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Frank Stella Explaining Himself

How wonderfully articulated.

Every Breath You Take

Keetra Dean Dixon

Mark Tobey

He's famous enough to not include a link, I feel.

Maegan Hill-Carroll

From the series From Commonplace to Outer Space.

Edward Burtynsky

See the ted talk here.

Terry Evans

More.

Elizabeth Flemming

more.

Micheal Wolf

Images of his up at the Aperature foundation now. See more.

Clyfford Still

Museum in Denver, Colorado. I wish I could go!

Steiglitz's Equivalents

I was thinking so hard today to find a piece to compare with the radiance of Vik Muniz's hair gel photographs, and then all of a sudden it hit me: Steiglitz's equivalents series. Steiglitz photographed these clouds because he was sick of people saying that it was his subjects that held the power that radiated through his images, which made him furious with the implication that he is merely a documenter of what is in front of him. [Quite possibly the worst insult one could give to a photographer.] These images hold up so strongly, and look quite similar to the work I am doing in palladium currently. How relevent these images remain even after all this time.

Can someone please tell me what the point of this is

You can buy this useless thing here.

Lip Frosting

So we had to make a visual response to something, anything that we got out of our masculinity class. While staring at my Lip Smacker collection, I came upon an idea that was too grotesque to resist. Here is the result.

Lip Frosting from Heather Goad on Vimeo.

Johnathan Monagham

French Penguin from Jonathan Monaghan on Vimeo.

French Penguin. I had the pleasure of seeing the creator speak at the experimental new media series here at MICA. He won a big prize for this one, I believe. I don't know if I like it or not but it definitely is doing something strange to the viewer. The one thing I like about this piece if that it genuinely does not remind me of anything.

Dean Kessmann

On his "Transubstantiation" series:

But why do we need, or at least strongly desire to have the spiritual aspects of our lives undeniably confirmed? Relying on our faith alone is rarely enough. We want proof, or to be even more specific, visual proof. The photographic and digital processes used to capture these images--like science, art, and religion--do not always provide reliable information. Its vision, like ours, is limited. Seeing is not always believing, just as believing should not always require seeing.

This work will not definitively answer any questions of faith. Not knowing their source, one might assume that these images are a series of celestial (heavenly) bodies, extreme magnification of cells, and raw, bloody flesh. Obviously, by making these images of holy wafers saturated in wine, I have not turned them into the body and blood of Christ, nor am I making any such claim. However, a dramatic transformation has taken place. These substances have become something other than what they once were. These are objects for contemplation. They will not provide any undeniable proof, but if given time, they just might help us to answer that which they initially had refused to reveal.

Dean Kessmann





I really love the look of his installation...it is sort of similar to how I want my thesis work to look, a scattering of various sizes of circular prints. [I am getting really sick of edges, why do all photographers work with squares and rectangles when images are naturally projected as circles anyway? It seems silly to me.]

Margriet Smulders

From her "Get Drunk" series. here.

Roberto Matta

"Endless Nudes" 1942

"Beauty and the Brain: A Neural Approach to Aesthetics"

John's Hopkins and the Walters are doing a collaboration which explores our neural responses to certain aesthetic forms. The only confirmed works for the show are some Jean Arp sculptures. Read more here.



Jean Arp - Human Concretion (1933)

[I don't know if this is going to be one of the pieces or not.]

Girl, where'd you get your lipgloss from, because I must admit, that bubble gum is poppin

So I think I have to do enlargements of every flavor of lip frosting. How amazing and grotesque is the concept of lip frosting. I am currently wearing the strawberry kind, and am very inspired. Thank you Bonnie Bell. It's strange how this feeling of my lip skin turning into plastic is an acute and powerful reminder of my childhood.

Matthew Brandt

I discovered this person a few years ago, but since forgotten his name and recently rediscovered it! These are all c-prints of lakes which have been soaked in the lake that is depicted in the photograph.

Adam Thompson

Ahhh I have always been attracted to tall, narrow images so this is just like overload to me. See his website.



Untitled (Phylliidae)
2009
Aluminum tube, inkjet print
8.41 m tall x 0.22 m Diameter

Bas Jan Ader

Broken Fall [Geometric]

In this video Ader is simultaneously breaking a natural and an artificial barrier. The tense process of falling over sideways [which I feel, is even stranger than falling forwards or backwards] makes the viewer really uneasy. The sheer pointlessness of this action and the potential pain caused by it is what gives it it's power. The awkward displacement of the figure in space relocates the line of vision. I'd like to believe that he is falling through the form next to him, not on top of it. The willpower to fall over sideways shows a strange form of multidimensional trust, as well as an acknowledgment for the form's insignificance to the situation as a whole. This piece breaks down multiple systems into very simple elements that build one brief, decisive action.

See the beautifully designed Bas Jan Ader website chronicling his sadly short career here.

Allison Schulnik

This new Grizzly Bear video is pretty sludgy. By Allison Schulnik. Lovely visuals and song. I think the thing I love about Grizzly Bear videos is that I never picture the song looking anything like them, but afterwards the visuals always still make sense.

However, I am still bitter that when I went to see them this summer at the 9:30 club there were these obnoxious high kids making ALL KINDS OF NOISE during this song and I wanted to explode. Thankfully there are things like music videos which recreate optimal song listening experience.

Lucas Blalock

I don't like all of these images. But the one below is rather stimulating.

Art Axis Alley Walk Show

I have been meaning to post these images for a while, it's a little bit late. I always forget to upload things from my cell phone camera...those things are tricky. Here is the blog with more images and information. Here is the basic project overview quoted from the website:

“Axis Alley seeks through creative engagement to utilize the backyards of vacant properties and vacant lots as a canvas for creative works that transform, activate and revitalize the overlooked, under-attended areas of Baltimore’s back alleys. In neighborhoods where the vacancy rate of properties runs high, the alley seems to become the indicator of urban difficulties: trash, rats, homeless people, prostitution and drugs. These somewhat forbidding alleys (dark and unlit at night), while speaking of endemic problems in the city, possess a certain toxic beauty and provide a fascinating possibility of urban intervention and creative gesture.”



This brick piece was my favorite, it had such a beautiful rhythm to it, although the material is so stiff.











This last one is very Baltimore appropriate!

Martian Dust Devils

Via the slog.



Typically lasting only a few minutes, dust devils become visible as they pick up loose red-colored dust leaving the darker and heavier sand beneath intact. Ironically, dust devils have been credited with unexpectedly cleaning the solar panels of the Mars rovers.

I'm going to a TED conference!

Look at all the cool speakers!. If you don't know about ted, you are silly, and should go here immediately.

Joan Fontcuberta

More here. I believe that these are all either enlargements or contact prints of blood...I have no idea what the scale is, which is quite frustrating. Anyone have any idea?