8 years ago
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Shawn Camp
Shawn Camp University of Texas Graduate Student. Painting is the pause between choreographed dry wall.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Kappa formalism.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Ben Enzfelder
Ben Enzfelder tonight at City Yoga of St. Augustine Nov. 5-9 Art work and a short film. The studio looks great too.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
http://www.aigajacksonville.org/events/designers-in-toyland/Call for ArtistsDo you remember your favorite childhood toy? Gone (perhaps) but not forgotten. Toys are about imagination and imagination is the first tool of all artists and designers. So sharpen up your tool, tap into your inner child and create a custom toy!
AIGA is hosting its first custom toy show, Designers in Toyland, at the December Art Walk, December 2 from 5-9 pm downtown. Both AIGA members and non-members are invited to build a toy from scratch, choose an existing toy and take it to another level, or paint a blank vinyl toy — anything that makes the toy a creation unique to you. A portion of the proceeds from the event will be donated to The Big Fun Box. If you are interested in submitting a custom toy, please e-mail Karen Kurycki at vicepresident[at]aigajacksonville.orgby November 12th.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Haunted circumstances
Its when we think we actually deserve our positions that lies are lived. This goes for misfortune as well as fortune.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Coop alert
This is a coop in Jacksonville. I have known some people who have been members and the sce is awesome.
http://blogfromthecenter.blogspot.com/2007/02/attn-all-jacksonville-artists-art.html
http://blogfromthecenter.blogspot.com/2007/02/attn-all-jacksonville-artists-art.html
Friday, October 2, 2009
painting!
DEBORAH HAMON
Appears to be commenting on the whole mid drift marketing generation thing. This pie chart may be helpful: Things Dora the Explorer has accomplished teaching little girls:
Monday, September 28, 2009
Ink on wood
This was done by Mike Turzanski he runs the blog The Good Product I met him at the Small Press Expo 09 in D.C. this weekend and he hooked me up with some great art schwaag!
Sumi ink
This goes under the Building community heading...sumi ink club is a los angeles-based drawing collective founded in 2005 by sarah anderson and luke fischbeck. the group holds regular open meetings to execute topsy-turvy, detailed, collaborative drawings using ink on paper. in each of its permutations, sumi ink club uses group drawings as a means to open and fortify social interactions that bleed into everyday life. sumi ink club is non-hierarchical: all ages, all humans, all styles.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
JB Blunk
Here is a blog about a sculptor named JB Blunk who upon his demise had his house and studio opened up as an artist in residency program.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Job
Heres a job oportunity kind of. Might be fun? http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/visual-arts/node/22064
Chicago Art Resource board...
Chicago Art Resource board...
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Infinty Nets
artist of the day...
Yayoi Kusama
is a person with a very powerful vision and a great story. I would say it was a sad story of torturous proportions but then there are those dots and then there are the not dots.
I would propose that in the beginning her dots were a way of filtering her world to her own mind. A way to regulate her own experience. For example, in the YouTube clip, she speaks of covering her Mother with dots in an early portrait. When you know a little more about her relationship to her mother you begin to see how she is using her aesthetic faculties to maybe neutralise that volatile relationship. To put her childhood into a contemporary light it would seem similar to the archetypal Emo kid and their curtains of black hair. In essence she is controling the viewers dynamic. As she matured and could control her personal life with greater ease the dots become a Solomons carpet of sorts giving her avenues of expression and a mobility within life's landscapes and articulating a unique vision collectively. Art in general I think is a valuable tool for reclaiming spaces, perhaps monopolised by a bigger presence. Again in the clip, you see Mrs. Kusama is filling the lake with the reflective spheres. That space once defined by "Parks and Recreation" is returned to a superposition, reorganised and liberated by a pool of mesmerizing change. Update: The National Art Center Tokyo is currently exhibiting "Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul", which showcases Yayoi Kusama. As such, we would like to take the opportunity to now promote her work. https://www.artsy.net/artist/yayoi-kusama
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
duh
Important Health Information and Cancer prevention.Share
Today at 7:25pm
AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.
Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins:
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites..
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.
Today at 7:25pm
AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.
Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins:
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites..
