I have been waiting for the perfect reason to finally begin my vandalization of artkamp. I finally found such a reason.
Until today, I have been thoroughly skeptical of things such as Product Red (most notably with relation to Gap Inc.) that target consumer’s sympathy for AIDS and other diseases, and claim to help by donating [...]
Well, after ignoring my totally voyeuristic habit of taking pictures of people from my 3rd floor apartment window, this picture has a pretty interesting story. As the snowfall was starting to end, I saw a guy sheepishly walk out of the adjacent apartment building. I say sheepish because he seemed somewhat embarrassed to be [...]
(Note: Sorry, the pictures are HUGE. I tend to never reduce the size setting on my camera for the pictures I take, since I never know what I might see. Maybe when I’m not so lazy, I will reduce them for web viewing in photoshop; but until then, its probably best to not to [...]
Only Apple Could sell countless preorders on something whose only virtue is thinness. Apple is continuing what they started with the iPhone by giving the public a notebook with some style and interesting features while bizarrely lacking features found in the cheapest of its competitors. Now keep track of all the “advantages” [...]
I am sure many of you who have read this blog with any frequency are familiar with my numerous theme posts (”Flicker Finds”, “Featured Artists” etc.). They do a great deal to keep the blog’s content fresh and posts frequent. Well, today I am tarting a new type of post, “Artsy Advertising”. Once or more [...]
Simply put, Jen Stark is amazing. Her paper sculptures are the definition of meticulous. Tons of heavy card-stock paper, painstakingly cut with an X-acto knife and and elegantly bent or folded to reveal elaborate forms of “Kaleidoscopic” color. She said what got him started on paper was studying abroad in France and having to deal [...]
“Taste” was my final project for Painting 3, a series of portraits starting with these initial 3 paintings. The name is derived from the face that the images are cropped just below the eyes making the lips the central focus. Taste is also the most unavoidably intimate of senses. One can smell and see from [...]