Appropriation Art
This is classic appropriation art—pirated images, pirated music, slapped together, and politically-motivated. Furthermore, it wasn’t actually assembled by me, and I don’t plan to pay the intern who did the video. In the spirit of the age, he works for food. One more workshop left this year, and it starts next Sunday! Join me or let me …
Ruining our schools, failing our children
In the Studio, by Marie Bashkirtseff , 1881 Thomas Sudhof, who shares this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology, told The Lancet in August 2010 that he owes his powers of analysis and concentration to studying a musical instrument. “Who was your most influential teacher, and why?” he was asked. “My bassoon teacher, Herbert Tauscher, who taught …
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Such fine paintings
Mist, by Daud Akhriev I needed to see some inspiring landscape today, since I’m busy hemming dresses and baking cookies for my kid’s wedding. Providentially, I received a link to this slideshow of Frenchboro Island (ME) paintings by Daud Akhriev. Clarity, by Daud Akhriev The Maine coast was not (believe it or not) designed primarily for …
Self-Driving Cars and other good design
a guest post by Sandy Quang 1968 Jean-Pierre-Ponthieu concept-car of the future. Some ideas just never get the respect they deserve. Inspired by a short conversation about self-driving cars this weekend, I decided they would be a wonderful thing to investigate. Imagine what a car that didn’t have to dedicate a quarter of its internal …
Falling apart
American Landscape with Indian Camp, by Ralph Blakelock, showing the damage that can result from tinkering with technique. Yesterday I mentioned the deterioration in Albert Pinkham Ryder’s paintings. He was not, by any means, the only painter whose work has suffered over time. Prior to the 19th century, painters had a limited range of materials …