"Raidor Bass" a sculpture by Ithaka Darin Pappas

The Reincarnation of a Surfboard is a body of sculpture work created by Ithaka Darin Pappas. The project, which began in 1989 consist of approximately 300 wall-mounted sculptures that have been made using recycled surfboards as raw building material. The series to date has been exhibited on four continents.

Sculpture Purpura Ascensus by Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

Artwork by Californian artist: Ithaka

Links:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/468212-ITHAKA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIZXy50yj_t9UuHqeOQhpGQ

http://planetithaka.blogspot.com/

https://genius.com/artists/Ithaka

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka_Darin_Pappas

http://ithakaofficial.com/

https://www.facebook.com/IthakaBlue/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ithaka/69363540

https://store.cdbaby.com/artist/Ithaka2

https://www.instagram.com/_ithaka_/?hl=en

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5225987/

https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/ithaka-interview

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka













http://upmagazine-tap.com/en/pt_artigos/ithaka-2/

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The Tomas Blot series by Californian artist, Ithaka Darin Pappas

Artwork by Californian artist: Ithaka

series: The Tomas Blots

Links:


https://www.discogs.com/artist/468212-ITHAKA


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIZXy50yj_t9UuHqeOQhpGQ


http://planetithaka.blogspot.com/


https://genius.com/artists/Ithaka


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka_Darin_Pappas


http://ithakaofficial.com/


https://www.facebook.com/IthakaBlue/


https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ithaka/69363540


https://store.cdbaby.com/artist/Ithaka2


https://www.instagram.com/_ithaka_/?hl=en


https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5225987/


https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/ithaka-interview


https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka


















http://upmagazine-tap.com/en/pt_artigos/ithaka-2/
https://everything.explained.today/Ithaka_Darin_Pappas/

Paintings by Californian artist/photographer, Ithaka

Painting by Californian artist and photographer, Ithaka Darin Pappas, from the Tomas Blots series.

Links:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/468212-ITHAKA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIZXy50yj_t9UuHqeOQhpGQ

http://planetithaka.blogspot.com/

https://genius.com/artists/Ithaka

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka_Darin_Pappas

http://ithakaofficial.com/

https://www.facebook.com/IthakaBlue/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ithaka/69363540

https://store.cdbaby.com/artist/Ithaka2

https://www.instagram.com/_ithaka_/?hl=en

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5225987/

https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/ithaka-interview

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka

http://upmagazine-tap.com/en/pt_artigos/ithaka-2/

Cobalt Barrels - A Sculpture by California Artist, Ithaka

COBALT BARRELS

a sculpture by Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas) 

from his ongoing body of work entitled,  

The Reincarnation Of A Surfboard

[300+ recycled surfboard sculptures since 1989]. 

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"ITHAKA" Oder Die Kunst Surfboards Zu Reinkarnieren

I Ride

"ITHAKA" Oder Die Kunst Surfboards Zu Reinkarnieren

Geschrieben von: Arnd Vehling

"Ithaka" , oder was haben Musik, Surfen und "reinkarnierte Surfboards" miteinander zu tun?

Achtung: Bilder und Video im Artikel.

Are you doing in life what you was meant to?

Are you doing in life what you was sent to?

Are you living the life that you wanna live?

Are you living your life in a way to win?

Ithaka from "The Life You Wanna Live?" (2007 : "Saltwater Nomad")

Der chinessiche Philosoph Konfuzius sagte einmal, dass der weise Mann nicht zwiechen Arbeit und Hobby unterscheidet. Sein Hobby ist seine Arbeit, seine Arbeit seine Passion. Betrachtet man aus der Ferne mit welcher Leichtigkeit der Surfer und Kue¼nstler "Ithaka" (aka "Ithaka Darin Pappas") zwiechen den von ihm gewae¤hlten Ausdrucksformen Musik, Skulpturen, Literatur und Fotografie wechselt, so erscheint sein Leben wie eine Balanceakt zwichen einer Welt euphorischen Schaffens und "aquatischer" Leidenschaft.

