want to be like somebody, so you copy them, you learn from them. You learn when you’re curious. And you learn when you’re willing to try something and it doesn’t work and you try something else. Caring about something, being curious about something, and recognizing that something doesn’t work—you have to have a certain degree of emotional security. You have to be able to be open and vulnerable.</p> <p>Children who become peer oriented, because the peer world is so dangerous and so frought with bullying and ostracization and dissing and exclusion and negative talk, how does a child protect himself from all that negativity in the peer world?</p> <p>Those children become very insecure, and emotionally, to protect themselves. They shut down. They become hardened, they become cool. Nothing matters. Cool is the ethic. It’s all about aggression, and cool, and no real emotion. When that happens, curiosity goes because curiosity is vulnerable, because you care about something and you’re admitting that you don’t know. You won’t try anything, because if you fail your vulnerability is exposed. You’re not willing to have trial and error.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em>Gàbor Mate</em>http://stevekim.com/post/17784808485http://stevekim.com/post/17784808485Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:09:00 -0800quotesquotes favoriteGabor Mate“The hungry ghost is one of the six realms of the mandala, the Buddhist Wheel of Life. The realm of the hungry ghost is one of emptiness and insatiability, the endless search for satiation from the outside, which is essentially what our society is all about. Our society is full of hungry ghosts looking to the outside to fulfill their unmet needs.”<br/><br/> - <em>Gabor Màte</em>http://stevekim.com/post/17779662148http://stevekim.com/post/17779662148Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:34:37 -0800Gabor Matequotes<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lziebqIHDO1qccgmso1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>I measure my studio in lbs.</p>http://stevekim.com/post/17733520777http://stevekim.com/post/17733520777Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:23:50 -0800photos“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”<br/><br/> - <em>Ralph Waldo Emerson</em>http://stevekim.com/post/17723161022http://stevekim.com/post/17723161022Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:23:27 -0800ralph waldo emersonquotesquotes favorite<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzh4qxXacq1qccgmso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Pill</p>http://stevekim.com/post/17702773740http://stevekim.com/post/17702773740Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:59:21 -0800control digitalillustration<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzf8k2hmxb1qccgmso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.computerarts.co.uk/shop/magazines/computer-arts/march-2012-198" target="_blank">Computer Arts March 2012 #198</a></p>http://stevekim.com/post/17647873513http://stevekim.com/post/17647873513Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:26:00 -0800woohoo“The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime; that there is One Man—present to all particular men only partially, or through one faculty; and that you must take the whole society to find the whole man. Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state, these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his. The fable implies, that the individual, to possess himself, must sometimes return from his own labor to embrace all the other laborers. But unfortunately, this original unit, this fountain of power, has been so distributed to multitudes, has been so minutely subdivided and peddled out, that it is spilled into drops, and cannot be gathered. The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.”<br/><br/> - <em>Ralph Waldo Emerson</em>http://stevekim.com/post/17597746312http://stevekim.com/post/17597746312Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:28:00 -0800quotes favoriteralph waldo emersonquotes<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzbug1XiOz1qccgmso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Persimmon</p>http://stevekim.com/post/17546435124http://stevekim.com/post/17546435124Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:29:00 -0800Iphonepersimmon<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz84i8zUx81qccgmso1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Buddies 5x7 graphite and colored pencil on paper</p>http://stevekim.com/post/17432756716http://stevekim.com/post/17432756716Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:20:00 -0800cropbuddies“It is tragic indeed when a person whose mind is still young and alert struggles uselessly with a dying body. I am sure, however, that the body dies because it wants to. It finds it beyond its power to resist the disease or to mend the injury, and so, tired out with the struggle, turns to death. If the consciousness were more sensitive to the feelings and impulses of the whole organism, it would share this desire.”<br/><br/> - <em>Alan Watts</em>http://stevekim.com/post/17418883122http://stevekim.com/post/17418883122Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:02:26 -0800Alan Wattsquotesquotes favorite<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz7fj2l3ob1qccgmso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>fluffed.tumblr.2 11x8.5 colored pencil and graphite on paper</p>http://stevekim.com/post/17398806778http://stevekim.com/post/17398806778Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:16:00 -0800perfectfluffed2<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz43hc2BFf1qccgmso1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://stevekim.com/post/17308606892http://stevekim.com/post/17308606892Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:03:00 -0800charles bukowskithe laughing heartelse“your life is your life<br/> don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.<br/> be on the watch.<br/> there are ways out.<br/> there is a light somewhere.<br/> it may not be much light but<br/> it beats the darkness.<br/> be on the watch.<br/> the gods will offer you chances.<br/> know them.<br/> take them.<br/> you can’t beat death but<br/> you can beat death in life, sometimes.<br/> and the more often you learn to do it,<br/> the more light there will be.<br/> your life is your life.<br/> know it while you have it.<br/> you are marvelous<br/> the gods wait to delight<br/> in you.”<br/><br/> - <em><em>the laughing heart </em>by Charles Bukowski</em>http://stevekim.com/post/17298157384http://stevekim.com/post/17298157384Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:31:00 -0800charles bukowskipoems<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz2e2fe28F1rnaq51o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://fluffyfluffy.com/2766807/MICHAEL-ALVAREZ" target="_blank">Fluffy Fluffy visits Michael Alvarez</a></p>http://stevekim.com/post/17270428385http://stevekim.com/post/17270428385Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:00:05 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz29k63SOc1qccgmso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Visited <a href="http://michaelalvarezart.com" target="_blank">Michael Alvarez</a>’s studio and found… myself. Fluffy Fluffy photos <a href="http://fluffyfluffy.com/2766807/MICHAEL-ALVAREZ" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>http://stevekim.com/post/17254564020http://stevekim.com/post/17254564020Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:19:00 -0800photos