Art for only a day
I like everything but the eyes...
Getting inked
--The New Yorker
Balancing Rocks
Michael Grab, is a balancer of rocks. In an interview on Compliment Vices, he describes what happens when he builds these sculptures in front of live audiences, which, apparently, he's done a few times — in Costa Rica, in Italy. Once, at the Boulder Creek Path Festival in Boulder, Colo., a guy came up to him and said, "My brother absolutely does not believe these are balanced like this. He thinks there's bars or glue."
NPR - Krulwich Wonders: A Very, Very Delicate Balance
"I see what you mean."
Big Wooden Balls
Practice Makes Perfect
Sky on a String
Little PIctures, Big Lives
The curator says "Snapshots are a form of biography, pieces of visual culture with a unique kind of authenticity."
Each translucent sheet is first printed with either the images of fragments of an animal's skeleton, or, on some pages, human-made discarded objects that are often ingested by the animals in the wild. Using the ancient tradition of folded paper, Hori assembles the pages into a three-dimensional model. Once the paper is folded, the printed components are united as a whole, telling the visual story of the animal's plight to survive in an increasingly polluted and hazardous ecosystem.
Takayuki Hori: Origami Animal Skeletons
Art Sanctuary
by Nikki Giovanni
I would always choose to be the person running
rather than the mob chasing
I would prefer to be the person laughed at
rather than the teenagers laughing
I always admired the men and women who sat down for their rights
And held in disdain the men and women who spat on them
Everyone deserves Sanctuary a place to go where you are safe
Art offers Sanctuary to everyone willing
to open their hearts as well as their eyes
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
That's Pablo Picasso, born on this day in Malaga, Spain (1881).
A fence "blooms" in Denver with the help of rogue crocheters.
Tilt-Shift Van Gogh
The visually stunning field of tilt-shift photography became a fairly big thing in the Web a couple of years ago. It uses a special lens that gives a real-world scene the illusion of being a miniature model ... the effect can be simulated in Photoshop, by adjusting a photograph's contrast, colour saturation and depth of focus. It works quite well with regular photographs ... and it turns out that the works of Vincent van Gogh ... make excellent subjects for this kind of treatment.
Artcyclopedia: Tilt-Shift Van Gogh
Making way for train expansion
You made that from Legos???
trompe l'oeil
At first glance, it looks as if some natural disaster has shaken away the walls of these buildings to reveal architecture hidden for thousands of years.
And at second and third glance, it looks like that too.
But these spectacular images are not the unexpected result of an earthquake.
Paintings created by John Pugh, who specialises in trompe l'oeil - or 'trick of the eye' - art.
Save those Corks
Looking for something to do with all those wine corks you have laying around? How about making the World's Biggest Cork Mosaic! (Also check out pictures of the work in progress from the artist's site).
This sculpture is a machine that advances two full sized automobiles slowly into one another over a period of 6 days, simulating a head on automobile collision. Each car moves about three feet into the other. The movement is so slow as to be invisible.SLOW INEVITABLE DEATH OF AMERICAN MUSCLE
SLOW MOTION CAR CRASH
What, me worry?
American Soil
Cupcake Art
Be sure to click on the Photo Gallery link to see the steps in constructing the installation.
Artist leaves tiny blessings in her wake.
Ceramic doves scattered in D.C. as symbols of hope.
An American Original
New Artist Site
We've finally gotten Cameo's art website built and on line. Check it out at www.cameo-art.com
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
— Michelangelo
Today, September 21st, is the International Day of Peace.
Nine Eleven
It brought us together.
Remember that, among everything else that happened. Its worth remembering, especially this year.
Reposted from whatever
Hint: It isn't a bird
What is a geoduck (pronounced "gooey-duck")?
Missing any socks?
A recent article in a magazine sent by my Vet relates the problem of pets consuming items NOT designed for eating. While cats have this problem a little, it is major for dogs, especially big dogs. Here is a list of the most common objects that are swallowed by pets and that require surgery to remove:
balls (one dog had 5 tennis balls removed!)
bones
chew toys
corn cobs
hair ties or ribbons
panty hose
rocks
socks
sticks
underwear
The Mustang is here
A 32 foot tall statue of a rearing Mustang horse has been installed on the main road outside Denver International Airport. It is twelve years overdue, but appears to be worth the wait.
Top Dogs
The American Kennel Club list of most popular dog breeds for 2007:
1. Labrador Retriever (for the 17th consecutive year)
2. Yorkshire Terrier
3. German Shepherd
4. Golden Retriever
5. Beagle (has been on the top 10 list since 1915)
6. Boxer
7. Dachshund
8. Poodle
9. Shih Tzu
10. Bulldog (bumped the Miniature Schnauzer off this year)
Are we proud of this???
The Denver Art Museum has gained an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for---The World's Largest Paint-by-Number. Grace under pressure Eight Tibetan monks were painstakingly creating a mandala from colored sand in Kansas City's Union Station. They had stopped work for the day and a protective rope was put around the design, which was being created on the floor. Posted by Kerry to Art
ROY G BIV Time The Solar Mount: Mont Saint-Michel as a sundial.
22/7 It's 3/14 - be sure to celebrate at 1:59 for maximum effect!
The art and beauty of high speed photography: Milk Meets Coffee
Arvada Art Guild Show Cameo has a picture in the 2007 Arvada Art Guild art show, now at the Arvada Center. While she didn't get a ribbon, her picture is in a prominent spot and looks great. Click the thumbnail below for a larger shot of the artist and her work.
Carved Crayons Carved Crayons - making art from ordinary things.
Art from Literature Reciently, the City of Broomfield ran One Book One Broomfield, where residents were encouraged to read the same book (The Meadow by James Galvin). As part of the program, artists cou 50 for 40 (or fight?) A friend at work told me about a dollar-a-pumpking patch up North, so yesterday I drove to Eaton, Colorado to pick up some. I needed a bunch for a cub scout pack meeting activity, plus some for us at home.
Banned Book Week These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the
shelves. Cafe Show This evening was the reception and dinner for Cameo's show at the Highland's Garden Cafe in the HIghland neighborhood of North Denver. Cameo has 5 paintings on display, along with art from th Card Catalog Art. Be sure to check the gallery and click into the artists's pages as there are several works of art for each part Lego Lego Night Van Gogh's Starry Night done in Lego.
Moo Denver joins the stampede as the Cow Parade comes to town. The Denver Post has details on the show as well. Among my favorites: Posted by Jason to Art
Rake Art Rake Art: pattern made in the sand and photographed using a kite
Japanese paper folding What a GOOD idea! We may have rain or snow tonight, but Phoenix has gone for 142 days without rain.
Have a seat Design Within Reach's 2006 Champagne Chair Contest Winners. The challenge: make a model of a chair out of parts left over from a champagne bottle (the cork, wire, etc). Some of these are pretty cool Susan Sontag,
author and critic
~ Julia Cameron, author and artist
Mont Saint-Michel is a small rocky tidal island in Normandy, roughly one kilometre from the north coast of France. Ris
Happy PI day!
Gilbert Highet, writer
(1906-1978)
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
(1933-2004)
or your hobby
or your dream,
it is not too late
or too egotistical
or too selfish
or too silly
to work on your creativity.