"Ithakas" Wurzeln liegen in Süd-Kalifornien. Dem Land in dem nicht nur Milch und Honig fliesst sondern das auch reich an erstklassigen Riff- und Beach-breaks ist. So verbrachte der Hip-Hip Visionaer und visuelle Expressionist seine Jugend hauptsaechlich surfend zwichen "Los Angeles" und "Orange County".

Fuer die meisten Amerikaner mag Portugal als Ausgangspunkt einer internationalen Musiker-Karriere ein ungewoehnlicher Ort sein, fuer "Ithaka" nicht. Die Reisen, die Teil seiner Selbstfindung sind, haben ihn nicht nur beeinflusst, er ist ihr Produkt geworden. Auch wenn er sich nicht an jedem neuen Ort, den er erreicht, neu erfindet, so fuegt sich doch an jedem Zwichenpunkt seiner globalen Reise eine weitere "Schicht" an Erfahrungen und Eindrücken hinzu. Dies ist die Basis vieler seiner Songs, Kurzgeschichten sowie seiner visuellen Ausdrucksform. Aber obwohl "Ithaka" eine Personifizierung des in unseren Zeiten so oft beschworenen "Weltbuergers" ist, ist er einer der ersten der dir erzaehlen wird, das es nicht noetig ist weit zu reisen um "wegzukommen", Zitat:

Es hat alles mit Wahrnehmung zu tun.

Wie du deine Umgebung betrachtest.

Wie du sie absorbierst.

Einige der weisesten,

und interessantesten Menschen

die ich je kennengelernte

haben nie ihren Geburtsort verlassen.

Es geht einzig darum Routine zu durchbrechen.

  

Und "Routine durchbrechen" kann er. Im Unterschied zu seinem letzten Audiowerk "Recorded in Rio" (2004), einem mit "Live-Instrumenten" arrangierten Hip-Hop Album dominieren auf seiner aktuellen CD "Saltwater Nomad" die elektronischen Klaenge. Dieses in Brasilien, "Ithakas" aktuellem Wohnsitz, von Tito Gomes produzierte Album besticht mit minimalistischen, teilweise hypnotischen Hip-Hop Arrangements.

Obwohl sein Stil manchmal mit Everlast, Massive Attack und dem "spaeten Tupac" verglichen wird, haben seine Lieder oft eine eine "sphärische Nuance". Wer stereotyp Texte im "Gangsta Style" Hip Hop oder "Pimp Rap" erwartet, wird enteuscht werden. Zum Glueck. "Ithaka's" Musik ist eher sein persoenlicher Soundtrack. Erzaehlt werden autobiographische Geschichten ueber Spiritualitaet, Reisen, teuflische WG-Mitbewohner, die Liebe und natuerlich ueber die Passion seines Lebens, das Surfen, Zitat:

Das Verlangen nach exotischen Surfspots und die Sehnsucht nach fremden Kulturen schickte ihn dann sehr frueh auf eine Odyssee rund um unseren blauen Planeten. Es ist dieser Trip zwiechen entfernten Surf-Spots und dem pulsierenden Leben der Staedte die seinen Alben Ihren sehr eigenen Klang verleihen. Beides wird in seinen Songs mit natuerlicher Leichtigkeit fusioniert.

Nachdem er laengere Zeit u.a. in Griechenland (der Heimat seines Vaters) und Japan verbracht hatte, fuehrte ihn seine Reise 1992 nach Portugal, dass er mit nicht viel mehr als seinem Surfboard, einem Wetsuit und einem Fotoaparat im Gepäck erreichte. Portugal stellt fuer Ithaka eine besondere Station seiner Reise dar. Er surfte dort nicht nur die reiche Auswahl erstklassiger portugisicher Spots, schloss lebenslange Freundschaften sondern began dort auch seine Fotographien auszustellen, Kurzgeschichten zu veroeffentlichen und spaeter einen Musik-Kanal des portugisiechen Rundfunks zu moderieren. Als er neun Jahre spaeter Portugal wieder verliess hatte er zwei Studioalben und neun portugiesiche "Grammy" Nominierungen im Gepaeck.

