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Here’s a basic rule: if you’re reading or watching a Shakespeare play, and you’re not imagining the actors standing in front of a mosh pit of jeering Londoners waiting to throw vegetables at the stage, you’re doing it wrong. Shakespeare might have written the best works in the English language, or given us profound insight…
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anatomicalart: Let me link Yall’ to this holy grail.I present to you Character Design Referenceon [Pintrest] || [Tumblr] || [Twitter] || [Facebook] || [YouTube] I couldn’t even include all of the reference boards this blog contains on this photoset. That’s right! There’s EVEN MORE! There are pages and pages of them! It is an inspiration treasure…
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“So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality”
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leseanthomas: Here’s some of the most amazing and invaluable advice you’ll most-likely ever get from one of my good colleagues and legends in comics/gaming, creator JOE MADUREIRA. It’s what i’ve been preaching to you aspiring artists since i arrived on DA, but i think his POV says it perfectly: *WARNING: SOME MATURE LANGUAGE* “DO YOU…
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1000reasonsnottostartmakingart: hyperallergic: I read the art news today. Two visual artists won the mega establishment award of entrenched bureaucracy. I sent the Foundation a chastising memo back in 2011, when a university professor ( a teacher!) won the literature award while he was doing all that excellent teaching at a 100 grand a year. One…
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How a Blogger Made Expanding Social Security a Respectable Idea
How a Blogger Made Expanding Social Security a Respectable Idea azspot: For years, bloggers and activists like Black in the online progressive movement have been fascinated with something called the Overton Window, a theory of how ideas enter the political mainstream and eventually become policy. The theory was coined by the libertarian thinker Joseph Overton,…
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shrinkrants: A clear, concise reading of an important bit of late Foucault, explaining why his work is important for critiques of 21st century capitalism: As Foucault explained in The Birth of Biopolitics (2008), the rise of neoliberalism—his use of the noun—marked a radical transformation: whereas before, the state, among its various bureaucratic operations, “monitored” the…
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weirdsanta: cheeseburgerdanvers: sigridellis: tereshkova2001: The U.S. Air Force Band stages a flash mob concert in the Milestones of Flight gallery at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. you guys, they’re playing music for the rocketships and the planes and I’m not crying. And, they are playing Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring for the rocketships.…
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thequietestnoiseonearth: Theory of Ugliness/Aesthetic Progress in Culture (Rough)
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christopherschreck: “Mass Effect: A Conversation Between Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter” in which Cornell (New Museum) and Halter (Light Industry) delve deeply into art’s longstanding, complex, and mutually dependent relationship to popular culture.