Art Journal Box full of Hope

Journal_box_4 I've been toying with the idea of starting an art journal for ages ... it wrong. Rationally I know that there is no penalty for ugly art. No one is going to take my children away or foreclose on my house because my art journalling is dumbass. I think it's the ingrained [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 16:24:17

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Who’s the biggest geek?

I excitedly posted about the soon to be released World of Warcraft Minis on my guild forum a few weeks back, to which I got only one response ... of War. Having never played anything in the 40k universe outside of the rather thin on the ground [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 16:25:40

Dye-Transfer Art “Bagged”

Seidmanbaggedexhibitcherri Fine-art film and fruit purveyors alike in Palm Beach, FL (or nearby) ... film. Those who remember the process will know the pure genius in a good dye-transfer print—this time-consuming and meticulous art could render enormous nuance and purity of color if controlled [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 15:48:01

10 Phrases Every Freelancer Should Kick-Out of Their Vocabulary

10 Phrases Every Freelancer Should Kick-Out of Their Vocabulary Shama Hyder 1 ... -inspiring for a client to hear, is it? I see lots of very successful independent professionals play ... . If you have a hard time talking about yourself, check out the book Brag! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 00:00:35

Activist Artist Lucy Lippard Friday March 7

Activist Artist Lucy Lippard Friday March 7 February 28th, 2008 by aoleksiuk Lucy Lippard: “Weather Report: Art and Climate Change” 6:30 pm, ... art critic, author, and theorist. She has published 20 books, mostly on contemporary art topics ... which protested women artists’ representation in the 70s, and Heresies, a feminist publication on art [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 16:05:22

3/1 - 3/9 Mountain Justice Spring Break

WHAT: Mountain Justice Spring Break WHEN: March 1 - 9 Saturday 3/1 - Sunday 3/9 WHERE: ... of America's oldest mountains. We will have fun, play music and create art and film to help stop [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 16:22:16

Ornament Thursday Gets Luck-y

'wish' copyright Margot Potter for Simply Beads 2007 (click on image to see close up!) Feeling lucky?! The girls from Ornament Thursday sure are ... you with the OT Gang:Art Bead Scene Lucky ABS! We're part 2 of Lucky Knots! Cindy Gimbrone aka Lampwork Diva [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 12:25:05

Dade commissioners warned to quell the infighting

Dade commissioners in DC to find out why money for a Metrorail extension is imperiled were told that they better lay off the ethnic bickering or put ... down the process,'' said Simpson, who noted that he holds the job the late Art Teele once held ... and the rum and Coke. Other sponsors: the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and Zogby International, [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 13:50:25

Video - Nokia Morph Cell Phone Concept Sports Extreme Flexibility Courtesy of Nanotechnology

Nokia Morph Cell Phone Concept Featuring in The Museum of Modern Art’s “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition in New York, ... , 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Morph features in both the exhibition catalog [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 12:16:35

Melanie Wells ~ Author and Licensed Psychotherapist, Part I

A native of the Texas panhandle, Wells is a licensed psychotherapist, business owner, ... was determined by the art they portrayed, Wells was constantly surrounded by creativity. She began [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 14:10:09

Morning Coffee 02/28/08

U.S. border “virtual fence” to be delayed: report Technical problems have forced the Bush administration to retool a high-tech “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border and will delay the first phase for at least three years, the Washington Post reported on Thursday [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 15:08:05

“Invisible” leadership

“Invisible” leadership Feb 28th, 2008 by Randall Some good quotes from the article “The Art of Invisible Leadership” By Dr. W. Craig Gilliam ... of Chinese wisdom, put it: “When a good leader is finished, the people think they did it themselves.” - “ [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 15:31:52

When geeks and graffiti combine

There is a lot of geeky graffiti out there. Some are just scribbles on a wall (programmer art being as it is), and some definitely qualify as artwork. It’s no secret that we here at Pingdom [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 14:46:36

Don’t beleive everything you read

I love Wikipedia. I very often use it as a personal reference source or in links from this blog ... maker (or buffoon).  While there is no doubt an art to such fakery and possibly a vehicle for great [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 16:00:08

Loss of Innocence

My son may have become a teenager earlier this month, but over the last several days, he has become a young man ... , early Sunday morning. This is what was in the Startribune: The woman whose body was found in Anoka ... . Her body was found about 9:30 a.m. Sunday about 150 feet south of where the Burlington Northern tracks [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 06:00:29

Flickr Muse-Wear The Art!

I am a regular Flickr user (flickerett), don’t let this be confused with some drug induced coma but I do  sometimes find my self lost in flickr flies. I know they are good when I find my self on page 25 and I am fully engaged. That is what happen when I found M-C1 [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 15:48:54

Jason Kidd: A Reflection

By Jake Appleman * Part I: THE BEGINNING (OF THE END) Visiting locker room, Madison Square Garden, last preseason game (Nets-Knicks) before 07-08 officially tips off. “Alright guys, I’m done for the season,” Jason Kidd says jokingly. 10-15 Sportswriters of assorted ages and outlets share a laugh with one of the greatest point guards [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 12:07:00

just a closer walk with thee

It’s been a little weird, out and about. Last night on the train home, a tall and elegant black man walked into my car at Times Square. He had a relatively long beard, very white, and his skin was that dark gray-black velvety-looking ... . I could see that he wore charcoal gray dress pants and black dress shoes…underneath his long flowing [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 13:33:50

Michael Jackson wants to keep Neverland Ranch

Michael Jackson aims to keep the famed Neverland Ranch with a new loan ... to his naked moon bounce room outfitted with state of the art recording equipment may seem like fun [more...]