I ride since I was a small fry

Sine the day mammy multiplied

I ride to keep my soul alive

I'll ride until the day, the day that I die

I ride 'cuz I like the view from the tube

I ride 'cuz I like the color blue

I ride to keep my mojo intact

So I got the goods to deliver

When my baby gets back

Seine Musik wurde in mehreren Surf-Filmen verwendet (u.a. in "Timmy Turners Second Thougts", siehe Video weiter unten) war Teil des Video-Spiels  "NBA 2K7" und sein prämierter Song "Escape from the City of Angels" taucht  im Filmklassiker "The Replacement Killers" auf!

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Mehr Infos zu "Ithaka" findet ihr unter https://www.facebook.com/IthakaBlue/ "Saltwater Nomad" (und andere seiner Alben) können bei https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ithaka/id69363540
 erworben werden.

http://stormrider.de/surf/88888931-featured/730-ithaka-oder-die-kunst-surfboards-zu-reinkarnieren

Ithaka With Recycled Surfboard Sculpture

California-born contemporary artist, Ithaka 

with one of his recycled surfboard sculptures entitled Inspyring Souls

from the body of work known as The Reincarnation Of A Surfboard.

This piece was made in Southern California.

Ithaka On Instagram: @_ithaka

ITHAKA EXHIBIT - OPENING FEB 21st 2015 (7-10pm) at F+ Gallery - Santa Ana, California

ITHAKA EXHIBIT - OPENING FEB 21st  2015 (7-10pm) at F+ Gallery - 661 N. Poinsettia Avenue in Santa Ana, Ca 92701. Also featuring insect works by guest artists David Clyde Kersh, Erica Ellingson, Ian Morris, Nathan Paul Gibbs, Steven Kutcher, Will Thompson -and a special appearance by world-famous live insect handler Diana Terranova. All show info at below link, see you there: https://www.facebook.com/events/338590866327366/


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Aliens of AkahtiLândia (artist's statement)

I'd been living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for five years and was feeling it was time to move on, when after researching a tip from an anonymous stranger in October 2010, I investigated (and soon afterward purchased) a small brick house on an acre of jungle property just outside of the Serra do Mar Atlantic Forest Reserve on the southern coast of the State of São Paulo – about 300 miles south of Rio. Needless to say, it was a move that somewhat metamorphosized my mostly urban-suburban upbringing and adulthood.

The immediate neighborhood of about 2000 acres,  an area called AkahtiLândia (pronounced: aah-kah-tee-land-eeah), is extremely rural. There is a native Guarani village just down the road, where many of the local residents literally live in mud and stick huts. There are several rivers and small mountains, exotic birds and wild animals.

For the past four and a half years, I've been occupied with a mutated version of the life I've known since my early twenties: making art and music…and surfing, but this time in a neo-tropical forest environment.

The things that have really impressed me most about the jungle are the tiny animals; spiders, moths, beetles, worms, etc. Visually, there's no end to the variety. The colors and geometric forms are absolutely mind-blowing. To me, insects are living, cutting-edge, contemporary art forms.

I spend several hours a week just observing and photographing them. And attempting to ID them. But sometimes that's impossible, as many of them have yet to be officially recognized by the scientific community. It's also probable that in creatures having such short reproductive cycles (some procreating more than thirty generations of offspring in a single year) that subtle adaptations are constantly resulting in new variations of existing species.

I've noted some insects with extremely sophisticated behavioral traits. A few, believe it or not, seem to demonstrate what appear to be real emotions.

This relatively recent obsession of mine has fueled an entire body of work entitled, Aliens of AkahtiLândia - integrating all three of my visual mediums; sculpture, photographs and mixed-media paintings. The sculpture pieces, although based on actual creatures I've seen or photographed, are modified and manipulated versions of the real thing, while the flat mixed-media pieces are normally truer to the actual entities that inspired them.

I call them Aliens not only because of their seemingly unearthly eccentric multi-colored appearances and high IQs, but also because of their extremely complex, functional and almost indestructible body designs. Most people who believe in extraterrestrial life think that beings from other solar systems will appear somewhat humanoid and be more or less our size. I disagree. I find it more likely that they would be something much smaller and more insect-like.

Imagine if some of these creatures already present on this planet originated from other parts of the universe. How would we even know it?

One earth insect, the Tardigrade - aka the Water Bear, has already been proven to be capable of surviving the vacuum of space.

