July 2010
10 posts
How We See The World
More specifically, how we see the world and translate it into art.
I was walking by one of those somewhat tacky rainbow “wind spinners” in my neighborhood last night and thought about how someone many moons ago conceptualized that idea(original wind spinners, not this computer generated rainbow unicorn one), probably involved lots of Maths (let me be British for a minute!),...
ICA Stream of Consciousness..
Junction, Atlanta-2003-Roe Ethridge
Went to the ICA last Thursday night(free!) after work as I try to do every so often. Since it’s only a 5 minute diversion off my normal work—>home trajectory, I try and stop in-or at least sit on the bleachers out back to unwind from time to time.
What’s Going On There?
New mixed media installation on the ground floor by Francesca...
Early Inspiration
Quick post. When I was a wee-bug I didn’t have much interest in museums, but I loved books, libraries and was a serious gold star member of Scholastic Book Club.
Man, I used to order so many books. Tactic? Doe eyes, often dad pant-leg tugging, sometimes binding contracts in crayon that vowed I would never smoke cigarettes(true story) and I was able to order what I wanted. I found the...
Has Creativity Been Stunted as a Result of Modern...
As of late, I have been feeling a little sapped of creativity. A bit weary, lacking passion, and caught up in the motions.
My interest/future in the arts is more from the business side of things, and helping artists do what they do best— but I do like to dabble in graffiti and most recently painting from time to time, a healthy hobby I’d say.
A few weeks ago, I finished a...
This Just In: Clever Advertising Still Exists.
In recent years, I feel like clever advertising has really been lacking in The States. I single us out based on my impression that all these American Pie VII flicks, Rob Schneider, toilet humor, Smirnoff icings have seemed to dumb us down a bit as a culture. Toilet humor/gimmicks/cheap gags have replaced wit in many cases. Or at least it seems we as consumers are being perceived as less...
Watchthis is the most pleasant thing I have interacted with in quite some time.
(a beautiful short film by Jean-Sébastien Monzani)
WatchJust when I was bumming over Boston’s lack of street art, a friend(thanks Earl!) sent me along the newest work by Blu, entitled Big Bang Big Boom.
After watching the earth be created and destroyed over the course of 10 minutes, I think I’ve gotten my urban art fix(albeit non-Boston graffiti) for a minute.
I’m sure you are familiar with Blu’s previous...
Back to Work
“Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.”-Tom Robbins
It's Impossible that's sure. So let's start...
“To me, it’s really so simple, that life should be lived on the edge. You have to exercise rebellion. To refuse to tape yourself to the rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge. Then you will live your life on the tightrope.”
OnDemand usually has the most awful Free Movies...
June 2010
7 posts
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” —Henry Ford
20x20 PechaKucha Night Boston
Sometimes Japanese emoticons say it best, so let me start this off with:
(„#ﾟДﾟ):∴;’･,;`:ｺﾞﾙｧ!! Found out about the most recent PechaKucha event in Boston this morning..and it was held last night. But that’s okay, since the events seem pretty frequent..last one being..March.. well, shit. Maybe the nights are just sporadic as there were two events held in February. ...
Artist Focus:Alphonse Mucha(1860-1939)
I have always found myself drawn to Mucha’s images, but never really knew too much about him or his prolific body of work. After a bit of research, I was able to connect the pieces and learned just how much of his art I have admired throughout the years, without even knowing he was the man behind it all. ALPHONSE MUCHA’S LIFE. CONDENSED (danke wikipedia):
Czech artist...
Upcoming Events for June
May was a bit sparse as far as I could see for art happenings, but June is packed! Thought I would share some of the more notable events to come across my screen.
Solo Exhibition-Mis Amores: Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda
(La Amistad (The Friendship), 2009-Catalina Viejo Lopex de Roda) When: June 01-June 29th Where: Prudential Unlimited Realty 673 Centre Street Jamaica Plain, MA How: Official...
The Subconscious Effect of Daylight
Because it is a Friday, and I’m aching to leave my office, I find it appropriate to post some of Daniel Rybakken’s work. Although his “Daylight Entrance” installation is subtle, I think it makes a bold statement.
His LED pieces were set up in the stairwell and entrance of a Stockholm office building lacking natural light and gives the illusion of sun streaming...
May 2010
3 posts
Ted Talk- Elizabeth Gilbert on Nurturing...
“I happened to remember that over 20 yrs ago, when I first started telling people as a teenager that I wanted to be a writer, I was met with this same kind of fear-based reaction and people would say ‘aren’t you afraid you’re never going to have any success? aren’t you afraid the humiliation of rejection will kill you? aren’t you afraid that you are...
Where you Should be This Weekend--Fort Point Open...
As the following jpg suggests..
