- Chronocolor
- I REALLY want to see this. I need to find a link of it streaming somewhere, or get my hands on it some other way. I don't care how, I just want to watch it!
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Again, I really want to see this! Maybe I'll get the guts to drive to/in NJ to see it... maybe...
- http://www.ohmyrockness.com/
- This is great! I like how they don't just have big name shows on the front page and you don't have to dig around for lesser known bands. Now all I need is money to go to some of these
- Feliz Navidad!
- Oh my God. This is too great. The longer you watch it the funnier it gets. I love this. Best link given in any collection!
Monday, December 3, 2012
Kristian's Collection
It was really refreshing to see a collection that had pretty much nothing to do with art.
Lower East Side Printshop and Dieu Donné
The class finally met again for the first time in about a month. Between Hurricane Sandy and the Nor'easter, this whole semester has been a giant mess. Every class is scrambling to get work done, and it really isn't working out and just causing tons of unnecessary stress for both professors and students. So it's really great that this terrible semester is almost over...
So for our first trip in ages, the class stayed in Manhattan.
We visited the Lower East Side Printshop, which is lovated on W 37th St. and 8th Ave.
This printshop is a really great resource for everyone! Whether you're an just out of school trying to find a place to work, or a well established artist wanting to make some prints for the first time, you're welcome here. The shop also has a great residency program, where 10 applicants become key-holders for a year!
Our tour guide was extremely friendly and welcoming to the class. We started the tour in the great public work space, where you can rent time to work. They have a huge amount of resources available. 24/7 access to the darkroom, solvent room, and of course the work studio, with two beautiful etching presses.
They also do contract printing. This is where we met the master printers of the shop. Both of them were willing to talk to the class about their experiences of working in printshops, or putting up dry wall. They told us how they came to have the title "master printer", which seemed to be by accident for both of them.
Our next destination was one block away, on W 36th St and 8th Ave.
This was Dieu Donne, a paper making studio. It was so interesting to see an actual paper making studio! I have never had any interest in taking the school's paper making class due to the fact that it more sculptural based. But, if it was like what was going on at Dieu Donne I would definitely rethink that decision.
Our tour guide was an intern at the studio. He said this was his first tour ever, and it showed. This had to be our fastest visit ever! I'm still not really sure how anything really happens in that shop. Do they have residencies? Do people rent time to work there? I have no idea.
But, they did seem to make some beautiful work there. While showing the class the studio's portfolio, they had a beautiful watermark piece from Chuck Close. I don't really know who any of the other artists he showed were, but trust me, they were nice.
So for our first trip in ages, the class stayed in Manhattan.
We visited the Lower East Side Printshop, which is lovated on W 37th St. and 8th Ave.
This printshop is a really great resource for everyone! Whether you're an just out of school trying to find a place to work, or a well established artist wanting to make some prints for the first time, you're welcome here. The shop also has a great residency program, where 10 applicants become key-holders for a year!
Our tour guide was extremely friendly and welcoming to the class. We started the tour in the great public work space, where you can rent time to work. They have a huge amount of resources available. 24/7 access to the darkroom, solvent room, and of course the work studio, with two beautiful etching presses.
They also do contract printing. This is where we met the master printers of the shop. Both of them were willing to talk to the class about their experiences of working in printshops, or putting up dry wall. They told us how they came to have the title "master printer", which seemed to be by accident for both of them.
We got to see some prints that were made in their shop.
Our next destination was one block away, on W 36th St and 8th Ave.
This was Dieu Donne, a paper making studio. It was so interesting to see an actual paper making studio! I have never had any interest in taking the school's paper making class due to the fact that it more sculptural based. But, if it was like what was going on at Dieu Donne I would definitely rethink that decision.
Our tour guide was an intern at the studio. He said this was his first tour ever, and it showed. This had to be our fastest visit ever! I'm still not really sure how anything really happens in that shop. Do they have residencies? Do people rent time to work there? I have no idea.
But, they did seem to make some beautiful work there. While showing the class the studio's portfolio, they had a beautiful watermark piece from Chuck Close. I don't really know who any of the other artists he showed were, but trust me, they were nice.
Chuck Close it that grey one in the back
They also had some paper they made for sale. It was really nice paper, but for $20 a sheet, I passed.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Zane's Collection
This is another collection that I never received.
The few things I enjoyed:
The few things I enjoyed:
- Clothing Of The Future
- This video is amazing. It's funny to see how close they were with some of the styles. For example the fishnet dress and those heels.
- 36th Street Subway
- This was so funny to watch. I want to go there just to see if I would be one of the one to trip. They should totally make a live stream of it with a trip counter.
Alyssa's Collection
I never received this collection when it was first sent out, so I had no idea it existed until I was creeping on my classmate's blog.
