Category Archives: Websites

It’s Electrified

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For almost a year now, I have been following James Gulliver Hancock‘s ambitious project, All the Buildings in New York where he takes on the daunting task of  drawing every single building in New York City. Today’s illustration brought a smile to my face because not only does it highlight some of the amazing architectural attributes of this landmark building.. but it also happens to be where I go to school! Yup, that’s right.. I spend at least 70% of my time in this gorgeous art deco building.

His website and project are pretty amazing and you can even purchase some of his prints, so go check it out and see if he’s drawn your favorite building from the NY skyline.. HERE!

this week…

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This week in… Instagram

1. I revisited my favorite photograph of George being lazy. 2.  I met Princess Holly. 3. I solved crimes with these doggies Sherlock & Watson 4. I got some new sunnies and a tried a new nail design 5. I worshipped the sun 6. I am way jealous of my friend’s new gigantic letters 7. I loved these cute little whale clips from this shop. 8. I soaked in this fun little message 9. & finally, I found the perfect summer dress to wear to my cousin’s wedding this weekend! 

I also discovered this app, PicStitch that lets you stitch your photographs together.. so I made a sweet montage of my messages I left on the stoop of AbbeyRoad Studios in London.

This week in… Links 

I am excited about the opening of Levitated Mass at LACMA this weekend. I enjoyed looking at photographs of diner food & their waitresses here. I actually kinda, really, want a pair of instagram sunglasses shown here. (seriously when did I become so obsessed with instagram?) I would like to try this DIY. I read this little excerpt on Tog Papageorge’s new photo book here. & I watched this video of Lawrence Weiner talking about his practice.

delicate destruction

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photo credit: nils Klinger

photo credit: Nils Klinger

photo credit: Nils Klinger

image via contemporary art daily

photo credit nils klinger

Tacita Dean, Fatigues,  Chalkboard on Blackboard, 6 panels 2012 artistwebsite

This mind-blowing chalk illustration installation of Afghanistan’s mountain landscapes done for Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany makes me melt. It’s that simple.

This week in

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This week in..                                        Instagram

1. I did some decoratin’ and organizin’ 2. I tried convincing my cat George, he didn’t want to go visit my brother in Afghanistan 3. I chuckled at these napkins AKA spontaneous genius sketch paper 4. I tried a fancy manicure 5. I was in awe of fireworks. 6. I enjoyed the downpour 7. I started tackling my 6 page required summer reading list for Grad school. 8 & 9.  and finally I felt like celebrating with some found street confetti!

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This week in….                                                    Links

I looked at wonderful double exposures by famous artists here. I enjoyed the GIFS on this tribute to Lane Pyrce of MadMen here. I read an article about Brian Ulrich’s new photo book Is This Place Great or What here. I am thinking of ways to contribute to Ester Lee’s project Save The Hand Written Note , you should too here!  I re-read and was energized by Jack Kerouac’s Rules for Life here.  I was happy for a fellow arizona artist, William LeGoullon for getting tons of coverage this week for his photo project, Fingerprints of Drinkable Culture here.  & here. and finally I watched this amazing video of skateboarder Kilian Martin by filmmaker Brett Novak. (seriously if you only watch one thing today.. this should be it.)

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nostalgic by nature

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A year ago from today, I left my Photography program feeling the way I think most art students feel when art school is over.. lost. Graduation comes and you gain your degree but you lose your labs, computers, printers, scanners, worn-down but beloved facilities, wise faculty and most of all.. your support system. The community of artists and friends that you could always count on being in the darkroom or computer lab at all hours of the night. The people who know more about you than your closest friends, because they’ve spent the last five years seeing your work, learning your inner demons, critiquing your images and obsessing over color balance, exposures and camera equipment with you. The people who don’t brush off photography as just a silly obsession, but know it as a way of life. The people who understand. It’s strange to leave art school and to know what to do next.

It’s hard to believe I graduated college exactly one year ago. It’s been a life changing year full of exciting developments. I got my dream internship in the Contemporary Art department at the Phoenix Art Museum and worked tirelessly on an exhibition I am so proud of. I traveled to Europe for the first time and saw so much art I went into an art-induced coma, AND after months and months of the never ending application process, I got accepted into a Masters program in NYC for the Fall.

Life is moving on.. but I still miss the smell of chemicals from the color processor, the eery sounds of Matthew Halls, walking past the critique room to hear a group of sleep deprived photo students arguing about sequencing….

Some work by the people I miss the most.

professor, Betsy Schneider, Cassi from the project Triskaidekaphboia 2012

 Hayley Brunetto, Untitled 2011 artistwebsite.

 professor, Christian Widmer, Untitled from Non Zero Sum 2010 artistwebsite

 Jenna Weinstein, Trevor 2011 artistwebsite. 

Adrian Lesoing, Suburbia: 85201 2009 artistwebsite.

Spenser Loofa Lee, Van 2010 artistwebsite.

Logan Bellew, Untitled from Temporal artistwebsite.

Tiffiney Yazzie, Hayley 2011 artistwebsite.

The New Aesthetic

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Ok. I am going to go there.. The New Aesthetic.. the “burgeoning art movement” that seems to have suddenly exploded every blog, tumblr and art discussion. As Bruce Sterling calls it “an eruption of the digital into the physical”.. the invisible becoming visible. The place where life meets internet becomes experience turned art.

After scrolling through the official New Aesthetic blog started by leader (?) James Bridle I find the movement a little abstract and confused right now.. but I think possibly we are still too close to it. The internet has undoubtedly become the new vehicle for exploring the way technology has molded our lives and I think, The New Aesthetic is the how.  We are still finding out exactly what has changed and more importantly, what it means for art. Where do we truly exist? Can art exist online? Is it the same online? Must it be brought to physical manifestation? Has iphones, tumblr, flickr, instagram, facebook, gmail, google, etc infiltrated a reality that is becoming more than just cyberspace? Is virtual reality seeping into the physical? Which is more real? What does it all mean? What does it all mean!

Where the F**K Was I?, James Bridle, A book of 202 maps composed of data locations retrieved from his Iphone buybook.

Doug Rickard,#96.749058, A New American Picture 2008 artistwebsite.

Penelope Umbrico, Sunset Portraits from Flickr 2010-ongoing artistwebsite. 

via hit the mark

Jacque Donaldson, Skype Portraits of Brother through Afghan Deployment 2011-2012 more.

The New Aesthetic Tumblr       L Magazine Discussion.        Talk on New Aesthetic: Waving at the Machines       Q&A with Bridle       We found Love in a Coded Space talk

that crazy feeling

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To Robert Frank I now give you this message: You got eyes. And I say: That little ole lonely elevator girl looking up sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what’s her name & address? - Jack Kerouac, intro to Robert Frank’s The Americans

I guess it’s The American’s week for me here at thedreambeing but let’s face it.. what week am I not obsessing over Robert Frank’s iconic photographs? Today I came across a story brought to me by NPR unveiling the identity of ‘that little old lonely elevator girl’ check it out here!

Robert Frank, Elevator- Miami Beach 1955

Ms. COLLINS: I think he saw in me something that most people didn’t see. You know, I have a big smile and a big laugh. So people see, you know, one thing in me. And I suspect that somehow Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac saw something that was deeper that only people who were really close to me can see, and it’s not necessarily loneliness, it’s, I don’t know, dreaminess.

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classic tuesdays

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Jeff Wall, Odradek, Taboritska 8, Prague, 1994. moreart.

Tina Barney, Swimming 1991 moreinfo.

Gregory Crewdson, Untitled from Beneath the Roses, 2005 moreinfo.

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that. - Jeff Wall