Overcoming Creative Block
ISO50 recently approached some leading figures of the design world to learn how they deal with creative block . The results include advice and strategies from the likes of Nicolas Felton, Audrey Kawasaki, Khoi Vinh, Mark Weaver, and Erik Spiekermann. Some highlights: “I go on a long run, bike ride, walk with the dog; Anything but work on the project.
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Overcoming Creative Block
Some excellent news: Trade Loeffler has been working on a new Zip and L’il Bit story that he’s begun to serialize: The Captain’s Quest . Trade’s Zip and L’il Bit stories are wonderful all-ages comics. Read the previous episodes: The Upside-Down Me and Sky Kayak
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Zip and L’il Bit: The Captain’s Quest
Selling Art in the Distant Past Selling Art in the Recent Past Selling Art Today Count your lucky stars to be a working artist today. You might complain about having to keep up with everything, but what’s the alternative?
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Selling Art: An Oversimplified History
Jeanne Guerin-Daley started an artist newsletter , but there are still many people in her contact list who have not subscribed. She’s knows a lot of them would be interested in receiving her updates, but she doesn’t want to violate their trust or any spam laws.
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Invite Friends to Join Your Newsletter List
The weekly Art Marketing Action podcast is an audio version of the newsletter/post of the same title. Read the newsletter here
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Art Marketing Action Podcast: Getting Friends on Your Newsletter List
This Story is by The Brothers Grimm Translated by D. L. Ashliman Once upon a time, as a queen sits sewing at her window, she pricks her finger on her needle and three drops of blood fall on the snow that had fallen on her ebony window frame
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A take on Snow White…
This morning the Washington Post published this Hirshhorn press release announcing the museum’s plans to relocate its bookstore. Because the new bookstore will be designed by Los Angeles-based artist Doug Aitken, the Hirshhorn plans to pay for it with funds set aside for acquisitions
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Only on MAN: Hirshhorn announces planned acquisitions
Illustration: Javanese Ornament – Inspired by the way of working Lewis Foreman Day’s book The Application of Ornament was first published in 1888. Along with The Anatomy of Pattern and The Planning of Ornament , which were both first published in the previous year, they went to make up a triple titled work that dealt with the many aspects of decorative and ornamental pattern work. In fact, it could be said that these three books stood within a framework of publications by Day that covered a three-decade career in writing and criticism, from 1880 to 1911.
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Lewis Foreman Day and The Application of Ornament
One of my fondest memories of Missouri is of throwing a baseball around under the Gateway Arch before walking over to the old Busch Stadium to watch the Cardinals play. Something about it seemed very St
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In St. Louis, it’s always a little bit about baseball
For some unexplainable reason, surfing keeps finding its way into my life lately. I dreamt of surfing the other night. The following day, I sat down on the couch after straightening up our kitchen and the show Parenthood was ending by showing one of the show’s fathers sitting on a surfboard and smiling contently as he looked out to sea.
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Dropping In On A Killer Surf Art Blog
What is the meaning of life ? Why are we here? What is the answer to life, the universe , everything? Have you ever asked yourself these questions? Quite probably you have. Whether you were having some kind of crises in your life, or you just like exploring your own inner existentialism, the need to know, or at least feel better, about our existence is one that has plagued mankind since the beginning of time. At least, I assume it has. It sure as hell messes with my mind. You might be thinking that I am going through a crises, since I am obviously thinking about my existence. Well, I actually do enjoy thinking about my existence, and how it fits in with the big scheme of things. Do I have any answers? Of course not. I don’t believe in definite answers, at least where existence and the meaning of life are concerned. First off I would like to say that, in the big scheme of things, we are nothing. We are next to nothing. We aren’t even dust in the wind. Think about it. Think about the immensity of the universe, of everything. Supposedly, in our galaxy, there are two hundred billion stars. Just in our galaxy. And speaking of our galaxy, scientists estimate it is about thirty kiloparsecs in diameter and about one kiloparsec thick. Now one parsec is about 3.262 light years , or 19 trillion miles. So that would make our galaxy approximately ninety-seven thousand, eight hundred and sixty light years across. Ok, now, supposedly there are one hundred and twenty-five billion galaxies in the universe. These numbers are, to me, almost completely unimaginable. These are expanses that I can scarcely even conceive. And here we are. On one little planet in one little, microscopic solar system . To believe that we are all along in the universe, as far as sentient life goes, seems kind of ridiculous when imagining the awesome size of existence. But unlike other believers in aliens and what not, I don’t really think it has any bearing on us whether there is life out there or not. If there were aliens and they had the ability to cross vast reaches of space, then they would most likely have technology far in advance of ours that it might as well be magic. So why would they be interested in the strange, primitive, and mostly harmless creatures that rule over one little tiny speck in a vast vast ocean? The answer is: they wouldn’t. They wouldn’t care. They wouldn’t even slow down to dump their alien trash, assuming they were traveling in a manner where speed is actually relative. So for all intents and purposes, we are alone. Left to our own devices. When we reach a technological level where we have achieved faster-than-light travel , well, then maybe the aliens will stop by, but only to vaporize humanity and leave the earth a lifeless rock
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Existential Nonsense
I go with Recon. M-95, extra ammo, binoculars, and that cool revolver I unlocked yesterday. Let’s do this. I drop down through the air, my parachute billowing and slowing my descent. I look down and notice a vacant tank, something Russian , like a T-90 or something, just waiting for someone to drive it. Unfortunately, another soldier, SuperPhat420 by his blue name hanging over his head, also notices it and starts steering his parachute towards it. Since he was quite a bit lower than me he gets there first. As he enters the tank its engine rumbles to life and he guns it. The big machine lurches forward, but I had timed it correctly and make it in just in time. I don’t mind not driving though. Gunning is preferable since, when the tank is inevitably destroyed, you can always blame it on the driver
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A BFBC2 Moment
Last night, when I should have been asleep, I was up reading some random blog posts and checking out my friends posts on Facebook and friedeggs.com . During my late night browsing session, I came across a post by SelinaJane–one of my new best buddies –about 60 Cool & Creative 404 Error Pages . If you have a chance, take a look at the post because, as the title promises, there are some really cool and creative page designs
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Creative Inspiration From 404 Pages & Pancakes
We have a new Lightweight Champion! Frankie Edgar defeated BJ Penn with a unanimous decision victory over the former 155lb Champion. What? Unanimous decision? Hearing the scorecards after the fight, it was hard to believe that one of the judges didn’t give any rounds to BJ. The three judges scored the bout 50-45, 49-46, and 48-47. Frankie is an excellent wrestler. Those two take-downs definitely influenced the judges in Frankie’s favor.
