endfall08mainhall

more to come, sorry bout the angle I had to shoot it on my sons toy vid cam.

Hardtimes

This is a print by JAY CORRALES
It was part of a project where by he used old Folgers coffee tubs, painted them a terra cotta color and wrapped these cellophane prints arround them. This is the Die Hard tribute print. According to him It was part of a series involving major Hollywood action movies and the myhtos they generate. Jay will be a part of the BFA graduate show in the Crisp Ellert tonight!

design2

Design 2 paper, wire, adhesive project Fall 2008.

Contracts

On the "Bad at sports" website(Chicago area art podcast and discussion board)the subject of Gallery Contracts came up---Gallery Contracts: Here is a good start :
http://labweb.education.wisc.edu/artcommunity/artisttips/gallerycontracts.asp
My own experience was that a gallery used their credit card machine to register a 100$ dollar sale and when it came time to settle up the owner of the gallery had no idea what I was talking about. Get it in writing, hold your own reciepts stay on top of it , or just give your stuff away. They also talked about getting into galleries. Sage advice for sure. You can listen to this conversation here.

That capacitor right there...rabble rabble

It burns!

Uh..kind of speechless

Bucky

ONe of my favorite simplest ideas associated with Buckminster Fuller was the plywood shelter phenomenon.

treasure!

Another of Gasparilla’s undiscovered treasures, amounting to several thousand dollars, was buried on Anastasia Island, south of Matanzas Inlet. The site was recorded as being a three-hour walk south of St. Augustine. It has been stated that he never returned for the chest.

sceneDesign

Last year I had the rare treat to substitute teach at an art high school in Jacksonville. The day I was there the scenic design students were exhibiting in the main gallery of the school and I got to see some amazing stuff. Here is a link to a slide show of their work.

every 12 min.

SPLITTER..er whittler

UGAMFA

A clean pile of grad students and post grads web sites from the University of Georgia...UGA MFA

Georgia Russell

I keep coming back to book arts in my international fabric of stored data digitaly. Thats the IFOSDD-New name for the internet...its all about the "Change".
I think this person might also be into Lemony Snicket?-Georgia Russell She says her scalpel is her brush.

Facial hair and Hammers

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13 million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize.
The group found the 46th known Mersenne prime last month on a network of 75 computers running Windows XP. The number was verified by a different computer system running a different algorithm.
"We're delighted," said UCLA's Edson Smith, the leader of the effort. "Now we're looking for the next one, despite the odds."
It's the eighth Mersenne prime discovered at UCLA.
Primes are numbers like three, seven and 11 that are divisible by only two whole positive numbers: themselves and one.
Mersenne primes -- named for their discoverer, 17th-century French mathematician Marin Mersenne -- are expressed as 2P-1, or two to the power of "P" minus one. P is itself a prime number. For the new prime, P is 43,112,609.

See Foam

This is Fecal Face in SF's coverage of Chelsea scene in NY. Colonised by the BiG art places, village by the river of money demographic I suppose.

ZINE plans!

I like this zine scheme cause it only uses one sheet of paper.
Heres the plans!

oink oink

from China with love.

Sum Art

This is just a very nice collection of photos of art work and people(artist) living the dream...err struggle, in NYC. Awesome pictures of art and some reglar life. This women is a UGA MFA grad. Here is a link

Normal?

A sculpture by a guy named "Nick Normal" apparently. I think this is interesting for a few reasons, and maybe not entirely the ones intended by the creator. I like the use of reconstructing the peice through a lense and some basic photo manipulations. Then to address the piece itself I think it makes use of the materials well, in an efficiency sort of way that I think comes from working from a scrap pile or found objects, in this case "Nick" found the wood scrap bin and worked from a quiver of choices allready made, in that sense the collage effect of the photo tends to reinforce this assemblage. I also like the perhaps unintended poitrait of his regurgitating copier and home made ladder. Nice blue tiles too. This could also be a poitrait of what is conspicuously missing. This peice looks like a critter feeder. Six foot tall squirrell maybe? I,m not too sure but I think this stuff might come under what is being called slacker aesthetic...? I might have made that up?

OSHA saftey guidelines site for wood shop.

Straight from the horses mouth

Some Pig

Sometimes you win sometimes the box of chocolate wins...

Wood artist

Mike Rea

Stage Work

(Charles Burns "Paper Theatre")
There is a open house for people wanting to do stage hand work. It is at the Florida Theater on September 22 at 6:30.

Mike Rea

Chicago based artist.

Studio Assistants

Woodshop, Located in Studio 3
Studio Assistant Guidelines

Responsibilities
Maintaining woodshop hours
Safety
Clean-up
Assisting students

Required
First Aid Training
Woodshop experience

Daily Safety
Check power tools for proper safety.
Adjust machines when necessary.
Change blades when necessary.

Daily Clean Up
Vac
Straighten up
Woodpile
Safety glasses (discard any broken glasses, make sure 8 glasses are available and in proper place)
Safety masks (discard any old/used masks. Make sure safety masks are stocked).
Make sure all tools are in proper place

Last week of classes
Thorough cleaning of machines and tools and workspace.


-Woodshop studio assistants share all duties.
-There is a schedule in the woodshop listing your name and hours.
-You are responsible for showing up for your scheduled hours.
-Some of you will be in the shop during class hours. If you are scheduled to work the shop during a particular class session, you will be working with the needs of that particular instructor.
-Others will have shop hours that are “open”. Open hours are for students that wish to come and use the woodshop outside of class hours.
-Only registered art students are allowed to use the woodshop.
-For each student that enters the woodshop, they must sign in and out (see clipboard in woodshop). If a non-registered art student wishes to use the woodshop, you will have to ask them to leave. If the person refuses to leave, call security at 819-6200.
-It is your responsibility to make sure proper safety is followed. Make sure each person is wearing protective eyewear; hair is pulled back, no jewelry such as earrings and necklaces, no loose clothing or loose strings from hoodie sweatshirts, no belts with dangling ornaments.
-If a student does not follow safety procedures, you have the right to ask them to leave. If the student refuses to leave, this means they are safety risk and security will remove the student. Call security immediately at 819-6200. Make sure you report the incident to me as soon as possible.

Alastair Heseltine

Alastair Heseltine

Canvas Stretching

Theres only a million ways to do this.....

drill press

Good Morning

Theo Jansen

"Personal Saftey"

"The Bandsaw" saftey.

If you find a video you like feel free to leave it in the comments.

SupplyList

Wood Shop needs list for fall semester 2008
1. Side Guard for sander part# 5051601a
wmh Tool Group 800-274-6848 www.wmhtoolgroup.com

2. Lubricant for machines. Wood Workers supply 1-800-645-9292

3.Trash Can

4.Phone

5. biscuit joineritem#962189 Wood Workers supply 1-800-645-9292

6. Lag screws for sander and vice. Wood screws