Amy Goodwin

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thanx George

Andy Scott is a Glasgow-based artist specializing in large-scale public art installations. One of his most 
ambitious projects is ‘the kelpies’, a set of two horse heads based on the mythical scottish creatures 
of the same name. Looking at the project you may be thinking that the two welded-steels sculptures 
aren’t that big, but if you look closely, you will notice small people standing at the base of the sculpture. 
The reason for these small people is because these sculptures are actually scale models.

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these two are the funniest

David Lynch is one of my heroes

I enjoyed his book Catching the Big Fish

check out this Q&A in the NYTimes

Perspectives is a project by BaseMOTION. They interviewed people and edited the spoken portion of the footage out. Perspectives leaves only body language, pauses for thought, and interjections to do the communicating. It is actually quite interesting to watch because of the serious topics and how you see the interviewees think and respond.

I am so sorry I missed this

happy birthday Bjork

High Tide Heels

Images of art from The Frieze Art Fair in London

in the NYTimes

I Met the Walrus

Thirty-nine years ago, a 14-year-old named Jerry Levitan managed to talk his way into John Lennon’s Toronto hotel room. Impressed by the kid’s chutzpah, Lennon obliged him with a five-minute chat that covered war, peace, and the newly arrived Bee Gees.

Last year, Levitan teamed up with filmmaker Josh Raskin to make I Met the Walrus

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images from Michael Wolf's new book The Transparent City

Michael Wolf deliberately chose what he calls a “no-exit composition,” where the eye never leaves the overlapping building surfaces. There’s no way to find a comforting horizon that might give the building some context. “You can never go off the building surface and find the sky,” Wolf says. “I make these images so that the only escape is to peer into one of the windows.” link

new self portraits from Cindy Sherman

at Metro Pictures Gallery

Mid-Century Modern Film from 1958

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Joan Mitchell

Sunflowers 

1990-91

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A team of University of Michigan researchers has recently created a set of electron microscope images of carbon nanotube structures depicting images of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama. John Hart, leader of the research team says it wasn't a political statement, but an attempt to draw attention to what is possible these days with nanotechnology, and imaging at the very small scale. I'll take him up on this invitation and share with you some other images of very tiny things in our world. For visualizing the scale, most measurements below are in microns - one micron is a millionth of a meter - human hair is approximately 100 microns thick. 

The Big Picture

Shepard Fairey’s contribution to the fight for marriage equality: “Defend Equality.”

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Timesculpture (toshiba)

Renate Aller

Seascapes: One Location

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Guess Who?

“My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.”

answer here

In the video to See the Light, the new single from the indie duo the Hours, Sienna Miller dons a hospital gown, gets trapped in a glass case in a bag shop, smokes, talks about suicide, cries a lot, undergoes an MRI scan, and smears herself in cow's blood in front of four eviscerated, wall-mounted bovine carcasses. If this last image brings to mind that master of artful gore, Damien Hirst, that's no accident. Hirst, a friend of the band, was art director on the video, made by American History X director Tony Kaye. link

I am looking forward to the new Sol LeWitt Retrospective that opens this Sunday at MASS MoCA

Mankind Is No Island

Sydney-based film makers Jason van Genderen (director), Shane Emmett (producer), and John Roy (music composer)  created this incredible short that just won $20,000 and Best Film at Tropfest NY 2008. It was shot on a total budget of $57, and captured using cellphones, nothing else.

Collage A Day

RANDEL PLOWMAN is AN ARTIST LIVING AND WORKING IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY. A COLLAGE A DAY IS AN ONGOING PROJECT THAT INVOLVES CREATING AND POSTING A NEW 4" X 4" COLLAGE TO THIS SITE EVERY DAY. EACH COLLAGE IS OFFERED FOR SALE AND COST $25.00

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Have you ever wanted to learn:

How to draw a man in a casual sweater

online instruction here 

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Mark Wagner- dollar bill art- link - via

Stefan Sagmeister's installation obsessions make my life worse and my work better

at experimentadesign amsterdam 2008 (it is made with pennies)

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Using digital technology, graphic designer Hans Weishäupl has carefully reconstructed portraits of 13 dictators over the past 100 years. However, the photo montages, which measure 1.8 m x 2.3 m do not contain a single piece of original picture material, but are made of countless tiny, specially shot portraits of the citizens of the country the dictator ruled over.

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William Eggleston untitled, 1975

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera at The Whitney

Nov 7th - Jan 25, 2009 link

The Oxford Project

Hunter Tandy 1984

Hunter Tandy 2005

Twenty-four years ago, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every one of Oxford’s 676 residents. In 2005, he did it again. Check out The Oxford Project here.

OBAMA art

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our new First Family

What a great Dad / Man

Jerry Sanders the Republican Mayor of San Diego

Political Coverage

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