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Underdog Becomes New Champion Frankie Edgar Wins at UFC 112
I decided to do something a little different. I found some old diary pages in the Public Domain and ‘collaged’ the little gal from my Butterfly Blues piece into a brand new piece entitled, ” She Hearts Butterflies and Blackbirds ” the other piece is entitled ” Her Deepest Thoughts ” They were rather fun to put together…though I do admit I’m not very experienced at collage… I think I’d like to experiment a bit more with it.
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A Couple Digital Collage Art Prints
Handicrafts showcase the country’s cultural and aesthetic production history of that country. The resonance of ethnic Indians could be well recognized that living in the alien craft masterpieces
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Handicrafts – A favorable effort to Encourage and Preserve Religious & Traditional Artifacts
In the United States when a child is born with a disability and is not wanted by their own parents, the child is sent to a foster home where the family is given training on how to care for the child. There are strict requirements and the children are generally well cared for
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Adopting From Abroad
Today, in continuation of my impromptu celebration of the end of all things, I want to discuss the many different images of the end portrayed in movies. So many times over the years a new movie is released that *gasp* is about the end of the world as we know it. And I gotta tell you, I fall for it ever time. I guess there is just something fascinating about the idea of the destruction of our many accomplishments. Well, fascinating enough to make movies about it. Many, many movies in fact. The first post-apocalyptic movie I remember seeing was The Road Warrior staring a very young Mel Gibson. I know technically Mad Max was first but, lets be honest, that movie was pretty boring. I can hear people disagreeing with me already on that point, but I am gonna stick with it. Anyway, for me the post-apocalypse meant long desert roads, punks with mohawks and football armor, a sawed-off shotgun, and Mel Gibson looking like a freaking badass, even when he gets all messed and limps around with one eye swollen shut. And the car! A modified 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe (an Australian car) complete with a blower and side pipes. My blood starts pumping just thinking about it. I even had a Matchbox car that I used to pretend was Max’s, although it was actually a 1970 Dodge Challenger with a huge and unrealistic blower sprouting from the hood. I can’t tell you how many times I recreated (with Matchbox cars) the many different scenes from The Road Warrior. Yeah, I loved it that much. The next movie that comes to mind dealing with the end of the world is The Terminator, with my all-time favorite action star, Arnold Schwarzenegger. As everyone knows (if you have never seen this movie, or any of the sequels, shame on you) the end of the world in The Terminator is brought about by mankind itself. In what would become a very popular storyline, mankind creates artificial intelligence which then gains sentience and immediately begins the eradication of humanity. I mean, it really is the only logical thing to do. And sentient robots are, of course, completely logical beings. In The Terminator, and all of the sequels (except the last one), my favorite parts were always the flashbacks (or flash-forwards…time travel makes my head hurt) where the fight against the machines were depicted. For years I wished for a movie about the actual war with the machines, not the war between two machines that were sent back in time to the present. Well, I got my wish finally with Terminator Salvation. Unfortunately, as often happens with big budget, over-hyped movies, I thought it kinda sucked. I mean, after watching the trailers I thought the movie was gonna be mostly about John Connor, not some other guy who, surprise surprise, turns out to be a machine himself. If I were to judge on acting skills, I would have said that Christian Bale was the robot. I did think that the CG Arnold that appears near the end of the movie was pretty cool, especially since he seemed so much bigger than Arnold ever was. My favorite part of the entire series, however, was at the end of Terminator 3 when the nuclear war actually happens. In my mind that made all three movies up to that point kind of pointless since the nuclear holocaust they were trying to prevent happened anyway.
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The End Of The World According To Movies
I just reviewed the line – up for UFC 112 on April 10 th . I’m excited again! As usual, the UFC has delivered another great night of stellar athletes to entertain us in the octagon. This event takes place in Abu Dhabi, UAE. This is the first event that will take place out in the open. Will sandstorms or stifling heat interfere with the fighter’s cardio or focus?
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UFC 112 Invincible – Top Dogs vs Underdogs
Illustration: F Steiner & Co textile design 1902 The chemist Frederick Steiner originally founded the British textile company F Steiner & Co in the 1840s. The company is probably best remembered for its richly coloured and exuberant textile design work produced during the first decade of the twentieth century.
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Textile Work of F Steiner & Co