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Come as you are. Leave Different

timsteil — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:01:56 -0800

A wonderful artist, longtime booster of Route 66, and all around good guy, Bob Waldmire died at 8:30 this morning.

Louis Armstrong's Collages

Joe Beese — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:28:35 -0800

When not pressing the valves on his trumpet or the record button on his tape recorder, Armstrong’s fingers found other arts with which to occupy themselves. One of them was collage, which became a visual outlet for his improvisational genius. ... These little stories, illuminating and entertaining syntheses of Armstrong’s passions, now reside in the Louis Armstrong Archives at Queens College in Flushing, New York. The collages are collected in Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong. You could look at them while listening to Armstrong's cover version of Pharaoh Sanders and eating his recipe for red beans and rice.

Lucian Freud Interview

Dumsnill — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:50:05 -0800

Lucian Freud Interview (YouTubes): 1; 2; 3; 4; 5

Digital Artist's Handbook and FLOSS and Art

yegga — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:41:29 -0800

Digital Artist's Handbook and FLOSS and Art

A beetle in a model's ear. Photographer/artist Irving Penn has passed on.

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:22:23 -0800

"The quest to undercut fashion’s standards of perfection, and to find beauty in the disdained, overlooked or overripe, runs throughout Mr. Penn’s career. In an otherwise pristine still life of food, he included a house fly, and in a 1959 close-up, he placed a beetle in a model’s ear." So long, Irving Penn.

"Hey Dario, I just got your woolly mammoth hairs in, give me a call."

nathancaswell — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:42:51 -0800

Oak twig carved from dissolved recording of the heartbeat of an unborn child and the last heartbeats of a loved one, bone dust from every bone in the body, ring finger bones coated in bullet lead from various American wars, glass eyes for wounded soldiers coated with trinitite produced during the first atomic explosion, WWI cavalry boots made from a melted record of Skeeter Davis' "The End Of The World".

San Antonio-based artist (he prefers "marterialist poet") Dario Robleto crafts exquisite objects using a physical lexicon that includes bone dust, analog audio recordings, war objects and remnants of extinction. By recontextualizing these items he hopes to reverse "historical amnesia" and to reengage the past by "seeking out and sympathizing with another era's hopes and losses through its people's stories and materials." Highly influenced by music, he considers his work sampling. As he says: "you don't have to make up anything; the world is magical on its own."

Magazines as Fabric

ocherdraco — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:07:05 -0800

Artist/Designer Ilisha Helfman makes clothes for her custom made paper dolls every week from the cover of the New York Times Magazine.

wetness ... pours onto my paper out of my pen

divabat — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:32:05 -0800

Suheir Hammad, a Palestinian-American poet and activist now based in New York, writes about being a Muslim immigrant and also a woman challenging conventions. Spotted by Russell Simmons for Def Poetry Jam, she has performed pieces about love in the time of war, exoticising beauty, and a touching ode to her father, among many others. Suheir has just produced and released her first feature film Salt of This Sea, up for the Cannes Films Festival and possibly an Oscar, and recently performed in Ramallah for the 2009 Palestinian Festival of Literature.

Make a toaster from scratch

ShadePlant — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:15:13 -0800

Toast always reminds me of the global division of labor. A British artist inspired by Douglas Adams is attempting to make a toaster from scratch. Apparently this concept was also addressed before in an essay, "I, Pencil," by Leonard Read, a founder of a Libertarian think tank. Bottom line: Pencils and toasters are difficult for one person to make and using a microwave to smelt stuff for the toaster is apparently cheating.

ArtistsArea

Joe Beese — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:43:01 -0800

This is the first site on the web to show where real artists and designers work. Painters, musicians, photographers, illustrators. The site lets you see their environment in which they go about the creative process and will hopefully inspire yourselves. i.e. Rashin Khey - Tehran.

Daikichi Amano

seabel — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:38:52 -0800

Really interesting photography by Tokyo artist Daikichi Amano, who claims to be the reincarnation of Katsushika Hokusai.

Momoyo Torimitsu

serazin — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:58:59 -0800

Artist Momoyo Torimitsu: sculptor, performer, illustrator, installation artist. Not interested in being cute. (Discovered via The Rumpus.)

Are we really happy here with this lonely game we play?

Joe Beese — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:09:57 -0800

On August 7, 1979, under cover of darkness, artist Kit Williams took a jeweled, 18-karat gold pendant in the shape of hare and buried it near the monument to Catherine of Aragon in Ampthill Park near Bedford, England. Clues to its location were hidden the text and artwork of his book Masquerade. The armchair treasure hunt sparked a worldwide craze. The end was disappointing. But 30 years later, the quest is being commemorated with a new hunt in the Cotswolds. (previously) The burial of the pendant was witnessed by Bamber Gascoigne, the host of University Challenge - which will be familiar to fans of The Young Ones. [And yes, that's Emma Thompson in the clip.] Also, the book became the basis of a flop musical starring a young Sarah Brightman.