Date: 2008-02-27 22:52:09

Inching out of the closet

Inching out of the closetWhat does it mean for the community when gay public figures employ the non-coming out come out? ... in Michigan niptuckartdotz.jpg "Nip/Tuck"'s Gay Paradox How can one of the most gay-inclusive shows [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 03:36:09

Mariella Frostrup vs. Keeley Hazell & Lucy Pinder

Mariella Frostrup vs. Keeley Hazell & Lucy Pinder It’s the battle of the babes, ArtsWom-style, ... art programming on a variety of media, writing for a number of publications, and making frequent appearances as a judge for art competitions. Frostrup for the win! How they would fit [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 16:28:21

Tu Tu Tango… PAD #1055

#flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon { ... _icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;} .flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;} .flickr ... Today was another long day at the convention center. It was much busier than previous [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 04:21:32

Architecture in the Garden by James Van Sweden,

The elements of garden architecture--paths, walls, gates, fences, terraces, sheds, lighting, furniture, waterworks, and art--together form the backbone of any well-designed garden. In this beautifully illustrated ... a garden like a professional. He leads his readers on a tour through some of his most exquisitely [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 01:27:21

Pausing and chortling: A tribute to Bob Clampett

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery Kristin here– During my first year as a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the great animator Bob Clampett paid a visit to our campus. I actually got to sit next to him at lunch, and he was a charming, amusing man [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 15:26:35

Thursday Thirst - The Comics of Steve Niles

THURSDAY THIRST – STEVE NILES Day 4. Steve Niles is probably the busiest horror writer these days with comic books coming out almost weekly ... Niles Art by Scott Hampton Simon Dark needs a spotlight, and not just from me. This character ... -creator, Scott Hampton, does a great job on the art, making all of these characters one step closer [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 15:56:14

Joyengine website headers…

JOYENGINE HEADER DESIGN: The JoyEngine header banner was intended to house art by our friends, readers, whomever… If you’re interested in designing a header for our site, feel free. The header [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 16:23:42

Tomorrow is evacuation day where I work. There are two times scheduled, with four buildings practicing the delicate art of evacuation. It's surreal, really...we hear about shootings on the news [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 16:15:50

TED2008: Who are we? Answers from Louise Leakey, Wade Davis, Jill Taylor, Stephen Hawking and Chris Jordan

(Running notes from the TED2008 conference in Monterey, California. First session.) TED2008 goes under the theme "The Big Questions", and it opens with THE big Shakespearian question: "To be, or not to be". Actor Michael Stuhlbarg offers a stunning interpretation of the entire soliloquy from "Hamlet": To be or not to be, that is the question; [more...]

Date: 2008-02-27 23:35:06

Tod Papageorge

The V & A museum in London has a talk on Friday 7 March with photographer Tod Papageorge who has been head of photography at Yale School of Art since 1979. His students there have included Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Gregory Crewdson and Katy Grannan among many other influential photographers of our time. Michael Hoppen Gallery also [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 16:01:43

Project Runway; Chris vs. Rami for Final Bryant Park Spot

It has all come down to this as we prepare for the final Project Runway show to determine the winner of Season 4 next week. After a relatively mild chat session with all of the eliminated designers last week in the special reunion show, and some careful editing, [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 05:01:15

BRW Digital Edition: new-style journalism and some insights into Web 2.0

BRW magazine’s annual Digital Generation Flagship Edition came out today. It’s an excellent report and review of the digital space in Australia. Foad Fadaghi, the technology editor of BRW, has come to the media business from the research industry, having held senior analyst and director positions at Frost & Sullivan, Jupiter Research and IDC [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 05:45:37

Communication Arts Exhibit of Karsh work

The May/June issue of Communication Arts will feature this work in its Exhibit section from Denver's Karsh and Hagan. Client: 20/20 Tax Solutions Via Ingwalson ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Thanks [more...]

Date: 2008-02-27 01:29:00

art/revamp/roots/sleeves

Untitled (for Aaron Clements), 2008, Digital Art as Giclee Print.  Commissioned work. About today’s art: This piece was commissioned as a Valentine’s Day gift by Boo Daddy for A-Ron.  They’re [more...]

Date: 2008-02-18 16:37:10

Reader Questions and Art Work

Sharon of apeasofmylife.blogspot.com sent this photo of her daughter's lovely art work created using the gel glue batik method explained here ... . And it's ideal for kids because it simply involves drawing with glue and later painting with fabric dyes ... for in dyeing fabric? Any thread count is fine as long as the fabric is truly 100% cotton [more...]

