-
Little Press (by Ishac Bertran) It’s awesome! I can’t remember who pointed it out to me! Update: It was Notational and Electrimuse! (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
-
And so the question of integrity in aesthetics is coming up again historically. It is a personal question which each artist faces. It is a constant struggle. Hard times are coming, but I believe we who are artists will continue making our work. We will be ignored but we will be here. Ana Mendieta (via…
-
crookedindifference: No posts tomorrow in support of the #SOPA blackout.
-
electrikmuse: Little Letterpress by Ishac Bertran Made with three blocks of wood, little brass rods, copper, and some parts of an old radio cassette player. Quite possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while…and it works! View more images // Watch the process
-
mark-making: The Bio Box is a multi-purpose box-frame built with the philosophy that everything can be art. The Bio Box functions both as a display unit and storage solution. The Bio Box is constructed out of poplar and plexi-glass using a box-cutter and 10” handsaw. (via Thomas Żukowski)
-
Sublimity is no longer in art, but in speculation on art. Jean-François Lyotard “The Sublime and the Avant-Garde,” trans. Lisa Liebmann, Geoffrey Bennington and Marian Hobson, The Inhuman (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991) 106. (via jenlindblad) when one no longer pursues the sublime, one is left to pursue the mundane and the cotidian. Does that pursuit…
-
sleep, sleep tonight, and may your dream be realized.
-
Stowe Boyd: Why (The King Of Love Is Dead) – Nina Simone
Stowe Boyd: Why (The King Of Love Is Dead) – Nina Simone stoweboyd: Once upon this planet Earth,Lived a man of humble birth,Preaching love and freedomFor his fellow man. He was dreaming of the dayPeace would come to Earth to stay,And he spread this message All across the land. “Turn the other cheek,” he’d plead.“Love…
-
-
Conversely, brainstorming sessions are one of the worst possible ways to stimulate creativity. The brainchild of a charismatic advertising executive named Alex Osborn who believed that groups produced better ideas than individuals, workplace brainstorming sessions came into vogue in the 1950s. “The quantitative results of group brainstorming are beyond question,” Mr. Osborn wrote. “One group…