Helga Steppan: Be long a part

Brimstone Gears

Brimstone Gears, a photo by gavin510 on Flickr.

It's called MASNAVI. It was posted by an artist named 'raav'

MASNAVI (in HD)
You can also learn more about the artist raav over here at undream.net 

Arachnaphobia - could apply to this situation

Friday night imagery

from a barnap

walking home from train station

 

 

light without heat

All of these images are from my collections on picasa. Follow the link on the left for more.

Data Modeling

FFFFOUND! | Emilio Gomariz

An Artist named Heather, and she is a sculptor.

Here is some info about heather. I got it from her website. Please check out her site here- or better yet buy her book

From the beginning my twin passions were drawing and horses.  My hero was Leonardo da Vinci. I dreamed of becoming an international equestrian artist living in wooded foothills with clear flowing water at my doorstep and horses grazing all around.

I hated the confines of school and was a disruptive student except during blissful art classes. I took A level art two years early and failed all my O levels except English language but miraculously that got me to Walthamstow College to study visual art. There, drawing was regarded as the first essential. I was enthralled and excelled. I went on to the now famous Goldsmiths College in London where sadly, at the time, figurative work was unfashionable. There was a life room, and models too, but no tutors ventured near. They liked and encouraged (typically) 6ft square green canvases with triangles and circles in bold clashing colours and sculptures using planks and blocks of polystyrene.

At the end of the first year I was asked to leave the course. I was told that I did not have the stuff that painters were made from and, if lucky, I might scrape a place somewhere to do graphics. My confidence was shattered. I was not interested in graphics. I liked the country, painting and constructing things from what lay around.

But that was then, and I went on to achieve my dream by virtue of fate, the generosity of others, luck and determination. I went my own way, not always wisely and not always to accolade from the establishment. I began with painting equestrian commissions and my accuracy easily commanded high prices. Ultimately however I found it restricting, I sorely felt the lack of a degree. I was lost and without a style of my own.

I sought advice from Arthur Giadelli, an artist of international standing with a well-deserved reputation for also being a gifted teacher. He told me to go and look at a hedge and draw not what I saw but draw what made a thorn a thorn. And never stop working with horses but find a way to make them mine. I am forever in his debt.

I knew that to exhibit prematurely would be unwise; I had to wait until I had unequivocably found what I was seeking. So I continued with commissioned work while also experimenting. Then out of the blue it came in on the tide. Driftwood. It was like a thunderbolt and I was finally ready to show my work to the world. It was driftwood horses.

The rest is history and for a fuller account you will have to wait for my autobiography. If you can't wait for that try my first book Heather Jansch's Diary a life in the year of... an artists diary, you can buy it online from this site.

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Facelifts and Feedback

I decided to ditch the eclipse blogger template theme, and embrace the new template design tools. Yes- I am aware of the fact that my pages (contact,media,photo) are missing at this time. This is partially due to my unresolved issues with various addons and widgets as I attempt to embed them. I'm also not entirely pleased with the background image. I would also like to point out that I'm not even at home right now. Be that as it may I'm considering the following backgrounds (from my mobile HD). Let me know which one you like.

Taken on Market St., SF

Taken on Laguna & Market, SF

Taken in the tunnel on Stockton, SF

Taken in my old apt. building

Taken on Market St., SF

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter [Objects] - A physical sculpture that is perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay // by @cmlarsen | CreativeApplications.Net

An art piece by Caleb Larsen, ‘A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter, 2009′ is a physical sculpture that is perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay. Every ten minutes this black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself. If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself.

The ebay auction now stands at $4,250.00 with 4 days and 5 hours left to the end.

Collector understands and agrees to the underlying concept and function of the Artwork and that the sale of the Artwork by Artist is dependent and conditioned upon Purchaser’s agreement and adherence to the below terms. Such terms are fundamental and crucial to the on-going viability and artistic integrity of the Artwork.. Read more on eBay.

See more artworks on caleblarsen.com

SpaceCollective

SpaceCollective: "Amidst the attention given to the sciences as how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered ‘useless,’ will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously.

—John Maeda via The universe will fly like a bird"

WADE

Wade is a creative studio. Working independently and with a range of talented artists, designers, writers and developers, the studio concentrates on communicative image making.

The works currently produced range from commercial to self-initiated and cover mediums of (but not limited to) printed matter, interactive and moving image.

Why the name Wade? Wade (as a verb) is a reminder of how best to travel through the working environment.

To wade is to experience the journey.

Silver Black Cycle from Rhett Dashwood on Vimeo.
Initially created for Asahi Silver + Black exhibition.
http://www.asahibeer.com.au

Swarms

Swarms, a set by Simon Geilfus on Flickr.

Littles experiments on group behaviors.
Check out the work of Craig Reynolds for more information on swarms, flocks, boids and all other steering behavior.

I'm just going to post these two videos, which I like, and are completely unrelated to everything else going on.

Because later on- I'm gonna hook up with my people at Recursion Video Labs and I'll be dancing.  And I'm going to want to be outside during the eclipse which will "officially" begin on Dec. 21 at 12:29 a.m. EST (9:29 p.m. PST on Dec. 20) as the moon begins to enter Earth's outer, or penumbral, shadow.  And I'm going to post the video later. For now check out this slideshow.

friday night nonchalance

The other day I was telling Isaac about how and why I decided to title my blog '510 Collection'. And while we were standing in line at McDonald's, I began to tell him. (oh, and you're probably wondering 'what were you doing at McDonald's'? and 'isn't Isaac vegan'? well, I was going to prove to Isaac that they would accept and make change for a $100 bill. And he ordered a medium Orange Juice btw) And now, while waiting for the system to finish the transcode I started an hour ago, I am going to share the motivation, inspiration and evolution behind this blog that carries this name.