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Revolving Floor

netbros — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:06:05 -0800

The Revolving Floor is a curated community of writers and artists, focused on finding creative ways to share diverse perspectives through creating content around shared topics. Every month, a new topic. Several times per week, a new post, each time by a different author. [via mefi projects]

Putting Your Imagination On Your Hand

netbros — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:38:05 -0800

There are few things a man needs in life: a sense of purpose and ambition, a clean bill of health, and a fully detailed hand-sewn puppet of himself. Puppet Artists, Marnie & Bill Winn, create soft sculpted puppets that range from real people (from their photographs), to celebrities, to storybook and fantasy characters. PA also makes similarly detailed sets of 4-inch-tall finger puppets. (via)

Ourgothlaundry?

The Whelk — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:38:06 -0800

The Art & Life of Annie Truxell [via mefi projects]: Annie Truxell is a well known painter who has lived a long and fascinating life. Her adventures have been legendary, encompassing Greenwich Village in the 50s, London in the 60s and India in the 70s. She was friends with Franz Klein, Bill de Kooning, Truman Capote, Terry Southern, Mati Klarwein & many other wild & woolly people.

We Are the Image Makers

netbros — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:00:02 -0800

WATIM [We Are the Image Makers] is an online publication that promotes Australian artists, illustrators, designers and photographers. Issue 19 is out this month. There have been more than 150 artist contributors in their four years online. [some art nsfw]

The Online Music Chart

netbros — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:38:21 -0800

New music service We Are Hunted aims to create charts of emerging music tracks. They aggregate the buzz from social networks, forums, music blogs, torrents, P2P networks and Twitter. In the artists section you can comment about what you're hearing.

"Buy art. It makes you feel good!"

progosk — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:29:21 -0800

Are times of recession good or bad for the contemporary art market and artists? "Affordable" is becoming a leitmotif: there are events, inter national fairs, as well as various galleries. Some collectors and artists are sharing survival tips and tricks; and there are plenty of special offers to be had: Josh Poehlein - screenshot collages, free ; Shepard Fairey - "Obey Eye" screen print, 18 x 24 inches, signed and numbered, at a random time on April 21st: $45.00 ; Michel Gondry - your portrait, signed: $19.95 (allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery); 'Damien Hirst' - "For the love of Paris" postcard, 10.5 x 14.8 cm, signed and sent: € 1,80 ; Banksy - original, freely usable, high-quality jpg files: free.

Always look on the bright side of blight

filthy light thief — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:45:36 -0800

"Ah, the mythical $100 home. We hear about these low-priced “opportunities” in down-on-their-luck cities like Detroit, Baltimore and Cleveland, but we never meet anyone who has taken the plunge. Understandable really, for if they were actually worth anything then they would cost real money, right? Who would do such a preposterous thing?" Amongst others, artists who have hope for the future and money to invest. A local couple, Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert, began this artistic trend. An artist and an architect, they recently became the proud owners of a one-bedroom house in East Detroit for just $1,900. The fact that it was stripped of appliances and wiring wasn't a deterrent, it was room for improvement, because they now had the opportunity to renovate it with solar heating, solar electricity and low-cost, high-efficiency appliances. They bought a few more houses for even less, and put in some work with friends and local youngsters to improve the properties and added a garden. Their efforts were noticed by people at a Dutch museum, who stated that the "collapse of house prices allows for a new way of shaping the urban environment with relatively modest resources." But it's not just about an influx of artist with big ideas. The Heidelberg Project was started in 1986 by area resident Tyree Guyton, who worked with his former wife, Karen Guyton, now-deceased Sam (Grandpa) Mackey, and neighborhood kids. They collected trash from empty lots and vacant homes, and made empty spaces into "lots of art." (wiki link) Some of these links were gleaned from Mark Maynard's blog.

DeweyMusic

Korou — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:49:38 -0800

DeweyMusic makes browsing archive.org's Live Music Archive super easy.

The Selby

OmieWise — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:25:03 -0800

The Selby Artists & c. at home and in their studios. Click through for more pictures.

