Pancha Tantra, the Taschen book about Walton Ford was strictly manufactured on a 1500 copies limited edition, all of them signed by the artist.


What a beautiful book for such amazing paintings.


...and below a Walton Ford video self-portrait


Have a nice Sunday!

I love The Selby. The way Tom Selby takes portraits of “creative people in their spaces”, the mood, the eclectic interiors, everything...

Below two pictures from Michael Stipe & Thomas Dozol’s place




...Sofia Achaval and Thibault de Montaigu’s




...Guy Blakeslee and Maximilla Lukacs's

...well, not really.
But received today the new Xfuns issue featuring an interview avec moi.
Really happy to be featured in the same issue than my beloved Tea Time Studio and brilliant Megan Whitmarsh (among many more talented people!)...

Here’s the whole (bilingual english/chinese) interview on a pdf.

*Thanks for the magazines Pat :)

Can’t stop listening to The Circulatory System albums...Totally subtle brilliant contemporary psychedelia.

They are part of the Elephant 6 family, some of them play in Olivia Tremor Control too.

and here...
Lives, rares and demos by Olivia Tremor Control... even The Velvet Underground’s “European Son” covered by them!

And Elephant 6 podcasts/radio shows by Optical Atlas.

Enough psychedelic music for a wednesday, huh?

Ladies and gentlemen, Richard Colman.
I can’t even express how much I love these artworks.
Neo-mystical and absolutely brilliant.

Some gorgeous (retro)futuristic Pierre Cardin designs...



Nurse uniforms (1970)



1969


1966


1968

I’ve made an 8track playlist with some neo-shoegazer, psychedelic dreamy songs, including beautiful “Bluish” by Animal Collective, “VHS Dream” by Deerhunter, ”Hallucinations” by The Raveonettes...even The Jesus and Mary Chain covering "My Girl"!
A romantic mix I guess...

Enjoy*



...and here’s the tracklist ;)

Bluish Animal Collective

I Can't Stand it Telepathe

VHS Dream Deerhunter

Hallucinations The Raveonettes

Time For A Lie Pluramon

River Card Atlas Sound

For April Jessica Bailiff

My Girl The Jesus & Mary Chain

Tomorrow begins this fantastic art show at Iguapop Gallery (Barcelona).
Deutsch gallery Helium Cowboy takes Iguapop and showcases many talented artists...

Below three of them:


Stephen Smith (Neasden Control Centre)


Nina Braun


Arturo Sandoval III (Friends with you)

See you there and happy friday*

Artists with a common denominator.


Joana Vasconcelos


Anna Hepler


Ruth Asawa


Alyson Shotz


Carol Hummel

Happy that is being sunny these days in Barcelona... waiting for spring to come :)
Meanwhile enjoying these photographs by Samantha Contis.
Today died two of my external drives and my old black and white iPod.
R.I.P


Rainforest (07)


Corn-Crib (05)


Molly (07)

When I grow older I want in my home a beautiful vertical garden...

Werner Herzog’s “Encounters at the end of the world” is one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in my life (and I’ve seen a lot!), his sense of humour and uniqueness lead all of his films to amazing journeys... Excellent. A must see.

Here you can see the trailer:


and “pink floyd” sounds made by seals.


Happy Sunday*

Iconic choreographies, an introduction.

Carmen Miranda - taken from "The Gang's All Here" musical. (Tutti frutti!!!)


Pulp - This is hardcore. (See the turquoise & blonde dancers around Jarvis on 4:26, fantastic! )


Esther Williams - Bathing beauty. (Underwater fantasy)


Feist - 1234 (Love the colours! A modern revisitation of choreography standards)


Björk - It’s oh so quiet. (A modern classic. Love the mailbox dancing...)


and my personal favourite...

Godard & co. - Bande a part. (Outsider beatnik casual choreography!!)

Do-Ho Suh in my opinion is one of the most interesting contemporary artists worldwide.
Saw two of his pieces in-situ and fell in love. A total impact.
Below some pictures:

Metal Topo is a limited edition lithograph I created at Alan The Gallant.
The artwork is designed to match tiling, so you can create a DIY lithograph wallpaper :)
You can buy it on Gallant Tales.

The light reflection on the poster.

Detail

Fresh from the oven!

I love the colour palette at these architecture and landscape pictures by Grandorge.