Date: 2008-02-23 00:09:34

Works on paper

A little over a week ago, I met Amy Anderson, Gallery Coordinator at the Rosewood Arts Centre, to jury the “Works on Paper” art show ... to realistic, from 3 dimensional sculptures to 2 dimensional photography and textural paintings. Each [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 03:21:16

Napkin sketch 2 - More on composition

I was still with my young friend in a cafe who was asking about my drawings and this was a second one I did ... of composition. I derive my personal theories on children’s art principally from Rhoda Kellog’s work Analyzing Children’s Art which I read in the 1960’s. If you are truly interested in composition [more...]

Date: 2008-02-16 22:41:05

New Header!

Header/Banner, whatever they're called, don't you love my new one???? Made by my dear friend, Linda Fleming http://customblogheadersandbanners ... on the wheel, I can't sit very long at a time at my studio work table doing the other art work ... Form class....but am having to wait for supplies to be delivered so I can begin. We have no really [more...]

Date: 2008-02-27 18:13:59

Everyone's Private Palace

Oh! Those Majestic Lions ----"New York for Kids" Part 1 ---- With the Christmas season over, ... books, prints, hundred year old maps and any book that has ever been published. NYPL features art ... the many works of art, you can actually use this palace. Return again and again as often [more...]

Date: 2008-02-18 01:57:15

Pixel Art Challenge: A Real Work of Art

The lovely MashPotato challenges you to pixel a sprite that would be at home in a non-stop-action-packed, side-scrolling 2D platformer... taking place in an art gallery! Pick a famous sculpture or painting and bring it to life by transforming it into an enemy or hero sprite People paintings do not have to stay in their canvas [more...]

Date: 2008-02-25 12:17:47

Art Works by Brian Jungen

Brian Jungen Works i was lucky to see brian’s exhibit in vancouver.  check out the link above, he makes awesome native american-style masks from old Nike Air Jordan sneakers, and huge dinosaur skeletons from plastic lawn chairs.  sick! [more...]

Date: 2008-02-22 19:08:15

Jennifer Reeder’s Production Notes

Jennifer Reeder and Mike Olenick set up a shot. About the Movie Accidents at Home and How They Happen is a story by a woman about women ... of Photography and Editor: Mike is also a Wexner Center worker. He has been working in Art and Tech ... Stockholm and we were confident about working together again. We had a similar vision for the texture [more...]

Date: 2008-02-26 17:16:38

I Survived Being and Artist in France!

I am more than proud to announce that Friday evening I gave my first Artist Talk---in French. ... by telling you a bit about my background and how I began working & making art. I have always enjoyed the arts and studied a bit in high-school and then decided to study Art in university. I studied art [more...]

Date: 2008-02-26 17:16:17

The Bronze Fonz

The Milwaukee Convention and Visitors Bureau will erect a life-size statue of Arthur Fonzerelli (aka The Fonz from Happy Days) mere blocks from the majestic, Calatrava-designed Milwaukee Museum of Art. Now I’m not a serious art student, but I have spent the last four years working with several public art institutions [more...]

Date: 2008-01-29 14:43:11

Foundation One Gallery

If your in Georgia Check this out: ‘Sons of the South’ is an art collective comprised of a diverse group of artists who work and live in the ... , its emerging art scene and artists that are often overlooked on a national level. These artists’ works explore a variety of themes in various mediums that have emerged from Atlanta's small and isolated [more...]

Date: 2008-02-14 11:01:04

Arte: The new embraceable Britain

What's behind our sudden craving for big, bold works of public art? ... about the sculpture unveiled last year at London's St Pancras Station - either moving or grotesque [more...]

Date: 2008-02-18 13:37:38

Orthodoxy: to inclusion and exclusion

( Art work, " Inclusion / Exclusion " woodcut print by Michael Hager ) An interesting post by C. Michael Patton titled, " Orthodoxy: Should we define [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 11:14:42

Monkey Barrels

This tat is inspired by art work that was on my album booklet. I guy named Lucky did it he does all my work. He's from louisville, ky. at tattoo charlies you should check him out. [more...]

Date: 2008-02-27 22:17:47

A swashbuckling historical space adventure

Yes, it's a space adventure, and it's historical - set in an alternate Victorian era, ... England, buying fashionable dresses and going to all the wonderful places she's read about. Art finds ... where space travel was discovered by Isaac Newton and works through alchemy. Our hero, Art Mumby [more...]

Date: 2008-02-27 22:01:32

things that are making me happy

1. Does this necklace make me look fat? This was a birthday present from F and Otis ... I was looking for recycled art materials for work. Can’ [more...]

Date: 2008-02-25 18:49:31

Alberto Seveso

The other day I stumbled upon the work of Alberto Seveso, illustrator/artist from Italy ... on body art. There is a lot of energy in his work which is contagious and inspiring, I think that we could possibly see a wave of tattoo art referencing the Seveso style of illustration in the near [more...]

Date: 2008-02-27 21:29:08

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