Map ©Lauren van Wyke 2009
A few days ago I received this amazing map from a fellow artist and friend, Lauren van Wyke. I love this idea of us both being suspended in the air at the same time… stuck in the netherland which is air travel.
Thank you Lauren.
Leuchtturm Ink Samples ©Dowdyism on FLICKR
After 5 years of being a dedicated Moleskine user, I’ve finally been tempted by the fruit of another. The Leuchturm reporter style pad is incredibly comfortable, features a “date/datum” field and a table of contents. A perfect fit for a classic OCD type such as myself. The image above is from a FLICKR photostream devoted to notebooks of all shapes, colors, creeds and sizes. Very much worth checking out.
It seems that everyone is making a tribute to Michael Jackson today. I think my love for the King of Pop could best be summarized through this song, “Sex Dwarf” by Soft Cell. It seems… so appropriate to his life. Enjoy.
La Tourette ©JMTP on Flickr
I’m digging JMTP’s photostream on Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmtp/
From Ex - Posed © ASBJØRN HOLLERUD
One of the great things about the post-MFA world is watching how far all of my colleagues have been able to travel in the last year. Printmaker, photographer, and friend David Stordahl has been living and working in Norway since January. Through him I have been introduced to the outstanding work of Asbjørn Hollerud. His portfolio site can be viewed HERE. Read More
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Thanks to a quick trip to the Lake Calhoun beach yesterday, I realized how white I am. No. Really… I am paste colored and amazingly do not tan. It is like the sun resists me… Anyway. It could be way worse… I could be white like these two young gentlemen in the above video. I’m not quite sure what to make of this, but it just seems appropriate for this morning. Thank you Nikki for the link.
Untitled, Minneapolis, 2009 © Chris Smiar
Colleague and photographer Colleen Mullins has turned me on to the work of photographer Chris Smiar. His series Hibernaculum is particularly engaging to me (or anyone that has to live in the public/private nether region of downtown Minneapolis). Hibernaculum, meaning a place chosen by an animal for shelter during winter hibernation is a concept captured elegantly in Smiar’s photographs. I am particularly drawn to the accurate representation of the strange intersection of public and private space that occurs in the MPLS skyway system.
Untitled, St. Paul, 2009 © Chris Smiar
Working in downtown Minneapolis is never particularly joyous. During the winter one rarely encounters another human being outdoors… and during the summer, when the sidewalks are passable, one still must look up to see the office drones passing above you in air-conditioned tubes. What I find most gripping about these photographs are the tiny traces of human presence he captures like smudges on what should be precisely maintained glass…
Anyway. The work is excellent and I highly recommend checking the other projects on his site.
My life is exceptionally simple. I think most people that are saddled with a lack of creativity and enormous student loans have similar arrangements with the world around them? While other people go to movies, go shopping, party, or enjoy being part of the social sphere, I wander.
During my wanderings I find amazing things. Tidbits of life that may or may not prove that other human beings exist, do things, ruin other people’s lives and so and and so forth… It is refreshing.
When I saw this on the ground it was just too good to pass up. I do not know what could possibly indicate that this young man, who cannot control his nearly forked tongue could be responsible for all those things scrawled in Crayola marker around his likeness.
PROTOPURGE
As I was dragging my rather sorry ass to work this morning with a pharmaceutical and red wine hangover, I finally had the chance to whip out a camera and photograph. It has been quite some time since I’ve been able to see something + have a camera around to document it. I’m not sure if any other photographers out there have this question from time to time: Which is better: to experience and not create or to create and therefore lose your first-person experience of a place/object/subject? Read More