Shady Bitch

I love sunglasses and these are awesome!!!!!!

There is so many cool shades through this site, but the most impressive:

JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT

long live SAMO

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Source:

Glasiz

fuck nationalism

ai weiwei

study of perspective – tiananmen, 1995-2010

c-print, 32,5 x 43,5 cm

© ai weiwei

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Source:

Design Boom
Free Ai Weiwei

Garage Sale Madness!!!

My mom and I had a garage sale.  It was a perfect way to make some extra change, clean out the garage and my grandma's old room.  Along the way I found some bonnaroooooooo things.  Here is an extra camelback I'll be taking to 'roo for my cousins girlfriend to wear:

we have so much extra stuff from last year: sharing is not a problem.

30 to 30: No. 12

I volunteered at the Mennello Museum for the Act II, private tour of the exhibit

1934: A New Deal for Artists - with food and drinks.  It was very interesting.

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30 to 30: No. 11

Going to the Mennello Museum's

Volunteer & Docent Luncheon

:D  fuck yeah!

Art rules.

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Criminally Challeneged

Street art in Hong Kong supporting Ai Weiwei

Courtesy Twitter @katiegrube

Foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said "that the public security authorities are investigating Ai Weiwei according to law on suspicion of economic crimes." He also challenged the Western response, insisting, "This has nothing to do with human rights or freedom of expression." This is the first official reaction to give a sense of what is in store.

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Source: 

The Guardian: Ai Weiwei Financial Crimes

Art Info: Ai Weiwei from Prankster to Enemy of the State

Design Boom: Free Ai Weiwei

Huffington Post:  Bianca Jagger on Ai Weiwei

Human Experience #10,910: Some kind of Wunderful

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CALL FOR ACTION - ANSWERED!!!

Today I went with my brother to the West Campus to put up my official flyer, and check out the art installation.  We hurry in through the bottom floor and make our way upstairs.  As I turn the corner there is the phone booth.   And, what do I see???  MY COLLABORATION PROJECT IS A SUCCESS!!!
The call for action has been answered and the responses have been overwhelmingly great.  I cannot put into words how proud I am to be part of this art collective. I had a vision of this art installation bringing about the candidates together.  We all want our ideas to go forward, the solidarity that I saw from my peers just took my breath away for a second.  I was smiling from EAR to EAR.  Art  triumphed as a collective, a collaboration, a human effort, and an emotion.

I went through the design studios speaking to anyone who I encountered about my ideas for new social networking and how to improve what is already in place.  It was wonderful to meet and greet students who had questions for me about the art installation, my campaign, and me.

I embarked on this campaign with a sense of hope to bring new initiatives that I know will do nothing but advance the role of our AIAS chapter in our school and community.

So beautiful:

I saw Professor R. who and talked with me about my campaign, and what brought about this installation.  

He said to me: 

"I didn't know what exactly it was about.  Then I saw your name on it and it made more sense"  

isn't that perfect.

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Art Installation

"Art is anything you can get away with"

~Andy Warhol

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In efforts to go green AIAS is only allowing candidates one 11x17 poster.  I went to building 9 to scope it out, and the vacant space next to the security phone was begging for attention.  I had to abide.

It is only natural that we outgrow even our basic comforts

We give up something good, for something better

Background:

My father had trimmed their front tree.  I saw the stump and knew I wanted to use it.

We've had this old phone in our family, which was now stored in the attic.  My mother let me take it and use it for something better than clutter.  

My name within a heart?  I needed some nostalgia.

I attached a sharpie and tape to encourage collaboration from other candidates.  

Art is a collective.

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Art + Architecture: Wright or Wrong?

Fantastic article dissecting the methodology of Frank Lloyd Wright throughout his works.  I bolded parts of the article I found interesting. 