10th Annual Fort Point Arts Community ART WALK Spring Open Studios Weekend May 7, 8 and 9 Friday 4-7pm Saturday and Sunday 12-5pm
The Fort Point Open Studios are this weekend! Definitely an event I look forward to all winter.
“Twice each year the artists of Fort Point invite the public to visit our studios. Open Studios is an opportunity visit...
April 2010
11 posts
My Literature: A Peek Under the Hood
Only within the past two years have I come to realize what a bizarre and unfortunate relationship I had developed with the written word.
Skipping the See Spot Run years, things really started to derail in high school when I spent a majority of my time fretting over the memorization of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” or recalling what color Catherine’s dress was in...
Ann Hirsch at Somerville Open Studios 2010
MAY 1st + 2nd, Sat - Sun., 12-6
“The Ecstasy of Pigs” mixed media automaton, 2007
(it moves!)
I met Ann Hirsch in 2008 at the Somerville Open Studios when the original Flux was a series of thoughts firing around in the synapses of my brain. Her work instantly caught my eye because it really is..-searches adjective bank- amazing.
...
Maybe Live in Paris
Maybe live in Paris with him. Maybe spend your days in another bright loft with your cats and your fruit, your quiet piles of books, your gazes out the window at people punctuating sidewalks below. Maybe give up your mildly wild life. Maybe learn French for real this time and teach French people yoga. Glean an appropriate playlist, give up trying to articulate your half-formed...
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. The important thing...”
– -Albert Einstein
[Written in a letter to Carl Seelig, one of his biographers.]
Making Biscuits vs Wannadies
About a year ago I made the most amazing youtube mash-up discovery
Step 1: Queue up the cat video on mute.
Step 2: Queue up Wannadies-“You and Me Song” full sound.
Step 3: Click play on both videos at the same time.
Step 4: Direct your attention to the cat video. Feel free to full-screen.
Am I right?? Can I consider this a foray in video-editing to justify its...
A Carnival of Brutalized Delights
In perusing my usual photo-dump sites I came across Epoch Organic, a series by Chad Wys on Behance.
I thought this body of work was interesting not because of applied technical skill by any means, but as someone who is constantly scrolling through web imagery, it takes a certain something to make me pause/ears perk. Wys’ pieces caused me to take notice first in an alarming way, like a...
The new (aspiring) marchand-mercier on the block
Why, hello—Flux is back!
Cue fanfare.
End fanfare.
I have decided to ditch the weekly art event updates(which for those of you unfamiliar, was the original site’s primary focus) and keep things easy, breezy, and bloggy.
When I originally launched Flux, my intention was never to become a virtual yellow pages, and believe I can do more “good” in a less-structured streamofconsciousness...
December 2009
1 post
October 2009
3 posts
“It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all...”
– Alexander Rodchenko
September 2009
1 post
"Henry" Melville
Watched Adventureland last night and thought it was pretty good! You should check it out if you haven’t…
James Brennan: [after being told that Herman Melville was such an overlooked nobody when he was alive that when he died, his obituary reported his name as Henry Melville] No, that’s bullshit, seriously. Herman Melville wrote an 800 page novel that was a parable for the...
August 2009
3 posts
“I know a lot of people who are in our position, who used to work for The Man or...”
– -Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners
Read more of this interview here
“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re...”
– Woody Allen
May 2009
1 post
March 2009
3 posts
What Lies Beneath
“Jacopo Tintoretto’s painting Nativity, in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, has long puzzled scholars because of its odd composition. As the museum reports, people wondered: “Why is only one of the major figures looking directly at the baby Jesus, who should be the center of attention in a nativity? Why does the woman at right have her arms flung out so dramatically, more a...
February 2009
2 posts
"there's actually cause to be glad the economy is... →
January 2009
2 posts
“Le talent c’est l’envie de faire quelque chose....”
–
Jacques Brel
Alternative Canvases
Happy New Year!///
And may all your quaintness be forgot!
..
I never knew the words to that song..
After posting my last entry about paper craft, I felt compelled and inspired to discuss my interest in alternative canvases(canvasii?).
The choices are limitless.
My interest began in observing my surroundings and appreciating street art that knows no boundaries. Stemming from a...
November 2008
1 post
It's Not Just Paper Cranes Anymore..
Traditionally when I think of “toys”, the word evokes images of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figures, My Little Pony, and that wire contraption in your pediatricians office with sliding wooden pieces covered in disease and plague.. which you happily played with anyway. In recent years, a market for big-kid “toys” has emerged in the form of vinyl figures most notably pioneered by Kidrobot. ...
October 2008
2 posts
“There are two very different parts to the brain. There is the logical side and...”
– Mark Ryden
