Music
Luke Jerram
I read through a lot of blog entries as a many others who surf the Internet but it’s not everyday that you’re awakened by something so different that ignites every sense as Luke Jerram’s artwork does. He is fascinated with perceptual art and has gone to great pains to explore how art can be perceived on different levels. I first learned about his work on Abduzeedo, a very cool blog in itself. There are a lot of fun things to explore here. I was fascinated by Luke Jerram’s ability to enable the viewer/participant to experience his artwork as their own intensely personal experience. The artwork that he creates is the…
Contemporary Chicken
I’m still trying to figure this one out. Since I like chickens, I’ll post about Koen Vanmechelen’s contemporary Chicken Project exhibit at Connor Contemporary Art through December 31st. I guess I don’t get the contemporary art part except for it’s sparseness in style and explanation. I was more drawn to the Belgian artist’s chicken illustrations, which I thought were quite interesting. I have an affinity for chickens because of a little known secret, I used to raise them in my back yard. I tended to these chickens from egg to chick to adult. I can attest to them all having distinct personalities. Unfortunately, I had to let them go back…
Le Loup
I learned of Le Loup recently and can now recommend them for Kick-Starting-Your Weekend. On their new album, Family, I enjoyed Beach Town the best: Here’s a profile of the band that started in 2006 in Washington, DC, by Moira E. McLaughlin in the Washington Post. Loup means wolf in French and their sound is reminiscent of Radiohead in a non-typical, discordant way. Their music also reminds me of Theresa Andersson in it’s chamber-like acoustics. By the way. Hope you’re not superstitious about Friday the 13th, as I am, which was coincidentally when I first wrote about Theresa Andersson.
