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!),...
Jul 29th
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...
Jul 28th
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...
Jul 27th
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...
Jul 22nd
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...
Jul 13th
WatchWatch
this is the most pleasant thing I have interacted with in quite some time. (a beautiful short film by Jean-Sébastien Monzani)
Jul 9th
Jul 7th
WatchWatch
Just 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...
Jul 6th
Back to Work
                 “Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.”-Tom Robbins
Jul 6th
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...
Jul 2nd
June 2010
7 posts
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” —Henry Ford
Jun 30th
Jun 24th
20x20 PechaKucha Night Boston
Sometimes Japanese emoticons say it best, so let me start this off with:    („#゚Д゚):∴;’・,;`:ゴルァ!! 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. ...
Jun 24th
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...
Jun 21st
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...
Jun 8th
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...
Jun 4th
Jun 4th
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...
May 17th
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...
May 5th
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...
Apr 29th
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. ...
Apr 22nd
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...
Apr 22nd
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Apr 20th
“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.]
Apr 20th
Apr 16th
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...
Apr 16th
Apr 15th
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...
Apr 14th
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...
Apr 13th
December 2009
1 post
Dec 4th
October 2009
3 posts
Oct 27th
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“It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all...”
– Alexander Rodchenko
Oct 15th
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...
Sep 9th
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
Aug 24th
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“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re...”
– Woody Allen
Aug 12th
Aug 12th
May 2009
1 post
May 24th
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...
Mar 31st
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February 2009
2 posts
Feb 12th
"there's actually cause to be glad the economy is... →
Feb 8th
January 2009
2 posts
“Le talent c’est l’envie de faire quelque chose....”
–  Jacques Brel
Jan 11th
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...
Jan 9th
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. ...
Nov 30th
October 2008
2 posts
“There are two very different parts to the brain. There is the logical side and...”
– Mark Ryden
Oct 24th
Oct 24th