Dance

I like this.
Always been a fan of art challenging it's audience.
This is such a fun bit of interaction.
The object directing the motion of those hoping to experience it.

So, yeah...

Huh

Scagliola or Stucco Marmo, Melissa Vogley Woods gives us a look at her unique contemporary process. from Melissa Vogley Woods on Vimeo.




Would you look at that...

Shiny

How about some shiny destruction as art?

Seems like that kind of day...



Artist credit.

Drift

Just gonna go ahead and back into this weekend...



(Photo credit.)

Paperwork

Just look at how satisfying that single sheet of paper is, with the study of positive and negative space.




From what I read, this was an assignment for an Albers led course...

At the Bauhaus.

Done by student Arieh Sharon.

Landscape

Well, that is pretty genius,




More here.

Colors

Something pretty to look at.

Attribution.

Battle Cat

So, this happened.

Restoration

This is pretty interesting, if you have an hour to kill...

Maps

Not Safe

Not safe for work...


Sorry.





Maybe it is a dude nipple there, then it would be OK, right?

Christo

Christo is at it again...


These works have always fascinated me.
The scale, the temporal nature which leaves only documentation, notes and photos.


This time, giant, temporary bridges, floating on some Italian lake.
So people can experience what it is like to walk on the lake.
Or whatever...

Here is more on Christo, if you are curious.

Pretty

OK, it is a bit fancy...

Like, really fancy.


Still, I'd like to turn it over in my hands a few times...
And then send some stuff down range, with it.

Hockney

Well, I have always been a fan of David Hockney.


He has a show soon at the Pace Gallery on work he did five or six years ago in Yosemite...
The Yosemite Suite, as he calls it.


What fascinates me about this is that all of the work was created on an iPad.
Just drawings on an electronic device.

He had to scale gesture on the screen, as this work has been been printed with fairly large dimensions.


I think this advent of technology presents interesting progress and challenges, as a medium.


Anyway, gallery and artist info here...

Joyride

Pretty sure that RC jeep is a Tamiya piece of kit?

I remember that being one of the kits, from my yoot...

Dalek

Digging on this, right now.



Attribution

Tangled Webs

Artist

Another artist, though not depicted as a young man...


This time accompanied by his chauffeur and perhaps funeral director.
The details on that bit have faded, here.


I suppose, having an associate willing to shuttle you home after a bottle of grape, in the park - as well as dealing with your physical remains once you shrug off the old mortal coil is rather versatile...

Celebrity

What is it about celebrity that has gotten so amplified lately?

I have been pondering on this a lot, recently.
The election cycle, well, that has amplified my consideration of how fame has garnered an intrinsic level of associated/perceived power, but I think it goes beyond that.
Perhaps the social currency celebrity generates is now valued more by our culture and thus craved more at a personal level?

There are probably a dozen great books or studies on the subject, I just haven't bothered to look for 'em.

This guy, famous artist guy, I mean that is kind of funny but I am not sure that he is joking.
But by declaring himself famous, somehow, has gained him access to the real world art business, which is something a bit hard even for arguably more talented artists...


Being famous seems more important the younger you look, demographically, which fascinates me.
There are kids of friends who have listed that as there greatest ambition, though with follow up questions they never seem to have an answer for what they want to be famous for...
The abstract ends are valued more than the means, I guess.

And there is this cancer kid, here in this state, which might be what got these gears turning.
Out of consideration or good taste, I resisted jumping in to a post that that subject, yet here I am...
What drives a terminal child to select fame as his "make a wish" dream?
He just wants to be famous, he said that...
He's just a kid, and as a society we've taught him that is the greatest goal or ambition?


Probably not done thinking about this, but I am not sure how deeply I want to think about it...
It seems a toilet swirl of depressing suck, if I dwell on it too long.

Motivation

Interesting thoughts on process.


There may be a motivation to spark up on a new project, here...
I just haven't defined what that project might be.
Yet.