Digest: Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too! [Watching]
I grew up a few miles from Tippecanoe, Indiana. Every year we would canoe down the river — it’s a very slow moving river and when I was really young my Dad and his buddies would set up a fish camp to catch catfish. Mostly it was a get away from fram work and a chance to drink beer and play poker. I got to go once — a rite of passage. I was never sure if the little town was the historical town in the song for Harrison’s campaign but always hoped so. The river still moves slowly and empties into the Wabash. Here is They Might Be Giant’s cover from The Morning News.
Morphing Van Gogh Portraits
This creative video is by Philip Scott Johnson. I saw an earlier one on Women in art, but it is nice to see all one artist’s changing views of himself.
2008 Weekend at the Galleries
Don’t miss these activities Columbus Day weekend! Join in four days of festive activities at the 12th annual Silver City “Weekend at the Galleries” – Participate in gallery art walks, a wine tasting gala, the “phantom studio” special event and art auction, theater presentations and a Film Festival. The weekend festivities are presented by the Mimbres Region Arts Council and sponsored by 1st New Mexico Bank of Silver City..
Friday, October 10
Wine Tasting & Reception
5 – 7 pm
Gallery 400/Gila House Hotel
400 N Arizona Street
$15/Ticket
– a benefit for the Mimbres Region Arts Council. Enjoy sampling different wines from New Mexico Wineries in the beautiful outdoor courtyard of the gallery, while admiring the paintings on exhibit. The $15 ticket entitles the bearer to a commemorative wine glass and tastes of several varieties of wine. Additional wine can be purchased by the glass.
Saturday, October 11
Phantom Studio
10 am – 6 pm
Ikosaedar [Elks Building]
315 N Texas Street
FREE!
12 artists appear out of nowhere – each creating a piece of art in just 8 hours. The Phantom Studio enables the public to watch the creation of amazing works of art by talented local artists.
Saturday, October 11
Phantom Studio Auction
7:30 pm Preview
8:00 pm Auction
Gallery 400/Gila House Hotel
400 N Arizona Street
$15/Ticket
Each wonderful piece will disappear into the hands of a happy bidder – but don’t expect the works to be framed, or even dry! Each attendee will receive a complimentary glass of champagne and gourmet desserts.
Advanced Tickets $20 for both evening events. Tickets available at the Arts council office in Wells Fargo Bank, 12th & Pope.
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Gallery Art Walk Hours [26 participating galleries]
Saturday, October 11 – 10 am – 7 pm
Sunday, October 12 – 10 am – 4 pm
Monday, October 13 – 10 am – 2 pm
Capital Arts Commission Accepts Work
I have been in Santa Fe the last 3 days. On Friday Cecil Howard presented 4 pieces of my work in ceramics to the Capital Arts Commission. The 28 member committee chose one of my extruded clay pieces shown here.
The piece will hang in the New Mexico State Capital Building itself or the adjacent Annex building. It becomes a part of the permanent collection of the State of New Mexico. New Mexico is the only state I believe that has a permanent Art Collection. I feel very honored to have this and want to thank Cecil Howard for all his work in presenting me before the Commission. I will post more details as I hear from the curator of the collection.
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From the Air
Photo taken from a helicopter ride to the Grand Canyon. This was taken on the way back, only auto levels were applied to in photoshop which changed the drab browns to blues
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Airedales
Just thought I’d show a picture of our dogs, Boomer, Max and Maggie. All were rescued through the great work of Airedale Rescue here in New Mexico. They are all decked out in their St. Patrick’s day kerchiefs.
The MOMA has a multi-colored vinyl floor…
#9319 - The MOMA has a multi-colored vinyl floor…:
The MOMA has a multi-colored vinyl floor installation as part of a new exhibition, Color Chart.
(Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)
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500 Years of Women in Art
I’ve seen this a while back but lost track of it. It’s a great movie about Womens’ portraiture. Wish I knew the morphing technique.
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Snow
Last Friday evening we got 4 -6 inches of snow. We only get snow here a couple of times each year — just enough to satisfy any longing for the white stuff. We had a house full of guests and a fire in two of our fireplaces - a very cozy evening as we watched the big flakes fall from late afternoon into the evening. Here are some pictures taken the next day.
