17 posts tagged “art”
My creative intuitions have been in a rut for the last year. When I was still in school I'd draw at least once a day, but without class time to doodle and my art classes for my major I just haven't been able to build up the courage to produce anything worthwhile recently. Despite the fact that I've invested in several moleskines and sketchbooks to get my juices flowing, they've been filled to the brim with To Do lists and work notes and void of any interesting drawings. Sad panda, indeed.
Thankfully, Crap Artist's last pen pal package included a tiny, slim-paged sketchbook (the Caderno in the photo). One evening a few weeks ago I decided to try it out. Page by page I started to play around with ballpoint, my prismacolor markers, and other experiments. This sketchbook has something magical about it, and in turn i've been able to make a few drawings that I'm proud of again. Here are a few of the pages, all of which are being kept track of in my Caderno Flickr set:
Encountered this fascinating thread of photos via aaronrutledge.com. If anyone has any idea where this series came from, please let me know! A few of my favorites are shown below:
Edit: The photographs are by a Korean photographer named Yeondoo Jung, who's works can be found either here or here. Thank you everyone in the comments for your help!
It's a beautiful thing when one thing leads to another.
Although Chico had sent me a mix he was working on of Santogold's L.E.S. Artistes (xxxchange remix) with LCD Soundsystem a few days ago, it wasn't until Danny's discovery of Badical Music that I encountered the L.E.S. Artistes music video. As if Santogold couldn't stand on her own two feet alone with her music, the video directed by Nima Nourizadeh visually compliments the strength and power of her song through a playfully visceral assemblage of images and actions.
Francz V remarked that the Hot Chip video for Ready For The Floor is 'very Devo'. Coming to terms with my generation and truly, honestly, not really knowing what 'very Devo' means, I'm just going to assume it translates to 'wickedly radsauce modern performance piece to wacky electro music'. Enjoy!
Show us a photo that makes you cringe.
Utilizing the gentle dichotomy between the nostalgic and the carnivorous, Nicolas Lampert makes viewers look twice in his collection of collages he's classified as 'Meatscapes'. A fan of over-sized meat in public spaces (see his 'Attention Chicken!' installations), Lampert creates visual mash-ups of landscapes and what seems to be large portions of meat sampled from vintage food ads. The result is an almost seamless composition that may cause you to cringe, but in a meaty sort of way.
What's the best gift you received this year?
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To finalize our careers as art majors at my college, the handful of art majors rented a space downtown to display all of our work. The space is somewhat haphazard, an entire floor with various open spaces and tiny rooms with windows in which the majors distrubted and hung their art. Since my project could only be viewed in the tiny sketchbooks I rendered my drawings in, I only needed a single room with a very simple display. A few of the collages I did last minute are taped to the wall, and a tiny pedastle holds two of my sketchbooks.
The opening was this afternoon starting at 2pm, but since I've become out of the loop I didn't know until I headed over at 3:30 with my two friends Sarah and Meggie. When I got there, it felt like a real opening. There were some refreshments at the front, but the entire space was filled with students who excitedly went from room to room to look at the various art being displayed. Most of the other majors had ambitious paintings and sculptures to enjoy and I felt that my work was somewhat meek and overlooked in comparison. Thankfully, I began to notice people heading into my room, crowding around the books and looking on collectively. I got a lot of compliments, but I'm awkward about compliments, so I tried to be anti-social and sort of fluttered around the viewers.
All in all it was a fun experience. I'm very proud of the other majors, and it was nice to sort of celebrate our coming together in this final display. After we hung around for a while, Sarah, Meggie, and I went to Soul Dog for a mid afternoon treat. Organic chicken-dog with vegetarian chili and some chilled gazpacho. Yum.
a few things to mention!
1. At the start of my final crit with the art deparment earlier this week, one of my professors proclaimed that he had a conversation with his wife about me earlier that morning, and that he had finally figured out that I was a 'conceptual artist'. I didn't even know that, but it made me somewhat gleeful to have something to tell hip people at all those swanky artist bars I'll go to after I graduate.
2. When straightening my hair last week, I touched the straightening iron to the edge of my ear and burned it a little bit. For a few days it looked like my ear was turning into a zombie. Thankfully, it healed.
3. Speaking of zombies, I found out a great way to pretend like I got some sleep! Fix up a fancy outfit, apply a little eyeliner. Wear a gem on my ring that'll keep people's eyes away from the dark circles. And a large cup of joe. Cheers!
