Things we cant AFFORD to do

New Media/'Natural' Media

http://www.markprier.com/artwork/huntingblind/huntingblind01.html

Interesting Video

S-U-R-V-I-V-A-L juxtaposes video footage of 'wilderness' (with increasingly visible traces of the human presence) against explanatory survival diagrams and illustrations. Survival technique is pitted against a wilderness excluding and including the human.

By Mark Prier

Hair Salon

How many people would guess that this is a Hair Salon? I must say that who every designed the place must be artistic. A zebra fetish, must be an artist, I mean who else would be so madd!

Interesting photos

I was messing around with the camera while I was being driven and these are the results. I love them!

Something to think about

Sometimes we take our work so serious that we forget to have fun doing it.  We look at it as work to be handed in and the deadline is approaching. My daughter reminded me of how much fun it is to paint and how in doing so everything just flows, see the hand movement and how natural it looks? She is even at one point painting without looking, lol. Shes good, a natural.

A few questions have come about from this.  Do you really love art? Is it a way of "escape" from doing academics? If you do love art, how much? Do you enjoy making art? What I have noticed is that it really shows when someone enjoyed creating a piece of artwork. I guess I can only speak for myself. I have found that art is becoming a little too commercialized and some of us are only thinking about how much the piece will sell for rather than how much we enjoyed creating the piece. Something to think about huh? Where do you stand? Is it a drag to create work, thinking of deadlines, grades, money, recognition even? Or are you fighting with yourself to take a break from working and  getting something to eat or even getting sleep?

Pixelated Digitally Manipulated Prints

"REability", two pixaleted digitally manipulated prints, Konrad Wyrebek

Konrad Wyrebek, "DiGL" new media digital photoprint 2010

digitally manipulated photo print 

 "Way of Bothered", media digital print on light box, digital based artwork,

pixaleted print, Konrad Wyrebek

This artwork is done by Konrad Wyrebek of London, United Kingdom, what is interesting is how pixelated images are usually not wanted or undesired.  He has taken that and manipulated it to form interesting work.