~UrHellaIgnant
Alex Shirwo
Artist | Student | Digital Art
United States
Hello, friend
"Sanity and Happiness are an Impossible Combination”
I’m Alex, i live in northern california. all forms of art are appealing to me.
i like to get sensual with the earth
all people are interesting, and most are pretty cool.
everything i make has a meaning to it even if i am not willing to share it with you.
oh, and for those saying that digital art isn’t “real art”: art is defined as an expression or application of human creative skill and imagination. it’s pretty ignorant to say that someone can’t be expressing themselves just because the vessel for their expression plugs into a wall. that argument is as petty as saying someone isn’t a person because they have a different skin color.
Interests
Favorite visual artist
Jackson Pollock, Joe Moore, Wassily Kandinsky, Mike Harrison, Francis Bacon
Favorite movies
Pan's Labyrinth, Argo, Cloud Atlas, The Royal Tenenbaums
Favorite TV shows
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Wilfred
Favorite bands / musical artists
Jedi Mind Tricks(90’s shit), People Under the Stairs, one Tupac Shakur, Coldplay, Modest Mouse, Nas, MC Esoteric, Eyedea
Favorite books
you can’t possibly beat the sports section in the paper, but i also enjoy Summerland, Be Here Now, Siddhartha, The Teachings of Don Juan, any art magazine
Favorite writers
Ram Daas/Richard Alpert, Michael Chabon, Herman Hesse, E.E. Cummings, Carlos Casteneda as a “yung pimp"
Favorite games
Skate 3, Halo, Skyrim, Fallout, Jon Madden Football
Favorite gaming platform
Xbox 360
Tools of the Trade
Olympus Evolt E-410, my mac, “i’m a miracle”, colored pencils, drawing pencils, acrylic and oil paint, wacom tablet, sooo many erasers, spray paint, bristol paper, scanner
Other Interests
the human connection, Laughing, being weird to strangers in public, Learning, making up semi random names for people and things, then laughing while other people don’t get it, and being all stoked when my friends get it