Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Love Letter to Plywood by Tom Sachs
Love Letter to Plywood by Tom Sachs tickles me silly. Confession: I have a birch plywood fetish and I have to stay away from building supply warehouses.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Beginnings of a new series
At the end of last year, I took some photos of actors during a play I attended. Since then, I've had some ideas rolling around in using them and these pieces are the end result - the beginnings of a new series. What's on my mind? Drama, death, creation, electricity, connection, competition, and printmaking.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Alan Belcher's ____.jpg
A number of months ago, I joked with a friend that I should make physical objects from items on my hard drive. Artist Alan Belcher paves the way with ___.jpg.
via PetaPixel
via PetaPixel
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Vidal Sassoon 1928 - 2012
As a former hairstylist, I was extremely saddened to hear
about the death of Vidal Sassoon today. He was an incredible artist, who
revolutionized an entire industry and an entire way of life for that matter. A
giant.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Video for Benga's I Will Never Change
This video for Benga's I Will Never Change touches me in all of the right spots.
Info on how the video was made here.
Info on how the video was made here.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Ben Lowy is a Prophet
The New York Times has an interview between photographer Ben Lowy and James Estrin in which they discuss mobile phone photography. The full article is definitely worth the read, but these words stood out for me:
I think there are a lot of purists out there. It’s just like, when people didn’t accept Eggleston’s color photography and said you can’t do art with color. They couldn’t move on and were unwilling to accept this as a new form of communication, of art. I think that’s the same thing with iPhone photography.
To expand on that a bit, so many artists I have known or met get so caught up in their own agendas that they forget that the world is turning around them. I'm not saying that to be relevant an artist needs to choose among the latest technologies or methods. I am saying, however, that once an artist gets trapped in a certain framework of making that he or she becomes completely closed off to experience, new or otherwise.The idea of using a tool that everyone and their brother and their mother has can make some people feel less exclusive. You know, art is only that rare stuff that certain people in certain circles can get and that rarity is what makes it art (emphasis added).
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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