This collection made me laugh, because it is so obviously Alyssa's. Here's a few things that stood out to me:
This collection made me laugh, because it is so obviously Alyssa's. Here's a few things that stood out to me:
- http://ricksginjoint.tumblr.
com/ and http://ofanotherfashion. tumblr.com/ - These blog have some great old pictures. But it does get old really fast. Maybe that only because I see these pictures and many others on my tumblr dashboard all the time.
- http://shopoddities.tumblr.
com/tagged/medical - Can I please just have all of the things this blog posts? Except for the fake eyes, those kind of gross me out...
- http://www.fxwarehouse.info/
- This site is amazing! I've been looking for something like this for a while. I don't know what to order first!
- Makeup tutorial
- There are definitely better makeup tutorials available on youtube. I really don't get the whole interest in changing your lip shape.
- Marlon Brando
- swoooooooooon.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Jacqueline's Collection
- http://santani.deviantart.com/
- This artist makes some really beautiful dolls. I've always wanted to learn how to make dolls like this, but, I'm incompetent when it comes to sewing anything more than a few stitches. So, I really admire who ever has the skill and patience to make these
- Adventures with Ziggy
- Ok, so I completely understand having a fan blog for anything. I also completely understand weird obessions, But, I think this girl takes it to an extreme. She actually carries this doll around places, like work, and takes pictures with it. Also, the picture of the doll in the car... with a seatbelt on... really?
- http://www.harkavagrant.com/
- This is definitely one of my favorite web comics. I think my all time favorite is Poe and Verne.
The personalities for both authors are spot on and the situation is just ridiculous.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Booklyn, Kerry Downey, Heliopolis
Last week, The class took a trip down to Greenpoint, Brooklyn and visited two very different studios. and a gallery put together by my professor.
The first studio we went to was the studio of a really great organization called Booklyn. This group has over 500 members and counting. The organization helps artists all over the world create publications, cataloging them, and finding ways of getting the work out to the public. They have many gallery shows in their space in Greenpoint as well as around the world at book fairs, craft fairs, art shows, and even in libraries and museums.
Our tour guide was really great. I don't remember her name but she was hilarious and so down to earth. She told us the history of Booklyn and how she reluctantly became the person in charge of going to museums and libraries to try and sell different books. I loved her attitude towards us, she spoke to us as equals and was just bullshitting with us at the end of the visit. She also told us to get a day job that won't interfere with out art making (if anything it should help with it!).
A few blocks away was the studio of Kerry Downey. This was a very interesting artist to visit. Unlike many of the artists that we have spoken to, Downey never plans on selling any of her work.
This seemed crazy! One of the many topics of this class has been how to find a way to make a living from your work. Instead, she makes her living by teaching. She said it was probably because she gets too attached to what she makes. It was kind of refreshing to hear. I really relate to her because of that. I have a really hard time detaching from a piece I spent forever working on just for someone to hopefully hang it on their wall to look at occasionally.
It is very easy to understand why she would be so attached to every drawing or print she makes. A lot of what she does deals with very personal issues, such as phantom limb. Her work also deals a lot with the idea of failure and elderly people. She explained that she grew up in Florida and has been surrounded by and working with elderly since high school. Most of her work stems from an obsession with self help magazines trying to sell you mostly junk that you really don't need and a few things that might be helpful to a handful of people. So, there is a strange humor in all of her work that I really enjoyed.
Basically around the corner was a gallery called Heliopolis. The show that was currently there was put together by my professor, Bill. The show consisted of proofs, works that didn't actually work, notes, and other forms of planning. It was a really interesting show. I was very surprised by the fact that if I wasn't told what the show was about, I would have just guessed that everything was a final, well thought out piece.
The first studio we went to was the studio of a really great organization called Booklyn. This group has over 500 members and counting. The organization helps artists all over the world create publications, cataloging them, and finding ways of getting the work out to the public. They have many gallery shows in their space in Greenpoint as well as around the world at book fairs, craft fairs, art shows, and even in libraries and museums.
Our tour guide was really great. I don't remember her name but she was hilarious and so down to earth. She told us the history of Booklyn and how she reluctantly became the person in charge of going to museums and libraries to try and sell different books. I loved her attitude towards us, she spoke to us as equals and was just bullshitting with us at the end of the visit. She also told us to get a day job that won't interfere with out art making (if anything it should help with it!).
So many books!
View from a window in Booklyn's studio
A few blocks away was the studio of Kerry Downey. This was a very interesting artist to visit. Unlike many of the artists that we have spoken to, Downey never plans on selling any of her work.
It is very easy to understand why she would be so attached to every drawing or print she makes. A lot of what she does deals with very personal issues, such as phantom limb. Her work also deals a lot with the idea of failure and elderly people. She explained that she grew up in Florida and has been surrounded by and working with elderly since high school. Most of her work stems from an obsession with self help magazines trying to sell you mostly junk that you really don't need and a few things that might be helpful to a handful of people. So, there is a strange humor in all of her work that I really enjoyed.
Her deck had a beautiful view!
Some of Downey's work.
