Filed under “art”

This image will save us

 I get a chuckle every time I come across this Creative Commons’ed web 2.0 graphic I created over 4 years ago as the result of a conference non-sequitur. The above is from a LinkedIn group with 1,800+ members.

Art, I hardly knew ye

 Viktor Shlovsky on art, via Art Spiegelman’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! ” in The Best American Comics, 2009: The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar,’ to make forms [...]

Criticism for everyone

 From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: At present we’re snowed under with an irrational expansion of blind data-gathering in the sciences because there’s no rational format for an understanding of scientific creativity. At present we are also snowed under with a lot of stylishness in the arts—thin art—because there’s very little assimilation or extension into underlying form. [...]

Moving Day

 Visiting Western Massachussetts this weekend—Angelina sang at Tanglewood—we visited the Norman Rockwell Museum. It was beautiful in the Berkshires and while I can’t speak to the comprehensiveness of the collection, it was just what I wanted. Norman Rockwell is one of my favorite americana motifs to wallow in. At the museum’s center was the Four [...]

The Nonprofit between Scylla and Charydbis

 In my Boston University Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership program, we always get up to the edge of talking about the interplay between resource development and need, but then it always seems to drift away. So this is my contribution: if you swing too far towards either (ignoring the other), you’re toast. And for [...]

Pod of Whales

 I’ve recently been collecting examples of whale art. My interest mostly lies around their monotonous use in hipster art; and they’re kind’ve cute. I put up on Flickr a gallery of whale archetypes. Left-to-right and top-to-bottom, the whales are named: Billy, Gus, Tina, Sal, Sanjay, Perth, Jill, Buddy, and Ann. Some of them may be [...]

lolart

 Thought I should (tardily) follow up considering my Nonprofit Technology Sandwich was featured on LOLnptech.org

Woody Allen Assignment

 Today I was helping a work-study student down the hall from my office on a film studies essay. Her assignment was to analyze what critics had to say on Woody Allen, specifically whether his films were comedies or dramas. She had only read one of three critics (Carney) but it was interesting to map out [...]

Germania St. #2

 The hard drive on my two-month-old MacBook up and kicked the bucket and the whole darn thing is at the shop. So this week’s comic is done with a borrowed Sharpie and some watercolor paints I found on trash-day. 7–10 days they say. 7–10 days…

Solar Powered Art

 While in New York a few weekends ago I visited the Solar Powered Arts Festival at the encouragement of a local techy and all around good guy Jacob. He and the ever smiling Diana met me at Stuyvesant Cove Park on Sunday afternoon, both of them having used pedal power to get up there from [...]

My First T-Shirt

 I was over at my pal Dean’s place in Jamaica Plain today. In addition to lots of semi-expired foodstuffs he snags from behind the Co-Op next door, he also has the screens and materials for t-shirt printing. Previously I had been helping him up in Lowell filming some promos for his Democracy Player channel, “Telemusicvision”:http://telemusicvision.com; [...]

Making Art with Inkscape

 Lately I’ve been spending more time than I should with a great free/open source software illustration program: Inkscape. Before I get to far into an explanation of the fun and wonder I have with Inkscape let me make a little caveat. I’ve used Adobe Illustrator in the past and never liked it much; I admit [...]