Sarah Jessica Parker seems to be a dynamo. I could care less about Sex in the City—I could care less about most everything on TV—but it is the fact that she was a producer that impresses me. She created work for herself and that is the model I used for my career—not, of course, to her level of success, but the model works. With her level of wealth (plus that of her Tony-Award winning husband, Matthew Broderick) she can both afford to take risks and to produce “big.” Her latest effort,Work of Art seems to be turning heads.
I was in a reality show at the very beginning of the movement. It was an awful experience. SO much so, that I would often come home and see the cameras around my place and I would just keep driving and eat in my car and listen to the radio, rather than walk into the mess that is reality TV. It is fake and manipulated, both in the filming and in the editing. I remember a camera person asking me to fake receiving a call once when a particularly challenging telephone came in to me when the cameras were not ready to roll.
So watching a crew of artists who are art-star-wannabees pander to the camera gives me the heebeegeebees. But I will watch tonight to see what happens.
A massive work made from a 16-foot section of broadleaf maple and comprised of 61 three-inch slices, ranging in size from approximately five feet to 22 inches in diameter, No. 1-60 is wondrous and a little bit monstrous. Each slice dangles from a cruel-looking black metal hook, and thus instantly causes one to think of meat left to cure in a slaughterhouse. 47 Gallery, with its rough floor, exposed metal ceiling and industrial garage door, reinforces this first grisly thought. If, however, you take time with this giant sculpture, it soon begins to resonate other, gentler connotations.
I thought this filming was destined for the University website where I teach. it may be there too. But it is on YouTube. Me. Mr. No Cell Phone. Me. Mr. No Facebook, Mr. No Twitter. Me. Mr. Old World Forever. Mr. Technophobe. I am on Youtube.
in three minutes, the largest dot will travel around the circle once, the next largest dot will travel around the circle twice, the next largest dot three times, and so on.
the dots are arranged to trigger notes on a chromatic scale when they pass the line
the music was generated using my own syd synthesis software, the animation was programmed in flash actionscript
The “Eizo: Pin-up Calendar 2010” is really particular. This pin-up calendar offers you more than the usual integral nude : X-ray girls literally ! Eizo is a brand of medical supplies and their campaign is awesome.
Above: ’Aurora Borealis,’ made by photographing a beam of colored light against a black curtain to achieve the edge effect, with holes in cork board to create the stars
Above: Tornado made of steel wool, cotton, ground parsley and moss
Above: ’Fields, After the Storm,’ made out of faux fur, cotton and sifted tile grout, with a shift in white balance to create the lighting effect
There’s hardly a greater feat of creativity than portraying something ordinary through something mundane, to a cumulative effect of pure whimsy. That’s exactly what 26-year-old artist Matthew Albanese does in his fantastic — literally — Strange World series, incredibly detailed small-scale models of emotive landscapes made out of unusually usual everyday materials.
Via Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish and Brain Pickings.
Since Olivia Bouler began her campaign to support the National Audubon Society’s work rescuing birds affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds of individuals have contributed over $20,000 to her cause.
“Plink Art” a mobile phone application that allows users to identify a work of art by simply taking its photo. The app contains thousands of famous paintings in its database, which can also pull up information on the artwork, including content from Wikipedia about the artist. Plink Art users can also leave digital comments and order prints of the viewed artwork.
The above is from the North American Art Material Trade Association newsletter.
Eizo is a brand of medical supplies and their campaign is awesome.
Above: ’Aurora Borealis,’ made by photographing a beam of colored light against a black curtain to achieve the edge effect, with holes in cork board to create the stars
Above: Tornado made of steel wool, cotton, ground parsley and moss
