a lazy artist, a sci-fi geek (science not fantasy, so spaceships not elves), a Pacers/ Colts/Lions fan, a writer, a former journalist, an art collector, an investor, and all-around former bad ass who's grown soft and content.
I had seen the image a few times, but had never seen this timelapse video of its creation – very cool. I love the “Did I do that?” pose.
Here is more personal artwork done by San Francisco artist Alex Pardee »
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Cai Guo-Qiang’s 2006 Guggenheim Museum installation of 99 lifelike replicas of wolves running Head On into a glass wall is a visual allegory for the human condition. Cai’s pack of wolves, relentlessly charging forward towards a sudden end, represents the will to heroically press on. It is at the same time both tragic and beautiful.
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Stephen Ong, a graphic designer fresh out of Norwich University College of the Arts, describes his animated short as: “An insight into the human machine and it’s consumption addiction.” I just think it is fun to watch.
‘If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright
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Ella is a budding artist, which makes sense since her mother and I are both into art. Also, Erin and my mother are both great at freehand drawing.
Here are two drawings she did recently of me. The top one she described as “A picture of dad being crazy”. The other one she said was, “Dad [...]
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During a conference call today, I decided rather than listen to the call like a good worker bee, I would instead play with Photoshop and tweak some photos of Ella. Ta-dah!
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Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Ella. One day she went out and picked a pretty flower. She did not know that a monster was hiding behind the tree, watching her.
Ella went home and her mommy helped her put the pretty flower in a vase.
But that night the monster reached in [...]
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I just love Salvador Dali, so thought I would post a random sample of my fave artist’s work once in a while.
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Known as the ‘invisible man’, Chinese artist Liu Bolin camouflages himself against different locations, for his series Hiding in the City. His art serves as a protest to the actions of the Chinese government, who shut his studio down in 2005. The Chinese government had stipulated that it didn’t want artists gathering and working together. [...]
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