BEAR BABY!!!!! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANSYotaro is the name of this creepy chub chub baby.
full article here
Dec 18, 2009
Dec 15, 2009
Holiday Cards
This years Christmas/Holiday card. Have to give some recognition to Liz Bayan for her "Will You Be My Whalentine?" card she did for Valentines Day.These will be cut in linoleum block and printed.
Dec 9, 2009
Dec 2, 2009
Nov 30, 2009
Project...................
Nov 23, 2009
Portland Art Museum: China Now Spray Class Cont.
Awesome turn out with some great results. Definitely hope I can do another class at the PAM
Nov 22, 2009
"America" by Jean Baudrillard (A Response)
America
“It is the only object (the human body) on which everyone is made to concentrate, not as a
source of pleasure, but as an object of frantic concern, in the obsessive fear of failure or substandard
performance, a sign and an anticipation of death, that death to which no one can any longer give
meaning, but which everyone know has at all times to be prevented.” Quoted from the book America
by Jean Baudrillard. I have always had similar thoughts in line with this thought from Baudrillard. That
people are so afraid of death, something that is natural and will happen, that it is always seen as a bad
thing. I can't speak for all cultures, but I know that in the States death is considered to be bad.
Yes, the loss of a loved one is sad, and thats not to say I wont grieve over my parents, but there
is part of me that understands that death is supposed to happen. If everyone was immortal and was
squirting out babies like “Octo-Mom” or that Mormon family with 16+ kids the world would be
grossly over populated. We wouldn't have even made it this far in history if people were some how
immortal. Though not even that, people living for 200 years would offset some pretty big balances.
Look at us now with people living till they are 100+ years old. With the advancements in medicine, we
have been able to extend life and save life where once we were unable to, but at what cost? The world
is slowly growing in population everyday. The CIA Factbook estimated in 2009 that the world human
population is increased by 220,980 people every day. What we really need to worry about now is
radical PETA members who start killing humans to protect the animals. Which is funny to say cause
technically speaking we are animals.
Nov 6, 2009
ATandT Sues Verizon
This is what AT&T is angry about:
AT&T says in its complaint: "In October, 2009, Verizon embarked on an advertising campaign designed to mislead consumers about the scope of AT&T's wireless coverage."
AT&T says in its complaint: "In October, 2009, Verizon embarked on an advertising campaign designed to mislead consumers about the scope of AT&T's wireless coverage."
To support that conclusion, AT&T commissioned a study of people in a shopping mall who had seen the ad. AT&T says "almost one in four" thought the ads meant that AT&T provided no wireless coverage in many areas of the country. The lawsuit does not state how many people were interviewed, nor does it explain how the questions were posed.
I got this info from this article HERE and agree with its author. The ad says 3g coverage, not all at&t coverage. Just because some viewers don't pay enough attention it should not be verizons fault.
Oct 18, 2009
DROIDDOES
I can't wait for the flame war. At&t has responded somewhat on their website (pictures above), but I want to see more of a response then just a couple ads on their own site.
Verizon Droid Does Commercial : Link
Verizon Droid Does website : link
ShirtFlag & Jiji
I went and visited the CHINA NOW exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. Lots of great work, but some of the pieces that caught my eye were from a group of artists that are part of a group called Shirtflag (website). They are a fashion brand that makes mostly t-shirts, jeans and various accessories. Their graphics are reworked Chinese clip art that have a modern spin. Probably the reason I was drawn to Shirtflag was because of my interest in Chinese Propaganda and Clip art and how similar my work from Project Propaganda was to theres.
Also! one of their artists JiJi (website , blog) has a group of figures called HiPanda. They had three 3 foot statues of these funny pandas at the PAM. They had some for sale, smaller of course at the PAM shop. I had to buy one, which only set me back $5.
But besides all that, if you have not gone down to the Portland Art Museum to see CHINA NOW you should do it NOW. China is at a exciting time in not only politics, but also art. GO SE THE SHOW! AHH CAPS.
Oct 17, 2009
Fairey
Shepard Fairey from Arkitip on Vimeo.
" I found the Obey Giant campaign repetitive and nauseating. I thought it wasn't really what you would call 'art,' because it didn't change much and it was so overbearing on its surrounding. For some reason, that fucking face always seems to jump out at you even from the smallest little sticker. But if you listen to house music for a straight 10 hours on drugs, the smallest little change becomes very significant. And after a while, you don't ever want that music to change. Somehow, I got sucked into the wrestler's fat little face and now I don't want it to do anything else.
If Shepard Fairy comes to your town, every single graffiti writer gets uptight. We don't like Shepard because he makes us feel scared and lazy. I am absolutely positive he has made more reaches than any graffiti writer in history ever has done or ever will. And that means he's won. Anyway, I once got to go gambling with his wife and she's very lucky."
- BANKSY
Oct 13, 2009
Urban Jewelry
Liesbet Bussche, a Belgian artist. Amazing and cool idea, love the ear rings because of their play with perception of size and the site specific work.
Oct 6, 2009
Oct 4, 2009
Seeing is Forgetting
Very interesting read about the intersecting worlds of science and art. Robert Irwin is an installation artist dealing directly with light and space. This reading was about his continued exploration of his own perception, but also the perception of others. Specifically the perception of someone who thinks in a different manner then him, such as a Wortz (a scientist).
I was rather interested in the use of the anechoic chamber as a means of shifting primary and secondary senses around. Taking away visual and sound stimulus heightens the other senses. I have read about this in several magazines like Wired and such. Some suggest doing regular exercises where you eliminate visual stimulus to enhance or “work out” other senses. Suggestions such as taking a shower with your eyes closed. I've done this before, haven't slipped yet, but there is a definite change of how you bathe your self. You can feel the individual streams of water, where they hit, how hard they hit. I haven't done this in a while, but I would assume with more practice you could count the streams from feeling alone. Much like that beloved game of trying to guess how many fingers are touching your back.
One thing that comes to mind now is the use of headphones in public places. It doesn't cause the same effect as no sound, because you generally listen to music, but you perceive the world differently when listening to them. Your brain starts to do what it does best which is to match that which it hears with that which it sees. You see people walking in step with the music, the wind might blow at a climax during the song, the world appears to be in beat with you and your Ipod. The brain makes really interesting connections and I know this pretty well, I generally end up jumping to different topics in conversations. My friends would be talking and someone might mention the fact that “its getting hot..” and I would follow up with “...in here, so take off all your clothes.” Sadly that is the only example I could think of right now. Though I assure you I do this all the time in my head, link common phrases used in day to day conversations with their appropriate songs. I may not always share this, because as proven above I don't just remember songs I enjoy. In conclusion very interesting stuff about perception and sadly I didn't even get to the part about Science/Logic and Art/Reason being parallel to one another, but I did side with this idea about how the artist is the measuring tool for art while the ruler is the measuring tool for science.
Always With Honor
I really like their stuff, the simple clean graphic style of everything.
2nd image is another personal favorite from their website, check them out.
Oct 3, 2009
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