The Artistic Value of Thriller
“It could appear that Thriller is nothing but the hottest chick in school…but what happens when. you find out that there’s more there than just eye candy?”
Follow A Working Artist
We got a lot of artists who frequent this site, so I thought I’d point you to the blog Onwards and Upwards in New York City, which is the “Visual and literal record of daily activities of Masumi Nyui in New York City, Winter 2009.” Masumi is one of my most favorite people in all [...]
Art In An Obama Nation
From The New Republic’s Obamalot: [The] danger when we talk about the relationship between the arts and the nation is that everybody all too rapidly descends into parochialism. There are the utilitarians, who are convinced that art education is important because it improves children’s more general cognitive skills; there are the populists, who think that [...]
How To Be An Artist
From Cary Tennis’s latest advice in his regular column Since You Asked: “The answer, as always, for an artist, is to pick something and get to work. If you have a piece of marble ready to work on in the basement, and you have your tools, then go to the basement and start working on [...]
Maja Godlewska
I’ve decided to love this artist’s work: Maja Godlewska. Let me know what you think.
Yes, you.
Wise Words From Four Years Ago
From an old interview that Dawn, Alex, and I conducted with Steve Fesmire, a GMC prof. who was recently awarded the Fulbright: “I think we’ve become anesthetized, but what we need is to become aesthetically responsive. We need to feel and respond to the world around us. If someone dies in Iraq, we need to [...]
1000 True Fans
From Kevin Kelley’s 1000 True Fans: “A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living. A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything [...]
Matching Album Covers
Check out the art of Matching Album Covers.
the things we think but do not say
From the intro to an amazing video on the blog “the things we think but do not say,” entitled,Sara and I just got engaged!: “Rather than trying to explain all the what’s, who’s and why’s, I’ll let you see the video that I made that tells our story.” [Seriously, check out this video.]