And if one or more of these minute species already here was actually more intelligent than man, how could we even measure or determine that? (maybe they simply choose not to communicate with us).

More importantly, would we admit something so much smaller in stature to humankind is in fact superior to us in many ways?

Ithaka 2015

Ithaka: Aliens Of AkahtiLândia Exhibit Opening At F+ Gallery in Santa Ana, California

February 21, 2015 (SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA) - F+ Gallery presents Ithaka: "Aliens Of Akahtilândia" : Photos, sculptures and paintings representing exotic insects observed during the last four years by California-born artist, Ithaka, at his jungle property in Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest. The show will also feature depictions of a select number of these same insects by special guest artists; Erica Ellingson, Ian Morris, Nathan Paul Gibbs, Will Thompson and David Clyde Kersh. 

Brazilian açai smoothies and coffee will be provided opening night thanks to Sambazon's mobile cafe. As well as fine wines courtesy BIBI GRAETZ (Italy).

The opening reception will take place on February 21^th from 7-10pm. The show will remain on exhibit for two weeks after the opening with viewing opportunities available by appointment.  

The evening is planned in coalition with the Santiago Arts District where 7-10 other gallery openings will be happening within walking distance. Other galleries of note are Curbside Gallery, Kaboom, and Shutter + Light. 

Hosted by:

F+ Gallery

661 North Poinsettia Street

Santa Ana, CA 92701

(714)493-9430

Ithaka  – AkahtiLiandia, Brazil  (Statement from the Feature Artist)

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I'd been living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for five years and was feeling it was time to move on, when after researching a tip from an anonymous stranger in October 2010, I investigated (and soon afterward purchased) a small brick house on an acre of jungle property just outside of the Serra do Mar Atlantic Forest Reserve on the southern coast of the State of São Paulo – about 300 miles south of Rio. Needless to say, it was a move that somewhat metamorphosized my mostly urban-suburban upbringing and adulthood.

The immediate neighborhood of about 2000 acres, an area called AkahtiLândia, is extremely rural. There is a native Guarani village just down the road, where many of the local residents literally live in mud and stick huts. There are several rivers and small mountains, exotic birds and wild animals.

For the past four and a half years, I've been occupied with a mutated version of the life I've known since my early twenties: making art and music…and surfing, but this time in a neo-tropical forest environment. One thing that has really impressed me most about the jungle are the tiny animals; spiders, moths, beetles and worms. Visually, there's no end to the variety. The colors and geometric forms are absolutely mind-blowing. To me, bugs are living, cutting-edge, contemporary art forms.

I spend several hours a week just observing and photographing them. And attempting to ID them. But sometimes that's impossible, many of them have yet to be officially recognized by the scientific community. It's also probable that in creatures having such short reproductive cycles (some procreating more than thirty generations of offspring in a single year) that subtle adaptations are constantly resulting in new variations of existing species.

This relatively recent obsession of mine has fueled an entire body of work entitled, Aliens of AkahtiLândia - integrating all three of my visual mediums; sculpture, photographs and mixed-media paintings. The sculpture pieces, although based on actual creatures I have seen or photographed, are modified and manipulated versions of the real thing, while the flat mixed-media pieces are normally truer to the actual entities that inspired them. I've noted some insects with extremely sophisticated behavioral traits. A few, believe it or not, seem to demonstrate what appear to be real emotions.

I call them Aliens not only because of their seemingly unearthly eccentric multi-colored appearances and high IQs, but also because of their extremely complex, functional and almost indestructible body designs. Most people who believe in extraterrestrial life think that beings from other solar systems will appear somewhat humanoid and be more or less our size. I disagree. I find it more likely that they would be something much smaller and more insect-like.

Imagine if some of these creatures already present on this planet originated from other parts of the universe. How would we even know it?

One earth insect, the Tardigrade - aka the Water Bear, has already been proven to be capable of surviving the vacuum of space.

And if one or more of the minute species already here was actually more intelligent than us, how could we even measure or determine that? (maybe they simply choose not to communicate with us).

More importantly, would we admit something so much smaller in stature to humankind is in fact superior to us in many ways?

Ithaka 2015

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