Culture
Art & the Facebook Generation
Can art be taught to the “Facebook Generation?” That the name of the article that came my way recently. As an artist, I agree with the premise that one needs to have a connection with what one is creating and to the Facebook/ technology generation (to both of my sons + even my sister/ business partner, this would apply) the connections seem to be superficial or better said “friend or not” — no black or white in there. Art is all about subtleties and complexities — for me anyway — and this takes time, something the technology generation doesn’t take time to do. I’m also learning that technology can provide…
Conversations @ Dancing on YouTube
OK, you may have seen the wedding video of the attendants and bride and groom dancing their way down the aisle on YouTube. I thought it was pretty cool too, especially the faux Slow Mo part (which the news clips seem to leave out). What I’m more fascinated by is the viral wave that took over after it was posted (July 19th). The couple was featured on Good Morning America; there was a story about it the Washington Post and they were featured on ABC’s Nightly News that night (July 24th). That’s pretty crazy. If they aren’t publicists they should be. The conversation came up about this at dinner that…
Realistic Tiger and Therapy
Well I’ve been trying to make up for lost time, not by choice. I worked straight from 7am to 12:30am yesterday, going to Fedex/Kinkos three times to get our banner printed, packaged and sent all our casart samples via ground to save cost and picked up the banner, prepared and hand delivered a proposal to a client by 8pm and then prepared a purchase order to be emailed to our printer before just collapsing. And the rest of this week is just as busy. Here a couple of appropriate mentions: 1) A realistic big cat — oil painting of a tiger by Chinese contemporary artist, Du Hao (as posted on…
