Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
Firecracker Art!
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
I came across the Times of India Diwali greeting this year, over at Soumyadip’s blog .
I always loved the illustrations on these boxes, they are fairly similar to hindi movie posters, which I’ll add examples of at some point to the site. I’m sure some of these artists do both. But in a sexually repressed society, the population notwithstanding, there’s just something very sexual about all these lovely gals with their firecrackers, ahem.
Here’s the text on the image:
There is art.
There is Noise.
But only we have perfected the art of noise.
Some of the most original works of art can be found on cracker boxes. There is as much bang outside the box as there is within. From pictures of gods and celebrities to politicians and animals, they all find their pride of place on a cracker box. Whether it is Diwali, Dussehra, or winning a One-Day International, we celebrate all with the most beautiful sounds.
The Times of India
Celebration Times. Forever.
But being familiar with all these images of lovely gals, what really caught my eye in this collage was the Roman Legionnaire!
I wonder where he arrives from, probably ‘sourced’ from an Amar Chitra Katha comic by the firecracker guy.
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Now this is a Raft!
Friday, November 16th, 2007
More photos of this Raft by Tod Seelie are here, I’m guessing this is the raft he and his friends are building/built?
This is one of the rafts built for Miss Rockaway Armada .
Art Down the Mississippi, is an article in the NY Times about this event.
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Very Thought Provoking…
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Discovered Chris Jordan’s photography portfolio today. I’m impressed, it’s been a while since photography got me quite so provoked. His portraits of American Mass Consumption are staggering.
Just taking a look at that image above makes me really wonder in amazement at what Air Traffic Controllers must go thru on a daily basis. Some scary scary stuff in his photographs. Take a look you won’t be disappointed.
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Free Figure Drawing Instruction Books
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
There’s a great post over at ProcessJunkie , with a very good selection of figure drawing instruction books .
Great thing about it is that he links to free pdfs/ebooks of all the titles discussed.
Definitely worth a look , and download the ones you think you may read. I downloaded them all just to have as a reference, I have a few of them from my college days, but it’s lovely to have them available as pdfs as well.
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The only piece of art on the Moon
Monday, August 13th, 2007
I was not aware of this until it showed up on Digg this morning. In 1971, Fallen Astronaut was placed on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 15, along with a plaque bearing the names of eight American astronauts and six Soviet cosmonauts who died during spaceflights or training exercises.
But that’s not the whole story, this was a particularly interesting spaceflight, with more than one scandal, this being considered one as NASA had not approved of it, there’s another scandal regarding “First Day Covers” from the same flight. Transcript of NASA News Release, (September 15, 1972), describing the origin of Fallen Astronaut and the subsequent controversy.
And finally there is a profit motive. “In May 1972, Scott learned that Van Hoeydonck planned to make more replicas and sell them. Feeling that this would be a violation of the spirit of their agreement, Scott tried to persuade Van Hoeydonck to refrain, but was unsuccessful; 950 signed replicas went on sale for $750 apiece at the Waddell Gallery of New York.
According to an interview with the artist in Belgian newspaper De Morgen, this isn’t quite true. The statue was supposed to be a representation of mankind. Afterwards it became apparent the astronauts had turned the statue into a monument for fallen astronauts and cosmonauts. NASA had not told the gallery owner or the artist that the statue was going to be a grave monument. Van Hoeydonck’s gallery owner had planned a multiple of 1000 copies of the statue (he had spent a considerable amount of money getting the project realized), but after the public outcry only 20 copies were made, most of which went to museums.” Via Wikipedia.
But there is Art on the Moon!
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