For artist Kirsty Elson, a sliver of of driftwood or a scrap of metal is more than just a piece of trash.
Source: Kirsty Elson Transforms Driftwood and Detritus into Whimsical Animal Sculptures — Colossal
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Monday Musings (on Wednesday) — 20MAY24
Steve Albini‘s (who just died of a heart attack at age 61) band Shellac dropped a new album this week, and it rips.
Stream and buy digital here:
You can get a CD or vinyl here
I missed Monday, but here this is.
Juxtapoz Magazine – A Wavy Place: Gabrielle Garland Gives a New Perspective
Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection – The Marginalian
His paintings, loose and bright, become analogues of how abstract yet vivid the most interior experiences are — amorphous shapes saturated with feeling, blurry arrangements of contrasting parts of the self.
Monday Musings — 6MAY24
We all, probably, have heard the term “spang”. Here’s the definiton”
spang [ spang ]
adverb, Informal.
- directly; exactly:The bullet landed spang on target.
This next word is not actually in any dictionary. I made it up while half way between sleep, and wakefulness Sunday morning.
spangular [ spang-gyuh-ler ]
adjective
- Acting in a direct manner.
- Precisely
In a sentence: He spoke in a spangular way.
I don’t know, just some fun with words, I guess. LOL
WikiArt
Found out that there is a Wiki project solely for art. Spent some time perusing it, and it’s pretty useful.
Aim of the project
Our primary goal is to make world’s art accessible to anyone and anywhere. WikiArt already features some 250.000 artworks by 3.000 artists, localized on 8 languages. These artworks are in museums, universities, town halls, and other civic buildings of more than 100 countries. Most of this art is not on public view. With your active involvement, we are planning to cover the entire art history of the Earth, from cave artworks to modern private collections. We also provide you with tools for translation on as many languages as needed.
Has artist biographies, and a selection of their work, and a link to the Wikipedia article. It explains art movements/styles and has links (with portraits) of practitioners of the style.
What a great resource.
What about that box grater
18 uses for a box grater. Number 2 was the best in my estimate.
2. Brown Sugar
Even though I know that putting a citrus peel in the brown sugar keeps it soft, I inevitably end up with brown-sugar boulders that I attack with a knife, a scenario sure to one day end in heartbreak. And then I thought: box grater. It works.
Scott Nearing
A nice biography and remembrance of Scott Nearing, who along with his wife Helen, basically, started the back to the land movement. Read their books assiduously back when I was younger, still have my original copies of the “Good Life” books.
While I’m not able to garden like they did this spring, the wife and I have figured out how I can grow some herbs and veggies. Couldn’t do this life without her.
Thanks for reading. Love you all.
Pulsed plasma rocket (PPR): Shielded, fast transits for humans to Mars
The exceptional performance of the PPR, combining high Isp and high thrust, holds the potential to revolutionize space exploration. The system’s high efficiency allows for manned missions to Mars to be completed within a mere two months.
Source: Pulsed plasma rocket (PPR): Shielded, fast transits for humans to Mars
A Vibrant Rascality of Shenanigans: The Fantasticalicizm Of Anna Mond – Unquiet Things
The creations borne of Anna Mond’s marvelously strange brain noodles are gleefully grotesque, wickedly cheeky, ghoulishly precious brouhahas with a through line of the weirdest humor s…
Source: A Vibrant Rascality of Shenanigans: The Fantasticalicizm Of Anna Mond – Unquiet Things
Happy May Day
Did you know the May Day is actually two different holidays in one? Well it is.
The tradition of May baskets and May poles come from the celebration of Beltane and Walpurgis, ancient “pagan” holidays to celebrate the beginning of summer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
It is, also, International Workers Day (ie. Labor Day). The US and other countries don’t celebrate it as such an that stems “from a resistance to emboldening worldwide working-class unity”.
Read more here : https://www.npr.org/2022/04/30/1095729592/what-is-may-day-history
So whether you’re a pagan, or a Wobblie; Happy May Day!
Raven Speaks Acrylic on Canvas – Etsy
This Acrylic Painting item is sold by khperkins. Ships from Bangor, ME.
BEN VENOM
Source: Past — BEN VENOM
Ben Venom graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007 with a Master of Fine Arts degree. His work has been shown both nationally and internationally including the Levi Strauss Museum (Germany), National Folk Museum of Korea, HPGRP Gallery (Tokyo), Fort Wayne Museum, Charlotte Fogh Gallery (Denmark), Taubman Museum of Art, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, and the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. He has been interviewed by NPR: All Things Considered, Playboy, Juxtapoz Magazine, KQED, Maxim, and CBS Sunday Morning. Venom has lectured at the California College of Arts, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Midlands Art Centre, Humboldt State University, Oregon College of Art and Craft, and Adidas. Recently, he was the artist in residence at MASS MoCA and the de Young Museum. Ben Venom is currently Visiting Faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Also:
https://www.redbull.com/us-en/ben-venom-king-of-heavy-metal-quilting