A little artistic insight:
Like a doctor, artists are very serious about their focus and the importance of the human body. Unlike a doctor though, we have to see beyond the function and view it not as science but in shape & form, as an animal in nature, for it's translation of beauty and the hunger it create's in one's heart.
-jab
Friday, April 17, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Chuck Connelly
One of my favorite artists. Very interesting story. You must look him up on the web for more information.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ex74Z_BaUE
Monday, April 13, 2009
On Inspiration:
Inspiration
All can & will inspire. The potential is present in everything:
a word, the scent of warm wool, painted lines on a roadway, the tilt of a person’s head, milk in one’s cereal bowl.
You have to create inspiration, you have to search for it, design it; you have to want it.
There must be a need to be dazzled, intrigued, overwhelmed, interested. You have to take yourself on little crusades of curiosity and fulfillment. You have to dig in the dirt to find it, you have to enjoy scratching the surface, you have to sift the sand to find those things that many never see.
Here lies the marvel of life.
The marvel is not in the luck of occurrence or the waiting to be hit over the head by surprise, but that which is found through your own personal search and thirsts for wonder.
And if you set about on this search, you will find that inspiration can be the beginning step of a path one cannot stray from.
And the most important step lies beyond inspiration, and that step is the process of creation. For it is there that lies salvation and one’s definition as an artist and a human being.
-Jarrod Becker
www.jabart.com
All can & will inspire. The potential is present in everything:
a word, the scent of warm wool, painted lines on a roadway, the tilt of a person’s head, milk in one’s cereal bowl.
You have to create inspiration, you have to search for it, design it; you have to want it.
There must be a need to be dazzled, intrigued, overwhelmed, interested. You have to take yourself on little crusades of curiosity and fulfillment. You have to dig in the dirt to find it, you have to enjoy scratching the surface, you have to sift the sand to find those things that many never see.
Here lies the marvel of life.
The marvel is not in the luck of occurrence or the waiting to be hit over the head by surprise, but that which is found through your own personal search and thirsts for wonder.
And if you set about on this search, you will find that inspiration can be the beginning step of a path one cannot stray from.
And the most important step lies beyond inspiration, and that step is the process of creation. For it is there that lies salvation and one’s definition as an artist and a human being.
-Jarrod Becker
www.jabart.com
Friday, April 10, 2009
Marlene Dietrich
Think BLACK and I don’t mean AC/DC, Siouxsie Sioux, or Metallica
Think of a dark smoke-filled cabaret in Berlin or Vienna or sitting in front of the big screen during the 1920’s Hollywood glory days. This is the black that I speak of.
The smoky-rasp of this femme fatale will conjure up images of sitting in the Cabaret Voltaire in the late 20’s listening to a jazz act while Hugo Ball reads out the Dada Manifesto in a back room to the likes of Kandinsky, Klee, and de Chirico.
Her seductive sound would have swooned fearful but curious ears, while her unmatched glamour of the time melted hearts of men and women alike, while they chomped away on buttered popcorn and NECCO wafers.
There was no match worldwide in the first half of the twentieth century for the original blonde bombshell they called, Marlene.
Marlene Dietrich: Cocktail Hour
Believe me when I say, I’m not into show tunes and I’m not into musicals. Matter of fact, I’m totally freaked out by men in tights and cowboy hats singing about Oklahoma, but there is something really interesting in listening to the early songs and sound of black and white film and she is the epitome of that time and music.
For me, her singing strikes a cord for a time I feel certain that I should have been born to.
Dark cafes filled with patrons shouting through smoke who reek of bathtub gin and turpentine with only their vision of change in their pockets.
The world was caught between two world wars and the creative class was the underground. This was the place for the weird, the wild, and the new beginning. A new beginning for a changing world.
Her music is that bridge. The bridge between that noir or black coffeehouse past of Europe and the black and white movies or silverscreen of post-war America Hollywood.
Big movies, big productions, and big stars are where it was going and a former dance girl born Berlin was the connection.
Marlene Dietrich brought these two worlds together.
This isn’t driving music nor background music for a “party like a rock star” setting, but if you’re nostalgic or feel you’re an anachronism, you’ll enjoy this.