Robot 6 has you covered

Artw — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:09:26 -0800

The 25 best comics covers of 2008 - from Robot 6, the new home of the old blog@Newsarama team. More art from: Dave Johnson Eddie Campbell Chris Bachalo Alex Ross Joshua Hagler Jon Foster Steve Epting Gabriel Ba Sean Philips Brian Wood James Jean Lee Bermejo Tomer Hanuka Gurihiru Mike Mayhew Jock D'Israeli Takehiko Inoue Tim Bradstreet Massimo Carnevale

Under the sky and over the whole Earth, the Human race is only one!

Knappster — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:11:15 -0800

When her Japanese-American husband was sent to internment camps in California and Wyoming, Estelle Peck Ishigo chose to accompany him. An art-school teacher fired for her interracial marriage, she documented the three-and-a-half-year ordeal in a short memoir and hundreds of sketches and paintings. Despite a brief flurry of interest in her art in the early 1970s, Estelle faded again into obscurity until discovered by filmmaker Steven Okazaki wasting away in a Hollywood convalescent hospital.

Unwilling to accept the hospital director's claim that she was insane, Okazaki persevered, and as he suspected, found her heavily medicated but able to comprehend what he wanted. "I've been waiting for someone to tell my story to," she said. "Then I can die."

Okazaki told Estelle's story in his 1990 film, Days of Waiting, which won both an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject and a Peabody Award. She died before a screening could be arranged. [previously]

Daily Routines of Notable Persons

Korou — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:41:47 -0800

Daily Routines features how writers, artists, statesmen, and others go about their day. Kafka was a night owl, Kant woke early, Issac Asimov was not a folyack. Marx's smoking got to him; George Bush eats fast, but exercises often; Napoleon Bonaparte enjoyed chess. Haruki Murakami enters a deep state of mind, Vladimir Nabokov creams his mail, Roald Dahl kept up his farm. Emily Post stayed in bed, Alice Munro had little time, Marie Geoffrin dined with the king. Paul Erdös drugged himself up. Routines are collected from books, newspapers, magazines, and websites. [via Slate]

Art by Nadia Moss

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:26:31 -0800

Watercolors and a strange little world (YouTube) via artist Nadia Moss.

A blog about Japanese photography seen from abroad.

chunking express — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:38:20 -0800

A blog about Japanese photography seen from abroad. The site hasn't been updated in quite some time, but it is still full of a lot of interesting stuff.

New York City Studio Envy

stagewhisper — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:38:39 -0800

Studio visits with artists Cynthia von Buhler, Joyce Pensato, and Ida Applebroog, all set to music.

art history

nickyskye — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:27:05 -0800

All-Art.org provides an extensive image library, essays and information on art history, organized by date and movement, up to the 20th century, including photography, design and classical music with audio samples. A small selection of the encyclopedic range offered: Erotica in Art l Paintings that changed the world l The Origins of Typography and Graphic design l Russian Silver Age l Japanese Prints l African l Posters l A Brief History of Western Literature l An illustrated dictionary of art and artists. Bauhaus and Deco l Pre-Columbian l New Architecture and the Harlem Renaissance l Op, Pop and Performance l The New Avant Garde, Postmodernism and now. Examples of some of the hundreds of artists' histories: Arcimboldo l Francis Bacon l Beardsley l Matisse.

Inspiring Artists

netbros — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:39:12 -0800

Woosta is an interview driven website that is dedicated to the promotion of artists and their work. [mild nsfw] Anne P Smith - Sculptor, Portland Beau Brashares - Photographer, NYC Carol Cole - Sculptor Chiho Aoshima - CG Artist, Tokyo Chris Buzelli - Illustrator, NYC Dan May - Illustrator, Rochester Dave Wheeler - Illustrator, Seattle Elias Tahan - Photographer, California Geoff Meech - Film Maker, Toronto Howie Tsui - Illustrator, Ottawa Jason Martinssen - Illustrator, NYC/LA Jeff Miracola - Illustrator, Milwaukee Jesse Kanda - Graphic Designer, Vancouver Josh Clancy - Designer, Minneapolis Phil Toledano - Photographer Ray Haack - Photographer Reiley Saso - Creative Director, Toronto Rick Ivey - Sculptor, Toronto Thomas Keeley - Illustrator Yumiko Kayukawa - Illustrator, Japan Benjamin Anderson - Painter

