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Category Archives: Art
Ok Men, here’s how to make your wife a great handmade card.
Click for video >> Man Made Card Video
This is great! All you women ‘stampers and scrapbookers out there will love it. This will definitely get you husband into it.
Algae Power
A different approach to powering your home, than my previous nuclear battery one, over at Geoff Manaugh’sBLDGBLOG. Growing algae in balloons, in a way that makes it produce mucho H2. Some beautiful renderings of the project (it’s an urban design project in Iceland), and some commentary from Geoff about how depressing it is that we go to these lengths to, basically, just keep on doing what we’re already doing, instead of trying to change the fundamentals of our society.
Growing algae to produce power is an interesting concept, but really it’s useless without designing communities that use less energy. People just don’t seem to believe in frugality any more, and that’s what we need to return to.
And, no I’m not a hippy, preaching back to the land, and such, because, damnit, I love my tech, and my Schtufff, but with 6 billion people (is that right) on this planet, we really need to figure something out, don’t we?
OF SOUND AND VISION – The Online Portfolio of Alex Cherry
Cool digital art by Alex Cherry
Intolerance
Many of his titles are from songs (including Rage against the Machine, and Radiohead) and interpretations of said songs.
He also has a deviant art page where you can buy prints.
Collage-O-Rama
Check out Simon Redekop’s collages: then check out the rest of his site.
Jasper Johns: Gray
A new show of Johns’ work opens up next month in Chicago. It focuses on the importance of gray in his work, and includes 141 works from 1955 to the present.
There’s a nice article about it here.
From the article:
“I think viewers of this exhibition will be able to experience the great potential and meaning that gray has for Jasper Johns,” said James Rondeau, Frances and Thomas Dittmer Chair of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago and co-curator of the exhibition. “Gray is much more than a colour to him. It is an analytical tool, a measure of distance and separation, and a means of getting to the heart of his practice as an artist. Through such a close exploration of a subtle and restricted range, Johns is able to make abundant and commodious discoveries….”
Speaking of the cell….
Here’s a pic from my show, that I snapped with the cellphone the day I hung it.
My Show…
…starts tomorrow. I’ll be in Ellsworth hanging it a good part of the day, I’m sure. i’ve been working all week getting paintings and collages ready to hang, and I’m about ready. It’s at the Hancock County Higher Education Center; come visit if you get a chance. The show runs from August 13-Sep 21, 2007.
Paint the Town
Yesterday I participated in The Farnsworth Art Museum’s fourth annual Paint the Town event, where artists get together and go out and paint scenes of Rockland, and then the paintings get auctioned off that evening. Bids weren’t very brisk last night, but the event probably made about $10,000 for the museum, and both the paintings I did sold.
Pics to follow:
A Crooked Little Story
Called A Crooked Little Vein. Graphic novelist Warren Ellis’s newest piece of work, is a tight fast paced faux-noir detective novel, that moves from one sordid situation to the next, in search of an antique book that is supposed to save the US. Ellis combines Burroughs, Thompson, and Hammett, and gives your mind a smack-down of freakish wonder. The book poses several questions about morality, and when the “underground”, or “counter-culture” stops being “counter” or “under”.
SF is happening to us right now, the world is crazier than we know.
Go out and get it, and then go find everything you can by Ellis: that’s what I ‘m doing.
(Yeah, I know, I’m a little behind on some things, get over it.)