-Ed Ruscha
Making progress. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!
Today I tried something new.
My latest work in progress. He won’t look quite as dead when I’m done.
Hilarious Portlandia Episode Shows the Dangers of Conceptual Art
Still from Portlandia
For those uninitiated into its history, conceptual art can often seem like a…
Pretty accurate, right?
Not sure if I made progress or a big mess tonight. Either way I enjoyed doing it.
Did you know that Harry Whittier Frees was pioneering humorous cat memes back in the early 1900’s?
That’s right! Before the internet was saturated with cat photos, this true avant-garde photographer was producing hundreds of hilarious (maybe creepy?) cat portraits.
The Pioneer of Cat Memes - Old Timey Cat Pictures!
via Reddit
These are pretty hilarious and also a little disturbing. I enjoyed them though.
Finally ready to start painting the background!
Before and After:
Started some new stuff by painting over some old stuff. It’s just a rough underpainting but I plan to keep the teapot really textured and put a nice pattern in the background. More to come.
something i learned today:
the ratio between the size of one digit of one of your fingers and the next digit of the same finger is roughly Φ, the golden ratio. Their lengths line up in an approximate way with sequential fibonacci numbers, because as the fibonacci sequence progresses the ratio between sequential numbers approaches Φ. i illustrated this in that image using an arbitrary unit of pixels and the grid in photoshop.
but the real cool part is that because of this, when you curl and uncurl your fingers, the path described by a fingertip is pretty close to a perfect golden spiral! what sweetly built machines we pilot over the earth
This is pretty cool.
(Source: sh0eb0x)
In Bizarre Turn of Events, Beast Jesus Maker Demands Royalties
In what can only be described as the most unbelievable turn of events around the Beast Jesus debacle, Techdirt says the woman at the center of the global sensation is claiming copyright and wants a cut of the tourist money bonanza that has hit the small Spanish church.
This just keeps getting better.
Did you know that Ayn Rand had a theory of art? No? Neither did I! But I discovered it recently, thanks to a tip from painter Abigail Markov. It’s encapsulated in the hefty 539-page treatise What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand, written and compiled by Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi. And while I didn’t buy the book — no, I couldn’t quite bring myself to do that — I did have a chance to read excerpted bits from the book as well as chapter summaries online. I’d like to share with you, dear reader, some of the key takeaways.
I really really want this.