Zhang Peng’s photographic art

chiraena — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:23:43 -0800

Zhang Peng’s elaborate photographs have been called both "beautiful" and "disgusting". You can see some of them here and here.

Dude a day offers you dudes. Every day.

boo_radley — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:35:27 -0800

Dude-a-day: 365 Days of Dudes - October 2008 through October 2009.

Dinner with a Stranger

Staggering Jack — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:37:07 -0800

If you got an email from a stranger who said they'd donate $200 to a charity of your choice if you would invite him and a friend over to your place for dinner, would you say yes? Toronto artist Franke James did, and now she now thinks it might be an interesting idea for fundraising.

Hello Doll Face

P.o.B. — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:25:58 -0800

Andrew Huang is an Artist/Director of Short Films, Commercials, and Music Videos. Doll Face is really intriguing. The Gloaming (featuring Randall Rickert) is freaky cool!

Ray Dennis Steckler, 1939-2009

Chinese Jet Pilot — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:53:00 -0800

Here's to Ray Dennis Steckler, the independent filmmaker who wrote, starred (as Cash Flagg) and directed influential films including The Thrill Killers, Rat Pfink a Boo Boo, and his masterpice The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies. A visionary artist whose influnce is clearly seen in contemporary cinema, Steckler was prolific (producing movies from 1963 until last year), economical (his films were self-produced, shot on 16mm film and later Hi-8 video), and brilliant (as clearly evidenced in this dance sequence from Creatures, "The First Monster Musical"). It hasn't been widely reported yet, but fans are mourning his passing. He died in his sleep yesterday, January 7th, aged 70. I hesitated to post about a death without an obituary to link to (especially since I posted another obituary 24 hours ago), but Ray Dennis Steckler was an important creative influence in my life. I saw Rat Pfink a Boo Boo as a film student, but not at school; my professors were only interested in "serious" cinema like Casablanca and similar crap. It was a revelation. I saw clear artistic vision and high production values in spite of miniscule budgets and volunteer crews. My first e-commerce purchase on the World Wide Web, probably in 1996 and with much trepidation, was a VHS copy of Rat Pfink a Boo Boo from Sinister Cinema. I still keep a VCR hooked up so that I can watch it. On our second date, I took my future wife to a screening of The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies at the old UC Theater in Berkeley, CA. They screened it in Terrorama -- costumed actors (actually the cast for that evening's showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show) "terrorized" the audience by shrieking and running through the aisles. It made an impression on her. I highly recommend Steckler's films to anyone with an eye for cinema. I mourn his passing. Disclaimer: The YouTube link to the Creatures dance sequence is a self-reference. I posted that clip a few years ago.

Creepy and creative...

blaneyphoto — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:58:40 -0800

Wayne Martin Belger is an artist who creates pinhole cameras out of some unusual materials... like human skulls, for example.

master of the needle-nose pliers

moonmilk — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:53:50 -0800

CW Roelle makes drawings with wire. Watch him at work. A little more information. Do it yourself!

To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life

parmanparman — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:50:54 -0800

"No other country could have produced the Specials. Terry Hall grew up with Jamaican culture as well as English culture, that’s the only way The Specials could have happened. If you listen to American ska bands, they don’t sound authentic, it's like surf music with reggae mixed with it." Tricky talks about Englishness.

Sendak

Astro Zombie — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:52:04 -0800

Was there anything he had never been asked? He paused for a few moments and answered, “Well, that I’m gay.” "Maurice Sendak’s 80th year — which ended with his birthday earlier this summer and is being celebrated on Monday night with a benefit at the 92nd Street Y — was a tough one. He has been gripped by grief since the death of his longtime partner; a recent triple-bypass has temporarily left him too weak to work or take long walks with his dog; and he is plagued by Norman Rockwell. Or, to be more accurate, he is plagued by the question that has repeatedly been asked about Norman Rockwell: was he a great artist or a mere illustrator?"

The artist without eyes

konolia — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:50:07 -0800

The artist without eyes

Yorktown Improved

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:25:32 -0800

Artist Joseph Griffith, whose work draws from fantasy and mythology, has also turned his attention to one of America's most significant historical moments: "I painted this for the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown when George Washington and the Continentals traunched the British. The county would not dignify it with a response, however, George Washington's Mount Vernon estate kindly wrote me an e-mail saying they would 'pass it along to the staff'."

Galactus is here!

vronsky — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:51:29 -0800

The king of comics - Jack Kirby