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Over the seven decades of his long career, Frank Lloyd Wright created some of the most innovative buildings of the 20th century. But advances in building materials and digital design technology — and his worrying, even megalomaniacal vision of architecture as a tool for social transformation — have gradually caused the field of architecture to move beyond his shadow. Wright always insisted architects should not confine themselves to merely designing pretty buildings. He believed architecture was "the mother of all arts" and could transform the world.  Herein lies the paradox of his career: he was a visionary figure whose ideas were often so radical and ambitious that they seemed impractical, even dangerous. Throughout his life writers remained suspicious of his intentions, colleagues regarded him as a crank, and clients went around the twist at his utter disregard for agreed-upon budgets and specifications. Wright always knew better; it was just a matter of time before he could convince you of your error. And yet he left a legacy of buildings second to none in American architectural history.


The Milwaukee Art Museum's exhibition "Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century" marks the centennial of Taliesin, Wright's legendary, scandal-plagued hilltop home and summer studio in the midst of farmland about 40 miles west of Madison. It is a decent media hook for a Wright show, and the display is housed in a pleasant setting: the Quadracci Pavilion, designed by Santiago Calatrava and opened in 2001. There is a definite poetry to seeing a great architecture exhibition in a dazzling piece of architecture.

Such a contemporary setting is something of a risk, as the show is expressly conceived to convince us of Wright's enduring importance as an architect. It does not completely succeed, for reasons that I think have more to do with him than the choice of exhibits, or organizational structure. Wright hated cities, and most of his ideas about urbanism remain as impractical today as they were half a century ago. For example Broadacre City, his grand vision of suburban planning, called for every family to have at least an acre of land.

Nonetheless the show's multiple curators — Frank Lloyd Wright Archives director Bruce Brooks Pfieffer, archives curator and registrar Margo Stipe, Milwaukee Art Museum chief curator Brady Roberts, and Phoenix Art Museum director Jim Ballinger — make the argument that Wright's idea of organic design, in which architecture, simply put, responds to the local terrain rather than dominating it, presages today's enthusiasm for sustainability and green architecture. The range of projects presented in the exhibition, familiar to anyone with a working knowledge of Wright's career, suggests that Wright's vision of an organic architecture was indeed surprisingly adaptable and sustainable.

In fact, the more challenging the terrain, the more creative and inventive Wright became. Think of "Falling Water," built in 1936 over a waterfall and connected with nature in a profound way, or the "Raul Bailleres House," commissioned in 1952 for a rugged clifftop location in Acapulco, Mexico, but never built. The design takes its primary cues from — and incorporates — massive circular boulders in the landscape. A steeped terrace down to the sea is also elegantly and sensitively integrated into its surroundings.

But the question remains: how much of the architect's enthusiasm for natural local materials and sensitivity to site was a product of his old-fashioned, hardy outdoor upbringing in 19th-century rural Wisconsin — Wright was born in 1867 and raised on farmland settled by his Welsh ancestors — and how much of it was a forward-looking and visionary gesture concerned with environmental sustainability? Wright certainly revered nature throughout his life, despite the very modernist grammar of his designs.

It is not easy to approach Wright in a new way, given the volume of literature about him and his career and the abundance of past exhibitions and museum catalogues devoted to his designs. The present show covers a lot of familiar territory, which is probably inevitable, though happily includes 33 design drawings borrowed from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation that have never been publicly exhibited. (The drawings are among 100 works on paper that make up the majority of the show, about two thirds of the exhibits.)

I am not sure I believe Wright was a pioneer of sustainable architecture: he was never averse to using re-enforced concrete, a material that he helped to pioneer. (The Guggenheim museum, completed in 1959, is an example.) But I do believe the curators are correct in their belief that there is something valuable to be learned from Wright's designs, something relevant to our time. And yet I can't put my finger exactly on what that is. Perhaps it is simply attitudinal.