picturing childhood

nickyskye — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:29:33 -0800

FairyTaleFilter: SurLaLune Fairy Tales features 49 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, modern interpretations and over 1,500 illustrations, 1,600 folktales & fairy tales from around the world in more than 40 full-text eBooks. Fairy Tale timeline. l Women Children's Book Illustrators l The Evolution of the Illustrated Children's Book l Some really beautiful free graphics and clipart from Grandma's Graphics. Rare 1923 edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. Three More Early Tenggren Books Samples of images: exotic, dream-like, odd, fun, charming, cool, avatars. Previously

Ebay Art

chakalakasp — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:15:52 -0800

"What would you say if I told you that I filled my entire living room with completely original works of art for less than $300?" Andrea Dickson from Wise Bread has found an unlikely -- though, the more you think about it, almost obvious -- place to find original art from new artists: Ebay. If you can filter through the crapload of "artistic nudes", there are plenty of gems, and usually at buyers' market prices. And, as Andrea's mother mused, when it comes to decorating the house, it beats buying mass-produced art from Costco, which is about as original as a Big Mac.

60 Concert Posters From Ten Amazing Artists

Effigy2000 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:50:36 -0800

60 Concert Posters From Ten Amazing Artists. Warning! All 60 images are on the one page so this page might take a while to load.

Comics Artist Jack Kamen Dies at 88

kittens for breakfast — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:26:45 -0800

EC Comics great Jack Kamen (probably best known today as the father of inventor Dean Kamen) has died at 88. (Partial) interview from The Comics Journal #240 Kamen's poster for George Romero's film Creepshow A small cover gallery LOTS of story samples An EC Comics retrospective by Richard Corliss

The beautiful and disturbing art of Dino Valls

madamjujujive — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:09:21 -0800

Dino Valls (NSFW) (large format slide show of his work) is a self-taught Spanish artist who studied Italian and Flemish masters of the 16th and 17th centuries. Use of egg tempera and oil is one of his favorite painting techniques, requiring great mastery but affording rich color and tone. His works are beautiful, disturbing and surreal. Dino Valls Interview with Dino Valls More on egg tempera The Flemish method Learn the basic steps of making your own tempera

Mouton Rothschild artist labels

mattbucher — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:04:12 -0800

Since 1945, one of the great wineries of the world, Château Mouton Rothschild, has commissioned great painters, sculptors, and artists to illustrate their wine labels. Artists from Picasso to Warhol to Prince Charles have contributed a painting to the labels. The link ends at 2004, but the 2005 label was done by Italian sculpter Guiseppe Penone; I'm not sure about the 2006 label as it is still a young wine.

Tasha Tudor, R.I.P.

verb — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:27:01 -0800

Artist Tasha Tudor is dead at age 92. Born in 1915 to an inventor and a painter, Tasha has been a quirky fixture in the childrens' publishing world for more than half a century. She lived an anachronistic life in Vermont, raising goats and chickens, caring for the small herd of Welsh Corgis that appeared in many of her books, and maintaining a small arts-and-publishing business that sustained her and her family for years. When she died, she said, she wanted to return to the 1800s as a sea captain's wife. Here's hoping she's inhaling sea air now.

Do Your Strip Comic Exhibit

artifarce — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:04:09 -0800

Do Your Strip: A hopeful book and exhibition where 70 artists and illustrators invent a character, provide instructions on how to draw it, then create the first comic adventure. Exhibit-goers would then create additional stories with their favorite characters. All the characters, instructions, and first strips can be seen here [pdf]. My favorites? Toma and Yassine. Karine Bernadou. Mr. Clement. (links go to artists' personal websites)