Edward Ruscha. California Grapeskins, 2009. Always loved the name of the typeface he invented for his paintings: Boy Scout Utility Modern. Is Ruscha the father of internet photo with text memes?
Something worth considering.
I think this would be an excellent topic to bring up when trying to fill awkward silences.
see also: Tulsa Slut
I still haven’t gotten around to putting much music on my new laptop. Right now it’s a odd mishmash of albums and making quite an interesting mix.
Captain Beefheart “Plastic Factory”
Rachel’s “Mime Van Osen”
Angela Hewitt - Chopin Nocturnes “Impromptu No1 A flat major Op.29”
Chet Baker “I Get Along Without You Very Well”
T. Rex “Cosmic Dancer”
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong “I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm”
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Placed near eye level in high-crash locations near cultural institutions and schools, the colorful signs draw attention to the critical importance of shared responsibility among pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists in keeping New York City’s streets safe.
NYC DOT in collaboration with John Morse, see all of the designs here.
(Italics mine.)
Warming House, Lake Of The Isles (1966)
Photograph by Jerome Liebling for the book The Face Of Minneapolis
If my experience with a piece of art is something along the lines of, wow, that’s interesting. It’s making me feel something but I’m not exactly sure what. Oh, and it’s real nice to look at too. (optional - I would like to hang that on my wall). Then I consider it to be ‘good’. I think this photograph is very good.
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French artist Armelle Caron’s 2005-2008 series of maps taking cities and organizing their blocks into orderly rows.
A lot of young people are somehow put off struggle and difficulty. Boredom thresholds are low because of the nature of entertainment, people are adrenalin addicted and I think that one of the big unspoken addictions in our society is adrenalin. We are addicted to drama, everything has to be exciting, black and white, there’s no middle ground; we’re all being gradually pushed into this area where our attention span is that of a gnat. Difficulty, learning a skill that might take 10 years over 10,000 hours is something that frightens to death, when in fact when you attain that, it is probably the happiest most joyful thing you can do.
Grayson Perry , Turner Prize winner 2003, on ‘Thinking Allowed’ BBC Radio 4 Broadcast April 2008
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