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Source:

ARTinfo

Milwaukee Art Museum

Form and Content: Art, アート, Kunst, искусство, الفن, Arte, τέχνη

I love art.  I have always doodled, drawn, traced, painted, and created in any way possible.  When I needed to escape I was able to construct my means.  I am not breaking any barriers in innovation, but my contribution however small and amateur are better than none.  I keep making and going.  It is the only way I know how to be.  Last week the Art Project, by Google opened up.  It is a virtual way to explore museums from all over the globe.  Some museums have online virtual tours of their galleries, and if lucky of special exhibition, and events.  Google has taken art and put it on steroids.  You can navigate the museums, look at the art, zoom into the works and bring up all this information: height, medium, notes, other work by same artist, etc.  It is amazing!

This is how I get to escape without leaving Florida. My eye candy:

Ploughed Fields - Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh Museum : Amsterdam

art x nerd

Human Experience #10,875 : Birth of PUSH

 

The aftermath:

 

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I started by dripping black paint and using a brush to push the paint about the canvas.

Then I used my hands to smear it around.  The static object:

 

I used the same technique with the blue, using the same paintbrush.  I wanted to transfer some of the black paint onto the blue to show an attachment between the elements.

I mixed the orange and just splattered it on the painting. I used the natural splash from the orange paint to direct the motion. The colors mixed together adding to the effect of movement and depth.

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I wanted the picture to capture the momentum of Push.

I knew the colors I wanted to use and the feel that it needed to have.

Translating it onto canvas was the original challenge, but I got it together

and worked it out.  I want it to say:

Don't Stop. Keep Going. Push Through. Obstacles are welcomed.

Intentional inspirational piece; keep on keeping on:

I need a better picture, once it is more presentable.

I love it.

Human Experience #10.840: Outdoor Arts

The Essentials:

Macbook, skulls, glitter, paper towels, carboard, easel, blank canvas, painbrushes, paint, book: Sex with Kings.

I worked on a cylindrical shift.  While the skulls dried I painted, when the painting needed to dry, I read.

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The Skulls:

I applied more layers of paint, and then the glitter.  I adorned the teeth.  All that it is needed is the gloss / sealer and paint the back before attaching the ring.  After all this I'm going to wear it around and test how it looks - whether the paint holds up, chips, etc.

Concord Grape Skull

Silver Glitter

White Teeth 

Red Apple

Gold Glitter

Gold Tooth

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The Painting:

It is not done yet.  I still have to put a couple more colors in it, like blue.  I love to mix my own colors - experiment with all the shades.  I didn't know what I was going to do.  I picked up the brush and dipped it in the yellow paint.  I thought of the word happiness and what it feelings it gives me.  I equate it to a tranquil moment, looking at the sun and just taking in the warmth, levitating.

Happiness

ReMix: My own shade of grey.

I was impulsive and mixed it straight on the table.

ReMix: My own shade of orange

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The Hands:

This is what they looked like after all was done.

The End:

Here comes the sun moon.

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Moving Gifs: gickr

Architecture + Art: Dalicious

Dali Museum - St. Petersburg, FL

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I've been waiting for this museum's grand opening ;)  I originally planned on attending today but there was a lot of factors that derailed my plan.  We are going this weekend Sunday night to Monday and staying in a hotel - gonna have fun and party. 

There has been much talk about the new museum inside and out.  Does the stair case embody the surreal artistry of Dali? What's with the concrete?  It is weird.  It is not weird enough. Etc...

I am not one to judge, at all - I want to see it up close then make a final assessment.

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Throught photograph; I personally like the static grey concrete building juxtaposed the fluid geodesic glass design. Now how this is executed in real life - it might be a whole different story.

For a Friend...

I did this for my friend 2 weeks ago...He was going through some heart ache, which I related to - we established the "broken heart club" totally cheesy but 100 percent authentic.

I have a saying: throw money at the situation.

It's not the best advice but sometimes it's the only thing that works.

Money might not buy long-term happiness; but it does help with short-term contentment.

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Materials:  Wood, Acrylic Paint, Black Sharpie, Band-Aid, Hemp String

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Drown in Hypersexuality

Noyer

Oil Pastels

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I started this yesterday; it is a work - in - process...there is still more I want to do in the head area; but, I don't know what.  Last night I had to walk away from it.  Lets see what I come up with next....