Basically around the corner was a gallery called Heliopolis. The show that was currently there was put together by my professor, Bill. The show consisted of proofs, works that didn't actually work, notes, and other forms of planning. It was a really interesting show. I was very surprised by the fact that if I wasn't told what the show was about, I would have just guessed that everything was a final, well thought out piece.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Last week the class went to the upper east side and visited two art museums.
The first museum we visited was the Whitney Museum of American Art. There we went to one of their new exhibitions of the artist Wade Guyton. Personally, I really wasn't a fan of this show. After our small class discussion after seeing it, I could totally understand why other classmates enjoyed it. But it didn't do anything for me. While walking through the exhibition, I was really trying to like Guyton's work, but found myself saying "oh, here's some more stripes on a huge canvas... oh and some more circles... ok." Although I didn't enjoy the work there, I did appreciate the thought and process behind it. The only thing that actually sparked my interest was how he managed to put this huge piece of plywood into an inkjet printer to print on it.
I thought the exhibition was laid out well. As my professor had mentioned, you look through it the same way a printer head moves. I thought that was pretty clever. Yet, there was a few things in the exhibition that caused me to as "what? why??" There was a huge pile of found wood just propped against a wall in the first room. Apparently Guyton just flipped the pile... There was another moment that really didn't fit. There was a wall with just two digital photographs of the inside of a cave. There was no description of them or really any reason for them to be there at all.
The second museum we visited was my personal favorite, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We saw a great exhibition called: Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. I'm not a huge fan of Warhol. But this exhibition allowed me to see prints that I've never seen before. The show also consisted of contemporaries to Warhol and other artists that he influenced. There was work by Jeff Koons, Kelley Walker, Cindy Sherman, and Chuck Close to name a few. I was extremely happy to see the Chuck Close painting, "Phil" in person, I think I stood infront of it for like ten minutes, just staring at it. It was a huge, slightly over whelming show, yet it was very well put together. But I expect nothing but the best from the Met!
The exhibition was really fun to go to. There was a pile of candy for the audience to eat (there was actually a darker undertone to it - every piece of candy that was taken was representing the closer to death a person was getting), there was a room of tv screens showing clouds from Super Mario, and a room playing the velvet underground full of balloons we got to hit. The guard looked like he really enjoyed himself in the balloon room. But aside from how fun it was, it was really amazing to see how many people Warhol influenced, during his lifetime, while still making art, and after his death.
After seeing the Warhol show, I went to the European painting wing of the museum. The contrast between the work was amazing. I'm still more envious of the 16th century European painters than I am of anyone in the Warhol show.
The first museum we visited was the Whitney Museum of American Art. There we went to one of their new exhibitions of the artist Wade Guyton. Personally, I really wasn't a fan of this show. After our small class discussion after seeing it, I could totally understand why other classmates enjoyed it. But it didn't do anything for me. While walking through the exhibition, I was really trying to like Guyton's work, but found myself saying "oh, here's some more stripes on a huge canvas... oh and some more circles... ok." Although I didn't enjoy the work there, I did appreciate the thought and process behind it. The only thing that actually sparked my interest was how he managed to put this huge piece of plywood into an inkjet printer to print on it.
I thought the exhibition was laid out well. As my professor had mentioned, you look through it the same way a printer head moves. I thought that was pretty clever. Yet, there was a few things in the exhibition that caused me to as "what? why??" There was a huge pile of found wood just propped against a wall in the first room. Apparently Guyton just flipped the pile... There was another moment that really didn't fit. There was a wall with just two digital photographs of the inside of a cave. There was no description of them or really any reason for them to be there at all.
I managed to get these two pictures before getting yelled at.
The second museum we visited was my personal favorite, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We saw a great exhibition called: Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. I'm not a huge fan of Warhol. But this exhibition allowed me to see prints that I've never seen before. The show also consisted of contemporaries to Warhol and other artists that he influenced. There was work by Jeff Koons, Kelley Walker, Cindy Sherman, and Chuck Close to name a few. I was extremely happy to see the Chuck Close painting, "Phil" in person, I think I stood infront of it for like ten minutes, just staring at it. It was a huge, slightly over whelming show, yet it was very well put together. But I expect nothing but the best from the Met!
The exhibition was really fun to go to. There was a pile of candy for the audience to eat (there was actually a darker undertone to it - every piece of candy that was taken was representing the closer to death a person was getting), there was a room of tv screens showing clouds from Super Mario, and a room playing the velvet underground full of balloons we got to hit. The guard looked like he really enjoyed himself in the balloon room. But aside from how fun it was, it was really amazing to see how many people Warhol influenced, during his lifetime, while still making art, and after his death.
After seeing the Warhol show, I went to the European painting wing of the museum. The contrast between the work was amazing. I'm still more envious of the 16th century European painters than I am of anyone in the Warhol show.
Since I wasn't allowed any picture in the Warhol exhibition, have some 16th century European paintings.
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