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
1. No plastic containers in micro.
2. No water bottles in freezer.
3. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Territory
I liked Ashley Cox's drawings on maps so much I scrounged one of my own up. Its from a visit to Prague. My friends and I wanted to get out of Prague and see the country. We ended up in some whistle stop next to a river. I think we wandered out on to a hill, stood by the river for five minutes, wondered who might have lived in the dilapidated mansions, then we quickly made our way back to the station and into Prague again. Back to the castle to use a Kafka metaphor.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
George
pre-existingcondition is a show to benefit Type One Diabetes research. It is being held in Los Angeles and is featuring among many illustrious others our own local talentMark George
Monday, March 16, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
24-360
"If you ever wondered why '24' hours in a day, and not some other, arbitrarily chosen number, or why there are '360' degrees in a circle instead of some other number or some other unit, the reason stems from how handily 24 and 360 break down into many useful fractional parts using integers. For example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 24, 30, 36, 40, 45, 60, 90, 120, 180, and 360 are ALL factors of 360, while 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24 are ALL factors of 24. Few numbers break down into as many handy factors, and these numbers have a lot of factors in common. So while one might use another arbitrary number, chances are such a number would be less useful when considering fractions of the whole. 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/8, 1/9, 1/10, 1/12, 1/15, 1/18, 1/20, 1/24, 1/30, 1/36, 1/40, 1/45, 1/60, 1/90, 1/120, and 1/180 are all handy, though the ones under 1/12 are even more so. For similar reasons, one 'dozen' is a handy unit in which to sell items. So regardless of how long a planet's day is in actual time, breaking it up into 24 units is a handy thing to do. Further divisions in 60 minutes and 60 seconds uses these same numbers and handy factors." (quotation © January of 2000 by James L. R. Beach)
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Center for Art Research
As an elder at the research center Mike Mitchell's piece stood out. I think mostly due to the live narration and interactive qualities but also for the inherent and relevant narrative of the subjects situation. I would have liked to have had more interaction with the participants although the epicurean exchange was overwhelming. Most useful however were the lovely survey forms with their 2 color printing process, the moniker of a sophisticated organization, a well structured system of information reclamation and a highly diverse data column. Might I suggest a cinema slugfest. Show em if you got em, an all nighter if you have to...
Monday, March 2, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Boxes
You can see some handmade crates in these photos of George Ferandi and John Orth's collaboration at the Cinders Gallery of Brooklyn. You can click here. to see more of this show at Cinders.
George Ferandi will be showing in the Crisp Ellert gallery here at Flagler college this spring.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Pictopia-Berlin
The Pictopia exhibition will playfully explore the phenomenon of contemporary character design and art. Graphic designers, artists, animators, media and 3D designers work with a shared set of signs, opening up new contexts and correlations. The exhibition examines the contemporary vague of reduced figuration as a strategy for producing a vitalism outside established narratives. These so-called characters are reduced to the anthropomorphic function of eye contact which seems to look out from flat pictorial space at the viewer.
The title “Pictopia” is a reference to the promise and desire that these characters exude, without ever being able to deliver. Including original artwork by: Aaron Stewart, AJ Fosik, Akinori Oishi, Ben Frost, Borris Hoppek , Daniel & Geo Fuchs, Doma Collective, Doudouboy, Dylan Martorell, Edwina Ashton, Faiyaz Jafri, Fons Schiedon, Friends With You, Gary Baseman, Golan Levin, Hideaki Kawashima, Ian Stevenson, James Marshall, Jeremy Dower, Juan Pablo Cambariere, Mark Ryden, Motomichi Nakamura, Nagi Noda, Olaf Breuning, Rinzen, Sam Gibbons, Shoboshobo, Tim Biskup, Waynehorse
and many more…
I agree.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Objectified, a movie
http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/objectified-trailer-quicktime/
Here is a link to a video trailer about design.
Here is a link to a video trailer about design.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
LowCaliber
Here is an interesting piece on Birmingham artist Walton Creel. He uses a gun to draw/make marks with. Evidently there is a history of guns in Art. An actual critical platform for discourse in "gun relations". I see a relationship with irony myself, in the fact that this artist is from Alabama, I'm not sure if the relationship is pro or con in favor of being ironic.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
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