The Blast
The bits of glued paper, the imitation wood and other elements of the same sort,
which I have employed in some of my designs, are equally valid because of the
simplicity of these compositional facts, and for that reason have been confused with
illusion, of which they are the exact contrary. They too are simple facts, but they
been created by mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of a new
spatial figuration (Braque, “Pensées et réflexions sur la peinture,” Nord-sud).
from: The Art Quarterly (Metropolitan Museum of Art), I, Autumn 1978
sighted on David Baptiste Chirot Blog
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Mimbres Region Arts Council — Artist Events
Rummage/Bake/Craft Sale
Saturday, Feb. 16
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
100 N. Prescott in Santa Clara/Central.
Contact Maria E. Trillo 538-6526 for information.
Golden Artist Colors, Inc.
Acrylic Lecture Demo
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
4:00- 6:00 p.m
Leyba & Ingalls Arts
Instructor: Nancy Reyner
Artists of all levels will come away from this lecture demo with fresh new insights to feed their creative expression. All participants will receive free product samples and a literature packet, including hand-painted color charts.Space is limited, so register today! It’s FREE. 575-388-5725
Book Signing.ACRYLIC REVOLUTION..NANCY REYNER
3-4pm and 6-7pm
February 20 (snow date March 12th)
Leyba & Ingalls Arts
ENCAUSTIC EFFECTS WITH ACRYLIC
10-4pm, 3 days, February 22-24 (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Leyba & Ingalls Arts
Instructor: Nancy Reyner
All acrylic paints and products will be available for free! Additional supply list available upon registration. All levels welcome, however please note that this is a fast-paced professional styled workshop. Some acrylic painting experience is recommended.
COST: $350.
Public Forum: Community Economic Assessment
Silco Theater
Thursday February 21
5:30-8:30 pm
Artist, Tom Holt Landscapes
JW Art Gallery, Hurley.
Fabulous landscapes of the Gila National Forest
Preview images at www.thetown.com/HOLT.html
Poster Contest Call for Artists
GILA, N.M.— Organizers of the fourth annual Gila River Festival are looking for artists to illustrate the 2008 festival’s theme: Celebrating the Gila River as a Source of Inspiration. See attached form.
Call for Galleries
Anyone who would like to participate during the Gila River Festival
Contact: Linda Brewer or John Rohovec at bluedome@zianet.com
Fiber Arts Center - Ongoing Classes
211 D N. Texas Street, Silver City
Operated by SW Women’s Fiber Arts Collective
To register for classes, call The Common Thread at 538-5733
Fabric Book Cover - March 8, Beginning Quilting - Mar 29 and April 4 and 12
Rigid Heddle Weaving - April 19, Inkle weaving - April 20
Basket making - April 26
Ann Simonsen’s Studio Sale
March 7 & 8th (10:00 - 3:00 p.m.)
Over Issac’s Bar - Entrance on Broadway
100s of items, paintings, easels, art books,
supplies, etc.
388-5556
Cliff Dwelling Road Closure
See attached press release.
“The Cowboy Ain’t Dead Yet!”
RJ Vandygriff
March 1
7:30 pm
WNMU Fine Arts Center Theatre
SCGC Chamber of Commerce & Western Bank
THE 2ND ANNUAL WNMU SW JAZZ FESTIVAL!
MARCH 13-15, 2008
O’Brien’s Fissures”
Blue Dome Gallery
307 N.Texas Street
Through May 16
O’Brien’s Fissures” reflects Randy O’Brien’s passion for the Southwestern landscape.
He developed a glaze surface composed mostly of volcanic ash and metallic
oxides, a manmade obsidian. Both the individual pieces and the
installations echo the natural lichen formation.
Another Extreme Alphabet
Extreme Alphabet:
Wow a new idea for work and clothes pins.
