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It’s a cliche question, but what’s your art process like? Do you prefer to draw on paper or a tablet, how do you ink/color, etc.
kateordie: I recently updated my process! I lay out a page worth of panels in blue ink in photoshop: Then print it out onto 9×12 smooth bristol. I have a big printer that lets me do such things! I then head to my drawing board and pencil everything out with a mechanical blue pencil. Then…
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towerofsleep: cheyanne turions: On Precarity in the Arts As part of the Media Arts Network of ontario/réseau des arts médiatiques de l’ontario (MANo/rAMo) Evolve or Perish symposium, I was invited to speak about precarious cultural labour from my position as an independent curator and writer. While the mundane struggles of these positions inform my thinking…
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art and resistance
davidiangriess: “art is the the only arena left in america culture in which difference is tolerated…what scares me about contemporary art is the merging of it with the entertainment industry, because then once the entertainment industry can create fake resistance then we do not have real resistance.” -mike kelley, 2005
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underpaidgenius: A Permanent Slump? – Paul Krugman – NYTimes.com Paul Krugman (and Larry Summers) peer behind the backdrop and see the postnormal economy may be with us for decades. excerpt […] what if the world we’ve been living in for the past five years is the new normal? What if depression-like conditions are on track…
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brucesterling: *What if you were living in that nice safe gray dot in the middle, and then one day you woke up inside that red dot, and you couldn’t get out?
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When women do it, it’s marketing. When men do it, it’s growth hacking. The masculine re-branding of marketing work as a technical skill — “hacking”, the implication of a more analytical or mathematical focus — is disingenuous, ahistorical. Marketing has always involved analytical and mathematical skills, and in technology, it has always required technical literacy and competency. Yet the…
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Art is never a luxury Life has an inside as well as an outside. Consumer culture directs all resources and attention to life on the outside. What happens to the inner life? Art is never a luxury because it stimulates and responds to the inner life. We are badly out of balance. I don’t think…
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arvidabystrom: Period Submissions I’m looking for people who make art about or with periods. To be exhibited in Gothenburg, Sweden in March 2014. Deadline for submissions is 11th of December. Send submission to: emma.arvida.elisabeth*a*t*gmail.com Also welcome so submit videos to: Someone Told Me You Don’t Feel Like This on unlimited deadline.
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Inspiration isn’t what gets your book written. Discipline is. Inspiration is fickle: it shows up when you least expect it, all sexy and exhilarating and reminding you why you put your butt in that chair and turned off Tumblr and forced yourself to trudge through the valley of no-good, very-bad first drafts. Enjoy that inspiration…
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new-aesthetic: The New York Review of Bots: @TwoHeadlines: Comedy, Tragedy, Chicago Bears Wes Anderson’s human rights violations continue with increase in public executions Pentagon proposes USD 10.8 billion arms deal with NBC, UAE ‘Elon Musk’ returns, with more blood, revenge and a feisty makeover Those…