“Originally, I wanted to see what the outside world saw when they looked at me,” said Ms. Davis, 33.
Jen Davis’ self-portrait series explores her body and her relationship with it as it chronicles her place in the world. It’s inspiring to watch someone reveal herself so intimately, especially in view of our “The more truth the better” VCFA GD philosophy.
The 50 chairs, found abandoned on the streets of New York, were repaired and given a new life with a coat of taxi cab yellow paint. Like the city’s residents, the chairs are an eclectic mix, migrating throughout the fair during its five-day run. The bottom of each chair is stamped and documented with the date and location it was recovered.
With the series “Matchbook Landscapes,” I have combined my love of art, travel, and secondhand shopping through people’s collections of matchbooks. For each matchbook, I find the location of the business in Google Maps. On the inside cover of the matchbook, I make a pencil sketch of whatever is there now.
Ephemera? Art? Discordance between past and present? Sold.
Aren’t the most obvious things the ones that we never invent ourselves?
Welcome,Pinstagram. “A free service that lets you enjoy Instagram on the web. Pinstagram works seamlessly with your Instagram account.” And boom, the internet explodes.
Build and expand groups of beautiful color sequences and matches. Mix and match your own and other players’ cards into strategic groups to be the first to play your entire hand.
This reminds me of Gin Rummy but AWESOME. Color for kids — sign me up. Find Spectrix here.
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I’m so into the idea of crowd-sourcing an installation and calling it art. It all circles around back to the idea that your stuff=yourself that I’m so interested in.
“It’s a way to involve the audience and show them how art is generated,” said Sabine Breitwieser, chief curator of media and performance art at MoMA. It’s also a comment on public and private space and of course the adage that one person’s trash is another’s treasure.
Maurice Sendak died yesterday. It wouldn’t be true to the man to be sentimental, so let’s just say that the great lights of children’s literature have been dimmed.
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
(Which we are, if you consider a mid-April conversation to be continuing now. ANYhoo…)
A portion of Paul Elliman's Found Font, at the Museum of Modern Art's "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language"
Check out Letter Man: Paul Elliman’s Found Font Comes to MoMA. There is a lot here that reminds me of 3D Typography. Very cool.
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