Tag: Art
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Why you should hire me. NOW!
I have a BFA. Everyone is saying that an MFA is the new MBA. They are partially correct. I didn’t start out as an art student, mathematics came first. Mathematics have me a way to look at the world in certain terms. It’s what I love about it. Theoretically is you knew all of the…
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My new things the week of 22/02/2010
Ok, If people didn’t know I have taken a small hiatus from the art world in order to pursue my culinary passion. Though it isn’t directly connected to the fine arts realm, I believe that there is still a strong connection between the two fields. Currently I am trying to apply lessons learned from fine…
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Thank You…..
Thank you everyone that came to the reception last Thursday. We appreciated everyone taking time out of their busy week to come check out our installation. It seemed that the show was well received by everyone, and everyone enjoyed the experience. I personally got a kick from everyone asking what was in the reflecting pools.…
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Another Twitter Mashup… But this time with Processing and Helvetica
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3956607&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Twitter/Helvetica/Processing Mashup a.k.a Twartistatment from christian mclean on Vimeo. For my upcoming collaborative show at Miami University, I wanted to do something other than just have a comment book. Because of the nature of what we are doing with technology in the form of installation and involving the user in the environment, and because I…
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Hot off the critique floor..
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3867282&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Here I have a video courtesy of Mr. Geoff Riggle. We set this installation up for a graduate critique last night. This is the first time that we have been able to get a half-way decent installation of this piece. We have been working with the arduino hardware, and ceramic materials, mainly ceramic fire…
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New Print from my drawing program
I have been dealing with a visualization of sound for a while. This one here is an image of what an hour at Kofenya, my local coffee shop, looks like. I adapted the pillbug sketch to “record” the sounds of life around me. What is happening here is that about 50 “chains” (stings of drawn…
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Why do we need to know how to draw anyways???
After a conversation, about the benefits of drawing, with a previous professor at the local coffee shop. I started to think about the current pedagogy of teaching the practice of creating fine art. If drawing is the basis of art, as I am told, then why don’t you need to be able to draw to…
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The Economic Value of Artists
After reading a guest post on chrisbrogan.com by Amrita Chandra titled “What Artists Can Teach Everyone About Social Media”. I started thinking about how/why artists are important. I came to the conclusion that good artists will always be willing to try the “new” things, be it technology or a breaking topic that needs to be discussed…
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Vitamain D will rot your brain
Ok, the title is a little harsh but that’s pretty much what I thought about this article when I read it. It starts out with broad assumptions/generalizations, and especially in this postmodern time that we are in creating those type of generalizations are more often than not WRONG. What this article did do was open…
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