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November 24, 2008

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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.

November 23, 2008

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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.

November 21, 2008

I am so sorry I missed this

Images of art from The Frieze Art Fair in London

in the NYTimes
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November 20, 2008

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

November 19, 2008

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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

November 18, 2008

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new self portraits from Cindy Sherman

November 17, 2008

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Joan Mitchell
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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. 

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DeCordova Museum, Pretty Sweet

  • Decordova2
    Pretty Sweet: The Sentimental Image in Contemporary Art Curated by Nick Capasso An installation of 75 laser cut acrylic mirrors configured in a loop-de-loop installation

Wasabi

  • Mouse72
    Wasabi: Contemporary Art with a Japanese Kick at The Nave Gallery

building the Goodwin-Wise Flatpak

  • Evening Flatpak
    It took 2 years to build this first production version of the Flatpak House. I will post images as we set up home in our new digs.

China painting factories 07

  • Happy_cat
    In March 07 I traveled to Shezhen, China to sort out production for a series of paintings. The factory painters were mostly young and all talented. Like 1980's art students they wore concert t-shirts, took frequent smoke breaks, and played alternative music very loud from a tinny CD player. All of the painters were either friends or relatives of one another. The factories themselves looked less warehouse and more apartment building. The office of the factory I visited had not only wall to wall carpeting but wall to ceiling. It was a plush environment. The Da Fen district, where all of the oil painting factories reside, is marked by a giant, (very communist) statue of a hand holding a paintbrush. Surreal doesn't quite express the region. The images shown do not depict the artwork I was working on, but rather, the artwork these factories all too often produce.
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