last night i finally got around to watching alamar. it’s about this time of year that i’m either traveling or preparing for a trip, and this just confirmed the fact that i will never, ever curb my itch to travel! a father and his young son, who lives with his mother in italy, embark...
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we’re so bombarded by logos and advertising in our daily lives that it’s easy to dismiss or take certain images for granted. but a closer look some of the logos we have seen over and over again- those of UPS, IBM, ABC, or ENRON- reveals the masterful work of paul rand, a graphic designer...
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wow, there were three art fairs in san francisco this past weekend! that’s a whole lotta ART! the people’s gallery was in room 52 at ArtPad SF at the was-cool-in-the-90s-and-is-apparently-cool-again phoenix hotel in the tenderloin. it was the seemingly younger and more alternative fair in comparison to the massive fort mason convention and heavily...
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may is short story month! i love short stories because i often don’t have time (or the attention span!) to read longer and i’m always impressed by authors that are able to develop intriguing plots and characters in such a, well…short story. i’m currently reading a collection of short stories by dostoevsky (my first...
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rembrandt’s beggars circa 1630-40 make me want to draw again. squiggle sketch lines! all from the met collections.
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just thought i’d take a minute to congratulate my partner, nico, on his graduation from the california college of the arts last week! it’s been quite busy the past few months for both of us, but i am so proud of all the work he has done over the past few years. his studies...
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Welcome to another edition of Time Travel Tuesday with Sara of Brown Paper Bag! Her past posts on Joseph Cornell and Hilma af Klint have been a huge hit, so enjoy this week’s fantastical etchings by Slovakian artist, Albín Brunovský. Then head over to BPB for my piece on Romare Beardan’s jazz-inspired collages! Immediately...
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tyson emailed me a few weeks ago with some images of his new work, graphic canvases with a scientific feeling, almost like little diagrams of cells or some kind of encoded map. colored pods and chiclets of bright colors are aligned to create landscapes that could almost be from the background of some early...
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the people’s gallery graciously invited me to share their hotel room at artpad sf, one of the three big art fairs converging on san francisco this weekend! this will definitely be the youngest & most alternative (no offense to artmrkt & the san francisco fine art fair!), hosted by the phoenix hotel, the infamously...
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jamie & erin at the adventure store invited me to the opening of press: works on paper, their friends’ paper shop over on 22nd and dolores on friday. we got there a bit late (1st stop was the oakland museum’s hay fever!), but the crowd was still packed into the space even at 9:30!...
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