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White House Tells Banksy to Stop Hoarding Money

WASHINGTON — An impatient White House prodded Banksy and other artists Tuesday to quit hoarding billions of dollars flowing into their studios from Washington and start making more public art. Art auctions soared nearly 900% on bargain-hunting and hopes of a hefty new art piece by the Damien Hirst.

The art auctions’ amazing climb, with its second-largest point gain ever, was a welcome burst of good news for a nation suffering big creative losses and seemingly tumbling into a painful visual grey.

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It’s cool that Adam Parker Smith was able to show on my campus, because after taking a look into his life, he has done a lot in his career. His “Lazer Wolf” show was really a good punctuation marking our split with graphic design. It was fun and totally different from what we were used to in Biggin. He has garnered alot of attention recently with his thriller inspired video that use his trademark muppet zombies. Now his recent work “Sunset Now”, has some elements that link it back to previous work (like the fiberfill), but it goes into a more austere aesthetic. “Sunset Now projects a sunset on a fiberglass circle, and a dimmer switch allows the viewer to controll the speed of the sun setting and rising. This work seems a lot less tongue-in-cheek than most of his work, but then again, there are fiberfill clouds on the floor.

Adam Parker Smith’s website.

Lookbook.

These people are amazing to me.  Thought I’d share.

To those on LookBook:  trust me, you’ve never worn an original outfit or taken an original picture in your life.  Congratulations.  You’re just like everyone else.

Because, in an of itself, this in an incredibly fun and creative way to get internet famous (especially for a class)…ask people to make you famous!  Brilliant, I say, so let’s help Andrew out by blogging about him.  He’s the first one of his classmates I’ve heard of, so that’s a good sign, right? Whatever he actually does in the end will already be in the public eye, at least to those of us who are curious (as I am) and now, hopefully the few, the proud, of the artkamp crowd.  Andrew, if you are reading this, good luck!  Also, feel free to post away…

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…Oh and another thing Palin, “Plugging in the federal budget a share of the federal budget for the infrastructure in a state” is also called an EARMARK.  Say it with me…EARMARK. You know, those things John McCain keeps harping about wanting to eliminate but has a running mate who was for one of the largest in history? What I find interesting is that even after this highly publicized exclusive interview, she and the campaign continues to use the line despite it being false. I guess it’s because they know more people will hear here and believe it, that will hear the many media outlets who have shown it to not be true. Click to read the rest…

What I also found amazing is that for days after being chosen she wasn’t open to having any interviews or questions from the press. Why? Because she had to be briefed not only on McCain’s record (which is to be expected), but on issues like IRAQ, ECONOMIC POLICY, THE RECESSION, THE SURGE, ENERGY, HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, and THE GEORGIA/RUSSIA CONFLICT. You know, that stuff that someone a heartbeat away from the presidency should have some competency in. The vice president should be able to potentially be the president in his/her own right, not have to cram for the job like a freshman for Biology class.

It is understandable to have to be briefed on some areas your aren’t as knowledgeable about, but there should be a strength somewhere! And so far, not even McCain can muster up anything more than saying she is a “reformer” without any specifics beyond some anecdote about selling a governors jet on eBay for a profit (which turned out to also not be true, not only did it not sell when posted on eBay, it was sold below value. It bothers me how complicit the McCain campaign is with this sort of fibbery, as if the head speechwriter is a pathological liar). Besides, what does selling a jet matter when it’s replaced with your own personal extravagances. It’s not as if she shunned her position of privilege to live a Spartan setting, equipping the Governors mansion with a tanning booth- in Alaska- doesn’t sound Spartan to me. She was Mayor of a town smaller than the neighborhood Obama worked in as a community organizer (heck, smaller than some people’s high-schools), and is Governor of a State with a  considerably smaller population than most mid-sized cities (and then only for 2 years). But of it all, what most boils the blood of those that despise her the greatest is that she in a small way insights the fear that she may soften the McCain ticket with just enough novelty that they may snatch it in November. This voter in particular hopes that just for once voters would see past packaging and scrutinize policy; but I am sure that is definitely asking too much.

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Wendy just added the project that the three of us worked on to her website.  This piece combines images of Erica and myself dressed in antebellum costume and photoshopped into iconic Carolee Schneeman feminist performance photographs.   There were four completed photographs, you can view the other 2 on Wendy’s website here.