Month: December 2006
examining past, present & future cultures in art
there’s another new post over at my artist journal on livejournal.com subject: cultures of past, present, and future at once snippet:…Past is represented by the Tooloon Mosque soffit. Present is represented by the modern day astronaut. Future is represented by the combination of the two. Star Wars Battlefronts II has an influence in defining how …
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city birds
Hans Slabbekoorn and Ardie den Boer-Visser of Leiden University have proven that city birds sing faster than rural birds. You can listen to the birds yourself. They have side by side comparisons. Go to the bottom and compare downtown Paris versus the rural area of Fontainebleu.
writing about art
I have a new artist journal post over at livejournal.com. title: writing about art link to specific artist journal entry link to artist journal homepage
Photoshop CS3 release features information
Thinksecret.com has done it again. They have some hot, new insight into what’s going to be new in the next release of Adobe Photoshop. Now this is all rumors. It’s not confirmed by Adobe. These are the top 3 photoshop cs3 features you can mention to your co-workers to look cool: optimized for Intel chips, …
Barack Obama’s Monday Night Football intro
Senator Barack Obama gave a stirring introduction to the Chicago Bears Monday night football game. Here’s the transcript (I’m lucky i have tivo. Pausing live TV is great): “Good evening. I’m Senator Barack Obama. I’m here tonight to answer some questions about a very important contest that have been weighing on the minds of the …
packaged art as art
I have a new artist journal post over at da old livejournal site. title: packaged art as art link to specific artist journal entrylink to artist journal homepage
what is it? #29
what is it? click here for the answer. click here for a description of what it is.
what is it? #28
what is it? click here for the answer. Because it’s Christmas time, there will be another edition of “what is it” tomorrow. (I usually don’t do posts on the weekends.)
cardboard sculptures
When I first saw the image from yesterday’s post on the carpet, I thought they were made of cardboard. I’ve always been a fan of the Frank Gehry “Easy Edges” furniture line. I had the idea to do the same thing about 10 years ago and then a few months later I found out that …