I’m loving and trying some japanese (and non-japanese) recipes from this great website.
Look at some of the dishes... yummy!!!

Toshikoshi Soba

Nuts, cheese and wine bread.

Lotus root cakes

Isn’t she beautiful? Elegant, delicate and modern. Thank you George!

Here’s the video from the main song at Peau d’ane (1970), the fairy tale movie by Jacques Demy.
The whole soundtrack was composed by the great Michel Legrand.
Catherine Deneuve tres belle as usual :)

Love Jason Nocito portraits and landscape pictures.

I’m a sleep mask freak, I confess, always looking for the perfect one...
Maybe is the one this Breakfast at Tiffany’s replica at Fredflare?

Cineplexx : Espiral + A mi lado REMIXX EP
A great EP album by Cineplexx to free download from his website!

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Animal Collective : Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished/Danse Manatee
Waiting for Merriweather Post Pavilion... meanwhile re-listening the whole AC discography ;)

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Grab Grab The Haddock : Three songs by... / Two (four) more songs by...
After Marine Girls (with Tracey Thorn) Alice Fox formed GGTH. Beautifully lo-fi!!


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Momus : Ocky Milk
Fantastic! In my humble opinion the best Momus record since Ping Pong. See “Nervous Heartbeat” video here.

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Elliott Smith : Either or
This album is so delicate and beautiful... Since he died can’t listen frecuently Elliott’s records as I get sad, but his music is brilliant.

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Satie : Piano Works
Perfect to stay at home while it’s raining outside.

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Pulp : Different Class / His ‘n’ Hers
A classic at home, one of my all-time key bands. Miss them though...

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Jorge Bem : Africa Brasil + st
A total brazilian must and hit-maker!!

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Chico Buarque & Ennio Morricone : Per un pugno di samba
I know, what a horrible artwork, but what an AMAZING record!

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The Beatles : Revolver + Rubber Soul
What else could I say about these two masterpieces except that I love both?

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Sorry for not posting all these days, I needed badly some vacations... to bake cookies, watch movies, go to exhibitions, ignore the computer a little bit... you know, Christmas things ;)

Happy 2009 and beyond everybody, wish peace and love are visiting us a little bit more than in the past. I wish, I hope.

Personally for me, Christmas = Wham :)


listen to this “Last Christmas” cover by Erlend Oye (Kings of Convenience). Beautiful.

NOTE:

Hola hola.
For 2009 I’ve made a few changes at pop-pervert, hope you like them.
As the blog document was getting really heavy to work with on Rapidweaver, I started another different document from scratch. Anyhow you can still visit the pop-pervert 2007-2008 archives here.

ABOUT THIS BLOG:

My name is Ana Montiel, I am 27 and live in Barcelona, I work in different areas such as illustration, pattern design, graphic design, fashion, art, special editorial content... always trying to keep myself as open to as many disciplines as possible, trying new things to reach versatile and different results on my projects.

I write this blog as a sort of "inspirational diary", featuring a selection of things that blow my mind. This weblog also works to showcase my creative process. A place where I upload drafts, sneak-a-peaks and so on from my projects.

I am the co-founder (together with my super business development partner Alex Bedoya) and creative director at Alan the Gallant, a multi-talent design bureau.
Through Sir Alan we offer a wide range of services for art-sensitive companies and people with good taste in general. :)
Before we were known as itte studio, in those days we were working on more corporate projects but now we are more freestyle, experimental and happy. ;)

Also as Alan the Gallant we have created a pattern design brand called Pattern Tales®. Pattern Tales is a neo-ornamental brand producing high quality non-woven limited edition wallpapers that you can buy on Gallant Tales, Alan’s online store.

Years ago, I was half of Colectivo Koleko, won 2 art prizes, produced several exhibitions and had a great time.
Now, I'm working again on different art approaches as Ana Montiel (or AMON ) and hopefully there will be some exhibitions and collaborations soon, I'll write about the updates on pop-pervert.com
I am always looking for art spaces and galleries to exhibit my work, as well as collaborate on art submissions and in art magazines. These are always welcome!
So if you are interested feel free to contact me.

Well, thanks for visiting and reading.
:)


ps: Oh! ...and the name Pop Pervert comes from my obsession with music and pop culture, I must confess that I am a total music addict, listening to new bands everyday and always researching further and further into many musical fields. Long live good music!