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Alphabet Macabre
“The Alphabet, a short film by David Lynch, examines the simple recitation of the alphabet, a common form of rote learning, the speaking of which has a certain expected cadence. But Lynch plays with our expectations, taking an innocent bit of common experience and transforming it into a spooky investigation of…what? His own mind? The images and sounds that horripilate? The ways in which animation and film can distort the world they supposedly represent?
An amazing amount of experimentation is stuffed into this short: spooky animation techniques, disturbing jump cuts, how the tone of a voice can turn the skin to gooseflesh, blood as polka dots. Although the aphabet appears on the screen, in full or nearly so, twice, and the letter A, the sturdy opener to our alphabet has special billing, this is not a videopoem but a textualized film where the letters popping up on the screen propel us through a story we already know as we learn a story only our bones knew beforehand.” - Geof Huth ,dbqp Blogspot
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High Art in South Beach // Current - Flash Player Installation
I didn’t get to Miami and Art Basil. But I thought this guys video was a wonderful snapshot of what the scene is during Art Basil.
High Art in South Beach // Current:
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Geomancy almanac from the 16th century
I love these images from Bibliodyssey blog. The come from an manuscript that was written in the around 1552. They deal with the signs of the zodiac. This looks like some of the neo-platonists’ work but I don’t really know the relationship between astrology and neo-platonism. I do know these images are great.
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String Theory Explained
From Discover Magazine a 2 minute Rubber Ducky introduction to String Theory.
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We need a different copyright for individuals
I used to think I wasn’t affected by copyright issues but as I have posted more of my work on my website, control over the use of my images has surfaced. I have gotten requests to use them and have always granted the request, unless it was obvious the person was going to make money off of selling it. Of course I have no way of knowing who has used my images without consent. I have been following Cory Doctorow
We need a different copyright for individuals
“We need to stop shoe-horning cultural use into the little carve-outs in copyright, such as fair dealing and fair use. Instead we need to establish a new copyright regime that reflects the age-old normative consensus about what’s fair and what isn’t at the small-scale, hand-to-hand end of copying, display, performance and adaptation”
Most of his work is published under “Creative Commons”
It makes me think I should be more explicit about my work but I am still not certain exactly what that would entail.
Artist as Moralist
Could there be two more different people in their belief about art and healing/salvation? Conrad was intimate with the depths of the emptiness that plagued man.
“He was just a word for me … it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence … its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream - alone. Marlow says of Kurtz in Heart of Darkness
Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation. The only legitimate basis of creative work lies in the courageous recognition of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so enigmatic, so burdensome, so fascinating, so dangerous - so full of hope. — Joseph Conrad
Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shadowy as the hope of to-morrow….
In this world — as I have known it — we are made to suffer without the shadow of a reason, of a cause or of guilt….
There is no morality, no knowledge and no hope; there is only the consciousness of ourselves which drives us about a world that… is always but a vain and floating appearance….
A moment, a twinkling of an eye and nothing remains — but a clot of mud, of cold mud, of dead mud cast into black space, rolling around an extinguished sun. Nothing. Neither thought, nor sound, nor soul. Nothing.
Thanks to http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewArt and the The Guardian UK
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Artist as Shaman
Joseph Beuys
A nice clip on Beuys and his first trip to the US. He arrives in an ambulance and lives with a coyote for a few days in a New York Gallery space. This all takes place during the Nixon Years — a time when the US did need a lot of healing. Who knows where we would be without his visit and talk with the Coyote?
via http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewArt 1/28/08 7:08 PM vvoi etc performing
The Autumn of the Multitaskers
I’ve been off for a few weeks battling a case of shingles, that affected my right eye. As I don’t like to be laid up — makes me contemplated what in my life is wrong. This article struck me. Maybe the key is to focus down on a few projects and complete them. I’m a great juggler of tasks. Maybe in the long run too many balls in the air becomes more a problem than a solution.
The Autumn of the Multitaskers:
Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. One man’s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity
BY WALTER KIRN
The Autumn of the Multitaskers
Now Reading
Planned books:
None
Current books:
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The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky by Mark Scroggins
Recent books:
- Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime by Stephen Batchelor
- The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano
- Georges Braque: A Life by Alex Danchev
- de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens
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