Think of a dark smoke-filled cabaret in Berlin or Vienna or sitting in front of the big screen during the 1920’s Hollywood glory days. This is the black that I speak of.
The smoky-rasp of this femme fatale will conjure up images of sitting in the Cabaret Voltaire in the late 20’s listening to a jazz act while Hugo Ball reads out the Dada Manifesto in a back room to the likes of Kandinsky, Klee, and de Chirico.
Her seductive sound would have swooned fearful but curious ears, while her unmatched glamour of the time melted hearts of men and women alike, while they chomped away on buttered popcorn and NECCO wafers.
There was no match worldwide in the first half of the twentieth century for the original blonde bombshell they called, Marlene.
Marlene Dietrich: Cocktail Hour
Believe me when I say, I’m not into show tunes and I’m not into musicals. Matter of fact, I’m totally freaked out by men in tights and cowboy hats singing about Oklahoma, but there is something really interesting in listening to the early songs and sound of black and white film and she is the epitome of that time and music.
For me, her singing strikes a cord for a time I feel certain that I should have been born to.
Dark cafes filled with patrons shouting through smoke who reek of bathtub gin and turpentine with only their vision of change in their pockets.
The world was caught between two world wars and the creative class was the underground. This was the place for the weird, the wild, and the new beginning. A new beginning for a changing world.
Her music is that bridge. The bridge between that noir or black coffeehouse past of Europe and the black and white movies or silverscreen of post-war America Hollywood.
Big movies, big productions, and big stars are where it was going and a former dance girl born Berlin was the connection.
Marlene Dietrich brought these two worlds together.
This isn’t driving music nor background music for a “party like a rock star” setting, but if you’re nostalgic or feel you’re an anachronism, you’ll enjoy this.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
How To Draw A Bunny
Greetings fellow creative folk.
In honor of what Christians consider the most important holiday, Easter, I would like to suggest checking out an artist who many considered during his lifetime the most important artist you've never heard of.
Ray Johnson
Go to your library and check out the DVD, 'How To Draw A Bunny'.
http://www.rayjohnsonestate.com/index.php
In honor of what Christians consider the most important holiday, Easter, I would like to suggest checking out an artist who many considered during his lifetime the most important artist you've never heard of.
Ray Johnson
Go to your library and check out the DVD, 'How To Draw A Bunny'.
http://www.rayjohnsonestate.com/index.php
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
anything and everything under the title "art"
i'll make this quick. this blog has been setup to accomodate anything i see, here, or find that seems totally inspiring and creative. i welcome all who have a need to be inspired, wowed (?), who are curious, and who want to share their own findings.
let's jump right in.
life has become too busy for most.
When you find time or are looking for inspiration, you might check out this artist.
Some of the most wonderful creations of art that I have seen in quite some time.
Still shots don't do these works any favors. I saw him and his work on a KET special.
http://www.ket.org/muse/fire/armstronggallery.htm
You really must see them in motion. All of them have movements that are instigated(?) by a person winding, cranking, or twising of a handle or lever.
Fantastic fantastci stuff. And he has a wonderful personal history.
Steve Armstrong (a KY artist)
http://www.johnpence.com/visuals/sculptors/armstrong/index.htm
http://www.dugnorth.com/blog/2007/09/featured-artist-steve-armstrong.html
http://www.logsdon1909.com/artists/
http://www.heikepickettgallery.com/artists/armstrong_steve/1armstrong_steve.html
let's jump right in.
life has become too busy for most.
When you find time or are looking for inspiration, you might check out this artist.
Some of the most wonderful creations of art that I have seen in quite some time.
Still shots don't do these works any favors. I saw him and his work on a KET special.
http://www.ket.org/muse/fire/armstronggallery.htm
You really must see them in motion. All of them have movements that are instigated(?) by a person winding, cranking, or twising of a handle or lever.
Fantastic fantastci stuff. And he has a wonderful personal history.
Steve Armstrong (a KY artist)
http://www.johnpence.com/visuals/sculptors/armstrong/index.htm
http://www.dugnorth.com/blog/2007/09/featured-artist-steve-armstrong.html
http://www.logsdon1909.com/artists/
http://www.heikepickettgallery.com/artists/armstrong_steve/1armstrong_steve.html
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