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Re-post from TuScene – Open Questions on Artistic Practice: New Releases
Re-posting a few questions I posed on Tu Scene earlier today because I was kind of ready to ask them in terms of my own personal artistic practice lately (see the TuScene comment further down), although I felt given the conversation with my friends about local Tucson art, it was a good idea to start [...]
27-6
27-6 Reception: Saturday, February 27, 6-9pm Open Gallery: Sunday, February 28, 12-5pm Candelabra Gallery, 412 E. 7th St., Tucson, Arizona You’ve seen 27 online, now it’s time to see the show! 27 is how different artists approach the same theme. 27 is to be excited and inspired by photography. http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxed27/ ***Come to the Saturday reception [...]
Houses I’ve Lived In
All the houses I lived in through childhood via Google Street View & Google Maps. 1980-1984 1985 1986 1987 1988-1992 1989-1990 1992-1993 1993 1993-1997 1997-1998 Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share via MySpace Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend Print for later
You’ll ruin your eyes
Since beginning The Outside World links lists on Tu Scene, I’ve peeked into whole new art worlds: the state, national, global art arenas. Frankly, I find it incredibly daunting and rather confusing. One reads so much about so many things, it morphs into a viral canon about what’s hot and what’s not at the moment. [...]
Colorspace
Colored pencil on wood May 2009 part of the Staring at Screens series in researching this project the word “colorspace” popped into my head. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this term before in my cluster of thoughts. since I work for a digital printing company full time as a graphic designer, “colorspace” [...]
Artiquette
Well, my prediction about the Tucson city budget meeting earlier this week was fulfilled: the impending fallout is now a bitter controversy. As Tu Scene is not a place for critique (yet), I shall blow hot pixels here, opinionated Art Diva that I am. Who knew everyone and their dog who opposed the hotel and [...]
Me!Me!
Just for fun, a Flickr meme via la Patri. The concept: a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search. b. Using only the first page, pick an image. c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker. The Questions: 1. What is your first [...]
Photography & Reality
There are things that photograph well but aren’t that impressive in real life. – Pre-framed/matted Art prints sold at big box stores. I can imagine that some of these actually look like craigslist submissions. – Creatively displayed but poorly executed art installations. It bothers me that the mere presentation of something can make up for [...]
Absence makes the heart grow…
I’ve been too busy to post on, much less check, the wardrobe_remix group on Flickr for the last 6+ weeks. I’ve been a much happier person since I quit worrying about how many views my photos got, getting comments, acquiring new things to show off, being heavily influenced other people’s clothes. My absence has also [...]
What a tangled web I weave
As a graphic designer, I find it easy to nail down a message and visual style for most businesses. The hard part is getting clients to accept my ideas. I usually have to tone it down considerably to accommodate the tastes of less-creative businesspeople. I realize they must know their business model and market in [...]
Just A User
There are two kinds of users out there: internet hobbyists/geeks and information seekers. The hobbyists are the surfers, the RSS subscribers, the blog readers, the avid mp3 downloaders, the podcasters, the bloggers, the podcast listeners. They are pioneers, fascinated by trying the latest technologies. Their computers, gadgetry, operating system, software, and computer knowledge is often [...]
Does this make my butt look fat?
You are your own worst client. After weeks of sketching, planning, and brooding, I’ve finally started to hatch my new portfolio website. One hangups of web design is that you never really know how your ideas will look till you get them on screen. When you start working on the computer, there’s really nowhere else [...]
Blogs vs. Mags
“While the web can be a phenomenally rich visual environment, I do not get the same typographical joy from the web as that on paper when all the layout elements are in sync. On the web, type often changes and layouts are reconfigured depending on the browser. Reading and seeing a blog story (or even [...]
Google vs. MSN
Sweet: Google As I mentioned in Signs of Design Life, ridiculous-sounding words are entering our daily vocabulary thanks to the internet. Unlike the web-speak of a few years ago, “blogging” and “googling” are more than just buzzwords. With internet habits (and vices) so ensconced in the lives of practically everyone under 40, they are new [...]
Signs of Design Life
As the sole graphic designer for a small corporation, the art department incarnate, I have to put up with a lot: 4000 sheets of 100# Utopia gloss cover too wet to print on, 10 type A marketing reps, 2 underachieving, apathetic bosses, 1 constantly malfunctioning color laser copier-printer, 1 web programmer with no artistic sense [...]