An interesting article about “the creative process,” that breaks it down to three factors, with the real moments of innovation happening when the three overlap:
1. ROUTINES
2. SYSTEMS
3. SPONTANEITY
Looking forward to hearing artist Eric Fischl speak tomorrow night with a lecture on “How Painting Died”
Here is the lecture topic:
In 1881, Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. This act of self-mutilation was not considered art. He made a painting about it: a self-portrait with a bandaged ear. That is considered art. In 1971, Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm. His performance of self-mutilation was considered art. The photo documentation about it is not considered art. How did this transformation happen in nearly 100 years of avant-garde thinking?
Looking for a new Calendar for 2010, or some fun holiday cards? Brooklyn based artist /designer and friend Annica Lydenberg, aka the talent behind Dirty Bandits just came out with these great calendar prints. She says… “12 individual 3-color screen prints each measuring 5.5”x8.5” you can get a year’s worth of calendar entertainment all packed into one funky envelope of awesome!” I strongly encourage you to get your own and other great goodies here.
GLASS is LIQUID
This beautiful video from coolhunting documents the skilled dance that goes into the art of blowing glass. (Featuring glassblowers Justin Parker and Andi Kovel’s (aka Esque’s).)
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The cooking has begun!
Today is the birthday of someone very special whom I love very much.
Someone who celebrates life every day.
Today, I celebrate your life!
I have so many warm thoughts for you I wish to share on this day…I hope this next year brings you joy, new knowledge, new challenges, inspiration, excitement, new skills, and if possible, even more love and rigor then you bring to the world. I think this will be a wonderful year.
Happy Birthday
Artist Jean-Claude dies at 74.
She met her partner Christo in Paris in 1958. They have been collaborating for 51 years.
The family statement said Christo was deeply saddened by his wife’s death but was “committed to honor the promise they made to each other many years ago: that the art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude would continue.” That includes completing their current installation, “Over The River”, a series of fabric panels to be suspended over the Arkansas River in Colorado, and “The Mastaba,” a stack of 410,000 oil barrels configured as a mastaba, or rectangle with outward-sloping sides, envisioned for the United Arab Emirates.
Like all their projects, these are intended to be temporary, a quality at the heart of the artistic enterprise. Whether executed in oil drum or brightly colored fabric, the art of her and her husband, Jeanne-Claude said, expressed “ the quality of love and tenderness that we human beings have for what does not last.”
NYT (via kateoplis: thegooglymoogly:)
Francisco Martins, “We Are The Same” (via Sarah’s gchat status;turnlizer)
This image reminded me of my entire freshman year of figure drawing class at art school. I had an Italian professor who had us learn to draw the figure by spending hours studying trees and drift wood. For the whole first half of the year we never even used a human model. We would be challenged to recreate master’s paintings at an enormous life size scale, “as if a group of drift wood just washed on shore.” (This was quite a difficult venture to complete in a dorm room and for someone who grew up in a landlocked state and hadn’t really seen a lot of “driftwood”) At the time I thought he was a little crazy, but I have since really appreciated the awareness he helped me discover in the connection between all organic things and this artist, Martins, must also understand this.
This weekend included the exciting purchase of the entire Planet Earth and The Blue Sea dvd set. After diving into a few episodes I can’t stop thinking about it. What a beautiful, amazing treasure. The approaching winter months just got a little less foreboding, now that I’m happy about the idea of siting at home and watching hour after hour.
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India’s Gulabi Gang
Fed up with abusive husbands and corrupt officials, India’s poorest women are banding together, taking up arms, and fighting back. Even more shocking than the pink saris they wear: Their quest for justice is actually working. In one of the most backward regions of India, the badlands of Central India, village women dressed in pink saris are getting togther to fight corruption and injustice and to raise their voices against the system.”Pink Gang” fights for the rights of women and other marginalized people in rural India.
